Bit of an odd question.
At the start of the pandemic I stocked up with tins of Pilchards,
goodness know why, I am not that keen on them but the country was in a
state of flux at the time.
They are out of date so I need to get rid of them. They are a nuisance
to put in the waste food bin as they stick and sometimes don't get
emptied properly.
On 22/03/2025 10:20, Jeff Gaines wrote:
Bit of an odd question.
At the start of the pandemic I stocked up with tins of Pilchards,
goodness know why, I am not that keen on them but the country was in a
state of flux at the time.
They are out of date so I need to get rid of them. They are a nuisance
to put in the waste food bin as they stick and sometimes don't get
emptied properly.
Could I flush them down the toilet? They are about the same size and
consistency as other matter that is flushed away.
I do plan to take them out the tin first!
You know what they say of allowed flushables, the 4 Ps
Piss,poo, paper and pilchards
Bit of an odd question.
At the start of the pandemic I stocked up with tins of Pilchards,
goodness know why, I am not that keen on them but the country was in a
state of flux at the time.
They are out of date so I need to get rid of them. They are a nuisance
to put in the waste food bin as they stick and sometimes don't get
emptied properly.
Could I flush them down the toilet? They are about the same size and consistency as other matter that is flushed away.
I do plan to take them out the tin first!
Bit of an odd question.
At the start of the pandemic I stocked up with tins of Pilchards,
goodness know why, I am not that keen on them but the country was in a
state of flux at the time.
They are out of date so I need to get rid of them. They are a nuisance
to put in the waste food bin as they stick and sometimes don't get
emptied properly.
Could I flush them down the toilet? They are about the same size and consistency as other matter that is flushed away.
I do plan to take them out the tin first!
Bit of an odd question.
At the start of the pandemic I stocked up with tins of Pilchards, goodness know why, I am not that keen on them but the country was in a state of
flux at the time.
They are out of date so I need to get rid of them. They are a nuisance to
put in the waste food bin as they stick and sometimes don't get emptied properly.
Could I flush them down the toilet? They are about the same size and consistency as other matter that is flushed away.
I do plan to take them out the tin first!
Bit of an odd question.
At the start of the pandemic I stocked up with tins of Pilchards,
goodness know why, I am not that keen on them but the country was in a
state of flux at the time.
They are out of date so I need to get rid of them. They are a nuisance
to put in the waste food bin as they stick and sometimes don't get
emptied properly.
Could I flush them down the toilet? They are about the same size and consistency as other matter that is flushed away.
I do plan to take them out the tin first!
On 22/03/2025 10:20, Jeff Gaines wrote:
Bit of an odd question.
At the start of the pandemic I stocked up with tins of Pilchards,
goodness know why, I am not that keen on them but the country was in a
state of flux at the time.
They are out of date so I need to get rid of them. They are a nuisance
to put in the waste food bin as they stick and sometimes don't get
emptied properly.
Could I flush them down the toilet? They are about the same size and
consistency as other matter that is flushed away.
I do plan to take them out the tin first!
You know what they say of allowed flushables, the 4 Ps
Piss,poo, paper and pilchards
Bit of an odd question.
At the start of the pandemic I stocked up with tins of Pilchards, goodness >know why, I am not that keen on them but the country was in a state of
flux at the time.
They are out of date so I need to get rid of them. They are a nuisance to
put in the waste food bin as they stick and sometimes don't get emptied >properly.
Could I flush them down the toilet? They are about the same size and >consistency as other matter that is flushed away.
I do plan to take them out the tin first!
Bit of an odd question.
At the start of the pandemic I stocked up with tins of Pilchards,
goodness know why, I am not that keen on them but the country was in a
state of flux at the time.
They are out of date so I need to get rid of them. They are a nuisance
to put in the waste food bin as they stick and sometimes don't get
emptied properly.
Could I flush them down the toilet? They are about the same size and consistency as other matter that is flushed away.
I do plan to take them out the tin first!
On 22 Mar 2025 10:20:25 GMT, Jeff Gaines wrote:
Bit of an odd question.
At the start of the pandemic I stocked up with tins of Pilchards,
goodness know why, I am not that keen on them but the country was in a
state of flux at the time.
So it was you, was it?
This!They are out of date so I need to get rid of them. They are a nuisance
to put in the waste food bin as they stick and sometimes don't get
emptied properly.
Eat them, even if they are rotten, as a punishment for having helped
create food shortages.
Bit of an odd question.
At the start of the pandemic I stocked up with tins of Pilchards, goodness know why, I am not that keen on them but the country was in a state of
flux at the time.
They are out of date so I need to get rid of them. They are a nuisance to
put in the waste food bin as they stick and sometimes don't get emptied properly.
Could I flush them down the toilet? They are about the same size and consistency as other matter that is flushed away.
I do plan to take them out the tin first!
The 'best before' simply means 'dont sue us if they dont taste so good
after'
On 22/03/2025 10:20, Jeff Gaines wrote:
[quoted text muted]Why not eat them?
Tinned food should last forever.
On 22/03/2025 10:20, Jeff Gaines wrote:
Bit of an odd question.
At the start of the pandemic I stocked up with tins of Pilchards,
goodness know why, I am not that keen on them but the country was in a
state of flux at the time.
They are out of date so I need to get rid of them. They are a nuisance
to put in the waste food bin as they stick and sometimes don't get
emptied properly.
Could I flush them down the toilet? They are about the same size and
consistency as other matter that is flushed away.
I do plan to take them out the tin first!
Just chuck the tin, unopened in the general waste. Or open the tin,
sniff the contents and eat if they don't smell too bad.
On 22/03/2025 13:27, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
The 'best before' simply means 'dont sue us if they dont taste so good
after'
We had a Christmas Pudding with a best before date of July 2012 at
Christmas 2013. Tasted fine, we're all still here.
On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 13:27:14 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 22/03/2025 10:20, Jeff Gaines wrote:
[quoted text muted]Why not eat them?
Tinned food should last forever.
Didn't the Victorians eat tins from a doomed naval expedition that were
20 years old with no ill effects.
you needed a hammer and chisel to open the tins.
On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 13:27:14 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 22/03/2025 10:20, Jeff Gaines wrote:
[quoted text muted]Why not eat them?
Tinned food should last forever.
Didn't the Victorians eat tins from a doomed naval expedition that were
20 years old with no ill effects.
you needed a hammer and chisel to open the tins.
On 22/03/2025 18:12, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 13:27:14 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 22/03/2025 10:20, Jeff Gaines wrote:
[quoted text muted]Why not eat them?
Tinned food should last forever.
Didn't the Victorians eat tins from a doomed naval expedition that were
20 years old with no ill effects.
you needed a hammer and chisel to open the tins.
There was a story in the papers in 2006, of a man that cooked and ate a
50 year-old tinned chicken from when the couple married in 1956. There
were no ill effects. The same article also mentioned that scientists
had tested food canned in the '70s and found it still good.
ISTR that someone brought canned meat from the 1907 Shackleton
expedition back for testing 40 or 50 years later, but someone ate it
before it could be tested and again was fine.
On 22/03/2025 17:27, mm0fmf wrote:
On 22/03/2025 13:27, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
The 'best before' simply means 'dont sue us if they dont taste so
good after'
We had a Christmas Pudding with a best before date of July 2012 at
Christmas 2013. Tasted fine, we're all still here.
Surely a Xmas pud should have a "Best After" date, not a best before?
They need time to mature.
Now if you said you ate it at Christmas 2021, that would be notable.
On 22/03/2025 17:27, mm0fmf wrote:
On 22/03/2025 13:27, The Natural Philosopher wrote
The 'best before' simply means 'dont sue us if they dont taste so good after'
We had a Christmas Pudding with a best before date of July 2012 at
Christmas 2013. Tasted fine, we're all still here.
Surely a Xmas pud should have a "Best After" date, not a best before?
They need time to mature.
Now if you said you ate it at Christmas 2021, that would be notable.
On 22/03/2025 13:27, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
The 'best before' simply means 'dont sue us if they dont taste so good
after'
We had a Christmas Pudding with a best before date of July 2012 at
Christmas 2013. Tasted fine, we're all still here.
On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:27:47 +0000, mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> wrote:
On 22/03/2025 13:27, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
The 'best before' simply means 'dont sue us if they dont taste so good
after'
We had a Christmas Pudding with a best before date of July 2012 at
Christmas 2013. Tasted fine, we're all still here.
In the days between Boxing Day and New Year's Day, my local Tesco, two minutes walk away, sells off all its Christmas food, cheap. I usually
stock up on their individual Christmas puds, and eat them over the
following year or three. I see there are half a dozen at the back of
the cupboard already over a year old. Time for a Christmas pud, I
think.
On 22/03/2025 13:27, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
The 'best before' simply means 'dont sue us if they dont taste so good
after'
We had a Christmas Pudding with a best before date of July 2012 at
Christmas 2013. Tasted fine, we're all still here.
One of those failed north or south pole early expeditions where they
found some of the bodies recently. Analysing the bones, disn't they find extremely high lead contamination, enough to suggest the expedition
could have come to grief due to the use of lead to seal the cans of
early canned foodstuffs.
Bit of an odd question.
At the start of the pandemic I stocked up with tins of Pilchards,
goodness know why, I am not that keen on them but the country was in a
state of flux at the time.
They are out of date so I need to get rid of them. They are a nuisance
to put in the waste food bin as they stick and sometimes don't get
emptied properly.
Could I flush them down the toilet? They are about the same size and consistency as other matter that is flushed away.
I do plan to take them out the tin first!
On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:27:47 +0000, mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> wrote:
On 22/03/2025 13:27, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
The 'best before' simply means 'dont sue us if they dont taste so good
after'
We had a Christmas Pudding with a best before date of July 2012 at >>Christmas 2013. Tasted fine, we're all still here.
In the days between Boxing Day and New Year's Day, my local Tesco, two minutes walk away, sells off all its Christmas food, cheap. I usually
stock up on their individual Christmas puds, and eat them over the
following year or three. I see there are half a dozen at the back of
the cupboard already over a year old. Time for a Christmas pud, I
think.
On 22/03/2025 18:12, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 13:27:14 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 22/03/2025 10:20, Jeff Gaines wrote:
[quoted text muted]Why not eat them?
Tinned food should last forever.
Didn't the Victorians eat tins from a doomed naval expedition that were
20 years old with no ill effects.
you needed a hammer and chisel to open the tins.
There was a story in the papers in 2006, of a man that cooked and ate a
50 year-old tinned chicken from when the couple married in 1956. There
were no ill effects. The same article also mentioned that scientists
had tested food canned in the '70s and found it still good.
On 22/03/2025 12:23, Max Demian wrote:
On 22/03/2025 10:20, Jeff Gaines wrote:Search a few newsgroups for some good tinned pilchard recipes.
Bit of an odd question.
At the start of the pandemic I stocked up with tins of Pilchards,
goodness know why, I am not that keen on them but the country was in a
state of flux at the time.
They are out of date so I need to get rid of them. They are a nuisance
to put in the waste food bin as they stick and sometimes don't get
emptied properly.
Could I flush them down the toilet? They are about the same size and
consistency as other matter that is flushed away.
I do plan to take them out the tin first!
Just chuck the tin, unopened in the general waste. Or open the tin,
sniff the contents and eat if they don't smell too bad.
In the days between Boxing Day and New Year's Day, my local Tesco, two minutes walk away, sells off all its Christmas food, cheap.
On 22/03/2025 10:20, Jeff Gaines wrote:
Bit of an odd question.
At the start of the pandemic I stocked up with tins of Pilchards,
goodness know why, I am not that keen on them but the country was in a
state of flux at the time.
They are out of date so I need to get rid of them. They are a nuisance
to put in the waste food bin as they stick and sometimes don't get
emptied properly.
Could I flush them down the toilet? They are about the same size and
consistency as other matter that is flushed away.
I do plan to take them out the tin first!
Donate them to your local food bank? Many supermarkets have a bin for donations near the exit of the shop, you could just check them in. In
the unlikely event that the food bank doesn't want them, they will know
how to dispose of them properly.
Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
On 22/03/2025 17:27, mm0fmf wrote:
On 22/03/2025 13:27, The Natural Philosopher wrote
The 'best before' simply means 'dont sue us if they dont taste so good after'
We had a Christmas Pudding with a best before date of July 2012 at
Christmas 2013. Tasted fine, we're all still here.
Surely a Xmas pud should have a "Best After" date, not a best before?
They need time to mature.
Now if you said you ate it at Christmas 2021, that would be notable.
Do Christmas Puddings actually come in tins?
On 22/03/2025 17:27, mm0fmf wrote:
On 22/03/2025 13:27, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
The 'best before' simply means 'dont sue us if they dont taste so
good after'
We had a Christmas Pudding with a best before date of July 2012 at
Christmas 2013. Tasted fine, we're all still here.
Home made Christmas puddings should be made a year in advance normally
on stir Sunday.
On 23/03/2025 10:38, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:27:47 +0000, mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> wrote:I've updated the dates in my post, the pud in question was 11 years past
On 22/03/2025 13:27, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
The 'best before' simply means 'dont sue us if they dont taste so good >>>> after'
We had a Christmas Pudding with a best before date of July 2012 at
Christmas 2013. Tasted fine, we're all still here.
In the days between Boxing Day and New Year's Day, my local Tesco, two
minutes walk away, sells off all its Christmas food, cheap. I usually
stock up on their individual Christmas puds, and eat them over the
following year or three. I see there are half a dozen at the back of
the cupboard already over a year old. Time for a Christmas pud, I
think.
the best before date!
My local supermarket never has left over Christmas fare like puddings, Stollen, Panatone etc. any more. They used to have loads and I've bought puddings that were £8 each before Christmas for £1 ea by December 28th. That obviously costs and cuts into profits. For the last few years they
never have left over stuff like this. It appears they order fewer items
and would rather run out of puddings etc. on Dec 23rd/24th and
disappoint a few customers than have to sell things at a loss after Christmas.
On 23/03/2025 11:03, mm0fmf wrote:
On 23/03/2025 10:38, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:27:47 +0000, mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> wrote:I've updated the dates in my post, the pud in question was 11 years past
On 22/03/2025 13:27, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
The 'best before' simply means 'dont sue us if they dont taste so good >>>>> after'
We had a Christmas Pudding with a best before date of July 2012 at
Christmas 2013. Tasted fine, we're all still here.
In the days between Boxing Day and New Year's Day, my local Tesco, two
minutes walk away, sells off all its Christmas food, cheap. I usually
stock up on their individual Christmas puds, and eat them over the
following year or three. I see there are half a dozen at the back of
the cupboard already over a year old. Time for a Christmas pud, I
think.
the best before date!
My local supermarket never has left over Christmas fare like puddings,
Stollen, Panatone etc. any more. They used to have loads and I've bought
puddings that were £8 each before Christmas for £1 ea by December 28th.
That obviously costs and cuts into profits. For the last few years they
never have left over stuff like this. It appears they order fewer items
and would rather run out of puddings etc. on Dec 23rd/24th and
disappoint a few customers than have to sell things at a loss after
Christmas.
Often supermarkets will send (some types of) food to a foodbank when it
gets close to its Use-By date.
On 22/03/2025 11:21, N_Cook wrote:
On 22/03/2025 10:20, Jeff Gaines wrote:
Bit of an odd question.
At the start of the pandemic I stocked up with tins of Pilchards,
goodness know why, I am not that keen on them but the country was in a
state of flux at the time.
They are out of date so I need to get rid of them. They are a nuisance
to put in the waste food bin as they stick and sometimes don't get
emptied properly.
Could I flush them down the toilet? They are about the same size and
consistency as other matter that is flushed away.
I do plan to take them out the tin first!
You know what they say of allowed flushables, the 4 Ps
Piss,poo, paper and pilchards
And small flushable Pets.
On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:27:47 +0000, mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> wrote:
On 22/03/2025 13:27, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
The 'best before' simply means 'dont sue us if they dont taste so good
after'
We had a Christmas Pudding with a best before date of July 2012 at
Christmas 2013. Tasted fine, we're all still here.
In the days between Boxing Day and New Year's Day, my local Tesco, two minutes walk away, sells off all its Christmas food, cheap. I usually
stock up on their individual Christmas puds, and eat them over the
following year or three. I see there are half a dozen at the back of
the cupboard already over a year old. Time for a Christmas pud, I
think.
On 22/03/2025 10:20, Jeff Gaines wrote:
Why not eat them?
Bit of an odd question.
At the start of the pandemic I stocked up with tins of Pilchards,
goodness know why, I am not that keen on them but the country was in a
state of flux at the time.
They are out of date so I need to get rid of them. They are a nuisance
to put in the waste food bin as they stick and sometimes don't get
emptied properly.
Could I flush them down the toilet? They are about the same size and
consistency as other matter that is flushed away.
I do plan to take them out the tin first!
Tinned food should last forever.
Bit of an odd question.
At the start of the pandemic I stocked up with tins of Pilchards,
goodness know why, I am not that keen on them but the country was in a
state of flux at the time.
They are out of date so I need to get rid of them. They are a nuisance
to put in the waste food bin as they stick and sometimes don't get
emptied properly.
Could I flush them down the toilet? They are about the same size and consistency as other matter that is flushed away.
I do plan to take them out the tin first!
| Sysop: | Keyop |
|---|---|
| Location: | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK |
| Users: | 546 |
| Nodes: | 16 (0 / 16) |
| Uptime: | 169:13:10 |
| Calls: | 10,385 |
| Calls today: | 2 |
| Files: | 14,057 |
| Messages: | 6,416,551 |