Categories: ramblings
Date: 06 October 2008 09:47:26
[Cue ominous music].
Some time ago (early September), I had cause to shop in Morrison's (despite my solemn vow never to shop there ever again after The Incident with the Mouse).
For obscure reasons best known to themselves, Morrison's feel it necessary to shrink-wrap their peppers (capsicums). Nobody else does it, but Morrison's apparently feel they have to wrap individual peppers in a close coating of plastic and whack a sticky label with a barcode on, when everyone else thinks that an oval sticker with a PLU number is perfectly adequate. The bloke on the market doesn't even do that, he just chucks them on the scales and then into a paper bag.
Anyway, I purchased a pepper, and then promptly forgot about it. I found it the other day, and it shows no discernible signs of going off, despite its best before date proclaiming “use by 5th September.” It's not even a little bit wrinkled, and I know from experience that normal peppers just do not last a month past their best before date without going really quite disgusting.
I am, to be honest, a little bit scared of it, and threw it away, unused. Shame on me.