{"id":261,"date":"2007-06-13T10:14:05","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T18:14:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:30","slug":"50-year-old-cough-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/06\/50-year-old-cough-drops","title":{"rendered":"Is It Okay To Eat 50 Year Old Cough Drops?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/inline\/pinebrothers.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"138\" alt=\"\" class=\"rightinlineborder\" \/>So after my <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/05\/desperately-seeking-pine-bros\">post<\/a> about the disappearance of Pine Bros. cough drops, <a href=\"http:\/\/profile.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&#038;friendid=65893400\">Freckles<\/a> discovered there was an <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=200117241364\">eBay auction<\/a> offering up one unopened box of the honey-flavored variety. The rub being that they were from a production run in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>I placed a bid of $6, won the auction, and my 50-year-old box of cough drops is now en route.  So the question is: what is the shelf life on an item like this and are they safe to eat?  If yes, I will eat them.  If no, I will just keep them as memorabilia.<\/p>\n<p>Any scientists out there in the audience?  What happens to honey and glycerin over the course of 50 years?  I have actually heard that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newton.dep.anl.gov\/askasci\/gen01\/gen01338.htm\">honey is the only food in the world that never spoils<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after my post about the disappearance of Pine Bros. cough drops, Freckles discovered there was an eBay auction offering up one unopened box of the honey-flavored variety. The rub being that they were from a production run in the 1950s. I placed a bid of $6, won the auction, and my 50-year-old box of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}