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Well, my goodness, he ate a whole bowlful and he didn't get sick; he didn't die; he didn't notice anything strange about the taste? I'd have to say that cereal was still good.
If it had an expiration date, it would have been prudent to look at it BEFORE eating it rather than after.
I'd like to see the register tape showing the purchase.
Yeah I would wonder about this. I doubt the pricing and checkout system is really exactly the same it was in 1997 - there is virtually no way it was sitting on a shelf for 20 years. So if this were true, the next possibility is that it just arrived at the store with newer stock so was sitting in a warehouse. But again with everything being scanned electronically I have my doubts this box would scan the same as the newer ones - but I don't know enough about the systems to say for sure. And of course it clearly looks different. In any case, I would not be that concerned about eating 20 year old cereal honestly.
They looked at the expiration date because the cereal tasted off.
They do have the receipt.
I have no reason to doubt the story. The question is whether the box has been sitting on the shelf at Walmart all those years or whether it recently came from a warehouse. I tend to believe the latter. There may be more outdated boxes circulating.
"On 26 June 1974, Clyde Dawson pulled a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum out of his basket and it was scanned by Sharon Buchanan at 8:01 am. The pack of gum and the receipt are now on display in the Smithsonian Institution. It was the first commercial appearance of the UPC."
I could have a receipt for something I just purchased (whatever product... Cheerios we'll say) - and pull out a box of Cheerios I've had stocked up for yrs. and say it was that......... I agree that the story is fake.
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