8-J

[porphyry]

Mme. Malkhos has a way of hoarding food that is sometimes disturbing.

Today she found a tin of Christmas Pudding in the closet that was bought in November of 2007. It is a British Product.

She notices the expiration date says 8J. She wonders if any British reader would know what this means; for example does it mean January 2008? Do you consider it safe?

Comments

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

As proven by empirical method by members of theboringclub http://community.livejournal.com/theboringclub/9710.html it is dead sure to be absolutely safe.
Just eat it!
Renowned british readers apparently keep theirs hid in cupboards for years and live and prosper nevertheless.
You could, of course, save it up for the year after next year´s christmas to test these testimonials of our hon. members. That would be definite proof, whatever the result.
Are you absolutely sure, Mme Malkhos isn´t...british?

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

We'll eat it then, but not today. It's Andrew's birthday, so we have a surfeit of fresh cake.

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

All my best for Andrew!

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'm British--is hoarding a national personality trait there, I wonder?

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

I was absolutely certain hoarding old fruit cake must be a matter of nationality? Probably genetic; due to Montesquieuian isolated island climates! Now you have tipped my Queen Theory over and on the shoulder and it is not amused, at all...poor thing.

[benicek.livejournal.com]

Oh they last for years. Just eat it.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

We'll take it under advisement. Is this going to be anything like what we call Fruit Cake?

[benicek.livejournal.com]

Very similar, just with more suet and less flour. Over here we put royal icing on fruit cake and call it 'Christmas cake'. Christmas cakes last for years too.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Suet? That's what I feed the birds. Now Malkhos thinks he might not want to eat it.

[benicek.livejournal.com]

That's what holds the pudding together. Maybe you remember me making one a couple of years ago: http://benicek.livejournal.com/78767.html

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll have to hoard it a while longer, of course. Until Christmas at least. It's even got a sixpence you're supposed to mix in it somewhere, I think.

[majolika.livejournal.com]

October 2008 (number is the year, letter the month)

If it neither explodes nor stinks nor runs away, eat it.



ew canned christmas pudding ew ew ew!

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

I'll have the camera handy when we open it so I can post a follow-up if it runs away.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Unless it explodes. We'll get medical care first, then post pictures.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Did you have to reveal my hoarding tendencies? :-)

I just forgot about it!

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

I'll bear it in mind in the future (I confess it seemed too trivial to me for that august forum), but since the discussion seems to have ripened and fell, I don't see how it could profitably be reposted now.