What do they PUT in those things?!

"Karen AKA Kajikit" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Last year I bought a box of individual serve cinnamon graham goldfish
at the Pepperidge Farm discount store, and I put it away in the pantry
and forgot about it... I just unearthed it while I was rummaging
around in search of supper. The sell-by date was last August, so I
looked on the cookies with extreme trepidation and nibbled one
delicately to find out if it was still edible - but it tastes fine!
Not quite so fresh as it might be, but nothing to tell you that it's
almost ten months past the sell-by date!
The ingredients list is perfectly innocuous (positively healthy
compared to most factory-made baked goods - flour, sugar, vegetable
oil etc.) but they have to do SOMETHING to make them keep so long!

I think BHT and BHA are added to some packing materials to help keep the
freshness. Some stuff even is gassed with nitrogen or something to keep down
the gas producing enzymes or whatever. And of course *dry* is a good keeper
on its own. I've given up. If I like them leetle cheese fish I get them and
eat them with relish, no, eat them with happiness, not pickles. I got more
stuff to worry about than crackers. And we eat organic-fresh-local-homegrown
stuff when I can. We got any organic beer yet?
Edrena

Karen AKA Kajikit said:

Last year I bought a box of individual serve cinnamon graham goldfish
at the Pepperidge Farm discount store, and I put it away in the pantry
and forgot about it... I just unearthed it while I was rummaging
around in search of supper. The sell-by date was last August, so I
looked on the cookies with extreme trepidation and nibbled one
delicately to find out if it was still edible - but it tastes fine!
Not quite so fresh as it might be, but nothing to tell you that it's
almost ten months past the sell-by date!
The ingredients list is perfectly innocuous (positively healthy
compared to most factory-made baked goods - flour, sugar, vegetable
oil etc.) but they have to do SOMETHING to make them keep so long!

They might put BHT (an antioxidant preservative) in the *packaging*.

Bob

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stuff when I can. We got any organic beer yet?

I realize this was probably rhetoricaly, but you get lots of hits in
Google looking for "organic beer" including one by Anheuser-Busch.

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We got any organic beer yet?

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Edrena

Try here: http://www.wolavers.com

Michael

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Karen AKA Kajikit <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

Last year I bought a box of individual serve cinnamon
graham goldfish at the Pepperidge Farm discount store, and
I put it away in the pantry and forgot about it... I just
unearthed it while I was rummaging around in search of
supper. The sell-by date was last August, so I looked on
the cookies with extreme trepidation and nibbled one
delicately to find out if it was still edible - but it
tastes fine! Not quite so fresh as it might be, but nothing
to tell you that it's almost ten months past the sell-by
date! The ingredients list is perfectly innocuous
(positively healthy compared to most factory-made baked
goods - flour, sugar, vegetable oil etc.) but they have to
do SOMETHING to make them keep so long!

not really. it's like hard tack. really dry baked goods tend
to keep well if sealed away from bugs.
lee

Karen AKA Kajikit said:

Last year I bought a box of individual serve cinnamon graham goldfish
at the Pepperidge Farm discount store, and I put it away in the pantry
and forgot about it... I just unearthed it while I was rummaging
around in search of supper. The sell-by date was last August, so I
looked on the cookies with extreme trepidation and nibbled one
delicately to find out if it was still edible - but it tastes fine!
Not quite so fresh as it might be, but nothing to tell you that it's
almost ten months past the sell-by date!
The ingredients list is perfectly innocuous (positively healthy
compared to most factory-made baked goods - flour, sugar, vegetable
oil etc.) but they have to do SOMETHING to make them keep so long!

Still sealed in the original packaging keeps away moisture and oxygen,
the two elements that most make baked goods go stale. And crackers
being a rather low moisture/fat product keeps mould/rancidness at
bay. Unopened and kept at normal room temperature those crackers
could very likely be quite edible even five years past the sell-by
date... are you sure it has a sell-by date, typically crackers (not
being considerd a perishable) have a "best used-by" date. I have a 1
pound box of cheez-it here on my desk, I can't find any kind of date
on the package, and the package was opened about a year ago and the
crackers are just fine. There's a phone numbet on the package so I
called (also went to their web site), the customer rep said there
should have been a date code stamped on the box top... I will be
receiving a coupon for a replacement even though I informed the rep
that the product is fine... I guess it was worth the two minutes on
the phone.

Sheldon

open packages of graham crackers don't get old either anymore.

franken-food! it will preserve our bodies for eternity! LOL!

A lack of moisture, a lack of oxygen and the repsence of salt and sugar
should help them keep, I think?

Like Anzac biscuits/cookies and hortbread, stuff that is made to keep.