Milk, spoiled or what?

Question

I had the weirdest experience with whole milk. Bought a gallon, good for another several days. Opened it the next day. It smelled fine, had lumps in it. too busy to return it, called the store then forgot it. The next day it was totally separated. Took me another 5 days to find the time to deal with it. Emptied the container, or as well as I could. The milk that wasn't clear yellowish liquid was solid. But it still did not smell. Still, BTW, within the Use By period.

Here is my question. Are dairys putting something in the milk to keep spoiled milk from smelling, or could something else have happened to make it separate? I have never seen this happen. Creeps me out to think it is some kind of additive. The milk was Dean's, mid-priced, not store brand.

Answer 1

Some how you managed to make cheese.  They are ultra pasteurizing these days and that should not have happened.  I would raise a fuss if I were you.  

Maybe an additive is messing up the pasteurization.  Don't ever drink milk you have any suspicions of.

Answer 2

That's really bizarre.. I've never heard of that. I've been looking it up and I can't find anything that says they do that. I've only seen milk do what you described when it's spoiled so I'd see where you're confused, obviously you can smell when milk is bad. The only thing I can think of to tell you is to write to the company. I'm not sure they'll tell you what additives they put in it, but you could try something like.. I'm allergic to certain things, please tell me what's in your milk. Then look it up. Yeah, that even sounds like a pain in the butt. So every time I've ever had milk to that, there was a smell to go with it. I can't even imagine what was up with that milk!