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.
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Never buying milk from Walmart again
Submitted 14 hours ago by Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Knossos@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 hours ago
Having worked the fresh department at Walmart, sometimes the milk would be delivered to the store spoiled.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
I would bet the trucks and store refrigerators at Walmart are kept as warm as legally possible, to save money on electricity.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
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.
SandLight@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 12 hours ago
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.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Your mistake was not expecting to need to replace all of the appliances.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
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.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 8 hours ago
Pathetic. The soy milk I buy last for almost an entire year.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
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.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
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.
shifty@leminal.space 14 hours ago
some whole milk has cream that settles at the top. Are you sure it was actually bad?
Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Bought milk, got half made cheese /j
magnetosphere@fedia.io 14 hours ago
If a perishable product comes in an opaque plastic container, that’s a deliberate choice. Always be suspicious of it.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
What exactly am i supposed to see here? Just looks like normal milk to me?
jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
I think there’s chunks in it
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
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?
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
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.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
It’s Walmart, what did you expect?
comador@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
‘Great Value’ lol
TachyonTele@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Friendly reminder that white label (store brand) stuff is pretty much all made at the same place for all the big stores.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 13 hours ago
Whole milk will go bad very quickly, especially once opened and if not kept below a certain temperature. 2% lasts a lot longer. Also changing the location in the refrigerator makes a huge difference, the door area is the warmest part. If you haven't had an issue before, then it could be that at some point in handling from the store or you the milk was allowed to warm a bit too much. Again, for whole milk it doesn't take a lot, and any perishables from Walmart is taking a risk vs. other groceries. Find a store that gets local farm stuff if possible, and try 2%, it's possible to wean off that sweet whole and buy some time and health.
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
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
Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 10 hours ago
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.
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
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.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Why would anyone want to track you?
taiyang@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
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.
KingDingbat@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
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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herfen@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
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.
Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 13 hours ago
Quite a lot of assumptions you’re making. I’m probably older than you.
TheTeej107@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
I’m not sure why but for me it seems like milk goes bad faster if you open and use it but then leave it unused for many days even if it’s before the expiration date.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
That is how expiration dates usually work for anything moist/liquid/perishable. You open it and then you should consume it within a short time. Typically a few days at most, bit more for marmalade.
Reason: food contains microbes/spores. Preservation processes slow down growth, and/or reduce initial amount, but not to zero. Microorganisms in food grow exponentially over time, and the best before date is a statistically determined date by which 99.x% of food samples are still good to eat if unopened. Open it, and you expose the food to the much higher load of microbial life from ambient air and whatever you stick in there (spoon, butter knife, drink from the bottle). Boom, microbial growth explodes and food perishes within a short period.
Same goes for interrupting a cooling chain or exposing e.g. milk to sunlight.
SouthFresh@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Expiration dates on food in the U.S. mean nothing once the food product has been opened. Once opened, most perishable products will last for only a very short time… and this is what you should want.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Time to go to the farm shop and get a bottle from the vending machine!
the_q@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Milk alternatives seem to have a longer shelf life.
ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 13 hours ago
maybe you should just stop buying the mammary fluid of tortured animals altogether!
Greg@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
But my own mammary glands don’t work 😢
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Serious question, I wonder if a healthy lactating human mother’s milk could be substituted in recipes. I’m sure there must be a non-zero chance in the course of history that someone has tried it.
ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 13 hours ago
that would be so hilarious if it weren't reliant on the violent victimization of another sentient being; so close!
Mister_Feeny@fedia.io 9 hours ago
Nah, it's your sanctimoniousness that earned you your downvotes. Had you just said, "Try oat milk, it lasts longer without spoiling" or something like that, people would be more likely to respond positively than when you roll in just judging people. Prick.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 14 hours ago
Don’t you have ultra high heated milk? It keeps fresh for several months at room temperature as long as it’s unopened. It usually tastes a little less great than normal milk but that’s especially not much of an issue if you use it for baking or cereals.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
To be fair, to most of those who are used to fresh milk find the taste of UHT milk off-putting, myself included. North Americans do tend to drink more milk too so they go through a bottle long before it goes bad.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 13 hours ago
For us the reason for going UHT is that we don’t have the fridge space for all the milk we consume. We would have to buy new milk every few days.
And it actually is possible to make UHT milk taste almost like fresh milk. Those are usually just more expensive.
victorz@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I’m baffled that America insists on selling milk by the gallon. That’s so much milk to finish after opening.
The maximum size we used to get while I was growing up where I live was 1 litre. Then came the big milk, 1.5 L. Now we have this even bigger one that’s 1.75 L, I think. Seems like it’s going to converge on 2 L. 😄
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
You can buy it in half gallons and quarts, too, but a lot of families go through a gallon in a couple days.
Joeffect@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Kids drink lots of milk i used to think people who bought multiple gallons was crazy…
Now I’m at the point we use a gallon in about a 2 days…
Dima@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
In the UK we have (in UK pints, 1 pint = 568ml): 1 pint, 2 pints, 4 pints and 6 pints. We also have slightly smaller metric sizes (1L, 2L) that are typically seen in convenience stores or on branded milk.
I would say that 4 pints (2.273L) is the typical size that most would buy for regular use, with smaller sizes popular for those that don’t have cereal/porridge.
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I used to go through 2gallons a week
evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Dairy is heavily subsidized in the US. 1 gallon (3.8L) barely costs more than 1/2. Might as well buy the whole gallon and turn what you aren’t going to otherwise use into yogurt or cheese.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I can go through a whole gallon by myself before it goes bad. Now, I might just barely be able to do it most times, but still. Between cooking, drinking, and cereal, I can usually find a way to use it all. I mostly drink it though.
Daggity@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
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.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
I take it it’s not pasteurized? I’ve never had milk go bad on me. But then I’m living in a country that takes food safety seriously.
Are you sure the container was sealed when you bought it?
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
The US and Canada are really anal about pasteurizing and homogenizing milk. It’s basically nearly impossible to buy any that isn’t. Most often it’s also just a reconstituted milk product instead. At the same time UHT is nearly unheard of.
If anything, OP should avoid shitty products in general, not because they’ve had this particular experience. Brand loyalty is stupid.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Check your fridge temp
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
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
Agent641@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
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…
LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
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