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Is Your Packaged Food Totally Expired And Worthless?

Darrin Atkins
3 min readApr 11, 2024

I ate something tonight that made me so sick and that taught me a powerful life lesson

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Am I just plain stupid?

I must be, because there is no other explanation. Seriously, that is the truth and there is no getting around it.

Tonight, after dinner, I grabbed some flat cookies from the shelf, opened them up, and started eating one. When I was almost done with that one, I said, “This doesn’t taste right. And it smells disgusting."

Then I looked at the packaging and it had expired quite a while ago.

What?!

I’m not going to mention how long ago, but let your imagination go wild.

I quickly threw them into the trash. So gross. But then I could still smell them so I took out the trash can outside.

“It’s a good thing that trash pickup is tomorrow,” I thought. " Hurry up already.”

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Okay, yes, it’s my fault. How can I have stuff that is expired?

Well, I’ve been trying to eat healthy but today was a special-event day so I thought I could have something sweet.

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Darrin Atkins
Darrin Atkins

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