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The use of "milk" for these plant juices has been driven by the marketing arms of huge corporations, not historical use.

• the_gastropod 7y ago
  Source? Afaik, coconut milk and soy milk have not only been made for centuries, but also called something like “milk” where they were consumed (e.g. India, China, Thailand, etc.) ETA: The Mahābhārata, a book dating back to 400BCE, refers to making rice milk. So... https://books.google.com/books?id=ivQ6CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT14&lpg=PT14&dq=drona%20rice%20milk%20ashwatthama&source=bl&ots=w0Ub9HcqNm&sig=ACfU3U3x5Y1Vko8yhgfI86Xjaf4oDIe88A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwik5trCybzkAhUEneAKHQouCC4Q6AEwDHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Rice%20milk&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=ivQ6CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT14&lpg=P...
  • jtuente 7y ago
    Is that a translation preference or is the word for milk used specifically? That excerpt is talking about deceiving someone with dilute pounded rice served as milk.
  • markdown 7y ago
    I don't know about soy milk, but that's not true at all for coconut where it was consumed.