Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 14, 2014
September 13, 2014
September 15, 2014
Transcript:
boy: My mom took me grocery shopping. I noticed something. Most of the stuff in certain aisles had expiration dates way past when school gets out next June. Mom could make all my lunches at once and not worry about it for the rest of the year! She wasn't interested. Frazz: In feeding you artificial food for 10 months? boy: Something else. Frazz: In blowing a weekend putting food in bags? boy: In a $1,200 grocery trip. Frazz: Plus renting a storage unit for the lunches.
alviebird about 10 years ago
This brings up a point that my roommate can’t quite grasp. Once a package is opened, you can forget about the date. Especially with things like sandwich meat. It doesn’t matter if it’s dated three weeks from now, if it’s been open for more than a week, it’s highly questionable
Varnes about 10 years ago
Oh, just go to the cafeteria and eat the green baloney and shut up…….
pumaman about 10 years ago
Just keep guessing Frazz, no matter how long it takes. Never just ask “why not?”
jimguess about 10 years ago
thebird55 is right! When I was a kid, my mother canned food. ‘Canning’ was actually putting food in canning jars, putting on a special lid, heating it in a special cooker to over 220º for enough time to kill anything in the jars, then watching them to be sure they were properly cooked. When the special lid ‘popped down’ into a dip, they were ready and could stay on the shelf for more than a year, waiting for us to eat it another day. If the special lid didn’t ‘pop down’ then that jar was set aside and we would eat that food within a week.
We did this over 50 years ago! And properly canned food was safe. Very safe.