…that you could leave a gallon of milk sitting in a grocery bag on your kitchen floor for two days, find it, (:smack: yourself silly), stick it in the fridge,and actually find it to be drinkable the next morning?
Really, who’da thunk that you wouldn’t notice the bacteria in the taste, but would get really sick the next day?
Well, maybe not, but I’m hyper-cautious about dairy, I throw milk out all the time.
Of course, I leave butter out on the counter so it’s soft and spreadable, so maybe I oughta just shut it, huh? 
Not to change the subject (ha!), but how’s the new job, twick?
Excellent, thanks – but I’m so punchy right now that I’m doing shit like leaving milk out of the fridge for two days. (Thank god I’ve declared heating season to be over, so at least it was a very cool “room temperature.”) I’m looking forward to having my new routine feel routine, though! I hope things will settle down a bit over the next few weeks.
MMMMMMMMM… chunky milk!
Butter, being chock full of nice, stable saturated fat, stays quite well at room temperature. Having only a bit of water and no sugars, bacteria think it’s dullsville and won’t touch it.
Milk, on the other hand, has lots of sugars and lots of water, and is heaven for bacterial growth.
IOW: Eeeeeew!
Well, cool.
In a very literal way, even. 
All right, here’s a moronic question: you buy a gallon of milk? How long does it take you to go through it?
Oh, and Mr. Bus Guy – I’ll probably dump the rest of the gallon, just in case, but it was the only milk in the house this morning, so I decided to live dangerously. And, sweetheart that I am, I let my sister – who stayed over last night – live dangerously. Without, um, mentioning the incident to her – she could tell the extent of my mental disarray by the state of physical disarray chez twicks, so I decided that it was an extraneous detail.
The replacement plan, of course, will only happen if I remember to swing by the grocery store on the way home, and remember to buy milk, and remember to take the milk out of the car, and remember to take the milk out of the bag and put it in the fridge.
About a week, more or less – I have a tall, frosty glass of Instant Breakfast each morning. No osteoporosis for me!
See, right there is where all my plans go right to hell. Good luck.
Give it a quick stir, put it in small tupperwares, and call it cottage cheese.
Real life conversation from last night:
<My wife enters from dinner with a friend>
Her: Hi honey…what’cha having for dinner.
Me: Oh, just one of those flavored noodle meals.
Her: Taste good?
Me: Meh…not as good as usual.
<She checks packaging sitting on top of the garbage can>
Her: Ummm…this might be why – it expired in 2004.
Still finished it tho…it wasn’t that bad.
I don’t know why not. It sometimes stays in the cow for days at a time at pretty much womb temperature.
long groan of mixed pain and pleasure
I buy two half-gallons at a time. I go through a lot of milk, so it’s nice to have a fresh half-gallon to crack open rather than half of a gallon jug that’s been opened for a few days.
Now cats are a different matter altogether. If you have cats and leave the butter out, make sure you check for tongue marks before you use it.
Cats will eat butter? 
Not just cats! One time last summer, my mom and I were getting ready to have sweet corn on TV trays in the living room, so I was setting up and put the butter out, a stick with wrapper still on. Two minutes later it had disappeared, and a few days after that, it appeared to have exited one end or the other of my Great Dane (can’t remember which)!
It didn’t just happen because she was a Dane. Dogs who are highly food motivated can come up with amazing solutions to the “reaching the counter” issue!
Actually, if the milk is unopened, and it’s properly pasteurized, it shouldn’t have any bacteria to speak of, so I’m not that surprised it was still drinkable. Leave an opened jug out for two days, and you’ll probably smell it before you find it any other way. Even this jug will probably now spoil extra-fast, so I doubt **twickster ** will get to finish it.