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bladesparkMy box of grape nuts has an expiration date. It expires in about a week, in fact. And this makes me wonder... what happens when grape nuts go bad? It's not like they can go stale! And they're not going to grow mold, or "turn" or any of that. Why do they even have expiration dates?
Really expiration dates don't always mean much. I mean on thinks like milk, or ground beef or whatever, sure. You can probably use them just fine for a day or two past the date, maybe a week on some things, but yes they do expire pretty close to the date on them. But canned goods are actually good WAY past when they expire, usually. I've used a tin of sweetened condensed milk that was about three years expired, and I couldn't detect anything wrong with it. And if any cereal type thing is sealed up still, it's good long past the expiration as well.
But I think grape nuts, sealed or unsealed, are forever. Seriously.
Really expiration dates don't always mean much. I mean on thinks like milk, or ground beef or whatever, sure. You can probably use them just fine for a day or two past the date, maybe a week on some things, but yes they do expire pretty close to the date on them. But canned goods are actually good WAY past when they expire, usually. I've used a tin of sweetened condensed milk that was about three years expired, and I couldn't detect anything wrong with it. And if any cereal type thing is sealed up still, it's good long past the expiration as well.
But I think grape nuts, sealed or unsealed, are forever. Seriously.
