Cheers

About 6 weeks ago, the president of our company dropped off a platter of sushi to our department and after hours a bunch of us gathered around to partake. Someone even had a bottle of sake (rice wine) and another person unveiled a case of premium beer. The beer was none other than Yebisu, a coveted brand of beer often reserved for gift-giving events, so most likely we received it at some point from a customer (my guess is an airline considering all the overseas business travel). There were only 10 of us and about 20 cans of beer, not to mention the sake, but it would have been decidedly uncouth to get smashed, even after hours, in the office; in Japan, "office parties" are always held off-premises.

Anyway, the end result was that after less than an hour, people had finished a few paper cupfuls of beer and slowly went back to their desks to finish their work for the day. The remaining 15 cans were put in the refrigerator. The problem is that no one has authorization to break them out again without a very good excuse, so people have done their best to just put those beers out of mind. But for those of us who put our lunch in the fridge every morning, and line up for the microwave at noon, those beer cans have become something of a table topic. This has now been compounded by the fact that our Section Chief brought back a bag of spicy cashew mix from Sri Lanka last week. Now as some of us munch on cashews at our desks in the late afternoon, the Ceylon tea just doesn't seem to cut it. In the back of our minds, we know that beer would be the perfect companion to those cashews, and must try to resist the urge to cough "Yebisu" as we clear our throats and take another sip of tea, trying to come up with some excuse why we should drink those beers.
Hmmm, anyone know a method to change the Best Before date on a beer can?