Sour Sour Cream?
How do you tell if sour cream is sour? I had some sour cream in my fridge that had the date 4/3/07 on it. Which means it expired on my sister's birthday (which reminds me I did not make note of her birthday in my blog however I did draw her a picture and call her so I guess that's alright). Anyway, the point is that the sour cream in my refrigerator is (was) now four days past this mark. However, this date did not indicate if it was a use by or sell by date.
Now, I'm a hypochondriac but I'm a weird kind of hypochondriac. I'm a hypochondriac who, as a child, used to eat sand. So, after a quick smell check and visual examination for funny fuzzy growths I decided to chance it. It was extremely delicious sour cream that went well with my chips and salsa. And I feel fine now. But if I die of a particularly virulent form of penicillin (yes I know that's a medicine) you'll all know better than to eat expired sour cream.
Not Friends of the Week: The people who keep spamming my comments!!! Argh! I don't want to disable the open comments because it's hard enough to convince my friends to comment without making it hard and I'd rather not to have to approve every comment to my site. But sheesh! For now I'll just have to keep hitting delete and hope it doesn't get too out of hand. You're all smart people, so I don't think I have to tell you not to click on mysterious links from people you don't know and who have not said anything more substantive than "click here." But since I can't always delete them immediately I thought I might as well give you all a heads up.
Please comment if you're a friend: Would you all still comment if I enabled word verification? I don't want to do it but I'm really sick of the spam.
4 comments:
I think that is the definition of irony...
Argh!! It's almost as if they read it and started posting more to spite me! I got two and a few minutes time!
I would still comment. :)
Products last surprisingly longer than the sell-by date, usually 1-2 weeks depending on what it is. Of course, I grew up poor though so we used to push that limit. I still remember my Dad having me drink milk that was "on the edge" and had a blue tinge when you poured it. Don't do that. Just sniff the milk/dairy product and see what your nose tells you. It's usually fairly accurate. My best case of this was my recent attempt to bake an Angel Food cake for my 501 class that was from a mix that was AT LEAST 5 years old
(probably 7-10). That one didn't work out well. The batter was sort of fizzy, so I ended up trashing it and using the other old mix that was only 2-3 years old, which worked out fine. Long story short, if it's growing something toss it, if it smells off toss it, if not eat it and see what happens! Our immune systems are too used to antibacterial everything these days, so giving them a good opportunity to train is worthwhile too.
BTW, would you be interested in an all girls' bowling night in a week? 7pm Colonial Lanes on Wednesday if you want to go. Should be FUN :)
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