Tinned salmon - BBE Nov 2007!!

DundeeDoll

krlyr wrote: »

"Use by" is for the stuff that goes bad after a certain date (to a degree - it's not going to go off at exactly 0:01 on that morning)

that made me :rotfl:

Apollonia

booter wrote: »

I opened a tin of salmon tonight for tea. (I had to rummage around in the cupboard a bit, we don't often eat it.) On opening, it looked OK, smelt OK, but was a little bitter whilst eating. When I washed out the tin for re-cycling, I found that the bbe was Nov 2007 _pale_
So now I feel slightly nauseous and the dog won't eat the skin & bits
If I tell the OH he'll want to go to A&E :eek:
Oh dear - I'm trying hard not to anticipate!! Any reassurance? Please

This might make you feel better:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4693520.stm

A man celebrated his golden wedding anniversary by eating a 50-year-old tin of chicken.

spike7451

JackieO wrote: »

My late OH when he worked in the Sudan in the early 1980s said that often the local markets had OOD tinned food for sale.He once spotted a big case of bully beef (corned beef) with a date stamp on it saying 'a gift from the Chinese republic 1949'stamped on the case.His cook brought some home and they all ate it without any problem ,but then my old man did have a cast-iron stomach anyway and had been born and brought up before and during the war when folks ate almost anything (as do I )
I have lots of memories of rationing and tins of strange stuff (snoek,whalemeat ) that arrived on the table to eat My Mum once had some apple purree sent to her in the late 1940s from my aunt in the U.S. and it was tinned Heinz baby stuff and we spread it on toast instead of jam when we had a shortage of jam (she usually made her own if she could get hold of enough sugar)I have also eaten crab apple jelly and rose hip jam on toast It brightened up the toast and took away the awful tase of 'Summer County' marg

We were cleaning out a garage in the Bomb Dump at RAF Kinloss in the mid 80's,we found a large tin of Biscuits Brown,which are a hard cracker like biscuit,the tin was dated sometime in the 1950's iirc.When we opened them,they were quite edible.

Although I've ate tins of "Cheese,Possesed" that are in date & quite inedible!

http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/Cheese_Possessed

booter

Well, I'm still alive and kicking!! Thanks to you all for your reassurances (well, nearly all ) I'm normally quite pragmatic about dates, and use "bbe" as a loose guideline only - I've got Cadbury's Creme Eggs still in my "secret stash" from 3 years ago, and I eat them no problem - I think it was just the thought of it being salmon. I think if I'd have cooked the salmon myself, I'd have felt better, but we just had sandwiches.

SailorSam wrote: »

Reading through this has made me think i must have a rummage through the cupboards and see what's there.

Yes, I think it's time I sorted out the kitchen cupboards too - I did do it about a year ago (honest!) but just didn't look at the dates on the tins before I put them back in the cupboard.

Once again, thanks all. Now, the cupboards...... nah, they'll keep

macpep1

Glad you are ok, I would be the same as you I think in feeling sick, I always put a couple of squirts of tomato sauce (even though I don't like it) in my salmon, otherwise I wouldnt eat it, that would have taken the bitter taste away as well for future OOD tins :rotfl:

cyclingyorkie

we sorted my mums tin drawer out a while back and discarded things that were priced with a 1/2p.... or the odd tin of Epicure sausages that were priced in shillings......

And both of those items must have moved with my parents in 1985!

However I wouldn't risk anything that had a dent in/looked damaged - I'm sure tinned fish was implicated in an outbreak of botulism at one point!