Best laid plans II

The WST Ministers office has the latest in the Ministers planed trip to the North Coast. A small plane has been found, so the trip is back to two days, first up the coast with overnight in Hopedale, then next day to Natuashish and overnight in Nain.

CBC HV-GB morning show had an interesting little piece this AM. A gentleman in GB had discovered that his favorite pop, Diet Pepsi, purchased at a certain store did not have best before date stamped on it as required. Said gentleman was sure that the pop he was drinking was old stock. So a reporter and the gentleman had a blind taste test, a known date Diet Pepsi and one with no date stamp,the guy picked out the older pop quite easy.
The story was more involved than that, but the bottom line was that expired Diet Pepsi was being sold in HV-GB.
I got a chuckle out of that sure. Living in a remote community there is more than out of date Diet Pepsi to be wary of.
But just for the lark I checked the bottom of the four cans of diet 7up I purchased from Northern this morning. Would you believe it said DE 25 06. So I checked the cans of Coke that Fran purchased from Northern. No date stamp, just the date the can was made, which is similar to the problem the guy had in Goose Bay.

Some people would speculate that “well, the stock was brought in on the last boats of 2005”.
I would say to these speculators, “no, this stock did not come in on the boat last year. Northern ran out of all sorts of supplies including all pop. This out of date stock has been flown into Nain, most likely in the last couple of months”.
Northern also has out of date deli meats in their coolers, best before June 14 on one three pack sub meats. Some flavored cream cheese has best before Dec 27.
No sales to get rid of stock before expiry, no warnings.
I could go on, but why bust my arse. Eh?