copperbadge:

sugar-crash31 replied to your photo “You guys, I will never…”

That’s hella illegal over this side of the pond…

overzelos replied to your photo “You guys, I will never…”

Wouldn’t they be violating some sort of bylaw or something if they’re selling merchandise that’s been expired for 12 years?

I’m pretty sure it’s SUPER ILLEGAL, but this is Chicago, legality is kind of…flexible here. There’s a running joke on the Chicago reddit that you can tell which restaurant owner hasn’t paid off their Alderman by who fails their health inspection. 😀 And I mean, if you walk into a minigrocery as creepy as this one is, you know you’re…taking some chances. 

I’m guessing that either they have just had them on the shelf that long because nobody shopping in what amounts to “The Wine ‘N Potato Chips Mart” buys chocolate-covered almonds, or they bought a consignment of food some other, larger grocery no longer wanted, and didn’t check expiration dates. 

archwrites replied to your photo “You guys, I will never…”

Those almonds are probably the same age as some of your followers

owl-librarian
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Are you still gonna eat the almonds? Or (scary but possibly hilarious option) go back to the scary Bodega and return them?

I love that most of the comments are torn between “I know a self-aware living being younger than your chocolate-covered almonds” and “So…you’re gonna eat them, right?” 

a) If you are following me and you are 12 or younger, don’t tell me, I don’t want to know, and also oh my god don’t use me as a role model, be better than me.

b) I feel like I should eat them, but no, I am going to write off that $2 bag of nuts. The reason I checked the expiration date was that the almonds tasted…inexplicably old. They tasted of age. Nuts of ages.  

wordsandshadows
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maybe the Creepy Bodega is a TIME-TRAVELLIN Creepy Bodega. or possibly just stuck in 2004, that would be quite creepy.

TIME TRAVELING BODEGA is my favourite explanation to date of how nuts from 2004 are still for sale in 2016. I mean if you’re going to time travel, do it in a bodega, they stock the kind of thing you will need in an emergency.