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Relatively serious question. I have some smoked salmon creme cheese that expired yesterday, and I can't decide if I should eat it or not. Sadly I fear that, knowing it's expired, I may not enjoy it very much. I'm only running the poll for one day because I will not be eating it tomorrow.

EDIT: I'm changing this to "Should I Have Eaten that Expired Cream Cheese?", for obvious reasons.

Well, it's usually not so much an "expiration" date as it is a "sell-by" date. Food's often good for at least a week past that, so unless you're seeing strange growths on it, or smelling death when you open it, I'd say you're fine.

That said, I'm afraid to touch the milk in my fridge dated March 10th.

i voted yes, but don't blame me if you die.

...not that you'd be able to do anything about it.

As a cook, there is a general rule.

TASTE TEST (start with a smell test though)

If it doesn't taste spoiled..then it's not spoiled.

You can take things that SMELL spoiled..rinse them...and if they don't smell spoiled afterwards..then you can probably eat them. However, you can't rinse cream cheese.

take a spoon..stir the cream cheese. Dip the spoon in a random spot. Taste the spoon. If it does not taste 'spoiled' or generally 'bad' then it is FINE.

The only exception to this basic rule is circumstance. If for some reason you have had this cream cheese out of the fridge for like 8 hours unattended and at room temperature AND it's a day after it's sell date..don't eat it under any circumstance.

Also, this thread so totally reminds me of a thread YEARS ago that I came across. It was some dude who posted a topic very similar to this. Something to the effect ' should I eat my roomate's week old pizza?'

In response it got such gems as: ' Yes, if you want to die in the next few hours'

I wish I had some smoked salmon cream cheese.

/broke mf

What's one day going to do?

Alright, Hobs, I gave it the taste test, which made me remember what I would be missing out on if I didn't eat it. It seems fine, so the wind can have my caution.

And, worst case scenario, we'll have a memorial songfight! title about you.

Im sure the cheese was fine.

Tho I remember seeing a bag of rock salt, and on the packaging blurb it said
"...this salt has been trapped in the rocks for millions of years...."
And then told me it had to be used by May 2002.

I thought that was funny!!

"Use By" date are the biggest con perpetrated upon modern society by the multinational power Nazis.

Stick it to the man - eat the damn cheese

I just ate some cheese that was use by November.

Denyer wrote:I just ate some cheese that was use by November.

cool, just under 7 months left.

Hoblit wrote:As a cook, there is a general rule.
You can take things that SMELL spoiled..rinse them...and if they don't smell spoiled afterwards..then you can probably eat them.

i will never eat at a restaurant you're cooking at.

jack wrote:

Hoblit wrote:As a cook, there is a general rule.
You can take things that SMELL spoiled..rinse them...and if they don't smell spoiled afterwards..then you can probably eat them.

i will never eat at a restaurant you're cooking at.

Yeah, your loss.

Whats even funnier... is that I am certain you have eaten food somewhere that has been handled in the manner you quoted me on. More than twice.

For a few months I worked in the kitchen of a concession stand at a baseball stadium. My first day on the job I walked over to the sink to wash my hands. The shift manager asked me what I was doing. I told her I was washing my hands. She shouted at me, "We don't have time for that! Get to work!"

The human body is a lot more disease-resistant than most people seem to give it credit for anymore. I mean, come on people, we have these things called "immune systems." A little bacteria won't kill you. (Unless you're immunosuppressed for some reason.)