would you eat out-of-date milk tray?

heuchera

We've been given a box of chocolates that has a use-by date of 12th December. Not as a gift, I should add, - they just wanted rid of them :rotfl:

We haven't opened them yet and I've said I'd prefer not to spend Christmas nursing a bad belly!

Would you eat chocolate that was a little bit out of date? I wonder if they were originally Mothers Day chocolates, as they've got something like 'for a lovely Mum' printed on the box, lol

matty17r

Are you sure it is a use-by date and not best before. Usually chocolate is best before. If it is best before I would eat them a year out of date and even if they are use by 12/12 I would try them!

tizerbelle

In this house they'd have been eaten before you even finished asking the question

Get 'em eaten!

WestonDave

Having checked on another Cadbury's product in my drawer they seem to use best before dates so on that basis be aware that this is intended to indicate when the product will be enjoyed at its best rather than being about food poisoning etc.


Secondly we preserve fruit by matching its weight with sugar and making it into jam - high sugar content items don't tend to support bacteria very well so it won't go off as such very easily.


So yes I'd eat them.

Money_maker

Definately. Have eaten chocolate years out of date...

VfM4meplse

Money_maker wrote: »

Definately. Have eaten chocolate years out of date...

Whilst it won't harm you, you eating a product that is past its best taste doesn't do the manufacturers any favours. The chances are that you'll remember it as being a inferior product compared with others that you have eaten fresh.

Lauralozzle

I would eat them!!!

KeepOnKnitting

Eat them. Sometimes old chocolate gets a white colouring. It's still fine.

FunBrum

It should be ok.

I worked at Cadbury' s a few years ago and often the chocolate in the staff shop was very close if not out of date!

Taste a little....You will know if it's off by the look and taste

Pollycat

If it is 'best before' rather than 'use by', I wouldn't hesitate.

A product doesn't just go off in a couple of weeks past it's BB date.

I've eaten chocolate (and biscuits and all sorts of other stuff) way past its BB date.

ETA: I wouldn't eat Dairy Milk even if it was in date, I only have dark chocolate.

PasturesNew

I'd eat them if they were a few years out of date. Chocolate doesn't spoil... and the innards are unlikely to. The worst that happens is that the chocolate might change colour/look a bit spotty, but that's just cosmetic.

It's all perfectly safe.

Blue Peter, years ago, had some chocolate from WW1 and they said it was still fine to eat.