Dude Eats Expired Food for a Year and Lives to Tell About It

Man survives year of eating expired food just to prove a point

In case you didn’t already know, sell-by dates on food packages are mostly a sham (source: I regularly consume eggs two to three weeks past the sell-by date and am still alive), meaning a shitload of food is unnecessarily thrown out. A man from Maryland felt passionately enough about this subject to spend an entire year eating food that was technically expired, including year-old tortillas, meat that was weeks past the sell-by date, and even romaine that had been recalled due to E. coli — and guess what, he’s fine. (The USDA has actually been telling people for years that it’s fine to eat many foods past the sell-by dates, but who do you trust more — the government or Scott Nash, a dad from Maryland?)

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