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Sometimes I'll recieve a box of chocolates or even get a bar from the store that has a white-ish film on it, and it's kinda more crumbly than usual. Is this because it's gone bad?
'Best before end' dates
This are dates often found on food packets that state the least possible time for the food to go out of date, i.e. that the food will go off. Quite often these are actually totally pointless, as the food simple does not go out of date. Take chocolate for example. The date on chocolate states that it's life is relatively short, but in reality, chocolate will last near-enough for ever. Sometimes, on the other hand, these dates can be used to your advantage. Take, milk or orange juice for example. My suggestion for the food of this type is to check the Best Before End date as a swig of out of date orange juice may not be the most tasteful of beverages. To find the best before end date simple take any food packet and find a little label, often positioned near the bar code. This label may say something like "Best Before End-See Cap" on a bottle or "Best before End-See Base" on a box or packet. You will then be taken on a tour of the packet as you go from one label to the next, each indicating you to move on to a different area of the packet.
Nowadays, best before end dates are even more ridiculous. Not only do companies put on a date when the said product will supposedly go out of date; they often now add a time to it. For example "Best Before Date- 05-11-01 17:34" This product would the go out of date on the 5th of November 2001 at 34 minutes past 5 p.m. This is obviously a pointless feature to best before dates and should be ignored. Other best before date to be ignored are:
Dates on Matches, dates on chocolate, dates on beer, dates on tinned goods, dates of most frozen foods… the list goes on and on.
My advice is to completely ignore the Best before date and use your own mental and physical assets: Smell the food, Look at the food, feel the food, think whether the food would be out of date. This is a FAR better alternative that the dates that are printed on packets.
It is VERY important NOT to mix up "Best Before End" dates and "Display Until" dates. The "Display Until" dates are more an indicator to the shop as to when the product should be kept.
These dates are not completely useless. You can make them into a financial advantage to yourself. If you notice that a product in a shop is nearing its "Best Before" or "Display Until" date then you should be able to get a discount to the goods. Often shops will have already reduced the price for you but it is always best to try a little persuasion. After all you can only make a fool of yourself.
Rules of Chocolate
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If you've got melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.
Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.
The problem: How to get two pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot car. The solution: Eat it in the parking lot.
Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off your appetite, and you'll eat less.
If calories are an issue, store your chocolate on top of the fridge.
Calories are afraid of heights, and they will jump out of the chocolate to protect themselves.
If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet? Don't they actually counteract each other?
Money talks. Chocolate sings. Beautiful.
Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger. Therefore, you need to eat more chocolate.
Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done.
A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Now, isn't that handy?
If you can't eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But if you can't eat all your chocolate, what's wrong with you?
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You won't get sick if you eat it, it just means it's dried out, and not fresh. It's not "bad" the way milk or fruit is "bad".
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Posted on December 31st, 2008 at 11:49 pm
I received a box of chocolate at a gas station that I worked at a long time ago that looked like that, it had melted and re-hardened, it looked gross, but was edible.
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Posted on January 1st, 2009 at 12:29 am
I always thought chocolate was sorta like cheese, that it didn't go bad. I've seen people reopen a box of chocolate, find mold on it, cut the mold off, eat it and declare it great. I wasn't quite that brave.
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Posted on January 1st, 2009 at 1:00 am
When it has an off taste and is discolored( though discoloring maybe because of moisture/heating/cooling)
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Posted on January 1st, 2009 at 1:21 am
Most people believe that this means that the chocolate is old, but the truth is the chocolate has melted, (turned) at some point in time. The chocolate has cocoa butter suspended within itself, when the chocolate melts, the cocoa butter rises to the surface of the product, thus the white surface. It is not old and can be eaten safely and happily.
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Posted on January 1st, 2009 at 1:40 am
'Best before end' dates
This are dates often found on food packets that state the least possible time for the food to go out of date, i.e. that the food will go off. Quite often these are actually totally pointless, as the food simple does not go out of date. Take chocolate for example. The date on chocolate states that it's life is relatively short, but in reality, chocolate will last near-enough for ever. Sometimes, on the other hand, these dates can be used to your advantage. Take, milk or orange juice for example. My suggestion for the food of this type is to check the Best Before End date as a swig of out of date orange juice may not be the most tasteful of beverages. To find the best before end date simple take any food packet and find a little label, often positioned near the bar code. This label may say something like "Best Before End-See Cap" on a bottle or "Best before End-See Base" on a box or packet. You will then be taken on a tour of the packet as you go from one label to the next, each indicating you to move on to a different area of the packet.
Nowadays, best before end dates are even more ridiculous. Not only do companies put on a date when the said product will supposedly go out of date; they often now add a time to it. For example "Best Before Date- 05-11-01 17:34" This product would the go out of date on the 5th of November 2001 at 34 minutes past 5 p.m. This is obviously a pointless feature to best before dates and should be ignored. Other best before date to be ignored are:
Dates on Matches, dates on chocolate, dates on beer, dates on tinned goods, dates of most frozen foods… the list goes on and on.
My advice is to completely ignore the Best before date and use your own mental and physical assets: Smell the food, Look at the food, feel the food, think whether the food would be out of date. This is a FAR better alternative that the dates that are printed on packets.
It is VERY important NOT to mix up "Best Before End" dates and "Display Until" dates. The "Display Until" dates are more an indicator to the shop as to when the product should be kept.
These dates are not completely useless. You can make them into a financial advantage to yourself. If you notice that a product in a shop is nearing its "Best Before" or "Display Until" date then you should be able to get a discount to the goods. Often shops will have already reduced the price for you but it is always best to try a little persuasion. After all you can only make a fool of yourself.
Rules of Chocolate
——————————————————————————–
If you've got melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.
Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.
The problem: How to get two pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot car. The solution: Eat it in the parking lot.
Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off your appetite, and you'll eat less.
If calories are an issue, store your chocolate on top of the fridge.
Calories are afraid of heights, and they will jump out of the chocolate to protect themselves.
If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet? Don't they actually counteract each other?
Money talks. Chocolate sings. Beautiful.
Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger. Therefore, you need to eat more chocolate.
Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done.
A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Now, isn't that handy?
If you can't eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But if you can't eat all your chocolate, what's wrong with you?
References :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A239005
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=721
Posted on January 1st, 2009 at 1:47 am
when it like crumbles I think it has gone bad but hey its chocolate what is the worse that could happen?
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Posted on January 1st, 2009 at 2:08 am
white and grey on it, or it will taste bad
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Posted on January 1st, 2009 at 2:39 am