How Are They Making Milk These Days?

[JSngry]

I got a quart of milk in the icebox with an expiration date of April 18. Just now saw it and of course said oh shit, etc, but you know that morbid curiosity thing, opened it up to see HOW badly it had turned and...had not turned at all. AT ALL. Thinking about having another bowl of cereal, this time with that milk, but, brrrrrrrr....

So, what, are they getting milk from devil cows now?

Also - Cheerios with Ancient Grains, pretty good stuff all things considered, grains ancient, cheerios still fresh, not sure how they do that, but then again, 3 week old milk still smells good.

World gone wrong, or demons more benevolent than previously portrayed by the mainstream media, somebody help me out here with this, please.

[kinuta]

Provided it's properly refrigerated, I'd say it's safe to drink up to a few weeks after sell by date.

If it smells off, bin it. If it doesn't smell off then it's probably safe to drink.

If the first mouthful tastes off, bin it.

There are types of milk called ' Long Life Milk', that will keep for quite long periods without refigeration.

My missus bought some after the megaquake a few years ago. We never drank it. I tasted horrible even though it was still 'safe'.

We now only buy milk from either Hokkaido or Kyushu.

Government propaganda about Fukushima and surrounding prefectures north of Tokyo being radiation free is delusional.

[JSngry]

I've had milk stay good for a week, maybe two weeks, past the due date. But this is some kind of record. Perhaps this is some radiated Japanese bootleg milk that got dumped on the US market for cheap that will stay fresh forever?

[CJ Shearn]

I only drink unsweetened Almond milk these days, but it seems like a lot of skim milk is very like powdery, like dry milk. The growth hormones are not going.

[Big Beat Steve]

"How Are They Making Milk These Days?"

Well, that's what my mother asked herself when she visited her uncle and aunt in Steelville, Mo. for a lengthy stay in 1953 (her first and only U.S. trip).

The milk sold there in Tetra-Paks (unknown here yet) tasted not bad but so totally unlike any (bottled and - yes - pasteurised indeed) milk known over here that this question kept haunting her every now and then ever since.

Edited May 13, 2015 by Big Beat Steve

[mjzee]

My grandmother used to drink sour milk, past its expiration date. She thought it was healthier than regular milk.

[JSngry]

This milk is regular Kroger 2%, and there's at thing on there about our farmers have agreed to not use any blahblahblah, but nowhere does it say anything about our buyers have not agreed to buy radiated Japanese bootleg milk that got offered to them under the table for next to nothing, so I wonder...

Farmers I have found to be a generally noble and trustworthy lot. Buyers, not so much.

[JSngry]

This milk remains fresh and clean.

[BFrank]

I hardly drink milk anymore, except on cereal. I somehow developed a lactose intolerance a few years ago and switched to unsweetened soy milk, and honestly can't even tell the difference.

[A Lark Ascending]

I last drank milk straight around 1959.

Developed a repulsion for milk, butter, cream etc around that time. No physical effects - just dislike the taste intensely.

I obviously have it in other products so as long as I can't taste it I'm fine. I used to have watered down skimmed milk on cereal but have advance to just tap water in recent years.

Oddly, I like melted butter on hot toast - as long as it is totally melted with no solid left.

Expecting my bones to crumble any day now.

[Tim McG]

Living in a dairy intensive area of the country, I can unequivocally say milk is made pretty much the same way it always has.

Seriously, though, for years I was lactose intolerant. Now, by sheer happenstance, I can tolerate milk products again. Maybe they quit shooting up the cows with so many hormones?

I dunno.

[JSngry]

I drink either soy or almond milk myself. Silk is doing good work these days! We only keep cow milk on hand because Brenda likes it in her coffee.

With that limited amount of use, I've seen more than one quart go bad, but have never seen one stay fresh for this long.

[Tim McG]

Um.

Luck, perhaps...?

[JSngry]

Somewhere in the world there are glow-in-the-dark devil cows, and they are not toys.

[uli]

Somewhere in the world there are glow-in-the-dark devil cows, and they are not toys.

even some good cows seem to have something devilish about themselves

Edited May 16, 2015 by uli

[kinuta]

I drink more soy milk than the stuff from cows.

Soy beans are used in a wide variety of food here and there's a big selection of soy milk.

This one is the clear winner, called FUKUREN, if by some chance you find it avaliable give it a try.

[Tim McG]

Somewhere in the world there are glow-in-the-dark devil cows, and they are not toys.

Those are the ones from Wisconsin.

We only have happy cows here.

Edited May 17, 2015 by TimMcG

[BFrank]

Trader Joe's has a good organic unsweetened soy milk. I suspect it might be made by the same people who make Whole Foods' version because they taste the same to me.

[Tim McG]

BTW...we grow soy, too.

[mjzee]

So has the milk gone bad yet?

[JSngry]

Nope, at least not by smell.

[Tim McG]

Stuff must be thick as a brick by now.

[JSngry]

Nope. I just took a sniff and dared the tiniest of sips. All went well.

Weird....

[Tim McG]

If you start to glow in the dark, it might be time to dump it...at a toxic waste facility.

[JSngry]

Not glowing in the dark yet, but also not spoiled yet either.

I wanting to throw it out before it grows legs or something. Seriously.

Then again, always being in the back of the icebox might have something to do with it?