Todays laugh...

[Brian Marshall]

We were cleaning up the kitchen, tossing "expired" spices... when we came across the Himalayan salt.

Now the Himalayans are reputed to be as much as 450 million years old... says so right here on the label.

So how come this salt "expired" in 2013?

So some dummy will toss it and buy another?

Should be good for another few hundred million years, no?


Now THAT would be interesting to see on the label.

Heirloom salt. Entrepreneurs pay attention!

This stuff would be perfect to hand down to your great, great, great, great, greats grand kids... if no one actually eats it. (and the bottle survives)


Brian

 

[DKanger]

So some dummy will toss it and buy another?

That statement begs the question.........what dummy would purchase the stuff in the first place?

 

[SamW]

Maybe it is all the preservatives they add that die?

 

[Brian Marshall]

Dave,

Ummm, you know it wasn't me. Good thing she doesn't frequent the forum...

At least she agreed not to buy another bottle for a few years yet - after I quit laughing so hard... It'll be used up by then.


Sam,

What's in the Himalayan salt is better than any preservative we have today. Just look at how long it took to get around to selling it.


We don't know for sure yet, if Hostess Twinkies will last that long? Didn't work out so well for some people who ate them as a steady diet...
http://bangordailynews.com/2012/11/...dest-still-a-sweet-treat-at-blue-hill-school/ and http://blogs.findlaw.com/blotter/2012/11/what-is-the-twinkie-defense.html


Himalayan salt is not supposed to preserve you or kill you either. At least - so she says...


B.


If it did, it might sell better?

 

[Gemsetterchris]

Salt itself doesn't go bad being a presevative, sometimes they add stuff to it, though It's a regulation of having an expiry date on "foodstuff.
A lot of people lay off alcohol in January after all the festivities, which probably won't kill you but why take the risk.

 

[DakotaDocMartin]

Many years ago (when I was a kid), I bought a vial filled with "sands from Ancient Lake Agassiz". My dad told me I could have scraped some up off of our gravel road... we live in what used to be Lake Agassiz!

My grandpa had to go into his "a fool and his money are soon parted" talk.

 

[SamW]

That was actually a joke...should have added Ron Smith's hehehe!

 

[sam]

Actually some salts do have distinctive flavors. I have some Himalayan pink and it tastes like salt, but I've got another natural salt that's got a kind of buttery flavor. Can't remember where that one came from...I'll have to look. I like using a salt mill.

It's possible that the expiration date is govt mandated. But yeah, you should be able to pass your Himalayan pink down to your great-great-grandkids.

 

[Gemsetterchris]

Now we know why the highest mountains are situated there, they keep digging around the base & selling it you lot with a short use by date.

 

[DKanger]

This kind reminds me of the time a young, female millenial walked in and opened the cooler. She looked around for a bit and then asked, "Don't you have any diet ice tea?" I said, "yeah, it's right in front of you. It's the bottle with the green label that says, Tea, unsweetened. She gave me a puzzled look and bought a bottle of water instead. I think she was blonde.

 

[gcleaker]

Just wondering has anyone checked to see if there is an expiration date on the IRS?:clapping:

 

[quickcut07]

Pretty soon you are going to see expiration dates on furniture and utensils. People now days need to be told if things are healthy for them or a hazard. I was a work a few years ago and an argument started that now it is not an expiry date but the retailer can't sell it past that date shown. Makes me think about them twinkies. I know this has nothing to do with engraving, more towards common sense and what your parents and grandparents taught you.
Sam you are right about flavors in different salts.
Eric