Xmas pud mouldy bought elearly Jan 2014

Legacy_user

My parents are MSE by buying Christmas things after the event cheaply such as Christmas cards etc.

At the beginning of this year, they bought a Tesco Finest Christmas pudding with a best before May 2015. Kept in the garage. Doesn't get overly warm in there.

Christmas Day, Dad took out the pudding out of the box and out of the bowl. It was covered in mould.

Fortunately we had another pudding to use.

Do you think we should return the mouldy pudding to Tesco? No receipt and would they deal with a pudding from Xmas 2013? Or should they cut their losses

They have bought Xmas puddings after Christmas for years and never had a problem until now

kerri_gt

A best before date is merely a guide as the when the item will be part its best but should still be safe to eat. I'd take it back with the packaging, the date it was purchased is rather irrelevant in my opinion. Sounds like the pud wasn't sealed properly.

ariba10

Our Christmas pudding had a Best Before date of 06 2013.

Went down a treat!

daytona0

Take it back, of course.

I'm curious about two points though:

1. They might be MSE, but a Christmas pudding costs almost nothing even at Christmas time. I would wager that the party in question has some guilty pleasure (alcohol, chocolate, ciggies etc) which, over 12 months, can be cut down to such a small extent at which it can mitigate the purchase of a fresh Christmas pudding...

2. Why did you (fortunately) have another pudding to use?! Do you buy one a year in advance? [EDIT: removed voluntarily]. I suspect it is merely a case of you/parents finding a pudding hiding somewhere, after purchasing a fresh one. You've then thought "oooh we'll have the old one instead" which is fine in principal, but if it was in fact hidden then chances are it may actually have been in unfavorable conditions and thus mould may have been expected.

lijaloo

ariba10 wrote: »

Our Christmas pudding had a Best Before date of 06 2013.


Went down a treat!

My Tesco Finest 6 months matured pudding had a best before date of Sept 2012. They taste better the longer they are matured!!

Brooker_Dave

ScarletMarble wrote: »

Kept in the garage.

How big was it???

System

Ok the reason we had another pudding was I won it on a tombola a month ago. Bb date May 2016. As mentioned, kept in the garage like all the previous puddings in the past with no issues

ThumbRemote

daytona0 wrote: »

I suspect it is merely a case of you/parents finding a pudding hiding somewhere, after purchasing a fresh one. You've then thought "oooh we'll have the old one instead" which is fine in principal, but if it was in fact hidden then chances are it may actually have been in unfavorable conditions and thus mould may have been expected.

So with no evidence you've decided the OP is lying and that you know what happened better than they did.

SuperHan

I suppose the problem you may have almost a year later is they have no proof to how you've stored it.

And without proof of purchase, they don't know that you haven't got it out of someone else's bin who has thrown it away because they didn't store it properly.

That said, always worth a try to return it, you may get a good will gesture.

George_Michael

ThumbRemote wrote: »

So with no evidence you've decided the OP is lying and that you know what happened better than they did.

Nothing unusual from daytona0.
I'm convinced that the only reason they signed up to MSE was to try to belittle other posters and nothing whatsoever to do with having good advice to offer,

wealdroam

Brooker_Dave wrote: »

ScarletMarble wrote: »

Kept in the garage.

How big was it???

What has the size of the garage to do with it?