Expires in 3... 2... 1...

[plonq]

Perhaps I am a little too easily amused, or maybe I am too prone to noticing small details that others (rightfully) ignore, but I was amused by what I saw on a carton of eggnog in our refrigerator this morning. I was pretty sure that we had bought it earlier in the week, but I scanned the expiry date as I was pouring myself a glass, and I noticed that it expires on, "Nov 7 19:25"

Wait... what? So let's just say it's in there for another week. It is the seventh of November, at twenty past seven in the evening and I suddenly have a craving for eggnog. Oh no! Better drink fast. Wait - is that central time? If that's eastern time then I could be pouring a toxic brew down my gullet instead of delicious eggnog. Does it expire half an hour sooner in Newfoundland?

Comments

1925 - that was a good year

[dakhun.livejournal.com]

Mmmm! 82 year-old egg nog!

Re: 1925 - that was a good year

[aerofox.livejournal.com]

Yay, that was the year that Balto saved Nome!!! ^_^

[aerofox.livejournal.com]

How did Mew-foundland end up in a "half time zone"???

[dakhun.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia says it is "because of the location of the island and the fact that it was a separate dominion when the time zones were established", but I always thought it was because they talk so fast that they set their watches 1/2 hour fast too. ;-)