Do tea bags actually go bad?

chaosdestro0 said:
How come they cannot just hand out the food to the local homeless shelters?
Is there some kind of law that prohibits this action?
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smit101 said:
Can you not take it home for yourself?
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Justin said:
Are you allowed to take it?
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Nope. We can't have anything. I can't remember the specific reason but i'm sure it was some legality related bs.

There used to be an old man ( or so i've heard ) who would collect the flowers that were being disposed at the end of the day however they stopped allowing that.
 
flibbage0 said:
A lot of best before dates are an exaggeration.

Except for meat, there is a reason why its there.
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Even the best before on meat is rubbish, if it looks ok/smells ok and you cook it fully then it'll be fine. I don't think there's any food that I wouldn't eat after the use by date if it looked/smelt fine and I cooked it properly...
 
We have a sack of PG Tips at work that has a use by date of 2005. They're fine.

Oh, and most dates printed on things can be ignored on the whole. Look at it, smell it, taste it - these are the only true tests outside of lab work. I've had milk that has kept two weeks past the use by date, and things that have gone mouldy days before.
 
I did have some Green tea that was quite old and it went quite bitter when I tried it again. But yeah the bbd is just when the taste begins to deminish.
 
Garee said:
Nope. We can't have anything. I can't remember the specific reason but i'm sure it was some legality related bs.

There used to be an old man ( or so i've heard ) who would collect the flowers that were being disposed at the end of the day however they stopped allowing that.
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It's covered by public health laws, used to work at Morrisons and had the same problem. You've also got to make sure your bins lock so no one can get food back out of them.
 
having said all this about best before I was working off site the other week and we used some of the communal tea bags from the staff room on a ward,
tasted like burnt ass, checked the bag and they where 3 years out of date!
turns out the ward we where on had been closed down a few years back and no-one had cleared out the kitchens!

:(
 
Garee said:
Slightly off topic but I need to vent :p

I work part-time at Sainsburies and at the end of every shift we must dispose of all products that have a "display by" date of that day. It is absolutely shocking how much food goes to waste that could be given to others less fortunate.
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My wife works for Mencap

They get regular deliveries of free food from Fareshare

http://www.fareshare.org.uk/about-us.php

Most of which is supermarket surplus food. I know sainsburys partake in it.

http://www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/cr/index.asp?pageid=58

Does your store not do that ?
 
iDroid84 said:
Cave men never worried about dates, neither to trible people :P
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no because they don't pre-process their food nor do they leave it for ages before eating it (beyond the necessary)
also they don't need a sticker on some meat to tell them it's off, they can smell it.
 
Wicksta said:
Surplus food is different to out of date food surely?
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Usually they get rid of it before it goes out. Its usually incredibly short dated stuff. Its obvious its gone to charity barely days before it goes out.

They've currently got about 100 creme eggs that go out of date tomorow for example lol.
 
funnily enough they werent short of volunteers ;)

Most of the stuff is so short dated it ends up going home with the staff so as not to fill the bins of the home. Christmas is the worst time because all the shops get all over spirited and donate all the christmas food. Staff have been known to leave with a car boot full of stuff each and still have plenty left over for the residents.

They also donate to homeless charities as well. My wife used to work for a company called Shaw Healthcare who ran one. One christmas eve a 40 foot lorry turned up FULL of food for the home. Daft thing is 90 % of the "homeless" people in that home were drug users and / or alcoholics for whom the status of "homeless" gave them more money to spend on drink and drugs while paying £10 a month rent to stay in the homeless hostel. Very few had any desire to leave the hostel as they enjoyed the cheap living and claiming all the benefits they could get.

The supermarkets think they are donating to the homeless at christmas and think of the cutesy Salvation Army tv adverts that get put on at christmas, reality is that the food is getting donated to the sort of people that have us spitting into our cornflakes reading the morning paper about how lazy and scrounging they are.
 
My mum works at Farmfoods. They have a policy where they throw out most things (excluding bread, eggs, milk etc) that are within 5 days of their expiry date. The amount of perfectly fine food that gets chucked out is ridiculous. My mum and a lot of the other staff usually take whatever they fancy for free rather than binning it.
 
DJMK4 said:
Why have you got tea from 2009?
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We just threw away a bag of ground almonds with BBE September 2001. That means my girlfriend owned it and let it go out of date over a year before we started going out :eek:
 
When I was camping I found tea bags in my camping bag, over a year old.
They had gone rock solid and black, a bit like the shiney polished looking bits on coal.

Any way I thought I'd try it anyway and it tasted like coal as well lol
 
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