Out of date food

[Oma]

Your right plant ,
Milk and fresh orange juice delivered to the door ,
Shopping done every day but a Sunday ,
We bought bacon cut fresh from the counter , sugar in blue bags and butter in pats ,
Daisy I'm sure you will remember that with your parents shop.

[Daisy]

Plant, yes I think shopping was done every day, and it was usually the woman of the house doing it. As I've mentioned before my parents had a grocery shop. We had no refrigeration so in the summer it was hard to keep bacon safe. It came as a "side", with bones in. We just had a cool dark area off the shop, under the stairs basically, where we kept bacon, cheese, eggs and anything else that needed it. We sold milk, but only sterilised (UHT nowadays) so that had a long shelf life. There were certainly no chill cabinets for things like fizzy drinks, etc.

Gem, you're not alone. I think most people feel they shouldn't ignore use by dates.

[Plantaholic]

I was a child during rationing so not many treats.

[Daisy]

Plant, that's true. The sweet ration wasn't very much was it.

[Plantaholic]

No Daisy, I used to give my sweet ration to my middle sister, can’t remember what I got in exchange. I can remember buying aero bar with my money.

[Daisy]

Plant, you must have felt it was a good deal at the time. Ironically (living in a shop that sold sweets) I never used my ration - I don't like sweets!

[Oma]

Forgot to say I took the pantone back ,
Spoke to the manager ,she was very apologetic said she would take it up with head office and let me know,
While I was there she had someone check them all on the shelf and have them removed,
She said they were new in for them ,
She was going to check the stock in the back also.
Got the old excuse well its probably a few that got through,
If that was the case why did they remove all on the shelf when They checked the dates?

Probably either won't hear anything or a generic apology.

[Gemini]

My mum often talked about rationing and sweets. Mum was the youngest in the family and one of her older sisters gave mum her share of the sweets ration.

[Lizzie48]

I was young when there was still rationing, I remember my sister riding her bike, with the shopping, into a very deep dyke, my mother was more upset about the wet sugar she couldn't use!!!

[Daisy]

Lizzie, I remember my mother used to empty the bag of sugar into a large jar (I still have it!) and she would tear open the whole packet to get every last grain out. I can't imagine what she would have said if it had met with and accident like your Mum's. I hope your sister wasn't hurt.

[Lizzie48]

Daisy, my sister was fine, just the groceries got the soaking!