Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 12, 2013

It looks like “Famous People Who Got Enough Sleep.” I don’t get it, though. Why does Caulfield’s essay have a computer-printed “Best By” date on it? Or, alternatively, what is that on which Caulfield’s essay is written? Sleepy minds want to know…

mrs. olsen is probably a hoarder. expired food in one of her many fridges. calenders from the 1970s. cassette tapes of lawrence welk, etc…

But I’m with others here, I’m not sure what Caufield was hoping to accomplish.

Many items don’t actually have an ‘expiration date’. And those that do, it’s sometimes actually a ‘best by’ date, not expiration. Some stuff just doesn’t go bad. Really. I used to work in supermarket management, and the reason some stuff even had a date was because it loses appearance. It doesn’t go bad. A big company has to have good appearances. That’s what it’s about.For years, many items never even had a date on them, at all. Many frozen foods still don’t. I can’t actually think of any frozen foods that go ‘bad’. They just get frost burned, which is an appearance issue. Spices never go ‘bad’ either, but now have expiration dates to help people throw them out for no reason and buy more. They DO lose flavor, but never actually go bad.Yet another gimmick to make you waste money.

I can see the back part of her glasses only a little bit.

Even when i don’t quite get it, this is still my favorite strip without a lead dog or cat. Boo hiss on the naysayers!

You know, Mrs. Olsen might be annoying and hard core, but she isn’t stupid. The cartoonist REALLY needs to expand… re-expand…his story lines to some of the previously used themes. Caulfied has been WAY overdone.

I do like the word “rancitude.” Think I’ll keep it.

We used to get milk from a locally owned drug store that would always be good long after the expiration date. The owners retired and sold out to a big chain, now we get the same brand of milk and it goes bad before the date. Why is that? It’s the same brand.

defunctdoormat: Proper wrapping and an absence of power outages lets frozen food last indefinitely. Remember the wooly mammoths. Before they discovered that scientists paid good money for specimens in the permafrost, Siberians were feeding them to their dogs to save money.

Frazz has a quite strange, no, rather weird interest in Mrs. Olsen’s trash. Who reads the expiration date of wrappings from a bin?

There are stores that sell best by canned goods. Wish I could find one!