What state? Try buying half and half in quart or half gallon, if you want a richer drink. Specific gravity sample tests and milkfat tests are done on milk to prevent water-tampering that was done to over 90% of all milk in england and USA prior to the year 1912. Few dairies that flash homogenize fuck with milk in usa. They dont noticeably adulterate due to CRIMINAL law in usa. in usa a company is not merely fined... the OWNERS IN CHARGE go to jail. Food tampering is the only company crime where a boss goes to jail. One arrested for adding too much cardboard to grated cheese (a gypsy woman boss), one jailed for altering caloric content of a portion of chocolate donuts and ignoring lab reports on calories. Roommate or buddies of roommate? No one knowingly is watering down your milk, but roommates in shared apartments do it when each roomie has a different shelf in a large refrigerator, typically a house guest fucking another roommate. Even stealing ketchup or gourmet hot sauce is forbidden in a shared refrigerator with designated shelves. Milk is highly regulated in USA and should never taste weaker than promised fat level unless your nose is going from sars-2 aftermath. CALIFORNIA IN PAST or PRESENT? For over 20 years whole milk from any known breed of dairy cow is ILLEGAL to sell in the state of california. If you were used to california style fake milk, you cannot find that rich taste in any other state. Milk in california is comprised of one part whole milk and a smaller portion of dessicated milk, to bring up its protein content to a level no normal cow can create. California law calls it FORTIFIED MILK. Other than protein levels, even whole milk in california must be fortified, and especially 1 percent milk must be mega-fortified with dessicated milk... **348 milligrams of calcium in 1% milk, 8 ounce** It is also to make milk unafordable to poor illegal alien kids. In fact in the year 2000, a gallon of milk nationwide was about 78 cents in red states, sometimes less sometimes 80 cents but $4.36 in san diego county california. In mexico across the border it was about 1.30 if you did the metric conversions. about twice as high as midwest USA but nowhere near as high as commifornia. **Why $4.36 a gallon in california in 2000?** because it is also illegal to sell milk in california lower than the socialist controlled price, a price poor people cant afford, plus the fact that actual milk from any known breed of cow is and was illegal in california. California has a calculation they use based on your store size, sales per year, employees, etc then forces some stores to charge $4.36 a gallon in 2000, while in Red States it was only 78 cents average.