Your “most cultures” claim ignores most of eastern Europe where it’s perfectly traditional to drink milk straight from under a cow. Urban population doesn’t do

Your “most cultures” claim ignores most of eastern Europe where it’s perfectly traditional to drink milk straight from under a cow. Urban population doesn’t do it anymore, same way how most people no longer use an outhouse or bring their water from the well, but visiting traditional rural villages in my childhood I was offered milk straight from a bucket from a freshly milked cow that just returned from a pasture. They also made cheese, butter, cream, fermented kefir, etc, for the same reasons Irish have a million potato dishes. What I described is true for Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, but I strongly suspect is widespread everywhere where people own cows in their household. It’s just odd to see a claim that “most cultures mainly drink fermented milk” declared with such certainty.