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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 12:57 AM
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What's the oldest item in your fridge/cupboard?
I just found a bread machine mix that was best if used by 10/97.
Homemade bread, anyone?:hide:


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Duer 157099 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 02:44 AM
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1. I could probably beat that.
If I actually could get to the back of the cupboard :rofl:
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 03:18 AM
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2. I think there's a Super Shef somewhere in the fridge.
But I'm afraid to check because I thought I saw something move in there.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 03:19 AM
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3. I can't beat that, but I do have some mustard circa 2004 or so.
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 06:49 AM
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4. Me.
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And I'm in there A LOT!!!!
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Jokerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 08:04 AM
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5. You beat me to it!
LOL
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 09:18 AM
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6. I think some miso from back in the day and various other
Edited on Thu Jan-13-11 09:19 AM by tigereye
fermented paste-type things.


In the cupboard there was some very old canned salmon and pumpkin pie filling from god knows when. Tossed those out a while back though.
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here_is_to_hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 09:42 AM
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7. Loaf of white bread that is
been in the cupboard since 1998. It is still kinda soft, no mold.
It was left behind in the cabin one summer, we found it the next year and realized how old it was and knew that to eat it would deprive science.
How many more years it will keep, we don't know.
I also have a can of peas that was a birthday gift in 1990, the label is gone but I know what is in there, oh yes I do.
I just checked on the egg noodles, 3 years. I bought them forgetting my wife is allergic to eggs so there they sit.
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 10:10 AM
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8. Root beer making extract form when we were first married
Edited on Thu Jan-13-11 10:48 AM by bif
I thought it would be a cool idea to make my own root beer. Here it is, almost 30 years later and me, my wife, and the extract are still together!
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surrealAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 10:25 AM
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9. I can't be sure, but ...
... it would probably be one of the infrequently used spices. I use some spices quite a lot, but there are a few that must have been in there for at least ten years.
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 10:27 AM
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10. A big jug of fermented soya sauce.
Years old,I wonder if it's any good?
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 10:37 AM
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11. I don't know
Every time I try to catch it it gets away :scared:
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 05:27 PM
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12. Not sure, but when I open one cupboard door, something
keeps yelling, "Hey.kid! Get off my lawn."
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stuntcat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 05:34 PM
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13. I just today got my first bread machine!
I have everything I need for now though :)

The oldest thing I have is some jam my grandma made before she died, it's probably over ten years old. I just keep it, I don't know what I'll do with it though lol
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 05:48 PM
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14. Jimmy Hoffa
:evilgrin:
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Brother Buzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 07:18 PM
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15. A bottle of high strength ammonia (26%) has been in my icebox since 1984
I don't fume oak anymore, but it remains.
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 08:53 PM
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16. I would have to look at that would be work. But I have friends whose stuff can get very old.
I once worked for a food warehouse and I gave them a pound cake in a cardboard container with a cellophane top. I kept my eye on that pound cake for years and after 10 years I finally laughingly mentioned it to them. They still have some cans of soda sitting on a ledge in their basement and that brand is no longer made and they date back to that time so they must be 13 or more years old now.
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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 10:19 PM
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17. I have some spices in those little tins.
I know they must be over 30 years old. No, I don't use them, I just hate to throw out the tins!

I keep my fresh herbs and spices (in glass jars now) in the fridge.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 10:25 PM
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18. A bottle of Ripple from 1982.
It was a joke gift. I can't bear to part with it, but I'm sure as hell not going to try to drink it.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 10:32 PM
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19. I just threw out couscous that was 4 years old. I ate a pickle yesterday that was 2 years old.
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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 12:00 AM
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20. Some pickled herring - it's beginning
to swim.
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