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Keefe said:
Expiration dates on foods. Holy ****, can we make the ink a tiny bit bigger and easier find or see, and oh yeah, make it in a way so that the ink doesn’t fade? The number of food products I have where the expiration date is completely illegible, and thus I have no idea if it’s still good or months expired, is too many to count.
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This is a good one. Certain products that my company produces are very hard to read. And me being the quality department I bring it up frequently. Its shocking that often nothing can be done. Seems like with today’s technology is should be simple but its not and i dont really understand why not.


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Keefe said:
Expiration dates on foods. Holy ****, can we make the ink a tiny bit bigger and easier find or see, and oh yeah, make it in a way so that the ink doesn’t fade? The number of food products I have where the expiration date is completely illegible, and thus I have no idea if it’s still good or months expired, is too many to count.
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Just eat it. Most things are good way way past that date anyway. They purposely make that date way sooner than needed so if you get sick for any reason they can point to the silly expiration date and say, "see your milk was only good for 18 hours, and you drank it 3 whole days later, you deserve to die and it isn't our fault". Everything like that is driven by liability issues and to avoid frivolous lawsuits. In fact milk can be consumed entirely sour, it takes a good 2-3 weeks past the expiration for it to truly become "bad". We use milk that is turning to make our own yogurt in the instant pot. Just put in some milk, add a spoonful of plain greek yogurt and set it to yogurt setting and a day later we have more yogurt, which lasts a lot longer and tastes really good.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Just eat it. Most things are good way way past that date anyway. They purposely make that date way sooner than needed so if you get sick for any reason they can point to the silly expiration date and say, "see your milk was only good for 18 hours, and you drank it 3 whole days later, you deserve to die and it isn't our fault". Everything like that is driven by liability issues and to avoid frivolous lawsuits. In fact milk can be consumed entirely sour, it takes a good 2-3 weeks past the expiration for it to truly become "bad". We use milk that is turning to make our own yogurt in the instant pot. Just put in some milk, add a spoonful of plain greek yogurt and set it to yogurt setting and a day later we have more yogurt, which lasts a lot longer and tastes really good.
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Log, we have **** that could be years past expired. Years. Plural.
 
I'm gonna go ahead and be that guy.

Those aren't expiration dates. I say that realizing that many of them start with "exp:"

But yeah, I do use dates on things I dig out the back of my pantry to determine if was purchased this decade or not.
 
Keefe said:
Expiration dates on foods. Holy ****, can we make the ink a tiny bit bigger and easier to find or see, and oh yeah, make it in a way so that the ink doesn’t fade? The number of food products I have where the expiration date is completely illegible, and thus I have no idea if it’s still good or months expired, is too many to count.
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Expiration dates are a sham anyhow.
 
Keefe said:
Log, we have **** that could be years past expired. Years. Plural.
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When in doubt, throw it out. Mantra for the first S in "5S".

Or feed it to someone you don't like, and if they don't die....well feed them another one. Rinse, repeat.
 
LogGrad98 said:
When in doubt, throw it out. Mantra for the first S in "5S".

Or feed it to someone you don't like, and if they don't die....well feed them another one. Rinse, repeat.
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If it’s a dry food, I open and smell it. Smells good, I prepare it and taste it. Tastes fine, down the gullet it goes.
 
My wife always insists on taking home any and all leftovers when we go out to eat. That wouldn't bug me except that my wife NEVER eats the leftovers. I've started saying to her that it's okay if we let them throw the food away instead of storing it in our fridge for the next week or so before we throw it away and just waste the the to-go container to boot. She gets indignant and still insists on taking it home.

If I had any intention of eating it I'd be happy to take it home but I make it clear that I'm not going to eat it. I hate the extra waste and the extra effort our server has to go through to bring us the containers just so that we can be burdened with holding onto it for days until tossing it.
 
When your doctor refers you to a specialist and they call to make the appointment and say “we’re going to send you a link to all the paperwork you’ll need to fill out. If you do it before your appointment, it will make it smoother and easier”. Then you show up to said appointment and have to fill out the SAME ****ING PAPERWORK by hand. What the hell was the point in that?
 
bigb said:
When your doctor refers you to a specialist and they call to make the appointment and say “we’re going to send you a link to all the paperwork you’ll need to fill out. If you do it before your appointment, it will make it smoother and easier”. Then you show up to said appointment and have to fill out the SAME ****ING PAPERWORK by hand. What the hell was the point in that?
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This! THIS!!!

I had to do a pre-employment drug test and physical today. I was sent with forms I was supposed to fill out ahead of time. I filled out the forms and when I showed up the person at the desk gave my paperwork the stink eye and made me fill out nearly identical forms as well as several others where I had to hand write my name, birth date and SSN at the top of every paper like it was a mystery for every new piece of paper.

Like why do computers exist again? So that people I don't want to have my info can get it and my Dr needs me to hand write it 1000 times per visit? What is even going on right now?
 
Gameface said:
This! THIS!!!

I had to do a pre-employment drug test and physical today. I was sent with forms I was supposed to fill out ahead of time. I filled out the forms and when I showed up the person at the desk gave my paperwork the stink eye and made me fill out nearly identical forms as well as several others where I had to hand write my name, birth date and SSN at the top of every paper like it was a mystery for every new piece of paper.

Like why do computers exist again? So that people I don't want to have my info can get it and my Dr needs me to hand write it 1000 times per visit? What is even going on right now?
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Our medical system is nearly hopelessly broken. Nothing is connected, no one can get anything paid for, costs are completely out of control, we subsidize the rest of the world with the highest prescription drug costs among the top 30, yes THIRTY!! "Developed" nations. Because you know, capitalism makes everything better, especially life-necessary "commodities" where the companies are allowed full-on monopolistic control and can set whatever price they want. So ****ing broken. But, hey, rich people are good, so we can all feel good about that, right?


That said everyone needs to check out Mark Cubans pharmacy. He's trying to break into at least one part of the medical death-machine to make things better for regular people. Needs to be supported.
 
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