Quotes About Shelf-life

In Iceland, book lives matter in every sense of that phrase: The shelf-life of the book, the lives in the book, the life of the writer, and the life of the reader.

How long do you stay fresh in that can?

Though it was composed of shortening, corn syrup, colourings and other unwholesome ingredients, with a shelf-life so long it became the punchline of many jokes, for many the Twinkie was the taste of childhood. It was Proust's madeleine for the junk-food generation.

Natick Labs and precursor the Quartermaster Subsistence Research Laboratory have extended shelf lives to near immortality. They currently make a sandwich that keeps for three years.

And it is a good thing that many ideas have a relatively short shelf-life. Some because they are bad, even pernicious ideas: the Master Race, the class struggle, the Oedipus complex, and Socialism are four bad ideas with wretched consequences that come immediately to mind.

Face powder and powder eye shadow: Two years • Eyeliner: Two years • Mascara: Six months

The reason some of the unhealthiest foods are marketed is one of simple economics: Real food goes bad. 751 Fruits and vegetables are perishable. What shareholders want is a snack cake that lasts for weeks on the shelf.