Found in the fridge...

Best before, or use by, these are always confusing best before is what it says, it is best before that daet but can be used after the date.Use by is a different matter it should be used by that date I think I am correct if not I am sure I will be corrected.

I'm not sure if I would eat them or not - probably not, although I think it's probably safe if they are very well cooked.

Eloethan, toxins are not destroyed by cooking, only the bugs that produce them.

I would eat meat after its use-by date, if it still smelled and looked all right, but I would NEVER use sausages.
Botulism is not something to take lightly, in extreme cases people have died of it in the time between the first symptoms appearing and the ambulance arriving at a hospital.

No i personally wouldn't risk it

Ciok and eat , sell by dates are for idiots who can’t use their eyes, their noses and their common sense.

Cook

EAT THEM

Gonegirl. I'm always too scared to eat things that are more than one day past. Annoys me so much as I know we used to eat old stuff years ago.....

If they smell OK, and look OK, eat them and enjoy.

I am very susceptible to food poisoning but I find I can safely ignore use by dates. If the sausages smell all right and look edible they will be fine. Just cook them thoroughly.

Amazed how many people think smelling something will detect the bugs that cause food poisoning. I had bad food poisoning many years ago, from a packet of liver sausage that smelt, looked and tasted perfectly normal. I don’t think food had dates on it then.

Grandma70s I am in total agreement with you.
Remember the butcher John Barr in Wishaw, Lanarks in 1996 and the funeral wake? I think the ham sandwiches had been prepared in advance and were left out on the tables. 21 mourners died. It was the worst outbreak of E coli poisoning in history.
Those people, many were old and frail, would not have eaten them if they had smelled or tasted bad. Would they.
I know it's not the same as eating a pack of sausages but it was events such as Wishaw which made us wake up to food safety concerns.

We never used to have dates on things. We used our nose and our eyes. They have been in fridge. You say they smell ok. Person who had son who got ill admits they had not been in fridge. I am sure they are ok.. Do as we used to... People are to ready to throw good food away.
Even supermarkets give out of date food to food banks. The date is a very rough guide...it is not set in stone....

No they don't give out of date food to food banks. We collect from Tesco and Costco for our community meal and food banks and for the emergency housing. It will have "best before" or "use by" and it will be in date when we pick it up.

Use your common sense if they look and smell fine cook them well and eat them.I work in a supermarket and the amount of food wasted because it has gone past it's sell by date is criminal.The worse thing the food industry did was bring in sell by and use by dates.

I’ve just eaten a sausage that I cooked 10 days ago! Looked and smelled ok, so I went for it. So far, so good....

Well put....sell and use by dates are much over rated and the cause of the tons of perfectly good food wasted annually. If it smells and looks fine...cook well and eat it every time! I always do and never poisoned either myself or my family. The only things I discard are bread...which goes to the birds and creams and yogurts ….. moulds etc go deep in these...

After wanting to die years ago with food poisoning eating a pre cooked portion of chicken which in fairness was reduced but had that day use by date on it, from a well known supermarket I will never eat meat over the use by date again. I always over cook poultry since then. Anything other than meat though if looks and smells ok then it's alright. I remember when in my teens and lived at home, cutting the ends off the cheese that had green and white bits growing on it. I survived.

sharon103 you are quite right. Meat is a no no. And fish.
Other food obviously you use your common sense. I grow veg in a community garden and sell it. If it looks wilted people think it's bad but they happily buy crisp tasteless lettuces from a supermarket.

annep1
Are you saying that I would not do 'that', whatever 'that' means (eat 4 day old sausages?) or are you saying that you would not do that (eat cream or cream-cheese past it's sell by date. The meaning is unclear.

Cheese is fine with the rind cut off . Even with it on it's ok to eat. I'm still here and have never had food poisoning or an upset stomach but then, I don't eat meat, processed meat, fowl, game, shellfish or any fish other than plain cod fillets.

Cheese is a lot safer to take risks with than sausages. Cooked rice is another one that can kill if left out a few hours and not many people realise.

This reminds me of the Fawlty Towers episode with the sausages, vomiting cat and the food inspector!
Baaaasssssiill

Avoiding meat is not a protection against food poisoning. In 2011, in Germany, 53 people died and thousands were seriously ill in an outbreak of food poisoning caused by organic sprouted seeds contaminated with a nasty type of E. coli . Cheese, particularly soft, unpasteurised types, can cause listeriosis, another potential killer.