Melba's Jammin' wrote:
And I find his kind of fabricating extremely sad, on par with the
keyboard kooks... no one with a functioning brain cell tosses a
container of cottage cheese without at least opening it and taking a
whiff, and without ever looking at any stinkin' expiatory data. I've
brought cottage cheese home from the store with weeks left to go,
opened it that day and it was already spoiled... with perishables
freshness mostly depends on storeage conditions, expiration dates are
merely a very rough estimation... on several occasions I've had an
already opened half a container of cottage cheese hiding at the back
of my fridge for months and it was still perfectly fine... those dates
mean nothing when products weren't properly stored before you
purchased them. How many times have folks brought home a container of
milk with several days left on the date to find it already spoiled...
mostly depends where you buy it... many stores these days are raising
their fridge/freezer thermostats to the very upper limits to save
money... and leaving perishable out on the loading platform and in
store aisles for hours is a whole nother issue. Next you shop bring
your insta-read thermometer, you'll be very surprised, especially at
the temps in the meat case... and you needn't stick anything, just
poke it into the cleavage between packages. I've found that Walmart
maintains the most ideal fridge/freezer temps, they also have the
latest state of the art equipment... at least the Walmarts I
patronize, one is Fantastic:
http://www.albany.com/news/walmart.cfm