h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yep, that 8mm movie-film is still in its wrappers. If I did get it developed now, without further 'exposing' it to reality, I would expect to get nothing less than an animated shroud-of-Turin ghost-dance after being trapped in a cold box with lesbianese hashish all these years.

peace
~jwf~

This isn't going to be about a fridge of freezer item but...

I heard this on the radio, the dj was asking people to look in their mom's cupboards and tell them the date of the most 'out of date' products they could find. One person called in and told them about a box of dried peas (I think) that were so old that they didn't have a B.B.E. date on them, and they had a pre-decimal currency price on them too...meaning that they had been in there at least 19 years..
I know they're dried and so keep that much longer but.....



Our thoughts are one.

I have a tub of miso which I think is about two years old...but the label says that it keeps indefinitely...we are still using it with no untoward symptoms.

The bat and the hamster remind me of the following limerick:

There was a young fellow named Doyle
Who wrapped his wife up in tin foil
He said: 'It would please her
To use the deep freezer,
And anyway outside she'd spoil'

***B

What's miso?

In reply to Orcus, miso is a fermented soybean paste (think paste like soy sauce). It is used in Japanese cooking but gives rich flavour to many dishes, especially mushroom gravy. It seems to last for ever in the 'fridge, in fact I have heard that it lasts a long time just in a cool cupboard but I am not that big a gambler

Cheers

I have become aware that I have an unopened bottle of Whitbread Silver Jubilee Ale. Is it likely to be drinkable? I recon that it must be about 25 years old by now.

PP

At a great sacrifice, for a fellow researcher, I'll take that risk for you

Oldest thing in fridge: A couple of carrots that really looks like they could use some combing...

It's a student fridge n a halls of residence.

I'm to scared to go in the kitchen and look!

Mr. Pink, every now and again (well, let's be honest, once every five years or so) I dust the top of the wardrobe and come across a similar bottle of beer to the one you describe. I have never been tempted to open it, indeed most of my retirement is based around its possible future value.

Sounds like I can get by not opening it and just drinking cheep beer for the time being then. (When can I retire? Do I have to wait another 25 years? No, wait there will be a glut if we both try to sell our beer at the same time!)

PP

Drink half now, save the rest for later.

Not a fridge item but about 3 years ago I found a tub of Baking Powder in my mum's cupboard from FineFare (remember them!) and the price was 12 and a half pence! I think it was at least 25 years old! By my reckoning it was best before 1973!!

The oldest thing in my fridge is a jar of Chocolate body paint! It seemed like a good idea at the time (6 years ago!)

I noticed that I posted in August that I had a tub of miso in my 'fridge that is years old. You've guessed it, it is still there.

Well,well here was I thinking I was a complete housewife slut of the very worst sort.After reading this thread I realise I'm actually a Paragon as I make it a point to clear my fridge out once a month.


We won't mention behind the cooker tho'.

Incog.

Not quite sure. It's a student house where one of the guys stayed on from last year, so the fridge was not cleaned out. Thus we have various oriental sauces hanging around which are effectively undatable.

Oldest thing in my room's fridge? Well, other than the sticky residue from a can of pepsi that exploded in it over break sometime last year, I'd have to say an unopened 2-liter bottle of A&W Root Beer... my roommate got it as a left-over from some art party she went to, apparently planning on drinking it.

That was in August.

small, sealed, pre-packaged condiments, from fast food- some surely 5-6 years old.