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It's not a pedantic thing. Nut/Seed drinks are not milks. They're just as much milk as coffee is tea and apple juice is vodka. It's absolute nonsense to call
by antisthenes 5y ago
It's not a pedantic thing.
Nut/Seed drinks are not milks. They're just as much milk as coffee is tea and apple juice is vodka.
It's absolute nonsense to call it milk, just because some "clever" marketing department somewhere decided to name it such in an effort to peddle their product more effectively.
- vineyardmike 5y ago> coffee is tea and apple juice is vodka You brew coffee and you brew tea. Tea is plant products brewed in hot water, and coffee is... a plant product in hot water? We call all sorts of soups soup even though they contain different ingredients, so why not Milk?
- antisthenes 5y ago> We call all sorts of soups soup even though they contain different ingredients, so why not Milk? Because soup is any kind of liquid food. If you had made a soup that was made entirely of Milk, it would simply still be soup. Milk is specifically produced by mammary glands of...a mammal. Not sure why I have to explain how words and definitions work on HN, but there it is.