This got me thinking. I might have to go read what the actual rules are. But since best by dates are no longer legal to be sold in California what happens? Does that mean that food products that have a best by date will have to be not available to purchased in California like wine and some of those weird States
@Cerridwyn “Best by” sounds fairly fine? California allows “best if used by” which sounds like “best by” to me. It means the product might taste a bit stale after that date but it’s still usable. It also allows “use by” which means it’s potentially unsafe after that date and you should throw it out. It has banned “sell by” since lots of people were throwing out product on the sell-by date, which is misunderstanding that “sell by” had lots of storage life left. It was directed at retailer who are supposed to sell stuff at maximum freshness. Consumers can instead decide using the dates directed at consumers.
Cookies are cookies, I’m just trying to resist these because I don’t need to gain more weight. If anything, going stale is a virtue. I’ll still eat stale cookies, but maybe fewer at a time, which is good for my waistline. It’s only a problem if they really spoil and it’s usually obvious if that happens.
@Cerridwyn@phr pretty sure these are almost indestructible, like Twinkies. But Chips Ahoy was one of my father’s favorite cookies, many years ago. And some Pepperidge Farm ( never was really a farm) cookies.
Would almost buy for nostalgia, and like the small bags for road trips. But too many of them!
Also, serious question, is there real chocolate in these chocolate chips? You may heard there were shortages of ingredients used to make “real” chocolate and supply prices went way up. So some MegaFood switched to terms like “chocolate flavored.” You may have Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups with sprayed-on chocolate substance had to bow to pressure and will go back to real chocolate by 2027. Allegedly.
@Cerridwyn@phr@pmarin
Chips Ahoy are not indestructible. They become quite rancid after a few years. (I joined a PR team by Nabisco to give out a truck of cookies; we only got rid of half so we started looking for friends and family to come by and take stuff by the crate. A crate of cookies lasts a long long time.)
Also, why don’t companies use carob more? It’s just as expensive as chocolate, but no caffeine and it can be grown in (slightly) more places.
@TheFLP Well, we had the mini-stroopwafels for a while. Just more mini. They showed putting them into a serving of ice cream. But being mini they could not fit on top of a Hot cup of coffee, which is a recommended use scenario. There was even a Jumbo.
But mini chips-ahoy I think juat eat them or put into ice cream or yogurt.
Nope, I stopped looking at ANYTHING ELSE after I saw HFCS, aka High Fructose Corn Syrup. That crap ought to be illegal to use here like in Canada and Europe. Man Made crap confuses the body, and it doesn’t know how to break it down so it gives us more padding that we probably don’t need… Shame Shame Shame, You can finally find products that proudly label products NO HFCS. Yes, they are more expensive than same product made by Smuckers for example. Most Catsup, BBQ sauce, pickles, Really Hard to find these w/o it. TY for listening to my rant
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Product: 120-Pack: Mini Chips Ahoy! Snack Packs
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This got me thinking. I might have to go read what the actual rules are. But since best by dates are no longer legal to be sold in California what happens? Does that mean that food products that have a best by date will have to be not available to purchased in California like wine and some of those weird States
@Cerridwyn “Best by” sounds fairly fine? California allows “best if used by” which sounds like “best by” to me. It means the product might taste a bit stale after that date but it’s still usable. It also allows “use by” which means it’s potentially unsafe after that date and you should throw it out. It has banned “sell by” since lots of people were throwing out product on the sell-by date, which is misunderstanding that “sell by” had lots of storage life left. It was directed at retailer who are supposed to sell stuff at maximum freshness. Consumers can instead decide using the dates directed at consumers.
Cookies are cookies, I’m just trying to resist these because I don’t need to gain more weight. If anything, going stale is a virtue. I’ll still eat stale cookies, but maybe fewer at a time, which is good for my waistline. It’s only a problem if they really spoil and it’s usually obvious if that happens.
@Cerridwyn @phr pretty sure these are almost indestructible, like Twinkies. But Chips Ahoy was one of my father’s favorite cookies, many years ago. And some Pepperidge Farm ( never was really a farm) cookies.
Would almost buy for nostalgia, and like the small bags for road trips. But too many of them!
Also, serious question, is there real chocolate in these chocolate chips? You may heard there were shortages of ingredients used to make “real” chocolate and supply prices went way up. So some MegaFood switched to terms like “chocolate flavored.” You may have Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups with sprayed-on chocolate substance had to bow to pressure and will go back to real chocolate by 2027. Allegedly.
@Cerridwyn @phr @pmarin
Chips Ahoy are not indestructible. They become quite rancid after a few years. (I joined a PR team by Nabisco to give out a truck of cookies; we only got rid of half so we started looking for friends and family to come by and take stuff by the crate. A crate of cookies lasts a long long time.)
Also, why don’t companies use carob more? It’s just as expensive as chocolate, but no caffeine and it can be grown in (slightly) more places.
@Cerridwyn it’s “sell by” that California is eliminating, which is for retailers, not consumers.
“Best by” and “use by” are still allowed.
Will they arrive smashed to crumbs?
@medz they’re mini sized, so yes (but they’re in bags which use air as a cushion)
Pound for pound (and there’s 7 ½ of them) it’s not bad.
Full-sized boxes of Chips Ahoy are roughly $6.50 for 25 oz (party sized); five of them (120 oz) is about $33 too.
https://www.aldi.us/landing?product_id=17757225
Store-brand knockoffs are $2.50 for 12.5 oz. Ten of them (125 oz) would need just $25.
https://www.aldi.us/landing?product_id=20693105
But these have the convenience of being put in a lunch box without the aid of a Ziploc.
@pakopako true, that is a good point about saving plastic bags.
Price per pound is also good. Does not include the cost of GLP-1 drugs you may need. That’s a lot of pounds of cookies.
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But how mini is “mini”? Somebody get a ruler and measure the damn things.
I mean, really. How is a person supposed to assess their suitability without knowing how they compare to the non-mini variety?
@TheFLP Well, we had the mini-stroopwafels for a while. Just more mini. They showed putting them into a serving of ice cream. But being mini they could not fit on top of a Hot cup of coffee, which is a recommended use scenario. There was even a Jumbo.
But mini chips-ahoy I think juat eat them or put into ice cream or yogurt.
@pmarin @TheFLP or add milk like cookie crisp
Is the “best by” date small enough to go unnoticed on Halloween?
Nope, I stopped looking at ANYTHING ELSE after I saw HFCS, aka High Fructose Corn Syrup. That crap ought to be illegal to use here like in Canada and Europe. Man Made crap confuses the body, and it doesn’t know how to break it down so it gives us more padding that we probably don’t need… Shame Shame Shame, You can finally find products that proudly label products NO HFCS. Yes, they are more expensive than same product made by Smuckers for example. Most Catsup, BBQ sauce, pickles, Really Hard to find these w/o it. TY for listening to my rant