> > Peanut butter goes bad? Ever?
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> As Sosi had indicated in her post, you can ask me about this subject.
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> Peanut butter doesn't go "bad" in the conventional sense of the word--it doesn't get moldy, or poisonous. However, it does sort of separate, and all of the flavor gets sucked out of it, and it tastes really stale. Kind of like what creamy cardboard would taste like, I imagine.
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> > S "loves buying from Sam's Club and BJ's, perhaps because owning HUGE food containers is COOL, as indicated in the 'Theory of Size' thread" am
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> Don "It does take about four years on the shelf after opening the jar, though" Monkey

Honey does kinda the same thing. It never goes bad, ever, (ever, ever, ever) but it does crystallize and you have to heat it some so it'll dissolve. The best way to do that is to put the honey container in a pan of water and stick it on the stove for a bit. Then it is, as the saying goes, just like new.

Bulk rules. I bought, like, close to a gallon of cheese pump cheese - you know, the stuff they have in the cheese pumps at nacho stands? - and I think it lasted a few days, whereas a standard eight microliter can of nacho cheese that doesn't even taste the same would last about three minutes. Fun size, I guess.