Our pasta goes bad 3 months earlier over here.

Funny, because well stored, they will never go bad.

It’s a matter of law. Even sugar has an expiration date.

Federico Valverde

They could just write 2024-08-11

Even the ancient salt from the Himalayas has it, it has something to do with the expiration of the packaging I think.

It is appreciated that they put two formats, one for Americans and the other for normal people.

And this is why I always write "DD/MMM/YYYY" (month with 3 letters) when multiple cultures imvolved or use the ISO standard YYYY-MM-DD (particularly useful for file names, as alphabetical order will have the dates in chronological order).

Never heard of MMM format. One can just write down the format used by the way, so it’s impossible to miss it.

>"Never heard of the MMM format".

01/Dec/2022. The month written with 3 letters. It's quite standard even before computers, and an option in systems and software such as Excel.

Oh idk why I thought like December = 012 🫠 my bad

What makes you so certain it's the "USA" format? They use both formats around the world.

Typical American citizen, think they invented everything.

Wikipedia states that today is in use in USA, Philippines and (partially) Canada. So as today, with all the respect for Philippines citizens, it’s basically the USA format

ISO 8601 format.

It's about liability. They don't have to guarantee that the product is safe after the date on the package. Doesn't mean it's gone bad, just that they can't be sued.

maybe the "(USA)" written behind it. did you even look at the picture?

Exactly

Maybe you should direct the question to the manufacturer

Strange that the bag is full of Hula-Hoops!

Company: prints expiry date as 11/AUG/2024 to avoid confusion

Americans: this pasta expires on November Augth

Such a stupid system it’s like reading the time M:H:S

This is why we use like 30-DEC-2022 (although I guess if you arent in the English speaking world thats not as informative.)

In USA there are not actual law that makes you put a date on it, manufacturer just put an "estimate".
Some countries have even voted to remove it all together.

Only for certain products, but I did’t understand when it will happen

I am not sure either, but I believe it had to do with these kind of product, where it just does not matter, like canned food and air sealed coffee grounds and stuff like that.

Probably so the pasta can also be sold in Canada.

Canada has very specific food labeling laws and the dare format they are quite particular about.

Of course I looked at it! The acronym "USA" did not say format. Everyone is simply implying it meant that.