I spent my childhood worrying about expiration dates. You might not have such extreme views about expired food, but we all tend to fall on one side of the best before spectrum. Even stranger is that few of the allegedly “expired” foods we throw away are actually rotten. It’s illegal to sell foods that have passed their expiration dates, but selling products that have passed their best before dates is perfectly fine. And even if they did, the language involved in “best before” labels implies that all foods that have passed their “best” dates are somehow second tier.

Source: National Post May 01, 2018 18:45 UTC