MONEY MORAL DILEMMA. Should Tyrone & Molly serve picky guests out-of-date food?

i dont think she likes sally very much. give her the pie!!

Believe me, I've had things in my freezer that long .....

They're not "off" as in breeding bacteria, give you food poisoning etc., but they are inedible as they've been sort of "freeze dried". Revolting!

So, on grounds of taste, more than morals or fear of offending/poisoning guests, no, I would not serve them (OK, maybe with lashings of gravy.....:rotfl:)

Serve away.
Best Before dates are a con. If someone else wants to buy into it that is their own problem, but if there's nothing wrong with the food there's no reason whatsoever not to serve it.
Someone argued it would be like serving meat to a vegetarian - it's not even close.

Serving ROTTEN food would be one thing, serving food that's perfectly fine but after an arbitrary date with no bearing on the food whatsoever is not a moral dilemma.

"What they don't know won't hurt them."

It's nothing to do with pregnancy, with "handling it" or being "sensitive"... there's nothing wrong with the food - it's the date on the box that is wrong!

Why anyone would invite someone around for frozen food (ready-meals) is beyond me... but as for the dilemma - no problem whatsoever. Put it on her plate, she'll eat it and will never know the difference unless she's told. The only ethics in this are the ethics of throwing away good food.

Hi everyone!

Well let's start with the fact that it is a BEST BEFORE Date and NOT a Use By Date!

Then nowhere does it say it is meat, so they could be frozen fruit pies, frozen Mississippi Mud pies, frozen banoffee pies etcetera etc

Then there is the question about how long is frozen food still good?

Food frozen before the use by date and Kept in a freezer at a minimum of -18 degrees Centigrade/Celsius will definitely still be good 2 years later.

If kept below -24 C then it could be even longer.

:AHowever what is more important is how quickly and thoroughly the food is cooked after leaving the freezer:A.

Leaving the food to thaw for any length of time allows the outer parts of the food to defrost quicker than the middle and begin to decompose almost immediately after it is thawed.

The only reason that people are warned to let the food defrost completely is in order to prevent people from cooking the outer portions of the food faster and better than the middle portion of the food which may still be frozen when proper cooking is begun.



if the food is swiftly cooked from frozen and completely thoroughly cooked from the outside to the middle, then anyone can eat it safely with absolutely no need to worry about the Best before date at all and it will even keep a few days longer now that it is completely cooked!

** To be quite honest though I think she should call Sally and tell her, then ask if it would be okay.

If Sally says no then she serves her something else, if she hasn't got anything else or she hasn't got time to
get anything else then she asks her friend to bring something along for herself and if the shops are all shut
then Sally has a choice stick to her principles and go without that part of the meal, eat the food or not go!

Whatever Sally then decides to do at least it is all done out in the open and the final choice of what to do is
given to Sally the one whose principles Molly is then respecting and accepting as part of Sally being her friend,
and then Molly doesn't have to worry about anything and she is also being totally respectful of Sally's likes and
dislikes without having to accept them for herself, which quite truthfully is what true friendship is all about!