What's the most out of date thing you've ever found in your kitchen cupboards?

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Me and my mum were making my sister a birthday cake yesterday and we found some yellow food colouring that went out of date in the year 2000!!! So it was 20 years out of date. Definitely a record for me.... anyone else found similar?

Rather an old one, but as a student home from university in 1995 I did the 'good deed' of trying to sort out my parents' kitchen cupboard and found a tin of tomato juice best before August 1976.

Being young and reckless, I opened and drank it and it was fine.

A jar of home made blackcurrant jam that my mum made.
The label on it says 1971.
I opened it last summer, it was still perfect.
It was in my mum's cupboard, not mine.
In mine, I have an armed forces rat pack tin of processed cheese, dated sept 1984. ( Husband was in the forces )
It's still in the cupboard unopened 😳

@FlamingoAndJohn Maybe it wasn't a best before date but it definitely had a date of some sort stamped on it, maybe the canning date?
I wouldn't have risked eating it, anyway!

A tin of Heinz bake beans in the back of my great grandmothers cupboard that was so old that it didn't have a use by date from the can label we guestamate somewhere around 1950

I've just caught up with all these. They're great. That Friday night dinner clip was lol 😂. Can alcohol go off if it's not opened? Maybe that's a silly question but I genuinely don't know. People keep vintage wines don't they? Anyway thanks for joining in everyone.

My grandmother has a (rusting!) Tim of condensed milk bearing a price sticker for a former Scottish supermarket chain called William Lows.
Lows was taken over by Tesco in 1994! I actually reckon it predates the takeover by about 10 years as the price is only about 25p from memory.
She won't part with it though.

I have an unopened jar of paprika that went out of date in 2003. I'm keeping it forever!

I found food colouring that had a price label that said 1d at my mums house!

In the mid-nineties I helped clear out my grandparents house. There were about 20 bags of sugar (my granny made amazing jam and cakes) and at least one had a price tag in shillings.

My neighbour has a tin of powdered egg from the rationing during the war. He still has it on the odd occasions his hens don't lay. Tinned goods are best before, if the tin wasn't damaged I'd eat the 1946 fruit salad.

Mid 1990s. Food colouring. Not sure how old but according to the sticker on it, it cost 1s and 6d.

We cleared out the workshop at work today and found a first aid kit with a pot of poltice that went out of date in 1985!

Bottle of baileys, 11 years out of date 🙈 dp hadnt realised and been making me hot chocolate with it 🤣 no wonder it tasted funny

At Christmas, I drank a miniature bottle of "Cherry B" brandy which my mum had kept from the 50s (before she married) - it had a cork stopper!
I'm still breathing so it must have been ok 65+ yrs later

I found a small bag of flour from 1986 in my mum’s cupboards when clearing after she died.
As pp I also found odd baking things brought with her when she came to this country in late 60s. Including food dyes and cake topping sprinkle type things. She cooked all the time and I think these things just lurked - for decades! Imagine giving them trunk room on the way over !?

My regular out of date ‘thing’ is veg stock tubs. Just replaced some from 2008 at the back of a cupboard. I buy them to ‘have in’ but tend to make stock equivalent more often.

My dad has a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale he bought to celebrate the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977 but didn't open

Not food related....but I have the remains of the bottle of Romance by Ralph Lauren that I wore when I got married in 2002. It's up in the attic with all my other wedding keepsakes. God knows what it must smell like now! 😖

Dried herbs from 2003, found last year.

Probably spices but only by a couple of months. Maybe odd item in freezer before Christmas l

We don’t overbuy anymore as on a mission to not waste food currently and I check every couple of months for dates to ensure they are ok.

My mum has food colouring in her kitchen from the 1960s, so 50-something yrs old. Price in d.

Bloody hell what is it with food dye !!!

Mil has a small pot of marmite dated 1997. She tells the DC she'll leave it to them in her will.

11 year old rice. I ate it and am still here

In the early 2000s my aunt made some kraft macaroni and cheese which she found in my grandmas cupboard. It had gone out of date in 1986.

One christmas we found a tureen of previously cooked brussel sprouts from the previous christmas. They were surprisingly well preserved!

sparkifairy I love that video. Showed it to dh as this tustle with out of date food resonates with me. He laughed as well.