Is this the oldest tub of sudocrem?

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Clearing out my mums house as she’s moving and weve found a massive tub of sudocrem. Expiry date is jul 1991 🤣 it’s still got a tiny scrape in it. Given I was born in July 91 and she said she used that tub for all 4 of us it’s a miracle it wasn’t used up entirely.

We also found some birds eye custard in my Nanas cupboard when she died that was exp 1970 so that probably wins! Tell me what the best expiry date you’ve found :)

You've just reminded me why I love this place.

Our sudocrem tub is 12 years old and still going strong. Been through two children’s nappy rash, grazes efc and I lent it to a visiting friend for a week to use on her child!

my mum has some food colouring bottles with the really old fashioned Sainsbury’s lettering on them, must be decades old

I must have been using Sudocreme wrong, my DC are late teens now but I went through multiple tubs of the stuff with each DC. The supermarket own brand stuff just wasn't anywhere near as good!

I do still have a pot of sudocrem from when my youngest was little. She’s nearly 28 🤣🤣🤣

Ooh they sound lovely. Can you please share the recipe?

I adapted it from a MN recipe ages ago.
50 g very soft butter
100 g SR Flour
200 g really good strong Cheddar, finely grated
1 tsp English mustard powder
A pinch of Cayenne pepper

Mix all together, give it a knead, it’s a crumbly mixture so best to roll out in sections.
Roll fairly thinly, cut into lengths with a flat bladed knife.
Lift carefully on to a very well greased baking sheet. Space a little apart.
Pre heated Fan oven at 160 deg, bake about 6-8 mins, you need to watch like a hawk, they’re all to easy to burn.
slide on to a wire rack to cool, and if your dh is anything like mine, keep him away!!

Awww, we've only just finished our 2001 tub and I thought we'd done pretty well with that one 😆. But DH has taken to using it regularly for his acne so it has gone down quite quickly lately.

My sil (husbands brothers wife) and family house sat for my MIL. She ate peas. Bag was dated 1979!!!!!!!!!!! only noticed when taking rubbish out. She took to the family group to complain AFTER eating and feeding to children and BIL and MIL was furious.

MIL reply.

That is the injury peas. They don’t make bags like they used to. Those pease have sorted many a bump and injury

😂🫣🤮

No SIL or associates were harmed but she will never recover from the trauma

My mum has a large container of Vaseline that has been in her bathroom cupboard since at least the early 80s. There is still a good 1/5 of the pot left to go. I occasionally use it when I visit!

www.sainsburyarchive.org.uk/catalogue/search/sapkcpro114429-image-of-sainsburys-food-colourings-and-flavourings/search/ewao-everywhere:sapkcpro1/sort_by/date/order/asc/c/6 - these ones?

I remember using these https://www.instagram.com/p/DJSw6PvvAIs/

Yes! She has the yellow one. I don’t think I’ve ever seen brandy or rum ‘flavouring’. Love the design back then.

Thought my big tub from 2008 was old! And it's still half full! It's good stuff!
When we cleared my grans house after she went into a nursing home, back in the late 90s, we found a box of tins of marrowfat peas (who even likes those?! 🤢) dated 1955! She probably expected another war, bless her. She'd lived through two by that point!

Thank you so much, I’ll given them a go this week!.

Was going to say the same.. nearly 16 year old pot still going strong :)

Not a contender for oldest but I bought a tiny travel-sized tub to take on holiday last summer and it's still got a bit left in it! Use it regularly due to skin problems.

I threw out an ancient tin of Spam from my son’s bedroom recently. He wasn’t happy… said the Spam would have been fine, which was maybe true but the tin was so rusted that I feared an explosion.. a spamsplosion 🤣

My mother has a chest freezer

It's sodding massive-i could lay down in it (im 5'7) with room to spare and she has always kept it filled to the brim

She bought it 40 odd years ago and a few years ago,my brother dug right to the bottom of it

He pulled out some venison that was pretty frost bitten

Turns out it was from 3 neighbours ago (he used to get the meat from somewhere and sell some to her)

We think it was about 35 years old and as it got pushed to the bottom,she'd forgotten all about it

Ditto 3 chickens,some sliced beef,a pot of that we thought might have been gravy (all about 30 years old) and crumpets that I remember her buying from presto/hillards (I cant remember which one) when I was a tween (im almost 48)

In my own house,I found some pepper that was 15 years out of date (3 house moves) and a box of teabags that id bought about 10 years ago,didnt like them and brought them with me when I moved in with dp

I have a 2010 vics 😅 I thought that was good going

Wouldn't worry about it.
Most older packaged and tinnrd foods and medicines seem to last forever and have long half lives before they decay.

Not quite like Uranium 238 which has a half life of 4.5 billion years.

But you get my gist.

No Worries!

Honey can keep indefinitely. Even some 3,000-year-old honey unearthed from tombs was reportedly deemed safe to eat, even if black.

My parents have a tub of salt purchased in the early 80s as my gran liked salt in her gravy when she visited...she's been dead now 20 years (died in her 90s after never a day of sickness) and they still got the tub. It has 10p on it. I personally get through salt quicker but I store it in my first aid cupboard. I never used it in food about from making salt dough with my daughter. Salt honestly is amazing at stopping infections. I miss the Germaine tins too...wish they bought them back.

I think sudocrem would outlast cockroaches in a nuclear war

Ha ha ha haaaaa

My tub of vicks vaporub has a date of 1989 on it.

I've got a pot from 2007, still going strong! 🤭