# I just took a huge swig of sour milk. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 11, 2007, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-took-a-huge-swig-of-sour-milk/422325 "2007-10-11T05:20:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-took-a-huge-swig-of-sour-milk/422325/21 "2007-10-11T17:53:23Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] Oh, man. Accidentally drinking sour milk is one of my biggest non-life-threatening phobias. And I’ve never even done it! ☹ :eek: [/QUOTE] I’m right there with ya. If a gallon of milk even gets close to the date and it’s mostly gone, down the drain it goes. And I almost always sniff it first, regardless of how old it is. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-took-a-huge-swig-of-sour-milk/422325/22 "2007-10-11T18:04:00Z")
Well, now I feel peachy keen about the lunch I just ate. _insert barfing smiley for ☹_ ( **tdn** , what about the cherries on top of the whipped cream? Is chocolate sauce okay?) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-took-a-huge-swig-of-sour-milk/422325/23 "2007-10-11T18:09:53Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] ( **tdn** , what about the cherries on top of the whipped cream? Is chocolate sauce okay?) [/QUOTE] You’ll have to buy me dinner first. But mark me down as interested. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-took-a-huge-swig-of-sour-milk/422325/24 "2007-10-11T19:43:32Z")
It was about a week past the expiration, no chunks yet. It tasted slightly off, but it smelled horrible. Like baby vomit as I previously said. About whip cream and strawberries. I was pretty disappointed in it too. I didn’t smell bad afterward, strawberries dragged along sensitive areas just didn’t feel as good as you might think. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-took-a-huge-swig-of-sour-milk/422325/25 "2007-10-11T20:58:29Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] Oh, man. Accidentally drinking sour milk is one of my biggest non-life-threatening phobias. And I’ve never even done it! ☹ :eek: [/QUOTE] Same here! I used to be afraid that I wouldn’t be able to tell just by the smell that milk went bad, and that I’d end up drinking it, because I had never smelled bad milk before and had nothing to compare normal milk to. Until a few weeks ago when, for the first time, a carton of milk I had actually _did_ go bad, and let me tell you there is no mistaking the smell! When it’s bad, it smells like rotten chicken. ---
**Author:** ![Cleophus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@Cleophus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleophus)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-took-a-huge-swig-of-sour-milk/422325/26 "2007-10-11T21:20:40Z")
I bought a bottle of sour milk from the college cafeteria while on my way to class. I opened it up and took a huge chug, as I usually do. I’m not sure how I managed to not spit it all over the floor. When I looked at the date on the cap I found the bottle expired about a week ago. And I’m not sure why I got and drank another bottle after I went back to the cafeteria to complain. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-took-a-huge-swig-of-sour-milk/422325/27 "2007-10-11T21:27:54Z")
My two-year old found a sippy cup of milk that had rolled under the sofa at least three days earlier, and before we could stop him started drinking it. He got a weird look on his face and said, “This millk is spicy!” And yet he was preparing to take _another_ sip before we grabbed it out of his hands. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-took-a-huge-swig-of-sour-milk/422325/28 "2007-10-11T21:44:40Z")
Sour milk? How about downing a tankard of mead and then finding that it’s 13.5% alcohol! :eek: Should have been called honey wine. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-took-a-huge-swig-of-sour-milk/422325/29 "2007-10-11T23:48:50Z")
I hope you put the carton back in the fridge for somebody else to enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![enigm4tic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@enigm4tic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enigm4tic)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-took-a-huge-swig-of-sour-milk/422325/30 "2007-10-11T23:50:51Z")
Sour Milk is my only weakness. I swear, I can smell horrible things, even look at most types of mold and such, thrown out maggot-encrusted bowls, blood, guts, whatever. But oh god, if I see sour milk, hell I’m just THINKING about it, I instantly gag and become completely non-functional. bleah. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-took-a-huge-swig-of-sour-milk/422325/31 "2007-10-11T23:56:33Z")
I love buttermilk, cottage cheese and most solid cheeses. I cannot eat yogurt. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-took-a-huge-swig-of-sour-milk/422325/32 "2007-10-12T00:02:39Z")
[Mongolian Milk Wine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumis) -FrL- (Not its real name–but apt.) ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-took-a-huge-swig-of-sour-milk/422325/33 "2007-10-12T01:30:13Z")
And then there’s “surmjolk” (Swedish for “sour milk”)…it’s sort of like liquid yogurt, but made with a different culture. The homemade stuff ends up roughly the same consistency as Elmer’s Glue. Years ago, I visited relatives who served it–they had to use a pair of scissors to cut the stream between the pitcher and the glass. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-took-a-huge-swig-of-sour-milk/422325/34 "2007-10-12T03:36:54Z")
Bah, I’ll call that and raise you a bagel with mold all over it. I got a big chew in too because at first I thought it was just my imagination… ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-took-a-huge-swig-of-sour-milk/422325/35 "2007-10-12T04:03:54Z")
[QUOTE=Skammer] My two-year old found a sippy cup of milk that had rolled under the sofa at least three days earlier, and before we could stop him started drinking it. He got a weird look on his face and said, “This millk is spicy!” And yet he was preparing to take _another_ sip before we grabbed it out of his hands. [/QUOTE] My two-year old is in a magpie stage - hiding things all over the house. Including the sippy cups of milk. And yet when she unearths one, she says, “Yucky milk!” AND KEEPS ON DRINKING!!! :smack: Makes me question natural selection, it does. How on earth did all her ancestors survive long enough to reproduce without an aversion to rotten milk? 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-took-a-huge-swig-of-sour-milk/422325.md?page=1)