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Question: Folgers instant coffee best by 07/08 in target, clovis is on the shelf last week. please comment.?

(Posted by: wonder on 2008-11-19 23:01:58)

My daughter bought and she did not the best by date. The problem is the coffee is for me now in Bangkok. What can I do?

Posted by: San Diego Art Nut on 2008-11-19, 23:08:47

Why are you having anything as common as instant coffee shipped to you in Bangkok? It must have cost more to mail it than to buy it. It was not good for the store to have an expired coffee on their shelf but the real fault lies with her failure to realize it was expired until she had packed it up to you. Write off the loss and hope she has learned to look at such dates. The coffee is undoubtedly still drinkable.

Posted by: darrenforster99 on 2008-11-20, 00:14:08

Drink it it'll be more than fine. It just probably wont taste as strong. Best by/ Best Before dates don't mean anything. It's the Use By dates you need to follow. All best before dates mean is that this product is going to taste at it's best before that date, the use by dates are used on products that have a limited shelf life such as bread, eggs, milk, etc. Coffee can stay just as fresh for many months after it's shelf life. I used to work for a famous supermarket in the UK (until it was taken over by Morrisons) and the staff were regularly sold out of date products and the manufacturer used to tell us that they were fine for at least 6-12 months out of that date. Also regularly in bargain shops in the UK you get out of date products being sold at bargain prices, usually the shop keeper warns the person and when you buy it, it usually just tastes a bit milder if that. Sometimes chocolate develops a white coating on it which is just the fat separating from the water as the emulsifiers break down.