a glass of milk: C/D

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I recently had a conversation about milk with some friends in which they both agreed that drinking milk is gross and I disagreed. Then last night I had a milky epiphany: I poured up the milk, took a sip, and found it thick and unrefreshing and unnecessary. Suddenly it was clear to me what they meant about milk. Milk is an ingredient, not a beverage. It makes a great cream sauce, killer gravy, and of couse who could live without cheese? But drinking a whole glass of the stuff makes as much sense as drinking a glass of olive oil.

Then I finished the glass of milk, and by the end of it realized once again that milk is delicious, all by itself. I guess you could say I'm torn. Or at least, I can see both sides of the issue.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

I love a glass of milk, at the right time.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

serve with cookies.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

I only deal with skim/fat free milk. It's delicious and not too rich and heavy.

It's not an all-purpose beverage though. It's essential after, say, a pb&j sandwich, but if you're really thirsty and there's only milk around it's not always the best thirst-quencher.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

milk and cookies is classic. choc. milk is as well. other than that i say drinking it by itself is dud-ish. now if you'll excuse me, i have to wipe this e.v.o.o mustache off.

― ()ops (()()ps), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

oh and i'd endorse drinking some if you've ingested too much hot spice, of course.

― ()ops (()()ps), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

I've not been able to drink regualar, store-bought milk since I had straight-from-the-cows-teat-earlier-that-morning, not-laden-with-all-sorts-of-the-kinds-of-hormones-that-are-probably-causing-American-youths-to-begin-puberty-at-earlier-ages-every-year MILK, because I can taste/feel the EVIL in it.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

I've also been bruising a lot easier since then, too.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

Ron Burgundy: "It's so hot... milk was a bad choice."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

So many of my sexual fantasies involve regular non-pregnant girls who can lactate. And people who don't ever drink milk are wimpy and too into films. Look at Football Rick from Boyz In The Hood - he drank so much milk, and he wasn't a wimp. I'm drinking milk right now. Classic.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I guess I still drink hormonated milkfoodproducts occasionally in the form of HALF AND HALF in coffee/caucasians. I prefer my milk thick and milky.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

like your women

― ()ops (()()ps), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, the milk I was drinking was very thick, un-homogenized stuff that you have to shake up. Creamy heaven, if that's your thing.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

I used to hate drinking a glass of plain milk, but I've come around in the last year or so. I agree that skim is best though; whole milk makes me feel woozy.

The awesomest thing is that my cat goes APESHIT when I drink milk. He wants to put his paws in the glass, smell it on my breath, all that weird stuff cats do sometimes.

He is pretty much retarded.

― sugarpants (sugarpants), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

It was me and Nick that said it was gross, right? I stand by my belief.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

I have been buying the Organic milk at the store since I discovered organic milk is often ultra-pasteurized which allows for a 70-day shelf life instead of only around 20. This means that I can keep it until I'm basically done with it, at my low rate of milk usage. Currently in my fridge is a half gallon with a sell-by date of April 14th. Hell yes that's worth twice the price of the regular stuff.

Milk all by itself is like OH BOY I HOPE MY MOUTH TASTES LIKE PROVOLONE SOON. I get my milk from drinking coffee or chai.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

xpost

Yes! It was you two.

It's okay, I know how you both feel about dairy in general. I think the milk thing is more an issue of texture than anything else. Just the words "colloidal suspension" sound like something not meant for ingestion.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah and WHITE RUSSIANS.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

What do you mean, how I feel about dairy in general? I'm not vegan or anything. I love cheese. I just can't stand milk and never have.

In high school, I slept over at the house of this boy I had a crush on, and I somehow managed to convince him to play truth or dare, and so I was all excited and nervous and thought maybe he'll make out with me, so I accepted a dare pretty early on, which was:

Go into the kitchen and drink a whole glass of milk. I just about puked.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Tombot, you can't just keep milk until the sell-by date, once you've opened it!!!!!!!! You get 5 days at a push! Then it turns to gross.

I really like milk.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

I don't hate milk, but I never ever drink it.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

john you know you now have to tell me who you had a crush on!

― ()ops (()()ps), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

skim and nothing else, I love it.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

(Oops -- it was Chris Carl3y.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

drinking a glass of milk means i'll be farting for days. like big clouds of poison gas.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

(And P.S., that's not the end of that story.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

― ()ops (()()ps), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

I like skim milk. Hot milk is really good. I don't think I could drink whole milk. It's too rich, but it's probably just a matter of getting used to it because I remember this guy in college who had lived in Egypt and couldn't stand skim milk. Milk also tastes different in other countries. Well, maybe not so much in European ones, but definitely in South Korea. I wonder if anyone still drinks a glass of milk with dinner. That just seems so heavy. How could you eat a steak, for example, and drink a glass of milk?!

― youn, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

gross

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

Ice cold skim milk + xanax + cigarette + brush your teeth after = best sleep in the WORLD.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

Milk and a steak does sound crazy. That sounds like something Henry the Eighth would eat before killing a few wives or some shit. Day-um.

― sugarpants (sugarpants), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

I can't drink milk if the meal is very dairy heavy. For instance, I used to have a roommate who would always always drink a glass of milk with pizza, ugh.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Let's see now:

a) Caused me to be congested for most of the first twenty years of my life, leading to
b) chronic ear infections replete with broken ear drums and nasty discharge, and also
c) made my fingertips break out in nasty eczema for most of my teens...

...DUD.

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

Milk rules. I need it to survive.

(I started a thread along time ago about genetic cravings... as my family have been dairy farmers since the neolithic era, I will crave milk because I'm hardwired to need it in my diet. I also theorize that an Inuit pulled from his tribe at birth and moved to Van Nuys will still crave blubber, genetically.)

― andy --, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

I used to love milk as a kid. Loved it, lke 3-4 large glasses a day. Now I can barely drink a whole glass without getting mucous-y, and so I eat dairy products and have milk in tea, but that's about it.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

I don't like it at all. Grew up with it as a constant presence but somewhere along the line I totally lost my taste for it. The only three things I use milk for are cereal, coffee, and as an additive to eggs before beating. And I really only drink coffee on weekends. And I really only cook eggs on the weekend too. So I buy soy milk. It tastes much better. It doesn't work so well in the coffee but I live with it.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

What do you mean, how I feel about dairy in general? I'm not vegan or anything. I love cheese. I just can't stand milk and never have.

That's exactly what I mean.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

I was diagnosed as lactose intolerant around the age of 5 and went from a diet laden with lots of milk to none at all very brutally. Since I am an ardent consumer of fancy cheeses, I don't push my luck by drinking too much milk but every now and then, I'll have a bowl of cereal, for old times' sake. I cannot stand anything but whole milk and didn't particularly like it right from the cow but I adore fresh goat's milk. Coffee should never be adulterated with anything.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

i like milk and i cannot lie. skim, though, plz.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

Ugh, Christ, milk? It's for baby cows not human peoples. Fackin' tastes like it an' all.

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

john, i read that initially as Chris K*ley, and thought "ookay, interesting taste in men, i suppose".

― ()ops (()()ps), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

choco milk + Vernors = choco milky fizzy madness gladness

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, Oops, you just made me throw up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

I love whole milk, but sometime in the last 10 years, my body has switched from OH GOD YES PLEASE GIVE ME MORE OF THAT MILKY GOODNESS, OH MILK, HOW I LOVE YOU LET'S GET MARRIED AND HAVE LITTLE MILKY BABIES to 'yeah you just try and drink that stuff, bitch - we're gonna stage a coup and you'll be none too happy about it, lemme tell ya...'

Lactose intolerance WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS TO ME?

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

xpost: (Even more than the milk did.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

Milk used to be a regular part of my diet but then I gave up on breakfast cereal. The occasional cafe au lait and the like suffice. Then there is cheese, a far superior product in general.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

milk

milk is gross

milk has always been gross

there is no excuse, for drinking milk

also Spencer's first post is exactly what i thought when reading this thread title

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

Then there is cheese, a far superior product in general.

I doubt this will be contested.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Then there is any ingestible substance in the world, a far superior product in general.

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

Velveeta might be the sole exception.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

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Drinking a glass of olive oil is supposed to be good for you, too! There's a health food store in Brooklyn where the two Muslim guys who run it swear by the olive oil technique. In the morning (they say) they each have about an espresso cup's worth of extra virgin olive oil, instead of coffee. Every single day. I laughed them off but they raised their voices and were like "yes yes!" and one of them practically cornered me while the other guy went to go fetch down a bottle of really nice olive oil by the way, out of wich he poured a couple of fingers' worth in a paper cup and he was like "drink!" and the other guy was like "yes!" the two of them watched me with a sense of impending achievement and I was like "blech"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 24 February 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

"IT'S NO BUTTERMILK"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 24 February 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

My best friend drinks loads of milk and he is WHOLESOME and BLOND, like I was once before I stopped drinking intensive milk. I regret doing this. I like milk.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 24 February 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

I like eating cereal waaaaaaaaaaay too much to give up milk. And sometimes, when I have a banana for a snack, I can only wash it down with milk. And milk has saved my hide many a time when I've needed to choke down some nausea-inducing medicine or another, as a surefire way for me to prevent complete evacuation of everything I've consumed over the past twelve hours. And the only thing I can consume with cake or cookies is milk. And chocolate milk is good for killing my decadent sweet tooth without reaching for something exceedingly regretful. Mind you, the only milk I can really stand is 1% or skim (and, on rare occasion, 2%), but still, it's MILK, and I still believe wholeheartedly in the old advertising slogan, i.e. that "milk does a body good".

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 24 February 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

Milk is good, but better with MALT in it. If I don't have a malted milk in the early afternoon I get cranky. (crankier).

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 24 February 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)

Buttermilk is like what I imagine milk mixed with rancid bull sperm to be like.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 February 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

Maybe thats what makes it taste so good.

― kate/papa november (papa november), Thursday, 24 February 2005 03:32 (twenty years ago)

It's nature's sloe gin fizz.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 February 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

ts rancid bull sperm vs fresh bull sperm

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Thursday, 24 February 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

I used to love buttermilk when I was a kid, and I still like the taste, but the thickness is kinda gaggy. But it's U&K for good cornbread.

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 24 February 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

http://xray1.physics.sunysb.edu/research/graphics/bull_sperm.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 24 February 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

Dee, I eat cereal like every morning! With soy milk! (Which, as Todd points out, lasts longer, too -- which is great, because I live alone and just use a bit each day.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 24 February 2005 06:27 (twenty years ago)

I drink a glass of milk everyday.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 24 February 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

Semi-skimmed milk + creme de menthe + vanilla ice cream + vodka = classic

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 24 February 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

let's everyone clabber up!!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 24 February 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Milk? Yuck.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 24 February 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

I had a glass of milk last night just because all the haters on this thread put me in the mood for it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 February 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

http://www.genesis-publications.com/books/anfield/rush.jpg
Exactly.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 24 February 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

What is with all of these milk haters? I don't understand this at all.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Thursday, 24 February 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

I'm surprised and impressed that no one has said, "Fuck a glass of milk" yet.

Seriously though, fuck a glass of milk. Milk as a drink...ughck.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 24 February 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Milk with a banana and honey blended into it is surely the drink on Mt Olympus

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 24 February 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

what a rush.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 24 February 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Whenever I eat ice cream I like to have a glass of milk with it. I realize this is a bit odd. My husband can't even watch me he thinks it's so disgusting.

― quincie, Thursday, 24 February 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Ghastly stuff, perfectly foul

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 24 February 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Banana with milk chaser.. now give us a kiss.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 24 February 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

dude tracer where is this health food store in bklyn? i wanna go there!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 24 February 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

That does sound like fun.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Thursday, 24 February 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

I don't know if "I want to go to Brooklyn and drink olive oil!" is a valid reason for visiting New York though. Maybe it is.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Thursday, 24 February 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Whenever I eat ice cream I like to have a glass of milk with it. I realize this is a bit odd. My husband can't even watch me he thinks it's so disgusting.

That's like eating pasta with a side of risotto, no? A little dairy-heavy, dontcha think? Even if you don't think it's disgusting, it seems ill-advised.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Thursday, 24 February 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

There's a great Milk Marketing Board ad which appears as an extra on the forthcoming (or just out or long-gone, I dunno) Live And Let Die DVD where everyone - Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, the geezer doing the boat stunts, possibly even Sheriff JW Pepper - is glugging down milk between takes in the boiling Louisiana sun.

We had the full-fat creamy stuff every morning in schools in the UK, of course, until Thatch (as part of the Heath government) took it away. AR Kane wrote a song abaht it.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 24 February 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

What did the AR stand for?

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 24 February 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Alex and Rudi. They were the Abba of dreampop.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 24 February 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Dee, I eat cereal like every morning! With soy milk! (Which, as Todd points out, lasts longer, too -- which is great, because I live alone and just use a bit each day.)

I'll actually have to try out soy milk one of these days. I'm aware of how there's chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry soy milk out there -- but would there be regular soy milk?? Because I'm sure that the flavored soy milks are good and all, but I don't want the milk to add any flavors to the cereal other than the general milky one that I feel goes great with cereal. (I'm mentioning this because I *will* try this out.) (I'll still remain a regular milk consumer too, BTW, even if I like soy milk a lot.)

Anyway, the whole staying power thing doesn't really have to apply to me. I rarely, if ever, throw out any milk at all at the end of the week, meaning I can and will go through a half-gallon of milk in that time frame. So, yeah, keeping milk around for a long time is not something I'm familiar with. ;)

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 25 February 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

plus they do, in this wondorous 21st century after the birth of our lord, sell milk in many different-sized containers.

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 25 February 2005 04:27 (twenty years ago)

Milk is definitely a classic. It is necessary for what is basically my favorite food (cereal), and it supposedly makes people into STAR ATHLETES. I only enjoy a glass of 1% though, whole milk is kinda groddy.

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Friday, 25 February 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

why is it that drinking a glass of milk has such a bad rep? It's delicious, and good for your BONES! Don't you wanna be like those HOT, TALL MODELS WHO GUZZLE MILK??

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 25 February 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

also, I can't believe all this milk hate. what's wrong with a lil bit of MOO JUICE?

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Friday, 25 February 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

milk kinda tastes like old cow too.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 25 February 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

Dee, yeah, most of the soy milk I get either comes in vanilla or regular flavor. I used to get vanilla, but it tasted too sweet, so now it's regular all the way. (I don't think I've ever seen strawberry!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 February 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

anyone for flavoured milk?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 25 February 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

do me a flavour.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 25 February 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

gordon bennett!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 25 February 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

But drinking a whole glass of the stuff makes as much sense as drinking a glass of olive oil.

I sampled some olive oil infused water or something at club ft last night and it was RANK. It didn't help that before I sipped it Pete pointed out the line on the bottle: "with hint of WOOD"! EURGH it was nasty. I was drunk at the time but it would've been even grosser had I been sober. No way could I drink pure olive oil.

I drink milk on cereal and in coffee/tea and the occasional hot chocolate when I want dessert and we're out of treats. It was standard in my family for everyone to have a glass of milk with dinner, but I stopped doing that in college. I fear osteoporosis though so I'm going to keep drinking milk. I prefer skim but will drink semi-skim as well...the last time I tried to drink coffee with soy milk it made me literally gag.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 25 February 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

Milk is too classic. 5/5 for milk. Hurrah!

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 25 February 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

Skimmed milk is so thin and watery, I go thru the stuff like, well, water actually. At least good old heart-bustin', artery-thick'nin' full fat milk lasts for a while, just a coupla a drops of that stuff in yer tea and yer laughin'.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 25 February 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Milk used to be a regular part of my diet but then I gave up on breakfast cereal. The occasional cafe au lait and the like suffice. Then there is cheese, a far superior product in general

eXACTLY my feelings.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 25 February 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

I was a big fan of the ROOT BEER milk in elementary school. Or at least I wanted to be but was ashamed. Or I didn't like it and drank it anyway so I could be seen with the brown carton and become popular. It's all a blur really. They also had ORANGE MILK. WEIRD! But I know for a fact that I had a soft spot for the hersheys strawberry milk, which tasted just like trix cereal milk. Is that gross?

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Friday, 25 February 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

ok I don't remember crazy-ass milk varities being available in Greeley Elementary Schools in my day.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 25 February 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

which elementary school did you go to? At Scott School they had the ROOT BEER and ORANGE milk for a limited time. Gross.

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Friday, 25 February 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

my mom's bumper sticker said "my kid's a winner at Cameron Elementary School."

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 25 February 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

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