For dinner last Saturday, I planned to make honey-roasted chicken. I dug through the larder to look for honey, and found a bottle... which had expired eight months ago.
It's my mother again, I thought. Sometimes she just refuses to throw away expired stuff. Since she was overseas, I thought this was a good chance for me to discard it and buy a new bottle of honey.
This morning, I chanced across this video by AOL, titled "Don't listen to expiration dates on food labels". And near the end of the video...
"For honey? No need to toss this item. This natural sweetener can last you a lifetime."
I gulped.
A short while later, my mother opened the larder to look for honey, and saw the new bottle.
"You bought a new bottle of honey? You finished the older bottle?"
"Uhh yes. I was having a sore throat last week so I drank quite a bit of honey, and finished it," I said with a straight face.
Something I will probably remember for a lifetime. Honey never expires.
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