Aita My friend came over to hangout, my wife made cookies and went to a friends house with our daughters.
After grabbing a cookie he helps himself to a hearty glass of milk, takes a gulp, eats the cookie, and bam slams the rest of the milk.
I’m outside at this point and he comes out asking about the milk.. it’s 9 days old, and he’s pretty upset.
Context, it’s the Tuesday after thanksgiving, we had my parents in town, then a couple from out of state, and I’ve been sick for the last two days.
Aitah?
Update, it was in fact spoiled, and he is still going on about it
Another update, I did check to see if the milk was bad, it does smell nasty, it’s definitely bad or going bad.
He’s still pretty upset, acting like I set him up…
I don’t normally drink milk, I think the whole concept of drinking cow milk is gross.
Update, he’s saying his stomach hurts really bad, and he’s 39m, I think he’s about to storm off
Final update, he left because his stomach hurt…
The milk has been disposed of, the cookies really are the best cookies I’ve ever had, I didn’t even know she could make them.
Your friend is acting ridiculous. Of course NTA.
Apparently the milk was still fine as he downed it. You know when milk is bad via smell/taste.
Anyway, NTA.
yeah, milk and eggs tell you when you should throw them out- expiration date is not all that relevant.
The first time I had bad milk I had one mouthful before I spat it out and gagged. There’s no way that cookie masked the taste of bad milk that well.
That mouthful cured me forever of drinking out of the carton. I like to smell it in the glass first now.
Just because it was 9 days old doesn’t mean it was bad. Did it taste expired? If not, theres nothing wrong with it.
NTA If he drank it, then it wasn’t bad yet.
So, he just waltzed in and raided your cookies and fridge, but didn’t bother to check the date on the milk?
Oh, that’s ALL on him.
NTA.
Milk can still be good past its “expiry date”. So long as it tastes normal (and isn’t chunky lol) it’s still good.
You can very very easily tell when milk is spoiled because of how it tastes.
If it tasted fine (which I assume it did or he wouldn’t have gone back after the first sip) then it’s fine. Even if it was literally out of date, if it tasted fine, it’s fine.
Use bys aren’t some magic date and a minute after midnight your food spoils. They’re generally conservative too because the consequences to the seller if they put a date on and it goes bad before that date are far worse than if it’s still good afterwards. My rule is always ‘if it looks fine, and it smells fine, it’s fine.’
No idea why your friend is upset, unless it did taste off and they drank it anyway, but in that case it’s on them for not using their sense of smell and taste to figure that out before polishing off a glass. NTA.
I don’t understand the update. So he tasted the spoiled milk and then decided to drink the rest of the glass and get mad about it?
When milk is spoiled it is very, very obvious.
There is a difference between expired and spoiled. Expired milk in an unopened cartoon in an unopned fridge can last a long time past the official expiry date.
You can definitely taste when milk is spoiled, so I’m baffled that the friend continued to drink it AFTER the first sip if it was truly spoiled. It’s extremely easy to tell when milk tastes “off”.
NTA. What is wrong with your friend? He helps himself to something out of your fridge and then comes to complain about it? He should have a) first asked permission, before he takes something, and b) used his senses, before consuming any food or drink. Spoiled milk smells and tastes distinctly different from fresh milk. Unless he is devoid of sense of smell, he should have noticed the moment he took his first sip and stopped right there.
Who doesn’t instinctively sniff milk before pouring even if it is brand new and in date 😂 it is a life skill learnt in early childhood when pouring dodgy milk on cereal 😂 NTA that’s on him and his lack of self preservation