I would bet the trucks and store refrigerators at Walmart are kept as warm as legally possible, to save money on electricity.

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.

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.

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'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.

'Great Value' lol

Ewwwwww sorry I can only drink milk from cows. Thankfully Walmart withdrew from my country

RIP Frank Dwayne Ellington what a way to go

Pretty much all milk in the US is homogenized, unless bought from a specialty brand/store. I can basically guarantee that Walmart is not selling non-homogeneous milk in the US.

What if she let's a little moan slip on accident?

what would a cow with no hormones look like

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.

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.

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.

Stop wasting food.

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.

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.

I think there's chunks in it

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It's also not entirely lactose free. Ask me how I know.

Cries in lactose intolerance

It doesn't taste the same. The lactase breaks the less sweet lactose into glucose and galactose, which are about twice as sweet as lactose (all are less sweet than table sugar.)

Also lactose free milk is typically ultra pasteurized, which gives it the longer shelf life, but ultra pasteurization does impact taste. It gives it a "cooked" flavor.

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.

Is your lactose free milk prepared/packaged differently from your regular milk? The two keep for just as long here.

Tip: Oat milk is yummier.