I saw an advertisment for a Canadian (yes I know you live in Alaska) brand of rum, or was it spirits...? Anyway, the guy talks to the camera and says "Come here and let me show you what's in the fridge." He opens a steel door, and it's actualy the rear door of the house overlooking a valley heavily laiden with snow. He and his friend then relax sitting in beach chairs, wearing eskimo suits and helping themselves to the bottles of rum(or spirits) out of a wooden crate.
I would really *LOVE* to know what it's like to be able to keep perishable items at below room temperature without the need for air-conditioning or refridgeration. Perishable items also includes me, of course... ;)
An LJ-er reported last year that his aunt insisted that cheese was still good more than a year after its sell-by date. She sounds like an all-around nutcase.
I can only assume she was talking about something like blue vein cheese or some other type of cheese that needs to mature, but so far as I'm concerned a use-by date is a use-by-date.
Question: I'm seeing the phrase "sell by date" which we don't have in Australia, it's "use by date" here. Is sell-by the conventional phrase in the USA?
I wasn't talking about the cartoonist, just another LJ-er. It was tangential; sorry.
I can only assume she was talking about something like blue vein cheese or some other type of cheese that needs to mature
From the sound of it, she was just a cheapskate who got furious when told that the cheese tasted funny.
Is sell-by the conventional phrase in the USA?
Some products say "Sell by 3-18-09," some say "Best if used by 3-18-09," and I think a handful have said "Expires 3-18-09." The first is clearly a message to storekeepers. I occasionally see some not taken off the shelf in time.
Probably the most common American way to express it as a noun is "expiration date."
I wasn't qualified to disagree with the doctor either then OR now. ;) I was just very glad she prescribed something that removed the gut ache.
Yes, that episode of NextGen was titled "Timescape" and it's one of my favourites because I love time travel and all temporaly themed stories. My great dissapointment is that Geordi La Forge was abruptly taken out of the story partway and you don't see him recover from his near-fatal contact with the alien.
I was laughing at my brother's humour because we were both sick of having to pick our way through half-rotten fruit looking for the edible stuff. I know my family was poor, but there's common sense. Chris and I have learned from the reverse examples of our parents. I always buy fruit at the freshest I'm able to, and my brother looks after his car (well truck actualy) like it was his baby.
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I would really *LOVE* to know what it's like to be able to keep perishable items at below room temperature without the need for air-conditioning or refridgeration. Perishable items also includes me, of course... ;)
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my friends outside freezer, he just took a frozen turkey out of it last weekend :)
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(Tried last night and again this morning - had been looking forward to seeing it).
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I can only assume she was talking about something like blue vein cheese or some other type of cheese that needs to mature, but so far as I'm concerned a use-by date is a use-by-date.
Question: I'm seeing the phrase "sell by date" which we don't have in Australia, it's "use by date" here. Is sell-by the conventional phrase in the USA?
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I wasn't talking about the cartoonist, just another LJ-er. It was tangential; sorry.
I can only assume she was talking about something like blue vein cheese or some other type of cheese that needs to mature
From the sound of it, she was just a cheapskate who got furious when told that the cheese tasted funny.
Is sell-by the conventional phrase in the USA?
Some products say "Sell by 3-18-09," some say "Best if used by 3-18-09," and I think a handful have said "Expires 3-18-09." The first is clearly a message to storekeepers. I occasionally see some not taken off the shelf in time.
Probably the most common American way to express it as a noun is "expiration date."
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Yes, that episode of NextGen was titled "Timescape" and it's one of my favourites because I love time travel and all temporaly themed stories. My great dissapointment is that Geordi La Forge was abruptly taken out of the story partway and you don't see him recover from his near-fatal contact with the alien.
I was laughing at my brother's humour because we were both sick of having to pick our way through half-rotten fruit looking for the edible stuff. I know my family was poor, but there's common sense. Chris and I have learned from the reverse examples of our parents. I always buy fruit at the freshest I'm able to, and my brother looks after his car (well truck actualy) like it was his baby.
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