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My favourite is soy / almond milk etc. If you don’t drink milk, why do you need a substitute? A substitute that comes in difficult to recycle aluminium-paper-p
by TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
My favourite is soy / almond milk etc.
If you don’t drink milk, why do you need a substitute? A substitute that comes in difficult to recycle aluminium-paper-plastic laminated cartons that still contain most of the food-miles and process / handling carbon emissions.
Ok, hipocricy is everywhere and we can’t all be angels over night.
- eschutte2 8y agoThose aren't called milk because they're a substitute for anything, they're called milk because that's the English word for a cloudy translucent liquid. See also milk glass, milk thistle, and milk of magnesia. Speaking for myself, I drink almond milk because it tastes better than cow milk.
- gbear605 8y agoUsually, they want a substitute because they like foods that taste roughly like milk but they can’t drink milk. Is that too much to ask?
- gruez 8y agobut none of the vegetable "milks" taste anywhere close to mammalian milk.
- gbear605 8y agoNo? I haven’t tried almond milk, but rice milk tastes similar.
- 7952 8y agoBut what else would you put on your corn flakes?
- astura 8y agoSo? Skim milk tastes nothing like full fat milk, but still has a right to exist. It's something sorta similar to milk that can be used in roughly the same applications - lighten coffee, moisten cereal, baking, sauces, fold into mashed potatoes, etc. I prefer the taste of pretty much all nut milks to cows milk, personally.
- vkou 8y agoMost people drink soy/almond milk because they like the taste, or because their bodies aren't very good at digesting lactose.
- freedomben 8y agoAllergies to casein are also becoming much more common.
- wild_preference 8y agoI don't know anyone who drinks non-dairy milks for concerns over carbon emissions. It's always been one of or a mix of dietary concerns, taste preference, or avoidance of the awful dairy industry. Also, where I live, dairy comes in those tetrapaks, too.