It’s a “best before” date not an expiration date, it might still be good!
Probably still as good as it ever was… Lol
Same as it ever was
Marinara flowing underground
Take me to the freezer.
Put me in lasagna.
This is not my freezer burned meal!
Same as it ever was
Maybe they meant it was disgusting. Like they bought a couple, ate one, and decided not to eat the other, and didn’t get around to tossing it.
It’s probably still perfectly safe to eat. It likely just tastes like hot garbage. Frozen food doesn’t technically expire, it just slowly gets more and more freezer burnt that degrades the quality and taste. It remains perfectly safe to eat indefinitely, however.
This assumes there was no significant power outage for 27 years, which I would not bet on
How high did the item score? https://xkcd.com/2178/
From a reverse image search, looks like this was originally posted on Twitter by Orla Walsh, a dietician. Her education experience on her LinkedIn puts her at about 36 years old at the time the image was posted (July 2023). Since this is her mom’s fridge though, we estimate her age at 36+25=61. So, total score is 42.62.
What formula are you using? And where did 25 come from? 2023-1997 = 26 and (26 / 36) x 100 = 72.2
Edit: nevermind, I see you were estimating the mom’s age. My bad, all is well.
I kind of want to see a charter plot of that scoring function projected onto a 3-axis manifold with a colored heat map. How would I minMax my anticipated score given my current age or projected lifespan?
Best before 2097? What’s the problem there?
Y2K
No, no, it can only be 1997, logically.
The Y2038 problem.
There are no years before 2000.
How many power outages has that Lasagna seen?
Inside it’s just a box of snow with cheese.
What do you mean, it says new right on the box. Can’t be that old
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March 97 of what year?
L5264. You know, just a while after the Mayonnaise Wars of K3737.
The rising red river of the 52nd Ketchup alliance was a dreadful day indeed. Only the infidels call it the Mayo war.
2097, obviously, cause 1817 there were no plastics* or refrigerators** or cameras cheap enough to take pictures of trivial shit*** and 1997 would be to obvious. Nah, its definitely not 1997
wat?
Isn’t this just survivor bias?
The unreliable fridges from 1980 have all failed already.
In Engineering you have two different kinds of failures:
The first is to do with manufacturing flaws and happens in the first couple of months of use, hence how Warranties work - bad part of bad assembly so it breaks on first use or soon after.
The second kind is the device dying from decay due to use, from old age if you will.
Survivor bias, IMHO, only applies for those devices that last beyond the stage were the first kind of failure can happen as it’s kinda random (you can reduce the proportion of devices that fail, but for any one device it’s random if it will be one that fails or not)
So a 3 year old fridge dying is not from manufacturing defects but it’s dying from faster ageing, which is a flaw in the design or a choice of cheaper, lower quality components.
From what I’ve seen that’s exactly what’s been happenning: less robust designs and cheaper components with shorter lifespans, all to save on raw material costs.
Lower manufacturing quality tends to cause the first kind of failures, not the failures well past the first few months.
PS: Note that dying from the second kind of failure still has a random probability for any one device, though whilst the probability from dying from manufacturing flaws is very time dependent (starting very high and then tailing off to pretty much zero within some months), the probability of dying from age is a lot less time dependent and if that much increases slightly with increasing age (whilst the other kind decreases steeply with age, specifically decreases steeply with use). I’m mentioning this for completness, as the point still stands - if there is a high proportion of devices of a given type dying at year 3, then that design has a much higher rate of failure due to aging than devices for which a much smaller proportion dies at year 3, hence the design is not robust and/or lower quality components are being used.
Let’s get this out onto a tray.
Nice
No hiss
How big is that freezer the she forgot a lasagna in there for this long?
Tomb style freezer probably, the bottom is basically inaccessible so shit gets forgotten…
My mom didn’t defrost the freezer for ages. It’s finally dead, but it took 2 hours just for the doors to unfreeze from the rest so I could open them.
See for yourself:
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Ooh, raspberry snowcone
It’s beautiful
What’s the freezer brand? That’s a buy it for life candidate if it worked for a long time with no maintenance.
It’s some fridge+freezer combo from Electrolux.
It still technically works, it’s just that the door doesn’t close properly, making it kinda useless. It was only shut off due to high temp alarm, which I am surprised took so long to turn on as there was some gap in the doors all the time.
Nonzero chance that abiogenesis occurred in there
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I’d honestly be impressed by a freezer that’s been running since '97.
That’s before they started building them to fail. Why? Because a freezer that’s been running since '97 is at least two unsold new freezers.
There’s also a lot of other stuff that changed over time. New appliances may be more efficient, run on different (more environmentally friendly) coolant, have lead-free solder circuits, etc.
The thing is, a lot of that old stuff which was found to have health or environment issues also lasted longer. Leaded solder didn’t get burrs, for example. The components may also have been easier to repair.
But there’s also survivor bias. For every old freezer that sat in grandma’s basement for 2-3 decades many more ended up in a scrap heap.
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No, it’s not survivorship bias
Yes it is. The probability is much more significant that there are appliances from 2000s still working fine while your 1950s piece is one of the last few left. Just because your reality has a different view doesn’t mean it’s the same on a global scale.
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Does that brand even exist anymore?
One would hope not
So it’s a collectible!
A colledible!
Maybe it ages like wine.
It does say new on the package
Even this picture is a decade old by now.
Wow lol
Do you have proof that this person is the original poster? I have seen this image so many times…
No, but can you find an earlier time it was posted?
Bro dont break my meme heart like this
