• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    Leave your beef out on the counter for a day and I assure you, the expiration date will be useless.

    Expiration dates are 99/100 times a baseline for guessing if an item is safe to consume. If you’re not using your brain and actually checking, you’re gonna have a bad time.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      You don’t even have to leave it on the counter sometimes. I had a steak a bit ago in the freezer, thawed it, smell test, it had gone bad. Best guess is some point in the store or transit it got stored improperly and it was bad before it got to my freezer. Always check even if in the expiration date food poisoning is awful