askchapo @hexbear.net InevitableSwing [none/use name] @hexbear.net 1 yr. ago

Expiration date question: "Good thing I read the labels and dates before I opened or ate anything. I avoided potential food poisoning and/or a trip to urgent care by paying attention."

What do you think the percentage is of Americans who throws out good food (even junk food) based on the expiration date? I mean - they do so not because the food might be stale but because they believe it suddenly became possibly toxic to eat.
What's the percentage for non-food stuff like soap? The other day I noticed my liquid hand soap has an expiration date for whatever reason. I better hurry up - I only have two years left of it being safe.

I started thinking about it after I read this...

"Good thing I read the labels and dates before I opened or ate anything. I avoided potential food poisoning and/or a trip to urgent care by paying attention."

It's from an Amazon review. After they checked the label - they learned the package was delivered with an expiration date two weeks past. They are talking about a Ruffles potato chip variety pack.

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I use it as a guideline - useful when cleaning the pantry, but two weeks? Hell no I'm eating them chips

But I'm also filing for a refund, because I paid for in-date chips
- But I'm also filing for a refund, because I paid for in-date chips
  
  I wonder how often large packages (or containers) at Amazon are a bit of a scam. I learned that the Amazon store brand huge size of peanut oil is most likely second rate even though it has a 4.5 star rating. I decided to spend 7 bucks more and buy the size of a local store brand. It has "pure" on the label and I assume that's... honest and real. I was going to type "kosher" as is my habit but then I realized - right now I don't want to use a word that Israelis use. I don't want to slime myself.
  
  don't want to use a word that Israelis use.
  
  I thought kosher was a Jewish thing, not a zionist thing
  
  It is Jewish thing but it doesn't feel right for me to use it right now. It makes me think of Israel. I don't want to use any word that makes me think of Israel.
  
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  Edit
  
  For the record - I'm a Jewish and America. Calling myself a "Jewish-American" sounds so silly. And I don't want to use any word that makes me think of Israel.
  
  this is the line of thinking that ultimately leads random Jewish people in the diaspora to get randomly attacked tbh.
  
  That probably sounds insane given that what youre saying is very far from that but I guess just try to keep in mind that Judaism =/= Zionism
  
  seems like some internalized antisemitism or something from OP
  
  i mean you decide what words you use but announcing you're not selecting yiddish even though you know it =/= israel seems like it'd just make jewish people uncomfortable
  
  Yeah its not a great association or implication
  
  With how much of Amazon's business model is based on laundering counterfeit products, I bet the answer is "very often"
  
  The blame will always be diverted toward China, but it's Amazon that has a dynamic, scalable system for sellers to launder fake/defective/used/expired products through official product listings
  
  official product listings
  
  I never looked at one star reviews until yesterday because I assumed most of them were incoherent ranting. And there is a lot of that. "These jeans not good jeans quality low do not like" But I learned some reviews are by people who are not only very annoyed and angry - they are knowledgeable too. What they have to say is definitely worth reading.
  
  Yeah those can be pretty useful. Frustratingly, it looks like an Amazon listing can be 100% replaced with a different product but keep the old reviews. Or maybe something else is going on, but I'll often check the reviews and find that all the older ones are for something totally unrelated to the listing
  
  At this point the only way I've found to get good results is to treat it like eBay and choose a seller carefully
  
  treat it like eBay
  
  That's a good tip. I should have learned that years ago.
  
  I was going to type "kosher" as is my habit but then I realized - right now I don't want to use a word that Israelis use. I don't want to slime myself.
  
  Kosher is not a word that only Israelis use so no it is not "sliming yourself" to use a word that Jews across the world use daily.
  
  and - in your case you're referencing the colloquial usage of the term outside of actual kashrut/dietary laws I'm assuming. Using "kosher" the way you would have is... an Americanism
  
  I was going to type "kosher
  
  Try 'halal'
  
  I wonder how often large packages (or containers) at Amazon
  
  they all are, almost every "variety pack" of things like chips/soda I've seen have nearly vendor machine marked-up unit prices.
  
  I was going to type "kosher" as is my habit but then I realized - right now I don't want to use a word that Israelis use. I don't want to slime myself.
  
  Kosher is not a word that only Israelis use so no it is not "sliming yourself" to use a word that Jews across the world use daily.
  
  and - in your case you're referencing the colloquial usage of the term outside of actual kashrut/dietary laws I'm assuming. Using "kosher" the way you would have is... an Americanism

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