Use it or Lose it.

Here is the scene: breakfast table, Mountain Dew, a napkin serving as a plate, and the cupcake package. Gotta read something – but I’ve been examining the Dew ingredients list for a quarter of a century. Or more.

On the cupcake package it says, “Best if used by December 20, 2010.”

Used?

I said to myself, mouth full of cake, “what will I use it for?” What do they mean, “use” the cake? Isn’t it made to be eaten? Are they interchangable terms? “What are you doing for the holidays? Wanna come over and use some dinner?”

It does sound a little awkward to print on the label, “Best eaten by…,” but they could have gone with another tack, like “fresh through December…”

In trying to think up uses for the tasty cakes, I came up with nothing I can list here…but I’m thinking about lunch already.

Might use a burger.