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One customer would discover the gospel of leftovers that didn’t go stale for several days, and that customer would sell more containers to friends in exchange for a commission.

But Fuscaldo, who wrote her doctoral thesis on the erasure of women from Brazil’s music history, believes de França’s suppression back then is what makes her appealing today: Her unique style didn’t go stale.

The only problem that I would run into is that my Cascadian Farm Organic Graham Crunch Cereal would go stale, because I'm the only one at my house that eats it.

Did you worry the song might go stale if you held it back too long?

For you, it may be a bag of snacks you can't make a dent in before they go stale.