best before date
best before date
The date by which an item should be eaten so that it is optimally tasty or fresh. Does this taste a bit off to you? I wonder if its best before date came and went. Produce that's past its best before date is often still perfectly safe to eat.
See also: before, date
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- double date
- to date
- heavy date
- name the day
- out of date
- drop-dead date
- have passed (someone's or something's) sell-by date
- have passed your sell-by date
- sell-by date
- Can I see you again?