Supermarket 'Sell by' and 'display until' dates are wrong!

carrie483

quoia wrote:

Sorry to disappoint and shatter your illusion BUT ............

... THAT'S THE COLOUR RAW ONES SHOULD BE !!!!!!


They're only "pink" once they've been cooked.

I buy "black prawns" very frequently!

OK OK Calm down. No Disappointment and no illusions shattered here.

quoia

carrie483 wrote:

OK OK Calm down. No Disappointment and no illusions shattered here.

It must shatter some illusion somewhere because your mind was obviously elsewhere according to your quote ...

"I didn't get to see the use by date though as I was too busy heaving."

carrie483

quoia wrote:

It must shatter some illusion somewhere because your mind was obviously elsewhere according to your quote ...

"I didn't get to see the use by date though as I was too busy heaving."

What illusion could this possibly be?

I have a very weak stomach and the sight of black prawns made me heave, whether they be raw or not.

andrewmoorcroft

quoia wrote:

It must shatter some illusion somewhere because your mind was obviously elsewhere according to your quote ...

"I didn't get to see the use by date though as I was too busy heaving."

It was probably just a blonde moment.

quoia. Looking at the symbol below your name, you must have had your illusions shattered many times! Contrary to popular belief the derby football team is not called 'derby county Nil' LOL!!!

Ms Fisher. I have PM'd you.

quoia

nearlyrich wrote:

I don't take too much notice of the sell by and use by dates, we just ate some cheese that was reduced on it's last day for sale last week, cheese is mould how can it get any worse?

Last year we bought a "Xmas cheese & port wine pack" from ASDA that had been reduced post Christmas - probably a few days after New Years day.....

..so that's xmas 2004 and we bought it Jan 2005....


It contained an extra mature vintage cheddar cheese truckle (flatish cylinder of cheese 100% covered in wax)

"Best before date" was Jan 15th (2005)

It was put in the fridge when we got it home and it stayed there for quite a while.

We actually ate it about a week before Christmas That's DEC 2005

VERY TASTY IS WAS TOO !!!!

carrie483

andrewmoorcroft wrote:

It was probably just a blonde moment.

quoia. Looking at the symbol below your name, you must have had your illusions shattered many times! Contrary to popular belief the derby football team is not called 'derby county Nil' LOL!!!

Ms Fisher. I have PM'd you.

I have many blonde moments :rotfl:

MooseRich

quoia wrote:

Personally, on a similar subject, my favourite is the page sometimes found in a book/manual that proudly states

"THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK"

EXCEPT OF COURSE, IT ISN'T, BECAUSE THERE ARE WORDS SAYING IT IS!

If you bank with Llyods TSB and receive a letter, you will be seeing this a lot. I thought it was very funny when I was asked to print it, envelope it and send it out. I thought they were joking at first. And yes, I said exactly as you just have.

Alien18

pwebb1985 wrote:

urgh how sad is this - its a date for heavens sake! There r worse things happening in the world.

Well said.

carrie483

Why bother reading this thread then?

The sadder thing is reading all the posts then saying it's sad.

What is wrong with people on here these days?? It used to be that if someone didn't care about the thread then they wouldn't bother reading it. Simple as.

rharper83

andrewmoorcroft wrote:

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I've tried to explain this to a few assistants who either don't understand or ignorantly defend their position. I can only guess that they wouldn't be working there if they understood the literal meaning of the date label!

p.s This is not meant to offend shop assistants. i'm sure there's some clever ones out there!

I'm sorry, but how else could you have meant that, apart from being offensive? Have you ever considered that some people might want to just work in a shop, with no stress etc, or that some people might be there part time looking after their families, or that some people might be there while they are studying? No, I don't think you have!

Sorry for the diversion, but I just felt disgusted by that post! I thought everyone was supposed to be nice on mse??

I do agree with the points about the dates though.... Supermarkets should pay more attention!