OPO: Types of Milk

i recently switched from almond to coconut to try it out. it tastes too thin & watery to me, worse than skim. gonna get almond again next time.

occasionally i return to dairy because it has that extra something

also in before 'breast milk' joke

i thought this was gonna be whole/2%/skim etc

i'm voting cow milk, only thing i've had regularly in my life

when i went to college i was shocked that the dining halls didn't serve whole milk. when i told people that i only drank whole milk grown up, i was looked at like a freak

almond milk, until i run out of almond milk, then i use my bf's soy milk.

i am not a nutrition nazi! but almond/soy sit better with me than cow milk.

when i went to college i was shocked that the dining halls didn't serve whole milk. when i told people that i only drank whole milk grown up, i was looked at like a freak

― a hoy hoy heat (J0rdan S.), Friday, August 17, 2012 11:17 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

v v freakish imo

cow:
chocolate milk
strawberry milk
2% milk ice cold
root beer milkshake
1% milk and chocolate rice krispies
chocolate milk with chalky protein powder

soy:
hot barely sweet doujiang from yonghe or copycat

Cow milk, semi-skimmed but then I'm one of those freakish Northern Europeans with the mutation to digest the stuff.

Sad to see Rice Milk not an option, though, as I am totally addicted to those weird Rice Dream chocolate milk drinks. They don't taste anything like milk, but they are like nice chocolately rice pudding.

We had a free sample of hemp milk with our groceries once. It wasn't too bad, but it was way too sweet for my tastes. Not really a fan of soy milk and I haven't tried the other two, so it's semi-skimmed cow milk all the way.

when i went to college i was shocked that the dining halls didn't serve whole milk. when i told people that i only drank whole milk grown up, i was looked at like a freak

― a hoy hoy heat (J0rdan S.), Friday, August 17, 2012 11:17 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my wife only drinks whole milk, and so do our kids. I was raised on skim myself and everything else tastes sour to me.

Crammed is my milk of preference. Crammed milk is a sustainable organic fair trade recycled blend of milks spilled all over the world, plus the tears of the people who spilled it. So when you drink it you get the double satisfaction of knowing that something apparently wasted has, against all expectations, been put to good use, but also that by ingesting a stranger's tears you are fortifying your own, which may be shed less pointlessly on a real tragedy when it comes along.

Recently, though, I've noticed the flavour of crammed milk suffering from the inclusion of all sorts of impurities. Manufacturers have started including metaphorical spilt milk. So, for instance, when someone loses a large sum of money on the stock exchange, and a friend says "no use crying over spilt milk", the manufacturers take this as license to throw a truckload of condemned nickel coins, bought on the cheap from third world governments, into the vats. It tastes horrible. I wish they'd stop doing it, or, failing that, I wish people would stop using "spilt milk" as a metaphor.

I still buy the stuff, though, and tend to get very crabby in towns where it can't be found. I was recently on a business trip to Airdrie (don't ask), and not only did the shopkeepers shrug blankly when I asked for "a litre of your best crammed, my good man", they were actually very rude, starting to serve waiting customers when I was halfway through trying to educate them. I was forced to visit (in alphabetical order) Airdrie's satellite villages of Airdriehill, Chapelhall, Calderbank, Caldercruix, Glenmavis, Greengairs, Longriggend, Plains, Stand, Upperton and Wattston.

I wish I'd used reverse-alphabetical order; I finally found crammed milk in Wattston, though it was unspeakably foul. Someone had recently used the expression "no use crying over spilt milk" about a muddy stampede in a local football stadium toilet in which 36 heavily-intoxicated gents lost their lives.

Still, there's no use crying over spilt milk, I suppose.

almond milk, not a nutritional nazi, just vegan

I was whole milk only til my mid-thirties. Cold glass of whole milk in the summer is like...man oh man. Ramped down to 2% for a while there. I get in & out of almond milk, the only one of the alternatives that seems to work for me, but most of my milk use is in cooking - I don't eat a lot of cold cereal, take my coffee black most days. But for cooking/baking I'm still unsatisfied with the vegan options for milk. I am 100% not a nutrition nazi, lol my waistline, but I'm vegetarian.

i don't really drink milk by itself, but i only do whole milk for coffee, cereal, with chocolate chip cookies on occasion, etc. it's the only way to go with cow milk afaic.

Unsweetened soya milk, but the stuff with added nutrients. Not a nutrition nazi, just a vegan topping up on B12 and D. Was a bit squeamish at having it to begin with and for the first few months after cutting dairy from my diet I used to have ORANGE JUICE on my cereal instead (tasty but I knew inside that it was deeply wrong). Pretty used to soya now though and think it's really nice. Would never occur to me to drink a glass of the stuff by itself (never did so with cow's milk either), but I wouldn't have a problem doing so.

kefir

i get mad cravings for 2% like all the time. sometimes i use my bf's half and half for granola when i'm out of milky substances, soo good but it invariably makes me feel sunk and turgid.

kefir is really good though! i don't like soy or almond milk because imo they're even more hyper-processed than cow's milk.

cow (2%)

Without cow's milk, most varieties of cheese would not exist. This fate would be unutterably sad.

I only drink skim cow's milk.

Years of dieting got me stuck on it. Every time I go back to try whole milk, it's just overwhelming and not that good.

Coconut for rice and peas, cow for everything else.

what about rice milk! rice milk is the only one of these i fuck with, though obviously i am willing to try anything that says 'almond' and 'vanilla' on it. stevie was talking about some milk substitute tasting like milkshakes on another thread, & i kinda like all the weird textures of these things; rice milk tastes like cereal you just ate sugary weetabix out of, all sedimenty and pulpy.

i stopped drinking soy milk a while ago out of ~suspicion of soya~ but feel like being a vegetarian who does not eat soy is the point at which you should be euthanised, on account of your quality of life being too low

Is that like a "ooooo, spooky genetic engineering" suspicion of soy or a "it will overwhelm me with estrogen" suspicion?

it is not really rooted in solid research, i am just funny about my skin & occasionally speculate on correlations between stuff i ate + breakouts. soya stuff seemed bad for awhile, though not in a big way, but that's both a) v unscientific & b) limited to me & my unique dermatology. (as a nb i think i am a-okay w/genetic engineering?, i don't know a lot about it though).

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I would never just drink a glass of milk. OK MAYBE if I was eating some sinfully rich chocolately thing but otherwise drinking a glass of milk is really weird to me. I use either skim/1% or almond in coffee and the occasional bowl of cereal. Same for cooking too.

When I was a kid I drank TONS of milk. 4-5 pints a day easily (including what I put on my cereal, and I ate a lot of cereal). At some point in my early 20s I started putting on weight and I cut out drinking milk and never went back to it.

I do have good teeth for my age. Which may or may not have anything to do with anything. I did wonder if the amount of milk I drank had anything to do with my height (I am much taller than both my parents, which I was taught at uni is a genetic anomaly, but I do have some v tall distant relatives so probably just recessive genes skipping generations or something).

There used to be a milk maker on the camp last year where you added whatever nut/whatever to water through a grinder or blender.
Been a year since I've seen it cos I think it broke.
But it did mean that the variety of possible 'milks' increased beyond the more obvious.

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(I am much taller than both my parents, which I was taught at uni is a genetic anomaly

really? i thought everyone was taller than their parents. unless you mean your parents put together.

tbh I thought it was a bit dubious. Especially given the same class included a bunch of stuff about the Bell Curve (which I took at face value at the time). Not sure why height came into it, it was genetic psychology, biopsychology or something. I guess just general genetics stuff.