I called the manufacturer to ask about date stamping on the package. I couldn’t find it - and rightly so, for it seems they don’t date code that product.

“How do people know if the fish is still good?”, I asked the representative. She told me that people usually eat it right away and the question has never come up.

All I knew was that this item was more than one and possibly more than two years old. I threw it away.

(jarred gefilte fish is a really odd phenomenon amongst the gefilte fish eating population. It’s a $6 bottle of ground, seasoned and poached pike and whitefish. Much better when made from fresh fish but quite a production though nowadays you can get a frozen loaf of fish and cook it yourself.)