A purchased a gallon of organic milk on Friday. It was sour and had big chunks in it. I took it back the next day (with my receipt-I had spent nearly $80 the day before). The shelf on it was 1-17-09. I stood in the customer service area for about 15 minutes when a “punk” with a coach name tag showed up and pointed out the NO RETURNS on the receipt. I left the milk, my receipt. The Peachtree Ind Blvd Farmer’s MKT went under recently. These clowns need to discover customer service or they too could lose it all.

I will never again purchase any packaged item here. I have previously purchased sliced cheese that tasted like mold. I guess they don’t clean the blades too often.

Buyers Beware: on the bottom of the receipt it says NO RETURNS.

It is impossible to know if sealed items like milk are rotten.

I’m not a big fan of YDFM breads, so I cannot endorse them either way.

I still have to wash my milk cartons and it doesn’t seem to actually help the smell. We also got an apple pie and it smelled fine, but tasted like that stink! I couldn’t eat it.

I was wondering if it is something in their water? I feel like I smell it in the ice.

My YDFM shopping rule is simple and strictly enforced: for me to buy something a non-fruit/veg that is not in a factory-sealed container, it has to have been made or placed out THAT DAY. Not yesterday, not two days ago, THAT DAY. One day (overnight stay?) seems to be enough to ruin the flavor of most of the foods for me.

If the cheese says packed on Oct 21, and it’s Oct. 22, I don’t buy it… ever. It’ll just taste like a congealed lump of chemicals when I get home. No matter how much that pack of chocolate cream cheese croissants screams and cries out for me to take it home, if it wasn’t packaged THAT DAY, it doesn’t go home with me. I can detect it occasionally in even the same-day baked goods (both at the counter and on the shelves), but I can usually overlook that small amount by focusing on the chocolate.

I never buy coffee there anymore, even same-day, it’s all tastes of the ick (2 years ago, it was a soapy-fish taste, now it’s just the chemical smell).

One odd item that doesn’t SEEM to pick it up is the flour. I can usually go with up to a week-old tub of flour and it still doesn’t befoul my cookies and breads.

Something odd that just occurred to me as I typed this: I can’t recall the restaurant food having the smell/taste problem — which I would have expected, honestly, since it’d stand to reason that they’d be using up the oldest, near-expiring food there, which I’d think would be the smelliest? Anyone noticed that special p-funk power in the restaurant munchables?

While I don’t get bowled over by the raunchy funk just walking up to the entrance anymore, it’s still detectable in food and I still reek of YDFM stench when I get home… I still smell it very strongly when I step out into the parking lot — especially when I exhale — which means that it’s now taken up residence in my sinuses and/or nose.

The smell inundates any permeable surface. When I get home after a trip to YDFM, my clothes will continue to off-gas for a good while… I have a convertible, too, so it got plenty of airing out on the way home. I almost always have to go shower and change clothes just to get rid of the stink of going to the market. Publix stinks, too, between the general “Publix smell”, the silly perfume attempting to cover the ammonia produced by decomposing fish in the fish area and the patently offensive fabric softener/detergent aisle… but this is very different, my clothes don’t reek of Publix when I get home… and they shouldn’t smell like I got run over by an Orkin truck when I get home from the farmer’s market.

Also, I’ll add that whatever the smell is, it loves plastic. I’ve been making cheese lately and YDFM is one of the few places I can get pasteurized cream (instead of ultra-pasteurized which is the froo-it of the dev-e-all, by the way). The plastic bottles literally reek of the smell — even soap and water will not dispel the stench. Luckily they don’t stay in the fridge long enough to spread the wealth. So either the compound(s) is not soluble in soap and water or it’s permeated the outside layers of the plastic bottle… Either way, it’s awful — good thing it doesn’t make it all the way thru into the cream.

Let’s hope this is a work in progress and they’re still trying to address it. I give them some credit for trying to make an effort, I just hope they continue to make progress… Only time will tell… hopefully that Utah ice won’t melt thru before they’re done.