At least it doesn’t say LV426…
It means:
“Take it back to the retailer and get your money back.”
Or:
“Eat me for a personal food poisoning experience.”
Take your pick…
This may be No Stupid Questions, but there sure are a lot of stupid answers.
I mean, is there something to the right? I think not because the français is below so I guess good luck. I’d personally eat it unless you bought it months ago.
I bought it today. I realized when I was unloading groceries that I forgot to check the best before on it.
Edit: also good point I’ll look around the packaging for other clues.
Chinese dates have two word years that equate to animals (see the options on this date converter), but they don’t have an ‘L’ sound, so none of them are going to start with that. No clue unless it’s a typo.
It might be the Julian date (I have no idea where the name comes from) which is just basically January 1st is 001, December 31st is 365, and the rest of the year is between. So this would be around December 15th.
We used it for food expirations on some things at the convenience store I used to work at.
Maybe it’s “Lichtjahr”? So as long as you stay within 3*10^15km of earth you should be fine 👍
Year 349 since the return of Late Jesus.
It’s about 500 years in the future I think
Some uk supermarkets have started dropping the use by date in favour of codes like this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45786012 The article says it’s to reduce waste and that staff will have special training to know when to bin stuff. I imagine the training is in how to read the codes.
Fresh produce has it here in there Netherlands as well. Or our supermarket has for the last few years, a letter specifies the day of the week (Monday = A) and then the week number.
Week number we printed on the sticker machines and stuck on the start of every isle just to make it easier.
Genius!
What duck heads
Should I call customer support every time I’m about to cook dinner?
I looked around the packaging for other clues as suggested by another Lemming but I didn’t find anything. In fact I found the same thing printed on the front.
Former grocery manager here. There are companies that purposely sell these weird cryptic date formats. I would always need to go look for their certain code to figure out what it translates to. I can’t remember why either other than it’s not normal and we just dealt with it.
Because of the other writing on the package, I’m wondering if because its sold on the international market and dates would get very confusing and possibly harmful.
More harmful than a literal code?
If you buy fresh tuna and the country of origin date code is MM/DD/YY while you’re DD/MM/YY or YY/DD/MM or YY/MM/DD you could end up with year-old fish or worse. So yeah.
And no, it won’t always be something easily detectable by look and smell like fish.
ISO 8601 specifies YYYY-MM-DD and that’s that, at least for the Gregorian calendar. I don’t know why people bother with other formats.
You can easily write out the month: April 1, 2024. And don’t say “people might not speak English” or Chinese or whatever. You know what language to put it in because the rest of the package has writing on it too.
plenty of packaging sold in the us is not in English if your at the hmart or wherever. they just slap an English ingredients sticker on it.
