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.
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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Time to go to the farm shop and get a bottle from the vending machine!
Best before Oct 31 what year?
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
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?
Privacy is good, m’kay?
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.
Having worked the fresh department at Walmart, sometimes the milk would be delivered to the store spoiled. You can’t usually tell without opening it, unless it’s really bad you can smell it through the unopened container (or it isnt white anymore).
I don’t know how much a problem this is with other grocers but nearly all the fresh products at Walmart are close to expiration by the time the store sells it to you. It’s one of the ways they keep the prices lower than competitors.
I would bet the trucks and store refrigerators at Walmart are kept as warm as legally possible, to save money on electricity.
Even without adjusting the thermostat, those cooler doors are being opened and closed thousands of times a day, there’s no way everything inside stays chilled. Not to mention the folks who grab dairy products then leave them next to the beer or electronics when decisions were made…that milk with an Oct 31 date may have sat under a heater vent for hours before someone put it back in the fridge.
Yeah, plus Walmart attracts trashy customer base so stuff like this is more likely to happen
They have driven out other grocers and created a food desert monopoly in some rural areas but yeah sure, let’s blame the people buying food and not the mega corp.
They’ve decided dealing with listeria outbreaks a couple times a year is cheaper than running the fridges colder.
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What exactly am i supposed to see here? Just looks like normal milk to me?
I think there’s chunks in it
Ah i see. With full fat non homogenized milk you always have a big chunk of separated out pure fat/cream sitting on top, but i guess that not it in this case? If in doubt just taste test it, a few droplets of spoiled milk wont harm you.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen non-homogenized milk in a jug like that.
Yeah me neither. I buy it in glass bottles, but considering the fact that canadians have milk bags i dont doubt that this exists too.
That doesn’t look bad. That looks like it didn’t get homogenized. The “chunks” is just cream. Put the cap back on and shake it up.
Virtually all supermarket milk in the US is homogenized, this is almost certainly curdled due to spoilage.
And it’s possible that this batch simply missed the step. I know people who threw out glass bottled milk because they were too yuppie to know any better. Glass bottled stuff is often not homogenized, so I know what it looks like. OP didn’t mention any smell, so I’m not convinced.
I don’t want to get into the intricacies of milk processing for mass commercial scale, so I won’t explain the whole thing, but in short: no, it absolutely could not have missed that step.
I too can assert a thing without evidence.
I’d love to show you a video or something but everything I’m seeing online is super vague and the couple I watched to completion to see if they showed what I’m talking about ended up being “dairy industry cares about cows” propaganda. The milk is moved from place to place by pipes, not by humans dumping it into vats who could make mistakes.
The only way it could make it through the whole process without homogenization on a standard line meant for homogenized milk is if the ultrafine mesh the milk is forced through to homogenize it were for some reason missing and the batch were sent through anyway, which shouldn’t be possible if proper Service In Place procedures are being followed (lockout tagout for out of service lines).
It doesn’t look curdled, though. The liquid doesn’t look yellowish and semi transparent enough.
There one I’m working at is soon to switch to delivering their own milk, rather than t g Lee. I’m expecting this is happen more in our area going forward. Their dc is further away and the turnaround time on processing will be longer.
Walmart milk expires a few days before the date. Been that way for a while. Some agency should look into it. I mean under a less fascist regime
I didn’t think about it until now but yeah you Americans should be more diligent about food standards and safety now that the standards and consequences for corporate negligence are so low. You wouldn’t want to end up in hospital…
Yeah that’s what I’m saying. We have the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) which is supposed to look out for us on things like that. But they can’t be trusted, especially under Trump.
So, for all the bad things you’ve heard about Trump, not being an American — he does tend to have a certain pattern to who he places in charge of what organisation. For example the FCC (Federal Communications… Commission? Council?), he appointed a former Verizon (national mobile carrier) executive, someone who would regulate in favour of business. So if he installed someone at the FDA, they’d likely be a former Walmart executive — not very keen on enforcing Walmart’s lax expiration dates!
Yeah, it wasn’t even great before and now they have an administration that’ll bend the rules for any corporation willing to pay.
That’s nuts. I just finished a gallon that I opened 10+ days ago, which expired 5 days ago. Tasted just fine, no problems.
This was Rockview, though. It’s one of the best tasting milks you can buy in SoCal.
Meanwhile my costco milk seems to want to last a week+ past the date making me suspiciously sniff and sip it every time after the date
That’s not Walmart, that’s on the dairy farm and the FDA not doing proper inspections.
RFK Jr would drink it, you pussies.
Could very much be walmart if they aren’t unloading pallets in a reasonable amount of time and shit is just sitting around warm.
Walmart uses prison labor for dairy.
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
Butter and cheese are the only civilized ways to consume milk. Caesar would agree.
Bought milk, got half made cheese /j
Thankfully I don’t think we have Walmart store brand milk here in Canada. We also don’t allow hormones either.
what would a cow with no hormones look like
Not sick and not giving yellow green milk.
What if she let’s a little moan slip on accident?
that’s a sex worker. whores can be found in congress.
specifically dirty whores.
Straight to jail
If it doesn’t come in a bag, it ain’t real milk. True story
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