Would you eat it?

sniff it and if it smells Ok eat it, or try it on the cat! if the cat turns his/her nose up then chuck it. (not the cat - the food)

I'd go for B which is how I approach my homemade jams and chutneys which obviously don't come with dates.

Thanks for answering everyone..

I think I will eat it and give a few jars to friends to use up the quantity, I will tell them it is out-of-date..

I agree B,these things go on for ever. Could you put it in smaller jars and give some away,and if so would you tell friends and family it was a little out of date?

Definitely B - it's a "preserve" which says it all

I've never come across chutney in a container that'd big. Is it homemade? What sort of a tub is it?

Nobody alive to say otherwise, Vampirequeen.

Boil it up and put it in sterilized small jars.

I would eat it, but if it is in one BIG jar, perhaps once you have opened it, decant it into some smaller ones? (Properly sterilised, of course)

Definitely B. Chutney lasts forever (well OK maybe a slight exaggeration lol).

I am still eating chutney I made in 2008 without any harmful effects.

B every time! (Scrape off any green bits and make sure nobody can see the best-by date!)

I would go for B and after a few days swap to C. With Chutney the date is often set by the quality deteriorating rather than it going off.

We had a similar experience with my marrow chutney, jane. We were still eating it seven years later. I quite miss it now it's all gone.

B because it will be fine.

POGS it will be fine. There's so much sugar and acid in chutney that no bacteria could possibly survive.
I made some green tomato chutney once. It took us 10 years to eat it all.