1. hamburger buns
2. picnic
3. lost crunch
4. one of the worst offenders
5. groceries
6. the path between…
7. stalk
8. gauge
9. adopted a system
10. indicating optimum freshness
11. vague metric
12. shelf-stable groceries
13. taste stale
14. bulging or rusting
15. food poisoning
16. indefinitely
17. slimy
18. deli meats
19. unpasteurised
20. pathogenic bacteria
21. formula
22. the vast majority
23. standardized majority
24. at a federal level
25. incentivizing
26. fit for consumption or the compost bin