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idunnololz OP ,
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I looked around the packaging for other clues as suggested by another Lemming but I didn’t find anything. In fact I found the same thing printed on the front.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/43c71086-d69b-4934-8f86-98bacb1fe48c.jpeg

Speculater ,
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On a Chinese food package, “Best Before LJ349” typically refers to the expiration date, although the code “LJ349” doesn’t follow a standard date format. In this context, “LJ349” is likely a batch code or internal reference used by the manufacturer. The manufacturer uses this code to track production specifics, such as the location or production line and date.

Jrockwar ,

Thanks GPT, very useful

Speculater ,
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I thought it was helpful in the sense that there’s likely no way to relate the date code.

Confused_Emus , (edited )

I mean, you could have just said that instead of the unhelpful bullshit GPT apparently put out. Or just not commented at all if you didn’t actually have anything helpful to add.

Speculater ,
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Meh, I thought it was useful, maybe next time I should attribute GPT. No need to get bent up over it. It did attempt to give extra information that wasn’t in the thread at the time.

zammy95 ,

It’s Japanese not Mandarin too. I see うなぎ - unagi, which is definitely Hiragana

Edit: Now that I think about it though, Unagi is written in katakana I think? ウナギ, so maybe it is Chinese and they just poorly tried to translate

Aatube , (edited )

It's not a loan word so it's written in Hiragana.

That said, OP's screenshot has some culinary instructions written in Traditional Cantonese (so probably Macau), so I think it's Chinese.

zammy95 ,

Ah, fair! I only very recently started learning some Japanese, so beyond hiragana and katakana, I recognize basically nothing. I absolutely wouldn’t be able to recognize the others as Cantonese!

SuperRecording ,

Julian date format, Dec 14th (349th day of the year)

The LJ prefix is some manufacturer code, not relevant to exp date

jnplch ,

Maybe it’s “Lichtjahr”? So as long as you stay within 3*10^15km of earth you should be fine 👍

tourist ,
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nom the chinese eels, op

vk6flab ,
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It means:

“Take it back to the retailer and get your money back.”

Or:

“Eat me for a personal food poisoning experience.”

Take your pick…

Usernamealreadyinuse ,

OP! Can you please let us know:

  1. If you found more clues?
  2. Decided to eat it? And if so, how you are doing!?!

Thanks!!

RvTV95XBeo ,

I mean, it’s frozen, so the best before date is pretty loose at best anyways

idunnololz OP ,
@idunnololz@lemmy.world avatar

I bought it today and I’m not planning to eat it for a few days. I can only hope/assume it’s still good.

GeneralTeetius01 ,

Looks like a Julian date. 349 would reference the 349th day of the year. So assuming this year 2024, it would be best by December 14. Normally it would have the year at the end of the 3 digits (3494) for BB Dec 14 2024. Best guess I have. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

TowardsTheFuture ,

Stands for “Alan please add best by date”

isles ,

This may be No Stupid Questions, but there sure are a lot of stupid answers.

toxicbubble ,

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    lugal ,

    That’s pretty soon

    harrys_balzac ,

    Would LJ be the year code and 349 the Julian date?

    JackbyDev ,

    Ooh maybe?

    harrys_balzac ,

    Where I work, we use a date like that. The only difference is the letters are at the end.

    Aux ,

    “Best Before” doesn’t mean anything. Only “Use By” is an indicator of expired food.

    Hugh_Jeggs ,

    It says “meilleur avant” so I think LJ is “Lundi-Jeudi”

    idunnololz OP ,
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    wat

    Decency8401 ,
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    I think it’s french for Monday-Thursday.

    slazer2au ,

    Do you plan to take a flight at some stage?

    AFKBRBChocolate ,

    Chinese dates have two word years that equate to animals (see the options on this date converter), but they don’t have an ‘L’ sound, so none of them are going to start with that. No clue unless it’s a typo.

    Aatube ,

    Only the second word is an animal. The first word is a quantifier from the Chinese words for thing A, B, C, D and E. So whereas you might say "Person A buys 32 watermelons" in a word problem, the chinese would say "Jia buys 32 watermelons". Most word problems use saner names nowadays, though.

    Zier ,
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    L is probably the factory code
    J could be the number 9, if A=0, so the last digit of the year.
    So a guess would be Dec 14th 2029. Which seems like a long way off.
    Unless A=1, that means J=0, so 2020 and it's expired, but maybe 2030.

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