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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Where should I put this?

So, upon moving, you have a tendency to take a good long look in the frig.  Especially, if you have to leave your house overnight and go somewhere else for the day.  You start to notice the small holes and leaks in the stack of free soy sauce packets and how it's made a tight bond in one of the door shelves and glued all of the contents to it.  You start to look at the expiration dates on things and wonder how you're still alive since your BBQ sauce is 2 years expired and there was a different president in office with your mustard.

You also notice the things in your frig that you put there but you can't remember why.  You search and search for the 4 point font that says, "Refrigerate after opening", only to realize that it isn't "Refrigerate after opening", but "Refrigeration recommended for better quality".  And then you ask yourself two questions:

Why is this printing so damn?  I mean, this is health to the consumer.  You'd think if a company really wanted to protect you from food poisoning with their product, they would make warning in 36 point font, capped, and bolded

REFRIGERATE AFTER OPENING OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES

The second question is this:  what should I do with the "suggested" but not concrete instructions of refrigeration during the move?

As a bit of penny pincher, I momentarily consider dumping it with the peanut butter in a box.  And then as a molecular biologist, shudder and envision the exponential bacterial growth in the product over the time span of two days...

...and end up chucking it in the trash.

Yum, yum.  Active cultures

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