Archive - Aug 12, 2007
Immortal chocolate
Submitted by joyfulchicken on August 12, 2007 - 10:38pm.As I was rummaging through the refrigerator late last night, my hand brushed against something triangular in a corner. Whoa! Can it be what I think it is? I don't even remember having any of those left!
I checked, and sure enough, it was a 200-gram bar of Toblerone white chocolate. Score! But my excitement got dampened a bit when I looked more closely at the wrapper.
If you squint hard enough, you'll see "29 07 2005" printed under the "best before" date. Oh no! What now? Immediately, the rational side and the hungry side of my brain got into a heated debate.
Rational side: You can't eat that! It expired more than two years ago!
Hungry side: But I'm hungry!
Rational side: Toblerone has milk in it. Spoiled milk is likely to make you sick. You want to poop water tomorrow?
Hungry side: How do you even know that it's spoiled?
Rational side: What part of "expired more than two years ago" don't you understand?
Hungry side: But it smells OK!
Rational side: Hmm, I guess it does. And, rationally speaking, food doesn't turn bad right after the expiry date....
Hungry side: Exactly! The label says "best before" and not "bad after"... huge difference, right?
Rational side: Good point. But still, it has been over two years....
Hungry side: Who cares? I've been hungry for over two hours!
Rational side: Well, since it had been stored in a refrigerator for all this time, maybe there's a chance that it hasn't gone bad yet.
Hungry side: Yeah, blah blah blah... enough talk already. Can I eat it now?
Rational side: Sure, what the heck.
Before I knew it, I had gobbled down almost half the bar. It tasted great just like Toblerone bars should. And I woke up today feeling just fine. Pooped fine too. Most importantly, at no point did I roll over and die, which means that the Toblerone bar passed my standard test for food safety with flying colors.
I plan to finish the rest of it tonight. Yay!