Cadbury’s Curly Wurlys best before date 19/01/18!!!

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Janey0109 wrote: »

Hi. Not sure if posting on correct forum. But yesterday I bought a multipack of Curly Wurlys from Asdas and the best before date was 19/01/18!! My daughter started eating one and said it tasted horrible and looked at the date. I know if I take them back to Asdas, they’ll only apologise, refund me and give me a £2 gift card. I’m not being fobbed off with that! Over a year out of date is inexcusable! Any advice please? Contact trading standards?

they may offer a £5, but that reads as if you want much much more, how much are you after, £10,£50,£100 ?

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Janey0109 wrote: »

Any advice please? Contact trading standards?

If you have a problem... if no one else can help... and if you can find them... maybe you can hire... The A-Team.

Caz3121

Does chocolate have a use-by date?

No, chocolate does not have a use-by date it just has a best before date. This means it is safe to eat after the best before date has passed.

Is it safe to eat chocolate after the expiration date?

Chocolate is a product that doesn’t actually have an expiration date. Instead, it has a best before date. These are two very different things. An expiration date, which is actually called a use-by date, is only included for products that are unsafe to eat after a certain period.

Chocolate is safe to eat after its best before date. How long after the best before date you can enjoy chocolate depends on the specific product, and your personal preferences.

http://store.approvedfood.co.uk/blog/everything-need-know-chocolate-food-dates/

if a refund and £2 voucher is not enough for your distress...do you have a figure in mind?

Nick_C

Janey0109 wrote: »

I know if I take them back to Asdas, they’ll only apologise, refund me and give me a £2 gift card.

Sounds as if you are experienced in returning items to Asda. Why not just check the dates before you commit to buying the items?

You are not entitled to anything.

CardinalWolsey

I think all other posters are missing the point. The OP's daughter TOOK A BITE of one of these poison toffee sticks. A CHILD!!! Think what could have happened. THINK OF THE CHILDREN. There is enough pain in this world without subjecting a child to the ignominy of eating an OUT OF DATE piece of confectionery. She would be treated like a pariah at school. Gosh, I'm shuddering at the thought. The OP needs to call the local SWOT team out to forcibly arrest the store manager, with local TV news in attendance to film it all. They then need to get a picture of their daughter grimacing with the chocolate so that they can have their picture taken and published in the Mail Online, and if the OP could wear a "crop top" that would further stoke the rage of the nation. And blame it on Brexit. If it wasn't for Brexit none of our chocolate would be past its best before date. "Don't just think of my child, think of all the children!!!" Your story alone will be worth thousands, thousands I say, let alone the compo from Asda.

DCFC79

Janey0109 wrote: »

Hi. Not sure if posting on correct forum. But yesterday I bought a multipack of Curly Wurlys from Asdas and the best before date was 19/01/18!! My daughter started eating one and said it tasted horrible and looked at the date. I know if I take them back to Asdas, they’ll only apologise, refund me and give me a £2 gift card. I’m not being fobbed off with that! Over a year out of date is inexcusable! Any advice please? Contact trading standards?

What do you think is a suitable sum ?

£20
£200
£2000
£20000

Lets think of the children or child here.

LadyDee

So the next generation of the great entitled is being raised.

Get a grip - most of us have eaten many things that are out of date or past their best before date, I certainly have - some tasted OK and were eaten with relish, some were not so good, others went in the bin (very rare).

If I looked in my fridge now I could probably find several things that "should" have been eaten last week - they are perfectly edible, will be eaten, and nobody will suffer or die if they are consumed within a reasonable period.

My store cupboard - well that's a history lesson of my shopping trips, and I'm here to tell the tale.

How on earth did we all manage before refrigeration, preservation, and these arbitrary dates?

The "tasted horrible" bit is probably because all Cadbury chocolate now tastes horrible, it's simply not Cadbury any more.

pinkshoes

CardinalWolsey wrote: »

I think all other posters are missing the point. The OP's daughter TOOK A BITE of one of these poison toffee sticks. A CHILD!!! Think what could have happened. THINK OF THE CHILDREN. There is enough pain in this world without subjecting a child to the ignominy of eating an OUT OF DATE piece of confectionery. She would be treated like a pariah at school. Gosh, I'm shuddering at the thought. The OP needs to call the local SWOT team out to forcibly arrest the store manager, with local TV news in attendance to film it all. They then need to get a picture of their daughter grimacing with the chocolate so that they can have their picture taken and published in the Mail Online, and if the OP could wear a "crop top" that would further stoke the rage of the nation. And blame it on Brexit. If it wasn't for Brexit none of our chocolate would be past its best before date. "Don't just think of my child, think of all the children!!!" Your story alone will be worth thousands, thousands I say, let alone the compo from Asda.

Finally!!! Someone thinking of the CHILDREN!!!

Janey0109 - it is a best before date, not a use by date. It is mostly sugar, so hardly going to go off.

Take the £2 and be less snowflake.

VoucherMan

Really disappointed with this thread.I was hoping someone had found a box full and wanted to know what to do with them.
For future reference, just send me a PM & I'll give you my address to send them to. I'll even offer a reasonable amount for the P&P charge. (in this case I suspect my idea of 'reasonable' would be significantly lower than the OP's)

LadyDee wrote: »

The "tasted horrible" bit is probably because all Cadbury chocolate now tastes horrible, it's simply not Cadbury any more.

Which may also have something to do with the store still having stock so old.

CardinalWolsey wrote: »

I think all other posters are missing the point. The OP's daughter TOOK A BITE of one of these poison toffee sticks. A CHILD!!! Think what could have happened. THINK OF THE CHILDREN. There is enough pain in this world without subjecting a child to the ignominy of eating an OUT OF DATE piece of confectionery. She would be treated like a pariah at school. Gosh, I'm shuddering at the thought. The OP needs to call the local SWOT team

Most of this I can let slip since 'child' can refer to offspring of any age, but suggesting the OP's daughter is still at school?
For all we know the OP is 60 with a daughter of 40+


SWOT, I'm still trying to work out. Sweet Wrappers Of ....... :think:

CardinalWolsey

Sorry, thought people realised. It's Sugar Wrath Of Thor. It comes from an undiscovered Marvel comic where Thor arrives in Paris at the same time as Condorman is fighting to save the Eiffel Tower from the evil Bubblicious. Condorman was losing, as his roller skates were worse than useless on the cobblestones, and despite the cries of "Betty, Betty" no help arrived until Thor turned up. Using the power of his hammer, he smashed the bubble gum monster in to brittles, stood up and shouted "I have the power", at which point the record player started blasting out "I had the time of my life", and a weird Skeletor type figure emerged from the top of the tower, dancing to the music. Fortunately Thor had time to react, and countered with his mix-tape, that he had labelled "Top Cuts of Disco". The hypnotic sound of Cerrone's Supernature warbled out of his headphones, and a small cat popped up out of the rubbish bin next to him. Skeletor couldn't cope, get's caught up in the Bubblicious left-overs and get's stuck to the spot. Of course, Thor saves the universe.

Or at least, that's what a bloke down the pub told me. He said he had a copy of that unreleased comic at home, all I had to do was give him £100 cash and he'd pop off and get it. Well, I couldn't turn down an offer like that could I! He said he'd be a while, so I gave him the cash and went and got a tent out of the boot of my Mazda RX8. Such a great car, but not so fast away from traffic lights these days. Anyway, I got my brand new tent out of the car, and started to set it up. But I noticed there was grass inside it? How could that be, this was a brand new tent from Argos - it was if someone else had already used it? I'm not having that, so I got my laptop out to register a complaint with the online shopping ombudsman. This is great, its a bit like a reverse auction where you can set the level of compo that you want and this increases the longer it takes the retailer to respond. You type everything in and it generates a printed letter in Nigeria from the ombudsman's prince that lives out there, and sends it direct - brilliant service. Well, it would be if my laptop worked. The screen was half hanging off of it - but I hadn't dropped it or anything: must be a fault. I thought to myself that I'd take a picture of it to send to Argos, but my camera stopped working as well. Funny, I thought, its been working fine since I dropped it, and that little ding on the case is only cosmetic. I wasn't sure what to do at this point, so I walked over the road to a local eaterie to have some food. Placed my order and got lost in my thoughts. Suddenly snapped back to the present and looked at my watch. 45 minutes had passed and I still hadn't got my food!!! My day is going from bad to worse. I stood up to go and complain and demand some money back when I caught my hand on the edge of the table. Dammit - I must have caught my 17 carat diamond ring on the table because the stone has come off and I can't see it anywhere. No worries, I can claim on my insurance. They won't mind - I know that for a fact because they've paid up for the 7 other claims I've made this year. Now, where has that bloke gone with that comic he promised me...