Past Pull

Day 67: "I know I've got some dark Karo in the back of the cupboard," I said, visions of sugarplums...well, of pecan pie for Christmas dessert, anyway...dancing in my head. I started dragging out containers of olive oil, vinegar, molasses, soy sauce...cat...shortening...cat...cooking spray, maple syrup...cat...and then I could see the Karo, two bottles (one large and one small) of white, one of dark. Aha! I extracted Cat one more time and pulled out the dark. It was stuck to the shelf liner, but it came free with relative ease. "Does this stuff ever go bad?" I wondered, and then I looked at the pull date: 1984. Ooops. Both bottles of white were almost as old, so the whole shebang went in the garbage without further ado. I'm still going to make a pecan pie, but I'll be opening a brand-new bottle of Karo for the occasion.