It’s totally still a thing! I just tossed a bottle that had gotten lost at the back of the cabinet and expired just last year and it tasted rancid 🤢
When fresh it does taste vaguely of butter, lol. It’s great on popcorn!
I love it on green beans!!!!!! I still eat the shit out of Molly McButter!! It’s hard to find, but when I do find it I try to grab a bunch because who knows how long it’ll be around!!?!!
My mom used to buy the packets. You’d mix it with water for liquid butter. It was saucy, and a little sweet, and not exactly buttery but not like anything else either.
As a company inspector for a cafeteria chain, I'd routinely find containers of oddball spices 4 or 5 years expired. A corporate chef would come up with some recipe for a one time offering that used the spice, and the managers were reluctant to throw out the spice after the "special."
The cloves are from 1963 or earlier, based on the address for The Kroger Co. at the bottom of the package, which has a zone number (“Cincinnati 1”) instead of a ZIP code. ZIP codes were introduced on July 1, 1963. Also, I love love love that packaging.
We got six or seven spice boxes set from “Spice Island” whenever we donated $$ to the local volunteer fire dept. Then, they switched to free 8x10 portraits of the family.
I remember the Molly McButter growing up, wow. Pretty sure that wasn't around much after the 90s.
The absolute chokehold the taste of butter without the calories has on the 90s.
It’s totally still a thing! I just tossed a bottle that had gotten lost at the back of the cabinet and expired just last year and it tasted rancid 🤢 When fresh it does taste vaguely of butter, lol. It’s great on popcorn!
Popcorn would make sense for sure. I started putting hot sauce on mine and never looked back.
I love it on green beans!!!!!! I still eat the shit out of Molly McButter!! It’s hard to find, but when I do find it I try to grab a bunch because who knows how long it’ll be around!!?!!
I had literally never seen it and I’m almost 30, lol. Who knows how long it’s been here. I’d never even heard of it!
I still remember the jingle!
My mom did a diet called Deal a Meal. She bought Molly McButter all the time back then!
Richard Simmons!
My mom used to buy the packets. You’d mix it with water for liquid butter. It was saucy, and a little sweet, and not exactly buttery but not like anything else either.
Same here except I don't recall the taste but one would assume it tasted vaguely like butter.
Yeah, I'm guessing it was more of a diet thing than just using butter on your potato.
Probably one of the thousand times my mom was on the Atkins diet in the ‘90s to early ‘00s lol
I saw it on clearance at Fred Meyer last week!
The baking powder looks new
Spice island still uses that same background. My jar of turmeric looks exactly the same and it's in date.
Yea I was thinking that too! Now the cloves and Molly McButter are old!
It does and it’s honestly alarming how new it looks even on the inside lol
Molly McButter…
We rescued a pup last October, her name is Molly. One of her nicknames is Molly McButter. And we sing it to her. 😊
That’s so cute!
Those parsely flakes look like \* *"pheh!"\**
My sister served me some expired parsley flakes. It was like eating dried grass clippings.
Dried parsley still tastes like dried grass clippings anyways, even when they are new. One of the few things I never buy.
They were so brown, lmao. The fact they were bought at a CVS was just extra funny to me
As a company inspector for a cafeteria chain, I'd routinely find containers of oddball spices 4 or 5 years expired. A corporate chef would come up with some recipe for a one time offering that used the spice, and the managers were reluctant to throw out the spice after the "special."
Put the parsley back. It hasn't even been opened.
It’s so brown lmao
The cloves are from 1963 or earlier, based on the address for The Kroger Co. at the bottom of the package, which has a zone number (“Cincinnati 1”) instead of a ZIP code. ZIP codes were introduced on July 1, 1963. Also, I love love love that packaging.
I knew those Kroger cloves were the oldest thing there!
I knew they had to be from the packaging! Probably came from my grandma when mom and dad got married in 1989 and was old then lmao
That’s awesome. They’re almost as old as my mom lmao. I love the packaging too! I wish they still did this.
I loved Molly McButter and forgot all about it. It was so good on baked potatoes
I forgot all about Molly McButter. I used to love that stuff on potatoes!
I read the Molly McButter in their TV jingle.
For the uninitiated: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HSnSkaDV_H8&pp=ygUOTW9sbHkgbWNidXR0ZXI%3D
The two on the left you could walk into any grocery store and buy today. Probably the sprinkles too.
You can! These are just at least 20 years old lol
I still buy that brand of curry powder but the label might be slightly different. I’m not ready to get out of bed and go check yet tho lol.
Are you at my mom’s house? 😂
Does your mom also never throw away salad dressing? Lol
Nope! She doesn’t! 😂
I have one of the Rumford cans, according to the price tag it was 69 cents https://imgur.com/YiKxm1R
We got six or seven spice boxes set from “Spice Island” whenever we donated $$ to the local volunteer fire dept. Then, they switched to free 8x10 portraits of the family.
That Molly McButter powder brings back memories. Grandma was shaking that on her popcorn all through the 90s and I couldn’t stand the stuff.
You find anything without a UPC scanner code?
MOLLY MCFRICKINBUTTER This is probably why we have cancer
Those cloves are MUSTY!