Mil, gave us a Christmas pudding that was out of date March 2020, am about to eat it, wish me luck….
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Been really nice knowing you on here,Primus,
One small step for man…….
The custard we had with it was out of date too, March 21
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If it’s steeped in alcohol I think you’ll be fine!
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Primus . . . Yoo Hoo . . . . Primus . . . Where are you? 
You still feeling alright? 
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He’s fine, just pie eyed on the alcohol in that pud hehe
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Well, I’m still here, a bit stuffed from the Christmas pud, tescos finest seems to have been ok,
we’ll have to get some more custard, for some reason mrs,p deemed that not to be suitable, we have another one to go at but it’s not a finest, not sure if it’ll make much difference, might save it for next weekend, it’ll be a week older….I like to live life on the edge…
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Could your MIL be sending a subtle message, Primus? Asking for a friend…er, as a friend. 
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Christmas puds usually last for ages. We’ve eaten them at 2 years old, maybe more, after finding them in the back of a cupboard cos no-one had wanted them at Christmas and then they got forgotten. That’s happened at least twice that I can remember!
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I never thought of that…!, maybe that’s what the second one is for, just to make sure….
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A slight derailment alert (it isn’t worthy of its own thread) - but Morrison’s are taking off the Best Before dates from its milk, and telling us to use the sniff test. I did wonder what a year old Christmas Pud smells like …and then
I thought they must be ok then, but I certainly would be wary of one!
How the heck are we supposed to sniff the milk before we buy it? That is downright stupid. I mean, Tesco removed the BBF dates from its fresh produce some time ago, but you can see what it’s like. If the apples are wrinkly and bruised, it’s pretty obvious they’re past it. But milk? FFS 
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I think it will be fresh when we buy it, but apparently its to help the farmers, because we pour milk away too soon because of the dates on it. 
The Food Standards Agency are furious because obviously bacteria doesn’t always smell right away.
Not only stupid, its disgusting, and appalling hygiene! Do they really mean we have to sniff it before we buy because its a bit late to find out its off once you get home!
I dont want any milk where the seal had been broken for a start, let alone half a dozen snotty noses been dipped in it!
And what about bacteria fro1m anyone not in the best of health at the time they are sticking their snouts in? And if a bottle has the seal broken, any nutter could drop what they want into it. Heaven forbid.
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Xmas Puds keep for much longer than dates on packaging. Same as Xmas cakes. It was quite common for people to make several cakes, have one at Xmas and leave another until Easter and maybe a family celebration later in the year. no sell by dates on homemade stuff!
I never, ever pour milk away if it smells OK. But then not everyone is like me, I realise that. My daughter stayed with us over Christmas, I took her back home on Tuesday 28th, to find she had an unopened 4 pinter of s/s milk, with a use by date of 25th December! Well, it had been in the fridge, with nobody going to that fridge so the temperature remained constant, and in a house with no heating, and it was absolutely fine. She used it all up - it lasted her about 3 days and it was fine right up to the end!
What I take issue with, with the Morrison thingy, is that we will have no way of knowing how long the milk has been on their shelves - it will give them carte blanche to leave it on sale way beyond the ‘assumed’ shelf life, and how would we know? We get it home, open it, and it smells off. And then, not only have we got no milk, but we’ve got to take it back for a refund. All wrong.
I have never seen such idiotic reasoning as " it helps the farmers", Pixie.
We have paid for the milk in the shop, so seeing as the shop (and the farmers) already have the money, we could sit and pour it down a drain in ths road if we chose to, and the only one to lose out would be us, not the farmers!
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