Best Before or Use By?

I threw away at least 14 things out of the freezer on Wednesday. Stuff that had expired in some cases two years ago. I know that that happens and I am cool with that. We all forget that we have a box of frozen spinach in the freezer and we end up buying another one at Bristol Farms.

But here is my point, and I do have one. Could they make it easier to find the expiration date on the labels? You practically have to be Indiana Jones to find the hieroglyphics on the packaging that tells you when the stuff has gone or is going to go bad. And I do mean hieroglyphics. The expo date is sometimes written like this WE9IVACL,XVJNoieif LXCJ08027 OPFJ: which of course means August 2nd, 2007 and it is written in print that is one shade down the Crayola Spectrum from the color of label, and to add insult to injury, they print it in 9 pica condensed!

I was staring at these packages flipping them over and over saying, "Where is it? It's like a law that it has to be there, unless you got it at the 99 Cents Only Store."

So I created a lot of space in the freezer which is good. Those three corndogs in there will be thrown away in two years as they don't have a expiration date on them. And I guarantee that someone here will buy a box of corndogs and the cycle will begin again.

Break the cycle.

Kurt