Oldest food in your house

[onelesscar]

What is the oldest food you've ever found in your house? A few days ago, I pulled a box of Jello No Bake Cheescake out of the pantry that expired 10 years ago.

Mind you, however, that it is much older than that, since those things last like 5 years.

So, 5 + 10 yrs = 15 yrs total.

[Jerrick]

There is nothing like that in my house, no food or anything will last a week here, cause I eat and drink it all. =p

The longest thing was a giant bag of noodles, that lasted 2 months.

[iridemymuni]

a few months ago we cleaned out the freezer and found a piece of leg ham in there, it was like 4 years out of date, what's more amazing is that we moved houses and it came with us!

[jake_amos]

we have a bottle of schweppes Ginger Ale that is old then i am. i am 15 that means the bottle has moved into 3 different houses. everyday i open the fridge see the competition and wonder if i should enter!

[johnfoss]

My Coca-Cola bottle & can collection includes a small bottle from the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. I have since dumped out the contents of all the cans in my collection, many of which were brought back from Europe in the 80s, after learning how they can spontaneously spring a leak while stored in a box for five years, making a mess in there...

[dan de man]

sum canned blue berries from 1991

[tomtrevor]

my grandparents had a fish in one of there fridges for just over 6 years. it was a bait fridge so it didnt really matter. ive also had a can of spagetti in my pantry for 3 years, it was yummy.

[monkeyman]

I found a can of Campbell's soup at my dad's house once, that expired in 1993....

[trials_uni]

Lemonade crystals from the year i was born 1988

[Brian MacKenzie]

salad dressing from june

[j-n]

a few months ago we cleaned out the freezer and found a piece of leg ham in there, it was like 4 years out of date, what's more amazing is that we moved houses and it came with us!

Well, so basically what you're trying to say is that after 4 years it has got its own legs? ;) :D Congratulations then for breeding a new species! ;)

Jedrzej

[NordicUni420]

i guess the oldest food would be some spaghetti pie in the freezer that we had at my house for a party when the entire high school track team came over when my brother was a senior in high school (now he's a senior in college).

i know this isnt food, but we have some curad bandages, i dont exactly know how old they are, but there were 80 in the box and "you pay 83 cents" go figure

[squirrel]

spices don't count, do they?

http://www.selectric.org/06main/spices.jpg

[MERCYME]

Im not dirty.

[MuniAddict]

I'll check behind my fridge and get back to you!:D

[forrestunifreak]

We had some jello pudding someone gave us a few years ago, that the expiraration date is early 1990's (not sure exactly). We tried to make some pistashio pudding once.... it wasn't even pudding anymore.

[onelesscar]

spices don't count, do they?

http://www.selectric.org/06main/spices.jpg

Sure they do! Oh, and btw, white pepper is awesome! :cool:

[Brian MacKenzie]

Sure they do! Oh, and btw, white pepper is awesome! :cool:


you americans! up here in canada it's called salt

[yoopers]

We have a bottle of Marmite. Although we bought it a few years ago, I'm convinced that the substance itself is a hundred years old.

My parents-in-law bought a little can of Durkee black pepper when they were first married even though neither of them used pepper. When I started dating Mary some 25 years later, the same little can of pepper was still in the cupboards.

[Catboy]

Spices and canned foods are the only thing that we have over a month old.

[tobbogonist]

i deposited the contents of a can of corn into a small square tin about 4 years ago at my previous school. I saw an old friend the other day who told me that they broke open the locker i used while (would say whilst but am not american) there and found it, along with 1 year old sandwiches, a box of those charity chocolates, a large variety of clothes, really overdue homework, my lucky moose that poo'd when you squeeze it, an old harmonica, a small flask of horse semen, some little round things of unknown origin, a bowling skittle thing, several religious artifacts (crosses, photo's and things, twas a catholic school) and one soccer boot (which i find quite fummoxing because i left two in there).
It was then i realised why he was now an old friend, he just never shut up!

[harper]

I am the oldest food in my house. I have not yet reached my expiration date.

[yoopers]

Welcome back, Greg! Good trip?

[JJuggle]

I am the oldest food in my house. I have not yet reached my expiration date.
First off, I was about to post the same damn thing. Second, reminds me of a routine from Robert Klein's album "Child of the Fifties" about being informed at the hospital of a loved ones death.

[stuckinwheeliemode]

probably tobasco sauce from ten years ago that moved 2 houses

[Unitik908]

we had this bottle of liquid smoke for like 9 years and eventually it fell out of the frige and broke...

Chase

[unisteez]

we have some boxes of jello that expired in 89' 90' and 92'..not sure why we have them still. but i put them back in the pantry anyways.
i also found a bottle of vanilla extract that has to be at least 15-20 years old.

we have some really old wines too. but i dont think we will count those.

[harper]

Welcome back, Greg! Good trip?

Today I sat in the lunch room at the lab wearing shoes and socks and a long sleeve shirt for the first time in three weeks. I ate an apple and I hadn't even seen one in that period of time. All of these round-eyed white people were speaking English to me. There were no tigers to pet and no elephants to ride.

It was a wonderful trip. Never in 1970 did I believe that I would sit on the shore of the mighty Mekong river drinking delicious Lao coffee at an open air restaurant with my son and photograph a glorious sunset. Never did I think that I would speak Thai or Lao and have warm, friendly, playful people understand and answer me. Never have I been so innundated with exotic foreign sounds, scents, and sights. Good trip? Why did I ever come back?

[yoopers]

Today I sat in the lunch room at the lab wearing shoes and socks and a long sleeve shirt for the first time in three weeks. I ate an apple and I hadn't even seen one in that period of time. All of these round-eyed white people were speaking English to me. There were no tigers to pet and no elephants to ride.

It was a wonderful trip. Never in 1970 did I believe that I would sit on the shore of the mighty Mekong river drinking delicious Lao coffee at an open air restaurant with my son and photograph a glorious sunset. Never did I think that I would speak Thai or Lao and have warm, friendly, playful people understand and answer me. Never have I been so innundated with exotic foreign sounds, scents, and sights. Good trip? Why did I ever come back?
Laotian coffee? I'm drooling over just that! Someday I hope to take an exotic trip even if it's just out of the flat boring midwest U.S.

[ice_cold_uni6]

while its not exactly food, i had a box of baking soda in my freezer that expired in 1993, making almost as old as me. (it outlived 4 freezers)

i also had a can of allspice that expired in 1996.

[James_Potter]

We don't have much old food here, but my friend has a box of noodles from 1976....

[Klaas Bil]

In 1979 (I think) I got a pepper mill for my birthday. The mill didn't work very well so it was only used occasionally and therefore lasted very long (I mostly used regular pepper instead). A few months ago, I finally used the last original pepper of it (it still tasted better than the pre-milled regular stuff, and then threw the thing away.

So, that was 27 years old!

Klaas Bil (I am a keeper of things anyway)

[vuniw]

ehh i was going to say a bottle of coke from 1975 but then i looked at my parents can collection and the have a bottle of Clapp's Original Puree of Beats (baby food) that expired in 1933 and it is still full!

[bcwheelriderguyhehehehehe]

Let's see oh gross nasty! I found a rusty tin full of peaches or somthing and they are like brown man. I'm gonna bury it in an old timey kind of time capsul and go out with a metal detector and say "hey there is somthing over here" and dig up the "time Capsul" And get it put in a museum! Haha genius:D . Does the museum pay you for bringing stuff in?:confused:

[UniBrier]

I think we got our cat in 1990.:eek:

[monkeyman]

ehh i was going to say a bottle of coke from 1975 but then i looked at my parents can collection and the have a bottle of Clapp's Original Puree of Beats (baby food) that expired in 1933 and it is still full!

:eek: :eek: :eek:

That even beats Greg!

[ice_cold_uni6]

when my grandma died we were going through all her old stuff, and in the back of the fridge we found lettuce and some cheese that expired in the 80's

[onelesscar]

when my grandma died we were going through all her old stuff, and in the back of the fridge we found lettuce and some cheese that expired in the 80's
how do you know it was lettuce and cheese? and does lettuce usually have expo dates?

anyway, did you discover any new species of mold?