Old cheese

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I would too, I often ate 'hairy cheese' as a child and I'm the wrong side of 60 and still here .My old mum just cut off the bit that had gone off and used the rest.the best and most reliable thing a person owns is their nose .If it smells o.k. then eat it ,if it smells funny then get shot of it .Ignore the best by dates as I am conviced iit's aploy to get you to throw food out .These date-by thingys were never around, even when I was a young married woman in the 1960s and my family survived o.k.

bargain_babe

I agree jackie o, but I've noticed how I've got older and have succumbed to all the hype - I think I throw more out now than I used to - kids have turned fussy (as soon as they could read the dates!) and refuse to eat yoghurts and stuff thats a couple of days ood. I know it won't kill them - it never did me any harm - but they won't have it!

I've always just cut the mouldy bit of cheese off and ate the rest - my sil saw me once and was gob-open shocked!!! She chucks virtually everything away thats a bit old (such a waste!).

Penny-Pincher!!

I would...even if just in baked beans etc. You could grate and freeze

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Psykicpup

a best before date is just that - they do guarantee it will be at its best past that date, thats all. They are just a ploy to get us to buy more for no reason

Maz

I was told (so don't know how true this is) that sell by dates were originally introduced to assist with stock control until the supermarket giants realised they were onto a winner to get people to buy more by using scare tactics. If it smells OK, looks OK, I'd eat it as I frequently do with 'out of date' stuff. Anyway, cheese mould won't hurt you or nobody would by Stilton! My Dad had a customer who ordered his cheese with the centre removed and filled with port in August, for collection in December. He came all the way from Southampton (we lived in Bolton at the time!)

competitionscafe

Bambywamby wrote: »

I would eat it, only cheeses I wont eat after use by date is soft cheeses like Brie.

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I buy Brie from a local deli which he keeps unrefrigerated on the counter top so that it ripens. Supermarket brie is usually unripe and never ripens properley in the fridge. I like my Brie so ripe that it's almost runny There is a small risk and should not be eaten if pregnant etc but brie should be fine past the use by date (as should any cheese), parmesan in particular lasts for ever as it's quite dry...

Speaking of cheese, I have always liked strong cheeses and when I was a kid I once horrified my schoolmates by taking a small piece of leftover roquefort cheese to school in my lunchbox - they had never seen 'blue' cheese before and I pretended that it had gone off - then ate it anyway

HappyIdiotTalk

I had a piece of rye bread with parma ham and a couple of slices of Gouda cheese on that were a week or two passed their sell by dates before I went to karate recently. It seemed a bit stronger than usual and tasted really nice, but I only managed the first hour at karate and had to go home because I felt awful. It took me a good couple of days to recover.

I still dont know if it was the cheese or not to be honest, but its the only possibility I can think of. Other than a dodgy sandwich from the canteen at work perhaps.