Timeline for For what culinary reason, if any, would a product list wildly different "use by dates" in different languages?
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| Nov 8, 2023 at 9:51 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Oddly, though my google images search found a UK label with 2 weeks… an actual jar in the supermarket says 4 weeks. So, I'm still really no wiser. | |
| Nov 7, 2023 at 21:23 | answer | added | Nzall | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 7, 2023 at 20:56 | comment | added | quarague | Not a native speaker but the French seems grammatically very akward to me, so maybe a very low quality translation transformed 'twee' into a 4. | |
| Nov 7, 2023 at 11:41 | history | edited | moscafj | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 7, 2023 at 7:52 | comment | added | Nzall | I mentioned this in a Dutch/Belgian tech discord, and one of the members just so happened to be meeting with the Belgian "Federal Agency for Food Safety" today (Tuesday 7th of November). I'll post an update when I hear back from him. | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 21:01 | comment | added | The Photon | @Nzall they might still have cut & pasted from the Dutch and French versions of the label. Or determined that Flemish people are more sensitive to off flavors than Wallonians. Or just did sloppy work... | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 20:31 | comment | added | Nzall | @Tetsujin From what I understand this is a product specifically for the Belgian market, and I don't think Wallonia and Flanders have different food safety laws because that's handled by a federal agency. | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 19:18 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Different local laws. It's not actually going to go off faster in the Netherlands than France. That looks like Lee Kum Kee. UK instructions also give it two weeks. In practise it's good for two months so long as you don't put a contaminated spoon in it… lawyer CYA in action. | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 18:59 | history | asked | Nzall | CC BY-SA 4.0 |