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xiphiasLook. Lots of foods really have indefinite shelf-lives. Plenty of stuff is good forever, as long as it doesn't get wet, and bugs don't get into it.
Things in cans, for instance. If they were canned properly, they're good for CENTURIES. Pasta -- dried pasta doesn't age: it was developed to be a long-lasting food source. As was flour. People found honey that was buried with Pharaohs that was perfectly good.
So, I don't see what's so weird about the box of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese that said "Best by December '03." Or maybe '02; I didn't look that carefully. So the orange color had faded to a dingy orange-ish brown. It was still perfectly wholesome. And we've got three more boxes of the stuff.
I'm not sure about the Annie's Shells and Cheddar of the same vintage, though -- that stuff is natural and organic and stuff, and therefore might have actual, y'know, ingredients in it.
Things in cans, for instance. If they were canned properly, they're good for CENTURIES. Pasta -- dried pasta doesn't age: it was developed to be a long-lasting food source. As was flour. People found honey that was buried with Pharaohs that was perfectly good.
So, I don't see what's so weird about the box of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese that said "Best by December '03." Or maybe '02; I didn't look that carefully. So the orange color had faded to a dingy orange-ish brown. It was still perfectly wholesome. And we've got three more boxes of the stuff.
I'm not sure about the Annie's Shells and Cheddar of the same vintage, though -- that stuff is natural and organic and stuff, and therefore might have actual, y'know, ingredients in it.