this milk is now gone

dearly beloved

we are gathered here today to discuss milk, look you see. and not just any milk, i suppose. for a start it's actual proper milk, meaning full cream or full fat, depending on your branding preference. none of this skimmed or "semi" skimmed nonsense, where as far as i can tell (or taste) all they would seem to do is dilute it with some water. 

showing a complete lack of things to add here, and in doing so perhaps reflecting the empty state of my existence, here we go. this is all to do with some milk that had a use by (or best before) date of yesterday, at time of printing (publishing) this on the internet. precisely, if one wishes to be pedantic, 61 seconds prior to this going live. 

i suppose there is kind of a partially interesting question here. should one take 'use by' literally, well, exactly how literally? were it so that i drank of this milk at 11:59pm on the date marked would it somehow be of a more better, acceptable condition than if i drank of the same just north of a minute later? obviously 'best before' doesn't come into this one, and that's just warning you the experience or quality may not be the same if used after that date. no, i have never tried this with milk, or any other such item what has a 'use by' warning. 

as it happens, yes i did purchase one of these bottles of milk. i had finished it a quite considerable amount of time prior to the use by date. having stored it as directed, or traditional, in a fridge, it was fine for all the time i had made use of it. mostly this was in tea or coffee, depending on the time of day. 

perhaps the best ever conversation about milk is that one line off of a comedy show off of Billy Connolly. he, in it, reasonably asked who was it that worked out you could get milk from a cow, and what was it they thought they were doing to the cow when they made this discovery. as fair as that question is, i am not entirely sure a full disclosure answer would sit well. 

right, well, let me get on with stuff, see if i can find anything a bit more interesting to put here. unless milk is your thing (or your "bag"), then i imagine this would have been quite class. 

be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!