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There's a long history of calling nondairy plant substances milk. Milkweed. Milk of magnesia. Coconut milk. Milking it for what it's worth. So no thanks to tha

• Alex3917 8y ago
  > There's a long history of calling nondairy plant substances milk. Don't forget mushrooms! Stuff in the Lactarius genus are commonly called milky caps. It's actually a tradition to mess with mushroom beginners by asking them to put the sap from Lactarius piperatus on their tongues, because it's super spicy and burns a ton. But it's also the easiest way that you ID the mushroom and tell it apart from a couple look alikes.
• gbrown 8y ago
  That goes for "meat" too - it was once a generic term for food, and is still used in the sense of "the edible part of something as distinguished from its covering". For example, "nut meat" is the edible center of nuts.