Curious

[simont]

I just popped into my local shop, ten minutes before it shut, to buy some milk for tomorrow's breakfast. Some of the plastic milk bottles were stamped with a best-before date of ‘21 OCT’, and some with ‘23 OCT’. So far, so unremarkable; but to the right of those groups were some bottles stamped ‘22A OCT’. Huh?

Comments

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's like 'room 12A' in hotels; someone at the milk plant has a superstition about the number 23 :)

[simont]

I did momentarily wonder that, but there were bottles labelled 23 right next to the 22As!