What is the deal with milk in NYC?

I haven’t seen it so I don’t know for sure but is it a “Sell before…” date and a “Drink before…” date?

Sadly no, it is a best before in both cases. The same milk, with the same dates bought in New Jersey will keep for a week longer.

NYC is dirty?

im looking forward to finding out the real answer to this…

The New York Times has fielded this question and the answer is here. Start with the sentence that says “The Times…”

There might be different legislation in NY and NJ or something, where it’s sold in both states.

Perhaps they have different rules regarding the various treatments milk goes through – pasteurisation etc., in NYC. I have seen different dates on milk here (Australia) before they brought all states into line with compulsory milk handling. You could buy unpasteurised, in fact totally untreated milk direct from the dairy with full cream etc., milk that didn’t last as long as usual treated milk.

In Canada they sell milk in bags. Weird.

You can prolong the shelf life of milk if 1) you don’t store it behind door and 2) you put it in the rear of shelf, where it gets fewer drafts when door is opened and closed.

I find also that I can freeze skim milk and then reuse it months later.
(expiration)

@aprilsimnel: Yet another reason why I am happy living among the dairy cows of NYS and not in the city.

OK apparently it is because the milk goes through longer periods where it is not refrigerated. That does not make sense though, there are refer trucks, and you just move it from the truck to your coolers. It seems to me it is just another way for New York to screw you out of something else; 5 bucks more for a beer, 3 minutes less on a parking meter, 4 days earlier that your milk expires.

New York cows are more ‘delicate’ than other cows, has to do with the smog. ~

@evelyns_pet_zebra Yay, you’re back! Glad you found what you were looking for so quickly.

@evelyns_pet_zebra California cows deal with the smog and they’re happy :p

In my 12 years in Southern California, I have never been able to trust the expiration date. It always goes bad a few days before.
It’s not just NYC.

I guess it just depends on what area of Cali your talking about. Everybody has misconceptions about other states unless they’ve been there. In central Cal, I didn’t have any allergies, like I did when I was in major city areas. I’m not saying that there isn’t any smog, but it doesn’t compare to the smog in southern Cal, or New York. The Cows in the Central Valley are so happy, that you can see their methane cloud when you are driving past the dairy. That was the most smog type stuff I’d seen. And I’m talking about the areas away from Fresno.

@wildpotato everybody keeps saying that, but two days away from Fluther felt like an eternity.

I read that explanation and all I can say is…. ew! and I’m so glad that I can go less than 10 minutes from my home to a dairy and get milk that’s FRESH
(award winning milk!)
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Why do I hear this question in Jerry Seinfeld’s voice? “What is the deal with milk in New York City?”

@christine215 Thanks for the tip on that place! I will have to try some soon.

@aprilsimnel I would think a New York cow would have a Bronx accent.

@evelyns_pet_zebra – Bronx? Oh, no. See, back in the 70s, their parents moved out to Long Island, so they might have more of that accent, you know, Lawn Guyland.