Come Again?

[thetreble 19]

What I find odd is in Canada, all the food/dairy products say "Expires on" or "Expiration date" which means the item is not best after such date. But down here, everything says "sell by" such and such date. So the stores need to sell it by that date, but when does in then expire? A week later? Few days later? I thought that was strange.

I HATE that...it makes no sense to me...

[Krikit 1,163]

What I find odd is in Canada, all the food/dairy products say "Expires on" or "Expiration date" which means the item is not best after such date. But down here, everything says "sell by" such and such date. So the stores need to sell it by that date, but when does in then expire? A week later? Few days later? I thought that was strange.

I know! I get really confused by that, too, so I went and looked it up on the USDA site.

Oh crumbs. It didn't maintain the formatting in the cut-and-paste, so I've deleted it. If you go to the link and scroll to the bottom of the page you'll find the chart on how to determine how long a product is good for.

Edited January 23, 2009 by Krikit

[JillA 2]

What I find odd is in Canada, all the food/dairy products say "Expires on" or "Expiration date" which means the item is not best after such date. But down here, everything says "sell by" such and such date. So the stores need to sell it by that date, but when does in then expire? A week later? Few days later? I thought that was strange.

I HATE that...it makes no sense to me...

Exactly, you're supposed to figure out when it expires? It makes so much more sense to post an expiration date rather than a sell by date, that only helps the stores not the consumer!!

[thetreble 19]

What I find odd is in Canada, all the food/dairy products say "Expires on" or "Expiration date" which means the item is not best after such date. But down here, everything says "sell by" such and such date. So the stores need to sell it by that date, but when does in then expire? A week later? Few days later? I thought that was strange.

I know! I get really confused by that, too, so I went and looked it up on the USDA site.

Oh crumbs. It didn't maintain the formatting in the cut-and-paste, so I've deleted it. If you go to the link and scroll to the bottom of the page you'll find the chart on how to determine how long a product is good for.

except milk ain't on there.....

[Krikit 1,163]

What I find odd is in Canada, all the food/dairy products say "Expires on" or "Expiration date" which means the item is not best after such date. But down here, everything says "sell by" such and such date. So the stores need to sell it by that date, but when does in then expire? A week later? Few days later? I thought that was strange.

I know! I get really confused by that, too, so I went and looked it up on the USDA site.

Oh crumbs. It didn't maintain the formatting in the cut-and-paste, so I've deleted it. If you go to the link and scroll to the bottom of the page you'll find the chart on how to determine how long a product is good for.

except milk ain't on there.....

What the heck kind of Food Safety organization is that?

Personally, I would never use a perishable product beyond the Sell By date. I'm a little too squeamish to take risks like that. In fact, "Living on the Edge" to me means eating something just before the Sell-By date.

[DeadPoolX 9]

Speaking of language and the British, my great-grandmother (born in 1899) was from England. She came over to the U.S. before she hit her teens.

She forced herself to drop her accent since kids were making fun of her and making her life a living hell while at school. I think it's sad she felt she has to do that. While I prefer many of the American spellings and sayings to the British ones, I don't think changing everything about the way you speak is a necessity.

[Emancipation 2]

Speaking of language and the British, my great-grandmother (born in 1899) was from England. She came over to the U.S. before she hit her teens.

She forced herself to drop her accent since kids were making fun of her and making her life a living hell while at school. I think it's sad she felt she has to do that. While I prefer many of the American spellings and sayings to the British ones, I don't think changing everything about the way you speak is a necessity.

my mother tells a similar story.. they immigrated to Canada (from England) when she was 8).. mum said the first day of school she came home and her mother couldn't understand a word she was saying.. The bit that makes the story even funnier is that they moved to Tiverton, NS a little tiny fishing community on an island off the South West coast.. if you can picture THAT accent on a little English girl it cracks me up every time..

[trailmix 77]

Personally, I would never use a perishable product beyond the Sell By date. I'm a little too squeamish to take risks like that. In fact, "Living on the Edge" to me means eating something just before the Sell-By date.

Well this is interesting.

With milk (the stuff we buy anyway), it has a date on it that doesn't say, 'best before' or 'sell by' - so I just kind of assumed with dairy products that the date they provide is the 'best by' date (which for milk we bought on Saturday is February 4th).

We currently have 'market pantry' milk - from target.

Edited January 26, 2009 by trailmix

[warlord 72]

Speaking of language and the British, my great-grandmother (born in 1899) was from England. She came over to the U.S. before she hit her teens.

She forced herself to drop her accent since kids were making fun of her and making her life a living hell while at school. I think it's sad she felt she has to do that. While I prefer many of the American spellings and sayings to the British ones, I don't think changing everything about the way you speak is a necessity.

my mother tells a similar story.. they immigrated to Canada (from England) when she was 8).. mum said the first day of school she came home and her mother couldn't understand a word she was saying.. The bit that makes the story even funnier is that they moved to Tiverton, NS a little tiny fishing community on an island off the South West coast.. if you can picture THAT accent on a little English girl it cracks me up every time..

I remember when we moved to Australia when I was a kid and just remember I was always failing my spelling in school. Teacher must have thought I was retarded or something, but after awhile it was because I couldn't understand the Aussie accents that well. How the hell is one supposed to spell "GRUS" when the teacher speaks it out loud. Like I'm supposed to just guess it's grass.

Another funny story was there was this sticky thing people were putting it on each other, kid besides me puts it on my head and says "put it on Ben". So I turn and put it on Ben. Ben and ther other kid got mad that I did that. How was I supposed to know that what he really said was "Put it in the bin (garbage)". All the joys of accents and different dialect...

[Kathryn41 3,205]

I generally find that with milk the 'sell before 'date is the same date that it goes sour - if not before! so that seems to be its expiry date. I find it hilarious to go to the store and see milk that is set to expire the following day on sale for $1.99 - like you would have to drink a lot of milk quickly for that to be any bargain. The same with meat - the sell by date is the date I use to consider the meat still safe. If I know I will be using it that night I will buy it on the date before it's sell by date, but that is only if it looks good. I have seen meat that is discoloured and pretty gross looking that is still within its sell by date - on sale. Like, who buys that stuff?

Edited January 26, 2009 by Kathryn41

[trailmix 77]

Another funny story was there was this sticky thing people were putting it on each other, kid besides me puts it on my head and says "put it on Ben". So I turn and put it on Ben. Ben and ther other kid got mad that I did that. How was I supposed to know that what he really said was "Put it in the bin (garbage)". All the joys of accents and different dialect...

[Krikit 1,163]

Speaking of language and the British, my great-grandmother (born in 1899) was from England. She came over to the U.S. before she hit her teens.

She forced herself to drop her accent since kids were making fun of her and making her life a living hell while at school. I think it's sad she felt she has to do that. While I prefer many of the American spellings and sayings to the British ones, I don't think changing everything about the way you speak is a necessity.

It is if you don't want to be the target in a schoolyard smackdown.

I remember when we moved to Australia when I was a kid and just remember I was always failing my spelling in school. Teacher must have thought I was retarded or something, but after awhile it was because I couldn't understand the Aussie accents that well. How the hell is one supposed to spell "GRUS" when the teacher speaks it out loud. Like I'm supposed to just guess it's grass.

Another funny story was there was this sticky thing people were putting it on each other, kid besides me puts it on my head and says "put it on Ben". So I turn and put it on Ben. Ben and ther other kid got mad that I did that. How was I supposed to know that what he really said was "Put it in the bin (garbage)". All the joys of accents and different dialect...

:lol:

[MrsCat 6]

I remember when we moved to Australia when I was a kid and just remember I was always failing my spelling in school. Teacher must have thought I was retarded or something, but after awhile it was because I couldn't understand the Aussie accents that well. How the hell is one supposed to spell "GRUS" when the teacher speaks it out loud. Like I'm supposed to just guess it's grass.

Another funny story was there was this sticky thing people were putting it on each other, kid besides me puts it on my head and says "put it on Ben". So I turn and put it on Ben. Ben and ther other kid got mad that I did that. How was I supposed to know that what he really said was "Put it in the bin (garbage)". All the joys of accents and different dialect...

Gold!

[to_hope 0]

Semi: I say Sem-ee, he says Sem-eye.

And North of 60 is a classic Canadiana TV show starring Tina Keeper and Tom Jackson!

This topic is quite entertaining! I remember telling my friends in Michigan that I was driving and a "transport truck" tried to merge into my lane (and into me). They all looked at me with quizzical expressions until someone asked, "A semi truck?"

Oh. Yea. Guess they don't say transport truck there!

[defunct 0]

I'm still trying to teach my fiance how to speak Canadian.

He pronounces Canuck as "Canook" every time, which is a problem, since I'm from Vancouver and like hockey...

Also, funny story: We were driving one day and he pronounced W as "dub-ya". I asked him what two "yas" look like and he looked at me like I was crazy. I then had to explain that W is pronounced "double-you" because it looks like two "U's". He was shocked that he didn't know that and said that he always thought the letter was "dub-ya" because that's how all of his teachers pronounced it. However, he later looked it up on dictionary.com and they now have an alternate pronounciation... I blame Bush for this.

What the hell does "I reckon" mean? Is it a yes, probably, or maybe?