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What's at the back of your cupboard

  • 02-11-2019 5:25pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭


    Whilst cleaning out the kitchen cupboards I came across a korma sauce best before 2017.

    Would that be safe to use I wondered. I'm still wondering.

    What's at the back of your cupboard.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Nothing. It just covers the grafitti by the previous tenant which read "I will kill again"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    imme wrote: »
    Whilst cleaning out the kitchen cupboards I came across a korma sauce best before 2017.

    Would that be safe to use I wondered. I'm still wondering.

    What's at the back of your cupboard.

    Best before on a sauce - fine.


    Nothing out of date in our cupboards, as we do a check at least every six months.


  • Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Liquid smoke from 2014, but it’s not going anywhere.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,278 ✭✭✭Cheshire Cat


    Liquid smoke from 2014, but it’s not going anywhere.

    Do we live in the same house?!?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    Last time I plucked up courage to climb up to the back of the top shelf found a vesta curry packet, price 1 / 3, and no best before date ( things like that not needed back then )

    Also found a tin of sardines that was distorted and oozing :D



    ( 1 / 3 : thats one shilling and three pence )


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭u140acro3xs7dm


    Some random liqueurs that I brought home from a foreign holiday.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,795 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    Some random liqueurs that I brought home from a foreign holiday.

    Did you bring them home with you when you left Earth ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    0lddog wrote: »
    Last time I plucked up courage to climb up to the back of the top shelf found a vesta curry packet, price 1 / 3, and no best before date ( things like that not needed back then )

    Also found a tin of sardines that was distorted and oozing :D



    ( 1 / 3 : thats one shilling and three pence )

    Wow! Have you still got it. Best Curry Ever!!! well maybe not, but a Vesta Beef Curry was my first taste of curry, and try as I might I've never managed to replicate that spicy/powdery/gritty taste. Well, not deliberately.

    I bet a quick search will throw up 1/3 somewhere in the house - including the 12 sided threepence. Or thrupence as we called it.

    As for our own cupboards, daren't look.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,422 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    Lyle golden syrup from 1995


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,312 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Wow! Have you still got it. Best Curry Ever!!! well maybe not, but a Vesta Beef Curry was my first taste of curry, and try as I might I've never managed to replicate that spicy/powdery/gritty taste. Well, not deliberately.

    I bet a quick search will throw up 1/3 somewhere in the house - including the 12 sided threepence. Or thrupence as we called it.

    As for our own cupboards, daren't look.

    For the benefit of younger viewers that was a British thrupence. Ours was round with an Irish Hare depicted on the reverse side.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,629 ✭✭✭touts


    Iodine tablets from Fianna Fail.

    Ye'll all be sorry yet that you threw them out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,312 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    touts wrote: »
    Iodine tablets from Fianna Fail.

    Ye'll all be sorry yet that you threw them out.

    Have they got a best before or use by date?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Have they got a best before or use by date?

    Best Before WW3.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,629 ✭✭✭touts


    Have they got a best before or use by date?

    Who cares. When Sellifield goes boom I'll still pop them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,312 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    touts wrote: »
    Who cares. When Sellifield goes boom I'll still pop them.

    Keep them at the front of the cupboard for easy access.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Tins of tuna in spring water, lasts forever


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭Firefox11


    touts wrote: »
    Iodine tablets from Fianna Fail.

    Ye'll all be sorry yet that you threw them out.

    Pffft!!.....I ate mine long ago!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    Firefox11 wrote: »
    Pffft!!.....I ate mine long ago!

    It’s Iodine not I dine


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,130 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    imme wrote: »
    Whilst cleaning out the kitchen cupboards I came across a korma sauce best before 2017.

    Would that be safe to use I wondered. I'm still wondering.

    What's at the back of your cupboard.

    Ha ha, OP, there must be something in the water. I cleaned out the cupboards the other night and filled 3 carrier bags with stuff from 2012 (spices and sugar) onwards. Lots of space now to fill until the next clear out in 2025.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    No longer have any idea.. This place is bereft of storage space and has only 2 small cupboards. one high up, the other under the sink.

    I can no longer get down on the floor to check the bottom cupboard.. well I could but getting up again... I will have to use a torch anyways to see to the back

    As I have been here just over 2 years there is nothing really desperate . Tins, bottles and kitchen stuff.. Maybe my long lost rolling pin is lurking there. Or maybe it got left at the last or previous rentals.. Have moved nine times in the last 15 years so anything is possible.. I had a small mixer at one stage too...

    Thank you for reminding me; if I vanish totally you know the Cupboard Monster got me :eek:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    anewme wrote: »
    Ha ha, OP, there must be something in the water. I cleaned out the cupboards the other night and filled 3 carrier bags with stuff from 2012 (spices and sugar) onwards. Lots of space now to fill until the next clear out in 2025.

    But they last forever? Would not throw them out


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    There's always a random packet of opened icing sugar that looks like it's been there for years. I could throw it away and I'm sure another would magically appear looking the same sorry way soon after.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,203 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Atm I’ve a rogue mouse. He’s dodging the traps. Wiley ould bollöx


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Graces7 wrote: »
    No longer have any idea.. This place is bereft of storage space and has only 2 small cupboards. one high up, the other under the sink.

    I can no longer get down on the floor to check the bottom cupboard.. well I could but getting up again... I will have to use a torch anyways to see to the back

    As I have been here just over 2 years there is nothing really desperate . Tins, bottles and kitchen stuff.. Maybe my long lost rolling pin is lurking there. Or maybe it got left at the last or previous rentals.. Have moved nine times in the last 15 years so anything is possible.. I had a small mixer at one stage too...

    Thank you for reminding me; if I vanish totally you know the Cupboard Monster got me :eek:

    9 times in 15 years is a lot for an elderly lady. Why so often?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    HP sauce.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,645 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Graces7 wrote: »
    But they last forever? Would not throw them out

    Sugar lasts for ever.
    Spices, not so much.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Sugar lasts for ever.
    Spices, not so much.
    True.
    White sugar keeps indefinitely, while brown sugar is best used within 2 years.
    Most Ground spices are usually of no use beyond 3 years.

    All assuming airtight, dry, storage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 671 ✭✭✭Plopsu


    Ever since that ad with Bertie Aherne, I'm afraid to look in my cupboards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,727 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Renovating a kitchen at the moment so cleared out all presses before we demolished the old one. The highlight was a 3 year old bottle of Maggi fish sauce complete with rice grains stuck on to the bottle. Thankfully the new kitchen will have a pull out larder going floor to ceiling so no more forgetting about stuff at the back of the cupboard. Cost me a small fortune but will be worth it to be able to have quick sight and access to all dry goods.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    9 times in 15 years is a lot for an elderly lady. Why so often?

    Bottom end of the rental market, and some dangerous dives and bad landlords. Last place was a fire trap.

    I was not as old of course 15 years ago! lol...Settled now as with the council, :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Sugar lasts for ever.
    Spices, not so much.

    Spices and I no longer agree... sugar is a different matter altogether. I was careful to put only jars and bottles in the bottom cupboard as there had been mice therein, So there will be nothing nasty... ;)The wall cupboard is tiny and has already been sorted. And nothing nasty.. quite the opposite..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭Jonybgud


    touts wrote: »
    Iodine tablets from Fianna Fail.

    Ye'll all be sorry yet that you threw them out.

    :rolleyes: leave them any longer and they'll wander off on their own...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,727 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Graces7 wrote: »
    Bottom end of the rental market, and some dangerous dives and bad landlords. Last place was a fire trap.

    I was not as old of course 15 years ago! lol...Settled now as with the council, :D

    Jesus moving 9 times in 15 years is something else Grace. I thought I had it bad when I moved 4 times in 3 years due to the rental crisis. So glad I have my own place now and those days are over but my god was it stressful, I never felt like I could make any place a home. Theres nothing worse that having no security of where you might be in a few months time, it effects every other part of your life and your mental health.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,085 ✭✭✭The Tetrarch


    I must win this with my plastic bottle of of Mazola 100% pure sunflower oil, best before JAN 1989. I cook sausages for the dogs with it.
    My sister criticised me for using cooking oil. It gives you cancer.
    I took great pleasure in telling her the next time I saw here that the oil was 30 years old and I have survived.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    Jesus moving 9 times in 15 years is something else Grace. I thought I had it bad when I moved 4 times in 3 years due to the rental crisis. So glad I have my own place now and those days are over but my god was it stressful, I never felt like I could make any place a home. Theres nothing worse that having no security of where you might be in a few months time, it effects every other part of your life and your mental health.

    Thanks. I still find myself wondering where I am when I wake up and what is outside the house! It is so unsettling .

    And I am still addicted to daft.ie!

    Oh and that was after the Big Move from the UK! Actually it was eleven places in under 17 years counting that.

    I have a certain stability with my cats around me etc and am self sufficient. I can make anywhere a home quickly. Gather around me what matters . I was 4 years at the last but one then the landlord hit a financial glitch and needed to sell up. That was a hard one. I knew his family well etc and was settled there. Loved and miss Killarney .But always wanted back to Mayo

    I am safe here and glad you are too.

    And at least the cupboards are fairly sorted! Rolling stones gather no ancient food!
    Few folk realise the real effect of the rental crisis.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    You have inspired me! Top cupboards cleared and my rewards was finding 2 packets of the instant noodles I cannot get out here!

    And... the motivation has spread to the fridge...Please let no one call today as everything is out in the place!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    I must win this with my plastic bottle of of Mazola 100% pure sunflower oil, best before JAN 1989. I cook sausages for the dogs with it.
    My sister criticised me for using cooking oil. It gives you cancer.
    I took great pleasure in telling her the next time I saw here that the oil was 30 years old and I have survived.

    Poor dogs.. :eek:


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