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.
Thankfully I don’t think we have Walmart store brand milk here in Canada. We also don’t allow hormones either.
Walmart uses prison labor for dairy.
Butter and cheese are the only civilized ways to consume milk. Caesar would agree.
Tip: Lactose-free milk tastes the same, is easier on your digestive system, and doesn’t expire for over a month.
It’s also not entirely lactose free. Ask me how I know.
Cries in lactose intolerance
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.
Hope you were making yogurt
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.
Edit: Even if you buy the milk and it ice cold doesn’t mean somewhere in the distribution process it hasn’t been allowed warm up. I have bought milk that went bad within a day.
I just had one where I didn’t use it at all for a few weeks, and it was a few days past the expiration date. This may help, but it wasn’t opened yet. My wife was like, “Throw it out!” And I was like no ill take the risk. Decided to have cereal the next morning and was pleasantly surprised it was perfectly fine and was able to use it all within the next 3 days.
Then again, I have had times where i just got it, and 2 days later, it was super gross. Here’s looking at you stop and shop store brand milk… got burned twice like that, and I have never purchased it again. I hate that store so much.
Milk is so easy to tell if it’s spoiled, no reason to throw it out without a sniff test.
Not necessarily true. As soon as your crack the seal on pasteurized milk, the Bacillus cereus spores start to germinate even if cold. There is a strain that thrives at fridge temps and within a few days the milk is now full of cereulide toxins. Badtimes at the hospital.
UHT milk would kill the spores though at the factory so it’s safer to keep longer.
Isn’t UHT ultra high temperature? isn’t that the same as pasteurization?
Stop wasting food.
Don’t drink 2 week old milk in the name of not wasting food. It’s not worth the hospital visit. Just adjust your purchasing if you always have milk you’re tossing out.
No.
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Again? People buy food from Walmart?
You mean the largest retailer in America has customers?
I’m shocked. SHOCKED!
i personally never go there. But I live 7 timezones away from the nearest one.
I expect them to have customers, but food? Really?
They’ve had food for at least 3 decades why is that at all surprising? Hell, our Home Depot has a bbq night it would be honestly weirder if they didn’t sell food.
I wouldn’t know, I think I have been in walmart maybe 3 times in my life (they never have anything worth buying I noticed).
But I have followed their business plan pretty closely, and choosing the cheapest lowest quality everything makes me think food is the last possible thing I would buy from them. I am shocked they even carry food frankly.
You’ve been there 3 times and didn’t notice the food so I’m going to go ahead and say you don’t sound too observant.
The “pantry” side of the business is easily a third of their profits. How do you follow a business plan without knowing their revenue streams?
Because their business plan is reduce the price, create cheaper knock-offs and eliminate the original competition.
That’s a business model and either way they would include expected revenue streams.
maybe… they’re the same thing
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.
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 curdled due to spoilage.
It doesn’t look curdled, though. The liquid doesn’t look yellowish and semi transparent enough.
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).
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
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.
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.
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