Does this smell funny to you?

Why would someone not adhere to the expiration dates on food products?  Food goes bad you know.  It’s not like food can be shipped from California to the East Coast and then be bought some random fuck in Boston to be eating whenever the little prick is hungry.

I was talking on the phone to a friend recently and this was our conversation

 Me – I had to throw out some milk because the expiration date was past.

Her – Big deal it’s still good.

Why do they have the date on there (and how the hell do you frickin know if my milk is still good)?

The date is there to get you buy more milk.

Why would I buy more milk if I just threw out half a gallon of old milk?  When I throw food out, I tend to buy less of that food.

No, it gets you to buy that product more frequently.
  
Oh – perhaps though the expiration date is on the food so people who take the product home don’t end up ingesting some rotten, nasty, fucking spoiled fucking food six weeks after it has turned into a new life form.

Why risk it?

Why take a bite out of a piece of something two days past its prime just so you feel like you’re fighting corporate greed?  It may taste fine and then later make you shit out a small farm animal.  You aren’t testing the expiration date on some $37/pound Wild Salmon caught in an Alaskan stream near a Hunting Zoo frequented by Sarah Dipshit Palin, it’s a $2.00 gallon of milk which has been sitting in your refrigerator since the Reagan era.

Pour the shit out and get something fresh.