PrintLearn Secret Product Codes, Avoid Stale Candy
M&Ms and Mars candy: There's usually a 10-digit code of numbers and letters, but you only need to worry about the first three. The first number is the last number in the year ... and the next two numbers stand for the week of the year (... 804 would be the fourth week of 2008: February 2008).
Hershey's: There's a 2-character code for the month and year. The year is like the other code, with the number being the last number in the year, the second character is a letter that represents the month. A = January, B = February, and so on. So a code like 9A would mean ... January 2009.
And be sure to visit your dentist in 8J.
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5 Comments:
804 might actually be January 2008, as the fourth week of the year falls in January. Either way, it seems that expiration dates for chocolate candy rarely come into play. How many people leave chocolate around long enough to worry about expiration dates? (Okay, I know there must be a few instances in the annals of candy history, but surely they are few and far between!) :)
MelsDiner at 6:52AM on 04/11/08
I bought a case of Heath bars at Christmas with an expiration date of August 2008. From World of Candy, through Amazon. They are inedible. I'll give them credit.......they returned my money, but I'd like to know why they taste so terrible. I love that candy. I put them in the freezer, hoping that might kill whatever was fouling them, but no difference. I even considered that they could be counterfeits, but that seems implausible. Anyway, any ideas anyone?
PerkyMac at 10:58AM on 04/11/08
@PerkyMac - Maybe you could contact the manufacturer of Heath bars and see if the production codes on your candy are legitimate. That might nail down whether they're real, and if they're not, will alert the company that people are making money off of their name and sullying their reputation by putting bad products with the Heath name out there.
Is it the chocolate or the brickle that has an off taste?
MelsDiner at 11:28AM on 04/11/08
ha interesting
pinay at 11:03PM on 04/11/08
I am so glad you have given us this information! I read it and immediately ran to the cupboard to look at the codes on my 2 packages of fun-size M&M's. One was made the 40th week of 2007, and the other was just made this year.
I'm always bummed out with stale M&M's, so now I know how to avoid buying them.
Thanks!
puppymomma at 7:51AM on 04/12/08