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[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

Some tourists in the Museum of Natural History are marveling at some dinosaur bones. One of them asks the guard, "Can you tell me how old the dinosaur bones are?"

The guard replies, "They are 65,000,011 years old."

"That's an awfully exact number," says the tourist. "How do you know their age so precisely?"

The guard answers, "Well, the dinosaur bones were sixty five million years old when I started working here, and that was eleven years ago."

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes expiration dates refer to when enough plastic from the packaging has decayed into the food material that it might be a problem. Bottled water works that way.

I don't know:

  • How much science there is behind the dating
  • How much plastic you're consuming in your food anyway and so who cares what's the difference
  • Whether that's what's going on with this salt package specifically

But it's not automatically crazy for there to be an expiration date on an immortal product if it comes packaged up in plastic.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm no expert, but I did watch a minidocumentary that explained that these best by dates are mostly arbitrary aside from perishable foods.

For some products they'll have taste testers rate the same product packaged at different times from 1-10 with 10 being factory fresh, and when it drops below an average of 7, that's the date they put on the packaging

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah but this kind of salt they only taste test every half million years or so, so the expiration dates cant be trusted to be that precise.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

As a salt vampire, I will happily take any expired salt off your hands.

And off your face.

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Anyone else hate it when products fluff themselves up with dramatically grandiose blurb? FORMED BY THE PRIMAL SEA shut the fuck up

[–] Hackworth@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Part of my job is to write that kind of copy. If you take it seriously, you'll drive yourself nuts.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You should start every one with "originally formed inside of an actual star" or something similar.

[–] Hackworth@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Wrenched from the platonic forms through seething quantum foam as the Demiurge's machinations reach fruition, our custom-made mounting clamps won't fail you like your precious god.