Best before data crisps

thepharcyde · 7 Sep 2013 at 20:08

thanks, useless lot you are

craptakular · 7 Sep 2013 at 20:19

its the illuminati

martynpd · 7 Sep 2013 at 21:18

mattyfez said:
What happens if you eat that at 10:55 on 20/10/13? Will the world end?

production time and production code

dazzerd · 7 Sep 2013 at 21:26

its old school something to do with pubs getting their orders in on saturday.

Kosmiche · 7 Sep 2013 at 21:30

arknor said:
Best before doesn't mean anything I will happily eat a packet of crisp that has been out of date for months.

they won't kill you they just won't be as crunchy as they once were

Its best before not use by.

Best before just means...best before - they will taste better before the date but are still ok to eat after the date and aren't dangerous to eat. Of course if its ages after the date they will probably be disgusting but still "ok" to eat.

wkingsnorth · 7 Sep 2013 at 21:30

I think this might be the only time where the Americans are right about calling crisps 'chips'

d_brennen · 7 Sep 2013 at 21:35

asim18 said:
Why is it always "best before" and never "worse after"?

The glass is half full. IT'S HALF ******* FULL.

areksnumbr1sxylady · 7 Sep 2013 at 21:36

wkingsnorth said:
I think this might be the only time where the Americans are right about calling crisps 'chips'

Americans cant pronounce crisps, it would boil their brain.

While saying give meh cheps now extra large, is fine.

arknor · 7 Sep 2013 at 21:38

Eames said:
Its best before not use by.

Best before just means...best before - they will taste better before the date but are still ok to eat after the date and aren't dangerous to eat. Of course if its ages after the date they will probably be disgusting but still "ok" to eat.

yea I know

TBH use by means nothing either it's how stuff is stored and at what temperature that is important.

I have milk sometimes upto 7 days past it's use by and it still smells normal and has a normal consistency for milk.

i'll bin it if I make a coffee and theres bits floating in it but until then nom nom

Nexus · 7 Sep 2013 at 21:39

I once had a packet of crisps from a hotel minibar when I arrived late to my hotel in Spain.

Took one bite and had to spit it out, tasted disgusting. I looked at the date on the back and it was years out of date, which was especially poor given it was quite a fancy hotel.

arknor · 7 Sep 2013 at 21:41

Nexus said:
I once had a packet of crisps from a hotel minibar when I arrived late to my hotel in Spain.

Took one bite and had to spit it out, tasted disgusting. I looked at the date on the back and it was years out of date, which was especially poor given it was quite a fancy hotel.

did it auto get added to you bill when they were moved to ?

some noobs I know went to a fancy hotel for there honey moon and decided to inspect everything in the minibar

Thinking they could just put them back

Pestilence · 7 Sep 2013 at 22:09

Mmm... data crisps.

Could eat a whole Gigabyte.

413x · 7 Sep 2013 at 22:17

Pestilence said:
Mmm... data crisps.

Could eat a whole Gigabyte.

If they too far gone it might be a killer byte! :-P

Pestilence · 7 Sep 2013 at 22:24

al4x said:
If they too far gone it might be a killer byte!

I do love the huge ones, though, where you have to take a Megabyte.

Nexus · 7 Sep 2013 at 22:26

arknor said:
did it auto get added to you bill when they were moved to ?

some noobs I know went to a fancy hotel for there honey moon and decided to inspect everything in the minibar
Thinking they could just put them back

Yeah, had to complain about it when checking-out.

Some mini-bars in fancy hotels are checked rigorously, which is why I was surprised these crisps were out of date. I was in Hawaii once and bought a pack of M&Ms from the hotel shop. Spotted they had some in the mini-bar fridge which were cold, so figured I'd just swap them over. I hadn't spotted though that there was about a 20 gram difference or something between packets, but you would barely notice.

Anyways, the mini-bar man came in not long before we were due to check out, he obviously inspected each item and found the 'rogue' M&Ms and left them out of the fridge and replaced them with the ones he had.

yozzer2001 · 7 Sep 2013 at 22:31

Crisps usually have a 12 week shelf life , They also put Nitrogen in the packets to keep them fresher .

estebanrey · 8 Sep 2013 at 03:56

wkingsnorth said:
I think this might be the only time where the Americans are right about calling crisps 'chips'

I disagree.

If you chip away at something you don't take very precise slices at it, you take substantial chunks away. So what we (British) call chips is accurate. Crisps on the other hand should be crispy, which is what we call crisps are and what we call chips is accurate too.