If something is shelf stable, it can stay in the cupboard forever. There’s a ‘Best By’ date, but it doesn’t really matter, right?
That’s what I thought too.
I had a box of scalloped potatoes that were perfect for dinner. They cooked wonderfully.
Little did I consider their ‘bes by’ date.
It turns out that it does matter on done things. I’m sure it seeing make you sick, but it tastes absolutely horrible (“rancid ” is the appropriate word, I amam told).
Turns out they were a little over their date and not like a five wine. And so the Shelf Stable Theory, by which I used to by everything in college so nothing went bad, proved to be untrue.
And yes, it is MLTN that those potatoes were from the apartment I lived in until I bought my house (2012), so check the dates on your food supply you’re saving for the end of the world.