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This package of bagels I bought expired on a date that doesn't exist. (i.imgur.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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I originally posted this on the other site back when I took the picture, and it resulted in a lot of confused comments, especially from Americans, eventually getting removed by overzealous mods. Either way, I promise you that this date does not exist, and has never existed.

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[–] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

These numbers are put on by grocery clerks with a price-gun. All they did was add on however many days the product is supposed to last after it got put on the shelf. So it's really just some grocery worker not worrying about a date not existing. I woulda done the same thing if I was stocking these tbh.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What? This makes so little sense I don't even know how to proceed. It's an expiration date.

    Source: I'm also Swedish like OP and frequently shop at ICA - the biggest supermarket chain we've got, who also have their own line of products which are baked/cooked/prepared and packaged centrally and sent out to ICA stores all over the country. Those bagels are one of those products.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Woah woah woah. You are completely right on almost all parts of your comment, but I will not stand idly by as you call me Swedish. I'm a danskjävla who just happened to live in Sweden.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Swede here. Those labels are from the producer. It's easier to just use the same bags and then add the expiration date on a separate labels than to print the expiration date on the bags themselves.

    That way if you make same same bread on the same date but one batch gets frozen and the other gets sent out fresh you just use the same bags but they get different labels with different exparation dates depending if they are frozen or fresh.

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