Competition to find the most elderly foodstuff in the collective Mumsnet larder

[FrankenZooey]

I have just found some dried sage which says best before 2003, but I don't reckon that's anywhere near the oldest, rankest, most dodgy and out of date substance in the Mumsnet kitchen cupboards. Go and have a poke about and tell us what you find.

Come on ladies, or are you scared to look?

oh i thought you meant something that made us old and i knew i was going to win because i have horlicks in my cupboard.

I'm sulking now

LOL I did mine last week - found some dried chives - 2004 - I think

seajuli,soom,diyagama west and pothotuwa all with best before dates of January 2001

Never mind the fact they are 5 years out of datezippi, what the hell are they???????

teabags..bought because I liked the packets

Just found a tub of Saxa table salt right at the back of a cupboard from before they put date stamps on

At least it proves that its been donkeys years since we put salt on our food and I've binned it now

Nothing very old since I had a clearout after the embarrasment of a thread like this a while ago

i thought salt didn't have a date because it doesn't go off? we rarely use it anyway so nick it from PIL when we go there!!

the trick is to move every few years as yu have to throw out the oldies
once was at my MILs house making a sandwich and found a jar of mustard dating from 1996. Just put it right back without opening...........

My FIL has some honey that has a sell buy date of ..... wait for it..... mid 1980s (can't remember which year). Apparently, honey doesn't go off... but it does go solid and have to be "softened" in the microwave before use...

Vegetable stock cubes Best Before Apr 2001......

(From when veggie brother came to stay.)

Also Early Grey tea bags Best before end 2002... bought for my midwife for DS2 (he just went to school )

Count Dracula Snr has blancmange mix from the 1960s

found soy sauce from 2002 just before christmas as i was cleaning the cupboard out, that must of been the last time i made my stirfry

Maybe the salt doesn't go off but the cardboard container looked filthy and as if it was falling apart

also a bottle of John Smith beer to clebrate the marriage of Lady Diana Spencer to HRH

My PILs were clearing out the larder of FILs aunt and found tins that were too old to have use bys and had expanded outwards, almost to the point of exploding. God knows how old they were. Just before they did that we went to visit and she made us tinned salmon sandwiches. I dread to think how old it was!!

Bumping as I am sure one of us can beat 2001. Infamous tins and packets from other people's cupboards don't count, it has to be present in your kitchen at this moment in time.

I have found a mix for Sticky Toffee Apple Wedges with a use by date of Feb 2000.

I win, I win!!!

I cleared out the herbs and spices cupboard last week and found some tarragon from 1993!!!

Oh poo, just read that it has to be in your cupboard now. Perhaps if I go and check the dustbin I can still find it