Jerry is absolutely right. It terrifies me. I was gonna have some cereal today and for some reason or another it’s been a while since I had milk. I still had a carton in there, pretty full. But when I saw the date on it, it was two days past the expiration date. I actually glanced at the container, saw the date, put it back in the fridge, went back to my room to check the date on the computer and decided “no way”. I’ve seen bad milk in the past, it curdles, awful stuff. For added drama, the brand I usually get was actually sold out, so this carton was another brand I hadn’t tried before. It tasted remarkably….. alike. But that doesn’t mean I was going to take a chance on it past the date. I poured it out into the sink, it actually looked perfectly fine. But two days is way past the accepted standard, even when I have milk on the day I’m sort of thinking “did they mean noon or 8pm?”, it already makes me uneasy.

I may be liberal on some things, but on milk past the date I’m definitely conservative.