Smoking Goose Slow cured and smoked meats, salumi, and sausages Handmade in Indianapolis since 2011 Packed-on dates All Smoking Goose products are marked with a packed on date. whole pieces are marked with a 6 digit date. Example: 00/00/00 retail packages are marked with a three-digit Julian date. (Look for either a label-gun white sticker with three digits or the first three digits of a series of numbers printed in blue-ish ink.) Julian dates are based on 365 days in the year. for Example: 001 is January 1st and 365 is December 31st Best-By Dates To calculate each product’s best-by date, use the chart below. Product category Best-By date Fully Cooked: Whole, unsliced pieces of 45 days whole Mortadella, Capocollo, salame after packed-on date Cotto, Terrines, City Ham, smoked Turkey breast, Tasso Fully cooked: Retail packages of sliced Deli Meats, 28 days sliced Terrines, smoked Pork Chops after packed-on date Bacons: Jowl bacon, Applewood Bacon (slab 45 days Retail packages and sliced retail packages) after packed-on date and slab Smoked All Smoked Sausages 35 days Sausages after packed-on date Fermented Gin & Juice, Fireball, Lomo, 180 days and Dry Cured Dodge City (whole and sliced), after packed-on date Duck Prosciutto, ‘Nduja, Pancetta Tesa, etc. Check out examples ➔ Examples a piece of Stagberry salame has a date-gun sticker marked with 059 Since Stagberry Salame is in the Fermented/Dry Cured category, add 180 to 059 to get 239. This is the Julian best by date: 239 is August 27. online calendar link: https://www.calendar- 365.com/day- numbers/2021.html a whole piece of Rabbit Terrine is marked with a packed-on date of 03/17/21. Since that is a whole piece of Fully Cooked product, its best-by date is 45 days after 03/17/21 which is 05/1/21. Questions? Contact us. we’re happy to help! 317-638-6328 [email protected] smokinggoose.com .