Whether you're a strict follower of best by/use by/expiration dates (like my brother) or you merely shrug off any printed numbers and instead rely on your own senses of sight and smell, there is something undoubtedly suspect about the entire process.
Whilst some things are inarguable — mold on your bread, questionable skins forming on yogurt, rancid-smelling milk — there are a host of foods, drinks and foodstuff that can safely be enjoyed past the expiration date written on the carton. So where do these dates come from? Is it all just a big scam to get you to throw out perfectly healthy goods, inevitably spending double the money to replace everything that's gone "bad"?
