On top of my fridge there has been a Nutter Butter box for a long time. I don’t usually notice it, but I did today and a wheat-based, peanut-shaped wafer sandwich with a peanut butter-flavored creme center sounded kindov good.
So I opened one.
A little dead looking, but no worse than old chocolate with the white stuff on it, and we’ve all eaten those, so I figured why not and took a bite. It was awful. But I had gone this far, so I had to at least make a real effort. I took another bite, much bigger than the first and slowly chewed the rot gunk I had just willfully started to injest.
As I masticated the stale, spoiled mush between my teeth I started to calculate exactly how old this product was exactly. The answer was that they were purchased 3 years ago this month.
I compromised with myself and forced down that which I had already bit off and threw away the rest. I didn’t get sick, but I still wouldn’t recommend eating stuff that old, even if, like me, you assume that a packaged and processed product probably has a shelf life of forever.
Some things in fact may.
Nutter Butters. Do not.
Just took a bite out of a package that’s a year and six months old. I sholud have stopped when I caught the scent of grease that you would find decomposing in a Mc Donald’s waste container on a hot summer day. 15mins later and the taste is still on my tougne. yuck!!!