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.
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I’ve had milk two weeks past that still smelled good. I poured it out anyway. The secret to milk is that it has to stay cold. If it warms even a bit the shelf life is cut way short.
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Pathetic. The soy milk I buy last for almost an entire year.
Indeed. I order unsweetened soy milk once a year so I don’t have to carry it from the store and never run out. 80 1L packs. Still good after a year, no animals were harmed in the process. Even after a year I can leave an opened pack which is far passed it’s expiration date in the fridge for a week without it going bad.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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 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.
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
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.
Not saying Walmart milk doesn’t suck but have you checked your refrigerator temps? You wanna be sure you keep it as cold as possible. So in the back and not the door.
Bought milk, got half made cheese /j
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.
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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.
If a perishable product comes in an opaque plastic container, that’s a deliberate choice. Always be suspicious of it.
It’s Walmart, what did you expect?
‘Great Value’ lol
Friendly reminder that white label (store brand) stuff is pretty much all made at the same place for all the big stores.
But with different levels of quality control and potentially ingredients - not trying to dimmenish white labels, they serve a role, but its always been absurd to me that just because something is made in the same factory that those products are identical - a few items might be - but you can taste white label and brand name side by side and they taste different even if they have the same manufacturing marks and have different failure rates (and sometimes the white label even tastes better!)
Oh for sure, they make things to order basically.
It’s just one of those things most people never know, that’s all.
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.
