What number is supposed to be here?
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Best before date is not a used by date. You can eat something well after a best before date, it just might not be exactly the same as something “fresh”, but still edible. Used by is when there’s a chance for harm.
My vote is “3” even though it doesn’t match the 3 above it.
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The BBD year is 2026 and you've already opened the can. Man, if we were roommates and you'd called me downstairs for this...
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I’d say 3
and the 3 that is there is missing a three pixel vertical slice on its left side
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Best before date is not a used by date. You can eat something well after a best before date, it just might not be exactly the same as something “fresh”, but still edible. Used by is when there’s a chance for harm.
My vote is “3” even though it doesn’t match the 3 above it.
My vote is to taste and smell the fucking thing. This is what every chef in every kitchen you eat at has always done. That will tell you if it's edible. BBD is a suggestion, so a few months out of date means wildly different things if it's been kept at an average of 20c or 30c.
I've tasted shit that was 5 years past BBD. Didn't taste good, but didn't cause any harm. Trust your taste and smell to tell you what's bad. Evolution spent millions of years tuning your senses.
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2 could match if the digit in question is missing dots within the visible columns, and 3 could match if the existing example is missing a leftmost column.
wrote last edited by [email protected]2 doesn't match because the top leftmost dot shouldn't be there. If it's shifted by a column, then the bottom leftmost dot shouldn't be there, and the spacing isn't quite right, either.
3 doesn't match because the other example of a 3 doesn't have a dot in the bottom leftmost dot that's printed.
Or the whole thing is a misprint, in which case I don't think we can even figure it out.
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I say 5. Look at the 3 at the top. It has a flat bottom, while the one you want to know does not.
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The BBD year is 2026 and you've already opened the can. Man, if we were roommates and you'd called me downstairs for this...
...I'd hope you'd be just as curious as me as to the mystery digit!
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...I'd hope you'd be just as curious as me as to the mystery digit!
Pass the joint and
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I'm convinced. I'm team 3.
Actually now I am too. The digits all seem to be normally 5 dots wide.
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My vote is to taste and smell the fucking thing. This is what every chef in every kitchen you eat at has always done. That will tell you if it's edible. BBD is a suggestion, so a few months out of date means wildly different things if it's been kept at an average of 20c or 30c.
I've tasted shit that was 5 years past BBD. Didn't taste good, but didn't cause any harm. Trust your taste and smell to tell you what's bad. Evolution spent millions of years tuning your senses.
I agree with both of you
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Those printers have small heads and print (in this case) left to right. Most likely it is not missing dots in the same column, which discards the chance of a 5. I would say it is a 3.
If you bought more than one can, check the other ones, as most likely they are from the same batch.
From another angle: who cares! You ate it already, and the BBD year is 2026
who cares!
Well, me
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5 or 9, neither of which show up otherwise, so we can't be quite sure which one matches.
1, 4, and 7 can be thrown right out as the dots just wouldn't line up that way. 0, 2, 3, 6, and 8 have other examples in the image that don't match the dot pattern.
9 wouldn't have a flat top
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who cares!
Well, me
You care whether something you already ate would have expired 7 months vs 9 months later?
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I’d say two. Look at the two to right of it the pixels match
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I would guess a number between 0 and 9
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I’d say two. Look at the two to right of it the pixels match
But another 2 Pixels would be missing. The 7 above seems to show that the first two rows of those digits were printed completely.
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You care whether something you already ate would have expired 7 months vs 9 months later?
From the other comments it seems to me that OP doesn't care about the BBD, but just about figuring out which digit it is. For fun, I guess.
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2 or 5. If I had to guess, it would be 2
1: no
2: Possibly
3: no
4: no - no examples, but I don't think any format would have the 2 dots at the bottom left corner
5: Possibly - no examples though
6: no
7: No
8: no
9: No - no examples, but same reason as 4 -
2 or 5. If I had to guess, it would be 2
1: no
2: Possibly
3: no
4: no - no examples, but I don't think any format would have the 2 dots at the bottom left corner
5: Possibly - no examples though
6: no
7: No
8: no
9: No - no examples, but same reason as 4wrote last edited by [email protected]The 2 doesn't have a flat top. I say 5.
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I would guess a number between 0 and 9
I can narrow that down to 1 and 9, because it's definitely not the month of nontober
