How high did the item score? https://xkcd.com/2178/
From a reverse image search, looks like this was originally posted on Twitter by Orla Walsh, a dietician. Her education experience on her LinkedIn puts her at about 36 years old at the time the image was posted (July 2023). Since this is her mom’s fridge though, we estimate her age at 36+25=61. So, total score is 42.62.
I kind of want to see a charter plot of that scoring function projected onto a 3-axis manifold with a colored heat map. How would I minMax my anticipated score given my current age or projected lifespan?
Best before 2097? What’s the problem there?
Y2K
What do you mean, it says new right on the box. Can’t be that old
NOS food
March 97 of what year?
L5264. You know, just a while after the Mayonnaise Wars of K3737.
The rising red river of the 52nd Ketchup alliance was a dreadful day indeed. Only the infidels call it the Mayo war.
Some say the rivers ran red from all the ketchup spilled in the greatest battle of the war.
2097, obviously, cause 1817 there were no plastics* or refrigerators** or cameras cheap enough to take pictures of trivial shit*** and 1997 would be to obvious. Nah, its definitely not 1997
wat?
I’d honestly be impressed by a freezer that’s been running since '97.
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No, it’s not survivorship bias
Yes it is. The probability is much more significant that there are appliances from 2000s still working fine while your 1950s piece is one of the last few left. Just because your reality has a different view doesn’t mean it’s the same on a global scale.
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Nokia 3310 would like to have a chat with you
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That’s before they started building them to fail. Why? Because a freezer that’s been running since '97 is at least two unsold new freezers.
Nonzero chance that abiogenesis occurred in there
check out this custom flavour profile!
Let’s get this out onto a tray.
Nice
No hiss
It does say new on the package
How big is that freezer the she forgot a lasagna in there for this long?
Tomb style freezer probably, the bottom is basically inaccessible so shit gets forgotten…
Nice little hiss
Let’s get this out onto a tray, Nice!
Maybe it ages like wine.
Uncorked?
Does that brand even exist anymore?
One would hope not
Sooo, How was it?
My girlfriend’s family cabin has a cold storage in the basement. We found some canned stew that had expired in 1982. A friend of mine actually ate it and he didn’t get sick!
can food can last far longer than the expiration date, as long as it still has seal integrity, and not bulging.
Yeah I’d argue canning is one of the greatest technological marvels of the 20th century. I never check the expiration date of the cans in my kitchen
Yeah, the expiry is beaurocracy in action, but okay beiroacracy, I’m fine with putting the dates. But canned goods are eternal if stored properly, and doing a quick inspection for what you mentioned is all you need when you’re scouring the wasteland for Vienna sausages in the far off time of the year 2025.
What do you have against the word “bureaucracy”?
Maybe that poster really meant rule of the beautiful rather than rule of the office?!
I rely on auto correct to take care of things like that for me.
Send it to ashens
My first thought as well, lol.
Though sending a frozen item international mail and hoping it stays frozen the entire time is probably expensive.
