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cream, once it's been opened?    • d   • 6  I feel like this is
one of those products, like milk or eggs, that pretty much stay
good, regardless of the date on the package, until, well, it
goes bad, and you can tell. But with the sourness natural to
sour cream, I'm wondering if I'm being too cavalier about the
subject.  Right now I have a container of sour cream in the
fridge that's been open about two weeks. It tastes okay, and
doesn't expire until April 10th. But I'm wondering how that
expiration date is affected once you've opened the product.
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1. In our house, unless it's looks like a cure for a disease (or
smells like it) it's good to go!      I'm sure your sour cream
is fine. It will probably be good for at least a week or two
after the expiration date, imho.      1. This is what Wikipedia
(my source for everything) says:        Sour cream may be
refrigerated in its container for