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A couple of years back I had a rather abrupt dietary change due to some health issues. One of the key parts was the total elimination of cheese from my diet.
by at_a_remove 7y ago
A couple of years back I had a rather abrupt dietary change due to some health issues. One of the key parts was the total elimination of cheese from my diet. I began to say to myself, "Props to those National Dairy Council guys," because cheese was everywhere I looked. It is kind of impressive, really.
I am not against labels like "fake milk." If anything, I find myself increasingly annoyed by products that are not what they actually claim to be: silk that is not really silk, milk that is not actually milk. I'm quite okay with linguistic prescriptivism when it comes to product names.
- freddie_mercury 7y ago> I am not against labels like "fake milk." I agree, anything other than full fat human milk that is non-homogenized and unpasteurized, with no additives (vitamins or otherwise) should be labelled fake milk.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoCall me an anarchist, but as long as it comes from a mammal I have no problem with it being labeled "milk".
- freddie_mercury 7y agoI detect an anti-marsupial bias.
- akiselev 7y agoMarsupials are mammals.
- war1025 7y agoMe and my wife were actually joking the other day that at some point there's going to be a human milk industry. We envisioned something similar to the places you can go to sell your blood plasma. There already is a network of sorts where lactating moms will donate milk to hospitals and mothers that can't nurse for whatever reason. [1] [1] https://uichildrens.org/mothers-milk-bank-iowa https://uichildrens.org/mothers-milk-bank-iowa
- akubera 7y agoThere was that human-milk ice cream in the UK around 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Gaga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Gaga I don't know how well that turned out.
- germinalphrase 7y agoI am anecdotally aware that human milk for infants goes for $5/oz (which seems crazy when you tally up how much milk an infant can drink in a day).
- Causality1 7y agoYep. Labeling things milk that resemble milk is not a recent trend and I think it's a shallow excuse for people to attack non-dairy milk. Those people have no problem with milk of magnesia, milkweed, or milk thistle.
- CalRobert 7y agoIs coconut milk OK?
- fhbdukfrh 7y agoIs it labeled as milk? I always see coconut water, which is closer to the reality of coconut juice
- germinalphrase 7y agoYes. Coconut milk is both the water and coconut oil/flesh. Common for cooking.
- CalRobert 7y agoThat is a different product. coconut milk is thick, creamy, fatty and used in Thai cooking. I know no other word for it.
- at_a_remove 7y agoAs a product, I am sure it is useful or tasty or whatnot, but I don't think it is milk.