TOTAL agreement.. I open, SMELL, NOW what ? Sour smell, what is still open, it nearly midnight ? Water and cookies ? Yuck Ice tea and cookies ? Even coffee and cookies, good, but not like milk and cookies !

Hahaha!!! Yes!!! And it's been 50 my years since my mom made us drink powdered milk!

I do not and never did.

I’ve never shaken it in my life. I do smell it when it gets close to the use by date though.

I will do, but I drink lactose free milk and almond milk, both if which say to shake the container before use.
When I was young, we got the glass bottles from the dairy, returning them for the deposit. I am only 55, but I grew up in Amish country, so we were not as advanced as others, until the laws forced it

Yep, still do, old habits die hard. I'm old enough to remember the cream on top.

No !

As a child both sides of my family
Still had family cows into the 60’s
Hand Milked ,hand centrifuge separated
Cream , Heavy Cream and milk
Then both my grandmothers would churn butter ,that was electric
People don’t know what they missed

I Wish I could have tasted Good Milk. I heard my folks and Aunts talking about the creme rising to the top.

And something about MIXING butter?

I hate milk. Cookies and coffee, cookies and lemonaid, cookies and cookies - all fine. Big no to the milk. My parents made us drink milk for every meal. Ack. I've sat many, many evenings shaking a mayonnaise jar with cream in it to make butter. Modern life is so nice.

Definitely the best time.
We used to have our milk delivered, and as soon as you heard the milkman put the bottles down, you had to fetch it in, or the sparrows would pierce the foil top, and drink most of the cream on top.
We can still get, and use, fresh single and double cream in our supermarkets her in the UK.
My wife and I have never used manufactured whipping cream, only fresh.
My Pavlovas, are a thing of gastronomic excellence, never mind the artery clogging properties!

especially the skim or 1% blend. i drink it, but miss whole milk with pie or cookies

We use non-dairy milk. Almond or soy or macadamia; delicious and the box says to shake it before use so I shake it. Using non-dairy milk helps your diet become more plant-based which nutritionists are recommending.