... why, if honey cannot spoil there is a best before date on the jar?

And why, after all these years, shoe manufacturers haven't worked out a better design for their boxes so that they are easier to wrap in jolly Christmas paper and fill with gifts to send to Blytheswood/Operation Christmas Child or whoever?  Rather than toys concealed in the insole of the shoe or such like, perhaps they could pre-print the boxes with robins or holly?!  I know you don't have to wrapthe boxes - but have you ever seen one that wasn't?  If anyone from Clark's or the like is reading... ;-)