Just sat wiling away the day and hunger pangs hit me,Sardines on toast hits me yes ain't had Sardines on toast for years,off to the cupboard I go....sardines best before July 2017....devastated!What would you guys do eat or bin......I'm fecking starving!

give em a smell or a tiny bit to cat.
if cat dies then possibly avoid.
personally I am into the mckeral in tomato sauce these days. all fish and no grissly bits.

I'm in the eat on same day of opening type. The tin's been sealed they'll be reet

They'll be fine i think, tinned stuff doesn't go off for years really, its probably just recommending the taste will be at its best before that date.
Im no scientist, but i would imagine they could be edible in another 100 years.

Firthy wrote:I'm in the eat on same day of opening type. The tin's been sealed they'll be reet

I think I'll give them a miss,I might die and miss our European adventure

claretnproud wrote:give em a smell or a tiny bit to cat.
if cat dies then possibly avoid.
personally I am into the mckeral in tomato sauce these days. all fish and no grissly bits.

I havn't got a cat and the wife's at work!

they will be ok. the sell bys are long if tinned

I have had an official 8lb loss this week and it wasn't due to eating healthily.

Bin 'em or prepare for an uncomfortable few days at minimum

JohnMac wrote:I have had an official 8lb loss this week and it wasn't due to eating healthily.

Bin 'em or prepare for an uncomfortable few days at minimum

Out of date sardines?

Stuff lasts for yonks in tins. Absolutely not a problem.

just look at it as extra marination. yum yum.

Steve1956 wrote:I think I'll give them a miss,I might die and miss out European adventure

But as Peter Pan said, to die would be an awfully big adventure.

Eat them, unless they smell funny (well, funnier than usual) or are a funny colour. Or go out and buy a new tin, if money's no object.

I look at it this way the moto goes "If in doubt chuck it out"

Get them down ya, you tart

Longside4evr wrote:I look at it this way the moto goes "If in doubt chuck it out"

No - the motto is: if it looks okay and smells okay it's okay. My record was for some brown sauce a few years ago, I looked on the bottle (I don't use it too often as you might guess and no-one else ever did) and the use by date was over two years before (and yes I had already used it). Needless to say I'm still here to tell the tale.

To be honest I don't think I have ever been ill off food other than many years ago in morocco when I had food poisoning caused by, of all things, salad. I'd stayed clear of much of the meat which hung out in the open and was subject to flies and other such things but forgot about the salad which was washed in the very same water that you couldn't drink. Stupid mistake. It was in the days before Morocco became much of a holiday place (yes, I was on the 'hippy' trail) and living in a tent is not great when you're that ill.

when captain scott when to the antarctic, the stuff they left behind was still edible even this year, that was over 106 years ago.

If the sell by is 2017you probably bought them in 2010 as they usually keep for 7-8 years in a tin.

The issue is not how long over they are but when you would normally have eaten something you bought 8 years ago. Given a new tin will cost about 80p I wouldn't risk it!!

Wile E Coyote wrote:when captain scott when to the antarctic, the stuff they left behind was still edible even this year, that was over 106 years ago.

Yes but it has been kept at minus 20 in addition to being in a tin.

Wile E Coyote wrote:when captain scott when to the antarctic, the stuff they left behind was still edible even this year, that was over 106 years ago.

Im not sure Steve lives in the antartic pal

Had a further rumble through the dark recesses of our cupboard found some Mackerel January 2016 !

Steve1956 wrote:Out of date sardines?

No idea mate but I had a worse dose 16 months ago, Campylobacter and it lasted about 2 weeks, ended up in A&E.

That was almost definitely from tinned Salmon so I just wouldn't risk it with fish.

Well, not until I've got rid of this bout of the she ites anyway

Dyched wrote:Im not sure Steve lives in the antartic pal

Steve1956 wrote:Had a further rumble through the dark recesses of our cupboard found some Mackerel January 2016 !

Your wifes obviously slacking at her cleaning duties.

Just finished them they where lovely,think I'll give the 2016 mackerel a miss though!

Dyched wrote:Your wifes obviously slacking at her cleaning duties.

The wife is always feeding me out of date shite,her excuse always is its M&S out of date shite.....there out of date shite is better than everyone else's out of date shite

I found some when moving recently.
Couldn't find a sell by date, but the price tag was 1s/3d

KeighleyClaret wrote:Yes but it has been kept at minus 20 in addition to being in a tin.

good point Keighley

Last week I had some John West tinned kipper fillets on toast. Absolutely delicious. Best before December 2016. No side effects as yet.

It'll be reyt

That's a disappointment. I opened this thread thinking we'd been linked with an exciting up and coming Italian player called Sardine Di Lemma.

claretnproud wrote:give em a smell or a tiny bit to cat.
if cat dies then possibly avoid.
personally I am into the mckeral in tomato sauce these days. all fish and no grissly bits.

Surely it's:

Give a bit to cat.

If cat dies, eat cat.

It's only a best before date, for something that was probs my caught in the last decade.

If was me if eat It, unless it smelled funny or looked funny, but it's sadines which smell and look funny anyhow.

If the worst happens then get on over to the weight loss thread afterwards.

Are you still with us ?

expoultryboy wrote:Are you still with us ?

alive & kicking buddy!

just be careful of getting that bacteriasardinius. nasty affliction which does include rapid weight loss and increased buying of air freshener.

There is a difference between Best Before dates and Use By dates, as stated above, if something has a good few years shelf life then another year or two won`t matter.
But then again you are taking advice from someone who bought his mate a hazelnut yoghurt when they were pulled off the shelves due to a botulism outbreak in 89