Expiration Date

Last night, after discovering that we were out of the preferred cereal for this morning's breakfast, we headed to the nearest grocery store to get another box of "Shrek." (Marshmallows, kids, it's all good.) On this particular box, on this particular day, I happened to notice the expiration date -- January 2005. After checking the calendar and confirming, yep, it is in fact the middle of summer, a cold fear settled over me. What kind of perservatives are they putting in my cereal box that it can sit on a shelf for half a year and still be good? Some kind of study should be done on this...by the way, Tiffany, how is the twinkie?