On 2nd November, I felt a little lazy and opted to buy a loaf of bread
rather than spend a few hours following bread recipes on YouTube. I developed
this risky habit when I bought the double grill pan, and man can it do
anything. The risk is that sometimes the outcome isn't as expected. Which
mostly leads to a waste of ingredients and time. However, I can proudly say I'm
a self-made cook.
Anyway, I bought the 800g Kipchimatt white bread. With the
size, I knew that my family and I were set for at least 3 days. That meant no
impulse baking on my part. Yippie! On the 3rd of November, well, we opened the
bread for breakfast. The label indicated that the bread was to expire on the 5th
of November. That is pretty standard for all loaves of bread.
Considering the dates, I expected to unwrap a delicious fresh loaf of bread.
However, the bread had a weird rotting smell from afar. I got a little
suspicious. I rechecked the expiry date and since it was the 5th I concluded
that I was wrong and proceeded to fill my belly with the said bread.
Here is where my body convulsed and almost spewed all my organs out. For
breakfast on the 4th, we were to have the same bread. Tea was ready and bread
was on the table. I removed 4 slices ready to mince away but
was stopped by the same odor from yesterday. I took a pause and inspected the
bread, and this is what I found.
The expiry date hadn't even passed yet, and my bread was already moldy. That
marked the end of breakfast for my house, and probably the last Kipchimatt
bread I'll ever buy. Now begs the question, when did the bread actually expire?
As per my calculation, the bread expired way before the 2nd. The supermarket
only changed the expiry dates to keep the product moving.
I have bought loaves of bread before
my self-made cooking days, and bread was edible even a day past the expiry
date. We all have done this, but Kipchimatt has decided to sell us bread way
past the one-day grace period.
I won't urge you not to buy Kipchimatt bread any longer, I'll, however, ask
you to beware of what you might be buying.
