Yep I eat fruit and veg and bread way past it’s dates. I work in food retail and the food waste breaks my heart, we have to waste perfectly good food if it’s a day past the display date. It’s food safety but it’s a margin of error. It’s getting better in that some lines no longer have rigid dates on them, like some veg and fruit, and customers are being asked to use their judgement instead.

Meat, fish and dairy are different.

That’s interesting about the out of date soda!