Found while picking over one of my kitchen boxes in storage, a while ago

Stuff like that lasts forever.

Which one? Ground ‘erbs go off something chronic

SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:

Fishy sauce.

Oh, right, what, trés exotique Thai-stylee fish sauce?

If so, then yeah, it won't be toxic, but it'll probably be a bit wan and feeble.

And, considering it's probably something you use, at most, every other year...

SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:

Which one? Ground ‘erbs go off something chronic

Ground 'erbs are fine, but it's ground spices that go rubbish.

Again, not toxic in any way at all, but spices (cumin, paprika, coriander, turmeric, chillies of various sorts (cayenne pepper eg) etc etc) don't go 'bad', they just absorb - over the years, in a steamy and sultry kitten - rankly compromising moistures and the like and go all brackish and flavourless and, ergo, pointlessless.

BTW!

Anyone who buys dried parsley or basil wants to be properly sat down and forcibly made to have a chat with.

Doesn't matter if you bought it yesterday or if it'd be 900 years past it BBE, it tastes of nothing and imparts zero flava.

I’m sure it’ll be fine. Sprinkle it on something and see.

Nightjar wrote:

SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:

Fishy sauce.

Oh, right, what, trés exotique Thai-stylee fish sauce?

If so, then yeah, it won't be toxic, but it'll probably be a bit wan and feeble.

And, considering it's probably something you use, at most, every other year...

Dat's the bunny, if you want you can fish ( )it out of the bin, I don't want it.

Nightjar wrote:

SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:

Which one? Ground ‘erbs go off something chronic

Ground 'erbs are fine, but it's ground spices that go rubbish.

Again, not toxic in any way at all, but spices (cumin, paprika, coriander, turmeric, chillies of various sorts (cayenne pepper eg) etc etc) don't go 'bad', they just absorb - over the years, in a steamy and sultry kitten - rankly compromising moistures and the like and go all brackish and flavourless and, ergo, pointlessless.

Cinnamon. It had damped out in the way you mention, but it still smelt of cinnamon.

Does anyone dose open a bag of crisps, leave them out overnight, and then eat them the following evening? I think that’s how crisps are best enjoyed. Used to annoy me as a child when my grandmother would come along and put a peg on the bag and pop them back in the cupboard. No matter how many times I explained there was a deliberate preparation process going on.

I have never done that.

I would be scared of spiders climbing into it, overnight.