Ok I'll share what I know to my NAS family.
Commercial Chocolate Milk is a "waste" product.
Well at least in Canada. A lot of regulations around fresh white milk, but Chocolate and those milkshake products not so much.
"Old" near expired milk gets taken back to
Factory from stores, sugar and chocolate are added, allows extended life to be added & sold again.
I had a buddy who got a job there and near knocked the shit outta our hands when we saw is drinking it
They are stripping all the fat out and selling you chocolate milk water..
Up here you will always see these sales of 1liter chocolate milk cheaper than white. 99cents usually.
On summertime you will find thats where you get spoiled chocolate milk.
If people's fridges are a little shitty... chocolate milk spoils quicker. Plus you gotta think about the putbacks are grocery store..stuff that's sat on the shelf for and hour. And they put it back.
All of that and groceries stores open fridges is shit.. less days remain...
@freemayonnaise @HonkHonkBoom milk is delivered by the dairy, even today to most grocery stores. When that milk man is dropping off new milk he takes back the stuff that has less and 7 days..
My buddies job was to open said cartons and bags and jugs and dumb them into the vat to make the chocolate milk.
You might think it's a logistical nightmare but thats how it is done.
Yeah that's what im talking about... that is how its done NOW. Im in the GTA man, massive city.
That IS how its still done, at the megafactory