I was in the middle of making dinner when this happened. I’m grateful I poured it into a measuring cup first. Thankfully I don’t live too far from another source.
I remember milk staying good almost a week past its expiration date when I was a kid. Boy have the times changed.
some whole milk has cream that settles at the top. Are you sure it was actually bad?
Edit: looks like you’re not the only one with issues with this brand. If you keep the container you can get a refund from the manufacturer or walmart.
Pretty much all milk in the US is homogenized, unless bought from a specialty brand/store. I can basically guarantee that Walmart is not selling non-homogeneous milk in the US.
Best before Oct 31 what year?
If a perishable product comes in an opaque plastic container, that’s a deliberate choice. Always be suspicious of it.
It does help a bit with spoilage issues (by blocking light coming into the product) but what you said is totally valid as well.
What was scrubbed out in red next to the used by date? The year? You held onto that bottle for a year for a social media clout? :P
I found that odd for a Lemmy post but also, one year milk is in much worse condition than this image. Unless they froze it for clout? Why go through the trouble?
But that just makes me wonder even more why that is blocked out, lol.
Lol, quite the imagination. I scrubbed out the identification numbers that could be used to track down where I live because I don’t trust none of y’all or the government.
Lol I do have a very active imagination and good thinking on the ID numbers. I definitely would’ve flown thousands of miles to verify this rotten milk.
I know most people here are pussies and talk a big game while thinking they’re anonymous, but I’ve had my life threatening multiple times since joining this platform.
I think you dropped this
Why would anyone want to track you?
Let me go though your phone real quick, if you have nothing to hide it shouldn’t be a problem right?
I meant that poster specifically, they’re clearly talking shit
Privacy is good, m’kay?
It’s not a dealer’s issue or has anything to do with changing times. Everyone will or already has had that experience at least once. You’re just too inexperienced. There are many reasons why milk can go sour, as we call it here. Most depend on how you as a consumer handle it. Some are just bad luck. For example, if there was a thunderstorm, it’s more likely to turn into an ugly buttermilk mess. Don’t blame Walmart or the milk, because you can’t be sure if it wasn’t your fault.
Quite a lot of assumptions you’re making. I’m probably older than you.
Noone older than 12 who drank milk since he was a kid would be astounded or angry about self made buttermilk 🤣
German tetrapacks in the chat
The American version of those are fun. Two months before the expiration date, stored in a dark space around 50F or less, they separate into globs. Not spoiled, just separated. Globs settle in the bottom of coffee. Once you get enough air in there, you can shake the everloving shit out of it, and the globs break apart into a delightful foam that floats on top.
I didn’t like any part of that. I’d rather just keep buying milk from my neighbour with a cow
This is in every way superior.
I know these solutions cost more but if you’re having trouble with frequent spoilage this might save you $$
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For cow milk, try and buy organic in a container that blocks light. I find these to have extra long expiration dates compared to plastic jug regular milk… Often 2-3 months from purchase and it is often unspoiled past that.
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Try unsweetened original almond milk. I find it hard to tell the difference and the almond milk I buy can last 4-5 months in my fridge if I don’t use it sooner.
You can’t tell the difference between almond milk and cow’s milk? More power to you, but I find that hard to believe.
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Yeah I’m calling bullshit on the part that OP is not telling us what they scribbled out. This is just ragebaiting or OP trying to negate the responsibility of READING what’s on the jug.
I mean, the fault is with the company until someone as gullible as you comes along and buys the expired jug anyways or however long you didn’t tend to it for.
I do find it a bit telling that Lemmy would assume I’m some lying shill rather than Walmart milk being ass.
Edit: here’s the unedited version. My local store isn’t listed on the jug. I’m not worried about y’all tracking me down.
Take the tinfoil hat off, junior.
All that tells you, is what state with the code of 18. It doesn’t tell you where you are specifically, only the plant of which the jug of milk was made in. In this case, it was made in Indiana (not sure if it was based on the number of states in order, which would make it wrong since Indiana isn’t the 18th state, more like 19th but whatever).
I do happen to work retail and the plausibility of how the milk ended up the way it did is several. The plant didn’t do a good job. Your housing conditions such as temperature and where you stored the milk matters overtime. Someone working dairy didn’t care enough to efficiently stock the jug per company standards. Poor stationing of pallet somewhere from the store in bad conditions. Something.
Anything. I’ve never had a milk jug just come like that though, since I buy almond milk anymore.
Junior, lmao lick my balls.
Ew, you fucking pedophile. No wonder your profile picture is a pig, because you’re probably a kiddie-fiddler. Fucking pedophile.
Damn both of y’all getting really hardcore in the comments over some milk.
That was happening to our house and then we discovered that our fridge wasn’t running at food safe temperatures.
Might be worth putting a thermometer in.
I make sure to keep the fridge just above freezing. I do this by actually setting it cold enough to freeze then raising it slightly until things stop freezing.
Bought a house (back when such things were still available to plebs). Hadn’t moved in yet, cleaning etc. Chucked some drinks and snacks into the fridge. Next day, barely chilly. Put a thermometer in, 40-some degrees F.
A new fridge was just the first unexpected expense.
Your mistake was not expecting to need to replace all of the appliances.
One of Your many mistakes was not expecting to need to replace all of the appliances.
FTFY
Time to go to the farm shop and get a bottle from the vending machine!
Bought milk, got half made cheese /j
Check your fridge temp
Tip: Lactose-free milk tastes the same, is easier on your digestive system, and doesn’t expire for over a month.
Lactose-free milk is much sweeter than regular milk and expires in the same amount of time unless you’re buying the long life version.
Yep. That’s because they don’t actually remove the lactose. They add lactase which cleaves the lactose into simpler sugars, increasing the sweetness.
It doesn’t taste the same. The lactase breaks the less sweet lactose into glucose and galactose, which are about twice as sweet as lactose (all are less sweet than table sugar.)
Also lactose free milk is typically ultra pasteurized, which gives it the longer shelf life, but ultra pasteurization does impact taste. It gives it a “cooked” flavor.
I’ve never noticed a change in taste, but I mostly buy 2% milk. Fairlife does taste creamier to me than other brands, likely due to its “ultra filtered” process however that works. I do wish that brand came in cartons instead of plastic bottles though.
The 2% is the hardest to get out
It’s also not entirely lactose free. Ask me how I know.
Cries in lactose intolerance
Is your lactose free milk prepared/packaged differently from your regular milk? The two keep for just as long here.
Not really. All I know is when I buy Lactaid, or Fairlife, or one of the many other lactose-free brands in the US, their sell by date is usually around 30 days. “Normal” milk is usually sell by 7-10 days here.
Sell by isnt a standard or gov controlled. I used to keep milk till smelled bad or became chunky. I have noticed that lactose free milk does seem to last longer comparably however, sjnce i switched more recently due to body deciding to be full lactose intolerant
The brands I see that produce regular milk also make lactose free milk here, so I’m guessing they’re all processed the same way within the brand but just with added lactase at some point. Different brands probably do things differently. It’s usually 2-3 weeks for both regular milk and lactose free.
Tip: Oat milk is yummier.
Got to get that extra creamy.
lol no
Walmart uses prison labor for dairy.
RIP Frank Dwayne Ellington what a way to go
Well what else are prisoners supposed to do? Jump for joy in their prison cells?
Ewwwwww sorry I can only drink milk from cows. Thankfully Walmart withdrew from my country
God, all you non-Americans really need to stop bragging. I’m way too jealous over here.
You know what I’m gonna brag even harder
Rude
Hope you were making yogurt
