So me and Neil were clearing out the pantry today as part of the re-organising/decorating of the house. During our clean up we had to remove everything from the shelves so that we could put wallpaper down as shelf-protectors, protection from what? I don’t know, it’s just one of those things that your mother decides is the way to go. Anywho, whilst we were remvoing the cans we thought we might as well chuck out all the ones that were past their best before dates. Somehow we persuaded ourselves that some products that were 2 years past their best still ok to keep, semolina doesn’t go off right?

Once again, I appear to have gone off track, and the title has become ever more misleading, but I’ll get to that now, though as ever it is still a bit obscure. One of the cans was for Carnation evaporated milk, which isn’t that odd, except this particulary can had a date on it of 1989, thats 16 years ago, I’m only 20! And consider that that’s the use by date, not when it was bough, and I’d imagine that evaporated milk lasts for years. Of course I had to open it, it smelt….. same as any other evaporated milk. It certainly didn’t look like it though, kinda flaky, yet still gloopy, and most amazingly of all it was able to move on its own. Food. That moved. On its own.

Needless to say, I didn’t taste it. But the 2000 vintage decorative icing was fine.