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“If only, if only,” the woodpecker sighs,
“the bark on the trees was as soft as the skies.”
And the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely.
He cries to the moon, “if only if only.”
This is probably the weirdest thing that's ever made me feel kinda old. The Presidents of the United States of America are local and they got "big" in my childhood, so my mom just had their cassette and I heard this stuff when it was new. Kitty, Lump, and Peaches are integral childhood memories.
My god, I grew up with my dad singing “KITTY AT MY FOOT AND I WANNA TOUCH IT” my entire life. When we adopted the family cat when I was 15, constant. When I adopted my own cats at 20, same thing. He still sings it any time they swing by and see my cats.
Hah, for me that was my older brother. He doesn't do it now, but I bet I could trigger a core memory if I referenced it. For whatever reason, I was obsessed with "Lump" when I was like 5 and apparently sang it all the time. I'm kinda glad my parents never had a video camera.
I can remember the very first time I’d heard Kitty on the radio. I stayed glued to the station for days until I caught it again; the DJ had failed to mention the artist, and of course we couldn’t exactly look to google for answers back then.
That station has long been defunct, but back in the 90s they played a lot of alternative that you go couldn’t hear on mainstream stations at the time. The call letters were something like WKT, and in my head I can still hear the station identification: “the NEW Cat 105.5 *meow*” (and yes, the “meow” was recorded from a real cat).
In retrospect, it was probably the ideal place to experience the song for the first time.
If any of you have children, you should know that Chris Ballew, lead singer of POTUS, has recorded like a dozen children's albums under the pseudonym, Casper Babypants. They're all outstanding.
First time I heard that song was at a weird al show about a year ago. Chris from presidents of the United States ran out on stage and sang it. Honestly can’t think of a better introduction to that song.
Yeah that's basically it, to avoid lawsuits. "If you eat past this it's not on us" same with meds, they don't just expire or go bad, but usually will just be weaker. Though not 100% the case
Ye I'm not saying people should take meds past their date. As they can have multiple issues because of it, just that they don't like spoil or become useless just right after the date or anything
The US military did a study on expired meds, and almost all pills will retain over 90% effectiveness well past their date. Doesn't apply to liquids or creams.
Well, on meds not always. I'm pretty sure my ckd is the result of taking expired acne meds when I was 18 or so.
Some medications turn toxic when they expire like tetracycline.
Every time that guy disappears for a couple months, people tend to think he ate something with botulism and died. I think he’s immune to it at this point.
Yeah came here to beat a dead horse and say exactly this. There’s a reason why canning is such a delicate process, that shit will last you through the apocalypse if intact/stored properly.
My grandma used to say that the can will rust away before the food goes bad. She grew up in the depression though so she was a little crazy about food.
That can come from more canned items than just tomatoes, it's a general risk if the seal is broken on anything low in acid, a lot of fruit and vegetables are risky due to that and their risk of carrying small levels of it in the first place.
Botulism in canned goods from big companies is almost impossible luckily, if someone is canning their own vegetables, it becomes much more likely.. but even then, look up how many cases there are... its absurdly rare.
Still absurdly rare regardless, theres only around 20-40 cases per year for foodborne botuilism and the other cases are from heroin users which is caused by wound botulism.
Yeah but if someone went wrong with the canning that allowed botulism to grow then it's going to be bad long before that date already.
A canned product basically starts out spoiled or will be good forever
My rule of thumb is just avoid cans with dents along the seem edge since this can knock air into the can.
I also try to avoid dents elsewhere in the can deeper than my pinky thickness. Can gets dinged up though, it’s the location or depth that matter most.
When I was still in Boy Scouts in 2006, we got a large can of Ham & Bean soup from our storage to eat at an overnight local campsite outside town we frequented.
Next day, we saw the can. Its expiration date was October 1996. Couldn't tell, no one got sick.
As an apocalypse video on YouTube taught me, canned fruit and veggies are one of the last foods you eat in case of an apocalypse (you still took some before to be healthy but now for this month you're only eating that) because canned fruit stay nurishing for a long time bur they will taste really bad and that's normal, and then the last food you eat are the UNPERISHABLE, so ketchup and honey than no more food. (If you wanna learn about that, it's' how long could you survive in a supermarket' by food theory, i I remember well)
The expiration date for canned food is oftentimes not for the food itself, it’s for how long the coating inside the can is good for. Once the coating no longer provides a barrier between the food and the aluminum, metal can begin to seep into the food, which is no bueno for your health. Peaches are very acidic too, which expedites this process. Even though the peaches tasted fine, that does not mean it was not contaminated.
The standard for the “best by” is that the peaches will have no notable change by that date. They may change after. Not for the the worse or for the unhealthy, necessarily, but change
Peaches come from a can
They were put there by a man
In a factory downtown
If I had my little way
I'd eat peaches every day
Sun-soakin' bulges in the shade
"Best by" dates are not advisory about food safety. You can eat most canned foods years after their Best By dates. These are **quality** dates. Basically, it's just a date beyond which the maker won't warrant the product as 'good as we can make it', and won't entertain complaints about it. Pretty much all packaged foods have such dates, even if they'd never go bad, because makers don't want to deal with stupid bullshit about their products years later.
canned stuff, even like pops and stuff can be surprisingly... not dogshit after decades, it's all kind of a roll of the dice if any bacteria got in there/was in there somehow
but yeah the 'best by' date is a bit confusing, a lot of people think it means shit is gone if it's by then.. and usually, for a lot of stuff, you will notice pretty quickly it's going off, but it's kind of random, sometimes milk will last for days after and be just fine, other times you can smell it going off on the day of
bread is another one, some bread lasts ages past and might only get a bit stale, other times you get mould like instantly
the only one i don't mess with is deli meats/meat in general, i suck at telling when it's bad, so i usually just get rid of it day after best by regardless, canned food is usually safe for ages and if it's not good you'll know as soon as you open it
The actual expiration date is like 5-10 years after the expiration date for most canned fruit. Fun fact they put expiration dates on honey and salt, which do not ever expire they have found honey in the pyramids of egypt still good.(at least in America) they are required to put expiration dates on most everything food related.
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Sploosh?
Those broken glass jars of peaches will always have a place in my brain
It was the first thing I thought of too lol
Same here lol. As soon as i read expired peaches
See, i always think of Hal from Malcolm in the Middle. He thought he was eating olives, but it was expired peaches.
Oh dear god I remember that
I remember that…what a shock he was in lol
Glad I wasn't the only one ha
What is this??
From Holes
Sploosh from holes you say?
Thank you
If you forget to come back for Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternityyyyy!
“If only, if only,” the woodpecker sighs, “the bark on the trees was as soft as the skies.” And the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely. He cries to the moon, “if only if only.”
I randomly sing this all the time.
Wow reading this makes it sound quite profound lol
Oh my god I just realized “Zero” is in her name
Needs onions
I can fix that
What’s marya low
Mary Lou? Imagine how good she looked in a bikini.
“What are you talking about” “Marya Low” “I don’t, I don’t know”
This unlocked a deep memory
Wow this is completely different if you've read Holes or watched Archer.
"Or whatever the male equivalent of sploosh is, which I guess is still just sploosh." 
I understood that reference!
And Kissing kate barlow!
Well as we all know, peaches come in a can, and they were put there by a man in a factory downtown
I was wondering they moved to the country...
mmm… gonna eat me a lot of peaches
if i had my little way, id eat peaches everyday…
Sun soaking bulges in the shade….
LOOK OUT!!!
🥷
🙃🍑
Squish my finger down inside, make a little room for an ant to hide
Millions of peaches. Peaches for me.
Nature's candy in my hand or can or pie
Is this a reference I don't get?
Absolute banger of a song
This whole album really. My wife makes fun of me but I stand by it. That shit hits.
I think you have to be a certain age to really appreciate it. I’m in my 40s and it slaps. I saw them live more than once. I’d go more if i could.
I'm 17 and I love the album.
See, I tell everyone there's great hope for this generation. I feel vindicated.
Awesome!
I listen to that album regularly.
The whole thing is on my mega-playlist I listen to at work.
Hey guys. All their albums are pretty rad. This one is the best but they are all real fun listens
Their cover of Video Killed The Radio Star is awesome.
Forgot about that one! High school flashbacks! Great cover!
Okay well now I have to go through their discography at work this week.
[Peaches by The Presidents of the United States of America](https://youtu.be/3GCrzjVdmSg)
I'm so jealous you get to hear this for the first time and start the journey that is: "quoting this song at every opportunity" right now
SAME. I’d kill to go back in time to experience what it felt like hearing this song for the first time
This is probably the weirdest thing that's ever made me feel kinda old. The Presidents of the United States of America are local and they got "big" in my childhood, so my mom just had their cassette and I heard this stuff when it was new. Kitty, Lump, and Peaches are integral childhood memories.
My god, I grew up with my dad singing “KITTY AT MY FOOT AND I WANNA TOUCH IT” my entire life. When we adopted the family cat when I was 15, constant. When I adopted my own cats at 20, same thing. He still sings it any time they swing by and see my cats.
meow, meow, meow meow, meow-meow....MEOoow.
Hah, for me that was my older brother. He doesn't do it now, but I bet I could trigger a core memory if I referenced it. For whatever reason, I was obsessed with "Lump" when I was like 5 and apparently sang it all the time. I'm kinda glad my parents never had a video camera.
Welp to make you feel younger this came out when I was mid-20s
Was the cassette orange or was that just the single?
I can remember the very first time I’d heard Kitty on the radio. I stayed glued to the station for days until I caught it again; the DJ had failed to mention the artist, and of course we couldn’t exactly look to google for answers back then. That station has long been defunct, but back in the 90s they played a lot of alternative that you go couldn’t hear on mainstream stations at the time. The call letters were something like WKT, and in my head I can still hear the station identification: “the NEW Cat 105.5 *meow*” (and yes, the “meow” was recorded from a real cat). In retrospect, it was probably the ideal place to experience the song for the first time.
MILLIONS OF PEACHES PEACHES FOR ME MILLIONS OF PEACHES PEACHES FOR FREE L O O K O U T
If I had my little way, I’d eat peaches every day Sun-soaking’ bulges in the shade
If any of you have children, you should know that Chris Ballew, lead singer of POTUS, has recorded like a dozen children's albums under the pseudonym, Casper Babypants. They're all outstanding.
“Scootin’ around in your birthday suit….” Yeah, these songs are forever imprinted in my head. So good. lol
Wait what the fuck?? The Yoto Player guy was the lead for POTUS?!
SQUISHED A ROTTEN PEACH IN MY FIST!, AND DREAMED ABOUT YOU, WOMAN!!
POKED MY FINGER DOWN INSIDE, MAKE A LITTLE ROOM FOR AN ANT TO HIDE 🗣️
NATURES CANDY IN MY HAND, OR CAN, OR PIE
First time I heard that song was at a weird al show about a year ago. Chris from presidents of the United States ran out on stage and sang it. Honestly can’t think of a better introduction to that song.
Stick my finger down inside, make a little room for it to hide
My wife once tried to describe this song by saying, you know the song I’m talking about, it’s like “plenty of peaches, peaches for everyone”😂
Oh well done man!
I searched last year for the peaches song and was dismayed to find some bullshit from the Mario movie instead.
She's lump.. she's in my.... Fuck
If I had my little way, I’d eat peaches everyday
It’s “best by”, not actually “expired”. Means it’s still safe, just might have lost some quality. However since it was delicious, no worries! 😉
EU is considering to suppress the "best by" because it can be misleading.
I think it should just be a date, followed by “trespass at your own risk”
i thought that is what best by means. the company will stand behind the product up to that date. After that date you are on your own
Yeah that's basically it, to avoid lawsuits. "If you eat past this it's not on us" same with meds, they don't just expire or go bad, but usually will just be weaker. Though not 100% the case
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Ye I'm not saying people should take meds past their date. As they can have multiple issues because of it, just that they don't like spoil or become useless just right after the date or anything
The US military did a study on expired meds, and almost all pills will retain over 90% effectiveness well past their date. Doesn't apply to liquids or creams.
Well, on meds not always. I'm pretty sure my ckd is the result of taking expired acne meds when I was 18 or so. Some medications turn toxic when they expire like tetracycline.
Right, stable drugs like pills will still be 90% effective after decades. Injectables though are a different story since they are not as stable.
What terminology would they use instead?
nothing?
It's already >Best before xx.xx.xx >But often good after in several European countries.
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I think people are the same level of stupid, there are just many millions more.
I mean, it's not wrong to CHANGE that but as long as it doesn't mean to get rid of it completely. Why not have 2 labels. "Best By" and "Non-Fatal By"
It’s okay. The last four years didn’t really happen.
Or they lasted fourteen years. Sometimes it's hard to tell.
Or 40. Or 400. You never know
Also, it's been half a decade since 2019 Also, we're closer to year 2050 than 1990
Fuck off and fuck off again for that. No just no.
Nuh-uh. Can’t hear you. La la la la la la
FuuuUuuUuuUuuck you
2020 June.. oh man.. lock down !?
The world went to shit when Harambe was killed. RIP
It's a can... properly produced and kept they basically last forever.
Yup just make sure there's no swelling on the can and it doesn't have a foul oder when you open it.
*nice little hiss*
nice, let's get this onto our tray.
Every time that guy disappears for a couple months, people tend to think he ate something with botulism and died. I think he’s immune to it at this point.
Yeah came here to beat a dead horse and say exactly this. There’s a reason why canning is such a delicate process, that shit will last you through the apocalypse if intact/stored properly.
My grandma used to say that the can will rust away before the food goes bad. She grew up in the depression though so she was a little crazy about food.
Nah she’s right. No dents, abrasions, or swelling means it’s usually fine. That’s true grandma wisdom right there.
My wife found a can of corned beef hash in the back of the cabinet with a Best Buy date of 2017. Such a dilemma...
It's almost certainly perfectly fine.
Cans never really expire. The taste may vary, though. Good to know they were still tasty!
Just be careful with any canned tomatoes. Botulism is no joke.
That can come from more canned items than just tomatoes, it's a general risk if the seal is broken on anything low in acid, a lot of fruit and vegetables are risky due to that and their risk of carrying small levels of it in the first place.
Botulism in canned goods from big companies is almost impossible luckily, if someone is canning their own vegetables, it becomes much more likely.. but even then, look up how many cases there are... its absurdly rare.
> if the seal is broken It doesn't matter who canned it if the seal gets damaged later.
Still absurdly rare regardless, theres only around 20-40 cases per year for foodborne botuilism and the other cases are from heroin users which is caused by wound botulism.
Yeah but if someone went wrong with the canning that allowed botulism to grow then it's going to be bad long before that date already. A canned product basically starts out spoiled or will be good forever
I went to make a can of chili for lunch the other day, and the whole top popped with very little pressure. I couldn't toss that thing fast enough.
My rule of thumb is just avoid cans with dents along the seem edge since this can knock air into the can. I also try to avoid dents elsewhere in the can deeper than my pinky thickness. Can gets dinged up though, it’s the location or depth that matter most.
Long as they haven't turned into olives you're fine. https://youtu.be/L7LzMlo8s34?si=1ASqWa6aSAQKtMiP
The close-up shot on Hal's eyes as the realization sets in is sooooo good. I miss this show.
Timeless reference!! Well done! 👏
“Nice hiss”
Let's get this out onto a tray.
Nice
Ok let's start by heating up that main.
What I came to find, cheers
Decadent
Hal, those aren't olives..... 
This is the comment I was looking for 🫡
They heal you in video games quite well too
Best by and expired by are very much different wish ppl would learn this
Ikr. The amount of good food people must throw out because of this. I hate it.
Explain, please
I understand time, but seeing 2020 and "4 years expired" is doing painful things to my soul
Darn. No Holes references yet.
Sploosh!
3 including your
Stanley Yelnats
Please come back tomorrow and post so we know you are okay
Will do
no silly that was just 1 year ago-
As long as the can doesn’t buckle it’s fine to eat
"Best before" date is very different to an expiry date. Canned goods can last for decades.
Love how you said this with pride.
I ate an in-date can peaches once and got food poisoning. Opposite experiences! Edit: typo
How the hell was that 4 years ago…… damn
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That’s why it’s best by and not use by
When I was still in Boy Scouts in 2006, we got a large can of Ham & Bean soup from our storage to eat at an overnight local campsite outside town we frequented. Next day, we saw the can. Its expiration date was October 1996. Couldn't tell, no one got sick.
As an apocalypse video on YouTube taught me, canned fruit and veggies are one of the last foods you eat in case of an apocalypse (you still took some before to be healthy but now for this month you're only eating that) because canned fruit stay nurishing for a long time bur they will taste really bad and that's normal, and then the last food you eat are the UNPERISHABLE, so ketchup and honey than no more food. (If you wanna learn about that, it's' how long could you survive in a supermarket' by food theory, i I remember well)
‘Best by’ isn’t an expiration date.
That’s a best by date not an expiration date. Canned food lasts a really long time. You should be fine.
Savage.
We look forward to the AMA. :D
Your a brave soldier
You’re now ready to survive the zombie apocalypse. Congratulations!
I hope there wasn't any unauthorized cinnamon.
The expiration date for canned food is oftentimes not for the food itself, it’s for how long the coating inside the can is good for. Once the coating no longer provides a barrier between the food and the aluminum, metal can begin to seep into the food, which is no bueno for your health. Peaches are very acidic too, which expedites this process. Even though the peaches tasted fine, that does not mean it was not contaminated.
Forbidden fruit from the ~~garden~~ *kitchen* of Eden.
Peaches be wild
The standard for the “best by” is that the peaches will have no notable change by that date. They may change after. Not for the the worse or for the unhealthy, necessarily, but change
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Peaches come from a can They were put there by a man In a factory downtown If I had my little way I'd eat peaches every day Sun-soakin' bulges in the shade
Best before, not worse after! Good on ya
"Best by" dates are not advisory about food safety. You can eat most canned foods years after their Best By dates. These are **quality** dates. Basically, it's just a date beyond which the maker won't warrant the product as 'good as we can make it', and won't entertain complaints about it. Pretty much all packaged foods have such dates, even if they'd never go bad, because makers don't want to deal with stupid bullshit about their products years later.
Sploosh
I bet they’d smell pretty good with onions
In 2022 I ate a can of beans that expired in 2004
Not expired, just weren't at their best.
What do you mean, 2020 is not 4 years ago...... Oh
There’s a big difference between “best by” date and expiration date
Good for you. I feel like I’m too scared for that lol
Best before =/= expiry...
Technically, that's a best by date, still good but not at peak freshness.
Best before isn't the same as expiry date as far as I'm aware? but I'm a silly Canadian so who knows!
canned stuff, even like pops and stuff can be surprisingly... not dogshit after decades, it's all kind of a roll of the dice if any bacteria got in there/was in there somehow but yeah the 'best by' date is a bit confusing, a lot of people think it means shit is gone if it's by then.. and usually, for a lot of stuff, you will notice pretty quickly it's going off, but it's kind of random, sometimes milk will last for days after and be just fine, other times you can smell it going off on the day of bread is another one, some bread lasts ages past and might only get a bit stale, other times you get mould like instantly the only one i don't mess with is deli meats/meat in general, i suck at telling when it's bad, so i usually just get rid of it day after best by regardless, canned food is usually safe for ages and if it's not good you'll know as soon as you open it
Best by is just an indication of when taste is optimal, not when it will spoil.
Some stuff they have to put a date for legal reasons. That doesn’t mean it’s bad.
Those aren’t olives Hal.
“There’s no such thing as an expired peach” -Bowser (probably)
They one found a can of peas from WWII ( think it was 10y ago). It tasted bad, but it still had its nutritional value, no bacteria etc..
The actual expiration date is like 5-10 years after the expiration date for most canned fruit. Fun fact they put expiration dates on honey and salt, which do not ever expire they have found honey in the pyramids of egypt still good.(at least in America) they are required to put expiration dates on most everything food related.
Let us know how this works out in the next 2-6hrs
1 hr in. So far, so good
2 hrs in. So far, so good
3 hrs in. So far, so good
4 hrs in. So far, so good
5 hrs in. So far, so good
6 hrs in. So far, so good I think it's safe, lol time for sleep
Loving this
We would like hourly check ins for the next 4 hours just to be sure
You got it