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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Great Moments in American Corporate History

Hat's off to the SOB who came up with this one:

Posted at 8:24 PM | Permalink

Comments (16)

Mayan calendar?

Posted by PDX Native | June 13, 2009 8:33 PM

Beats me. I didn't have an iPhone to ask about it in the frozen organic section of the market.

Posted by Jack Bog | June 13, 2009 8:38 PM

I took the bait. But the call can't be completed...

Nothing on google, either.

Posted by PDX Native | June 13, 2009 8:43 PM

How were they?

Posted by Hartmut Sinkwitz | June 13, 2009 9:51 PM

Great, as usual. Yuppie tater tots. Just hope I'm not going to die from eating five-year-old ones...

Posted by Jack Bog | June 13, 2009 9:52 PM

I don't know Jack, but I think they might be good until 2111

Posted by mp97303 | June 13, 2009 10:39 PM

Looks like a Star Trek stardate. They might still be fresh enough for the galley of the USS Enterprise NCC 1701Z

Posted by Jim | June 13, 2009 11:30 PM

This product is not alone. I'm pretty sure at least a third of all products use this mysterious calendar. It's frustrating and hard to stay on top of if you're selling these products. Or buying them.

Also, olive oil-garlic-rosemary oven fries aren't yuppie if you make them yourself. Yukon golds, reds, or whatever... you can't screw that up.

Posted by TKrueg | June 13, 2009 11:52 PM

My Alexia Garlic Baguette, I just checked in the freezer, has a "Best Before" date of 01.19.2010, which is understandable but, come to think of it, am awfully long time to keep bread in the freezer!

My less fancy-pants 89 cent Safeway Hot Dog buns, however, have the mystery code "JW 158" and "S8111." When I bought them I checked several packages, looking for a pull date, which their bread products normally have, but their hot dog buns didn't. And my Safeway is notorious for having food on their shelves well past the expiration or "Best Before" dates. When I find outdated stuff, I neatly and politely stack it on the floor.

Posted by Frank Dufay | June 14, 2009 5:43 AM

I'm guessing the "5385" is some sort of product code, and then the expiration date is 01/21/11.

Posted by Dave J. | June 14, 2009 7:15 AM

Isn't "yuppie tater tots" an oxymoron?

Posted by Larry K | June 14, 2009 9:01 AM

I'm guessing the "5385" is some sort of product code, and then the expiration date is 01/21/11.

That's what I thought too. And let's remember "sell by" dates are directed at the distributor and retailer for their purposes, while "use by" dates are for the consumer. This is the former. Use by dates are usually later, sometimes significantly later, than sell by dates.

Posted by G Joubert | June 14, 2009 9:03 AM

Fred Meyer has never refused to demystify the pull date codes. I'm not sure Safeway hires employees that can read.

Posted by KISS | June 14, 2009 1:24 PM

It may be a Julian Date. The system used by astronomers simply counts the days from noon GMT on Jan 1, 4713 BC, making today JD 2,454,996. Your food item is good for about another 14.7 million of our Earth Years - perfect for the Fallout Shelter or Egyptian tomb. (I say 'about' because I don't care to deal with leap years, one of the reasons the JD system was invented.)

Posted by Morbius | June 14, 2009 1:28 PM

In case you are a nutritional nut...sorry no pull date but there is a contact #.
http://www.alexiafoods.com/product_info.html?product_id=16

Posted by Kiss | June 14, 2009 2:35 PM

A "sell by" date?

Not a "best if used by" date?

Translated: We care more about cash flow targets and inventory our retailers carry than the quality of our product by the time it actually gets eaten. Regardless of when you bought it.

Posted by got logic? | June 15, 2009 9:50 AM

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Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2009
Mauro Molino, Barbera d'Alba 2009
Garda Chiaretto Rose
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Vineyard 10 White
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Pinot Gris, Columbia Valley 2009
L'Hortus, Rose de Saignee 2010
Maculan, Pino & Toi 2008
McKinley Springs, Bombing Range Red 2008
Trader Joe's Pinot Gris 2009
Montes Alpha, Cabernet 2007
Gran Sasso, Sangiovese, Terre di Chieti 2009
Garda, Classico Chiaretto Rose
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1999
Picos del Montgo, Tempranillo 2008
Chateau de Montmirail, Vacqueyras 2008
La Granja 360, Syrah 2009
Montgras, Carmenere Reserva 2009
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet 2008
Kirkland, Pinot Grigio 2010
Trader Joe's Coastal Syrah 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Merlot 2008
Trader Joe's Coastal Chardonnay 2009
Vieux Papes Red
Domaine de l'Aujardiere, Chardonnay 2009
Santa Rita, Cabernet, Medalla Real 2007
Penfold's, Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2008
Guild, Red, Lot #02 2008
Dievole, Dievolino Sangiovese 2008
Laforet, Burgogne Chardonnay 2009
Columbia Winery, Merlot 2007
Bonterra, Cabernet 2008
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2009
Maquis Lien 2006
Scott Paul, Pinot Noir, Le Paulee 2007
Cameron, Chardonnay
B.R. Cohn, Cabernet, Silver Label 2006
Graffigna, Cabernet 2005
Palo Alto, Reserve Red 2008
Menguante, Garnacha 2008
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Felsina Berardenga, Vin Santo 1997
Anne Amie, Pinot Gris 2009
McKinley Springs, Bombing Ramge Red 2007
Vieux Papes Red
Dionysius Chardonnay 2009
Haden Fig, Pinot Noir 2009
Vega Montan, Mencia 2008
Chateau la Vernede, Coteaux du Languedoc 2007
Mount Defiance, Hellfire (White) 2008
Root: 1, Cabernet 2008
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Pinot Grigio 2009
Columbia Crest, Two Vines, Vineyard 10 White, 2008
Columbia Crest, Two Vines, Vineyard 10 Rose, 2007
Abacela, Grenache Rose 2009
Avia Cabernet 2004
Lemelson Pinot Noir, Thea's Selection 2007
Chateau de la Roulerie, Rose d'Anjou 2009
Casal Garcia, Vinho Verde Rose
La Ferme Julien, Rose 2008
Cana's Feast, Bricco Red, 2006
Hogue, Genesis Merlot, 2008
Owen Roe, Sharecropper's Cabernet, 2008
Kim Crawford, Unoaked Chardonnay 2008
J. Scott, Pinot Noir 2008
Edmunds St. John, White, Heart of Gold 2008
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2006
Stevenot, Cabernet, Sierra Foothills, "Stanford" 2000
Portuga, Vinho Rose 2009
Taylor Fladgate, First Estate Reserve Porto
Franciscan, Cabernet, Napa 2006
Chaparral de Vega Sindoa, Garnacha 2008
Quinta da Aveleda, Vinho Verde 2008
St. Francis, Chardonnay Sonoma 2008
E. Guigal, Cotes du Rhone Blanc, 2007
Edmunds St. John, Bone-Jolly, Gamay Noir 2008
St. Innocent, Pinot Noir 2006
Jigsaw, Pinot Noir 2007
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Merlot, Indian Wells 2007
Charles Shaw, Chardonnay 2008
Edmunds St. John, Bone-Jolly, Gamay Rosé 2009
Cameron, Willamette Valley Chardonnay
Il Valore, Sangiovese, Giovane, Puglia 2008
Duck Pond, Chardonnay, Wahluke Slope 2007
Kim Crawford, Marlborough Pinot Noir 2008
Domaine du Pesquier, Cotes du Rhone 2005
Cantina Zaccagnini, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo 2006
Domaine Matrot, Chardonnay, Bourgogne 2007
David Hill, Oregon Sparkling Wine, Brut
Chandler Reach, Monte Regalo 2006
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2008
Kirkland, Columbia Valley Merlot 2008
D'Aragon, Old Vine Garnacha 2008
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2005
Pavin & Riley, Merlot 2006
David Hill, Estate Pinot Noir, Barrel Select 2006
Castle Rock, Paso Robles Cabernet 2006
Magnificent, Cabernet, Steak House 2008
Conundrum 2008
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1998
Saint Cosme, Cotes-du-Rhone 2007
La Granja, Tempranillo 360, 2008
Santa Rita, Mendalla Real Cabernet 2006
Columbia Crest, Grand Estates Merlot 2006
Andezon, Cotes-du-Rhone 2007
Collegiata, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo
Troon, Druid's Fluid 2008
La Granja, Tempranillo 2008
Monte Antico, Toscana 2006
Vieux Papes, Blanc de Blancs

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Jack London - The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
Jack Walker - The Extraordinary Rendition of Vincent Dellamaria
Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin
Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - The Nanny Diaries
Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
Keith Richards - Life
F. Sionil Jose - Dusk
Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting
Justin Halpern - S#*t My Dad Says
Mark Herrmann - The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law
Barry Glassner - The Gospel of Food
Phil Stanford - The Peyton-Allan Files
Jesse Katz - The Opposite Field
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
David Sedaris - Holidays on Ice
Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith
C.S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun
Penda Diakité - I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Grace Lin - The Year of the Rat
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
Jonathan Schwartz - All in Good Time
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Anthony Holden - Big Deal
Robert J. Spitzer - The Spirit of Leadership
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street
Jeff Noon - Vurt

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At this date last year: 50
Total run in 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269