Do You Drink Milk?

[gmoney]

Not very often, but when I do it has to be whole milk. My great-aunts used to call it 'Sweet milk' when I was a kid. I never could get used to skim milk or 2% or 1%. It's like colored water to me.

Also, it has to be ice cold; almost to the point of having little ice crystals floating at the top.

 

[bankside]

Probably 1 or 2 litres a day. Skim is good but it took some time to get used to it. Going from 2% to 1% was really easy though. And the only time I drank homo was when my mom had it in the house for the baby. I didn't realize adults regularly drank it.

I know it's silly but every time an American calls pop "soda," I wonder how they can possibly be drinking this:

I can't help it, it just pops into my mind and I do a double-take. Moreso since the invention of the internet of course, because now I have more opportunities to engage in discussion with Americans.

 

[Spiff]

I go through a gallon of skim about every 10 days.

 

[MercuryJones]

Oh, I do use 1% or 2% milk in my coffee.

 

[Nomenclature]

Probably 1 or 2 litres a day. Skim is good but it took some time to get used to it. Going from 2% to 1% was really easy though. And the only time I drank homo was when my mom had it in the house for the baby. I didn't realize adults regularly drank it.

I know it's silly but every time an American calls pop "soda," I wonder how they can possibly be drinking this:

I can't help it, it just pops into my mind and I do a double-take. Moreso since the invention of the internet of course, because now I have more opportunities to engage in discussion with Americans.

And every time I hear someone ask for a "pop", I want to pop them in the face like this:

 

[BINOWGAYLATER]

half/half in the coffee - soy milk - sometimes - but not much anymore -
2% all the time -
there are some things that you gotta have a couple of BIG glasses of milk with -
anything chocolate -
peanut butter (sandwiches)
spaghetti sauce
for dunking graham crakers or almost any cookie
mac and cheese
ice cream --
need I go on ? -- I luvs my milk !!

 

[hack24]

I like drinking milk....but I'm amazed that so few others do. A few years ago I saw an article that said that sodas (pop) now outpace milk as the beverage that most Americans use. In fact, in some places you can't even find milk available. I can't believe that that carbonated drinks with no real nutrional value are consumed more than milk, but then maybe that's just my South Dakota upbring bleeding through.

 

[piano1]

I try to drink a glass before going to bed...have it with my cereal in the morning to watch my weight.

 

[ronboy]

I am not a big milk drinker, but I like it in cereal, and will sometimes take a small glass before bedtime.

I drink lactose free 2% milk (I favor the Lactaid brand).

 

[Jayden]

I only use rice milk.

 

[The_Reaper]

I use 2% milk for my cooking, tea, etc...

Occasionally, I will have a glass of it when the mood strikes me. But for the most part, I drink 1% Chocolate Milk when I have a milk craving.

 

[Gamby6]

I wasn't a fan of it until couple of years ago when I went on diet. I started drinking skim milk just to offset my dietary changes. All of sudden, the taste became appealing to me somehow. Since then I've been having it every morning with bread, cereal or even plain.

 

[Nomenclature]

I used to drink soy milk because I like the flavor better, but stopped when I read about it increasing estrogen levels.

Actually, i've read studies a few years ago that found it had no measurable feminizing effect on males. The phytoestrogens in soy have something like one-thousandth of the biological activity that estrogen has, so you would have to drink gallons and gallons of it to actually have any effect on your reproductive health, let alone to actually "feminize" you.


I know it's bad form to say something like this without citing any sources, but I haven't been able to find the studies on Google yet. As soon as I have sources. . .or even if I find out anything different, i'll post it here in this thread.


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I wasn't a fan of it until couple of years ago when I went on diet. I started drinking skim milk just to offset my dietary changes. All of sudden, the taste became appealing to me somehow.

That's because when milk proteins are digested, they break down into something called "casomorphin", which is an opiate that acts on the opiate receptors in your brain. The natural function of this is to get baby cows to crave their mother's milk, so they'll keep drinking it and growing.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casomorphin


ALL mother's milk - cow, human, cat, pig, dog, etc - naturally contains opiates that make their baby want to keep drinking the milk. That's why babies have to be "weaned" off of it once they can eat solid food. . . .and why you developed a taste for it after drinking it for awhile.

 

[Daximus]

I like iced 2% milk. Ice in the glass gets it real cold and thins the milk just a bit. Yum!!

 

[infectedkisses]

love love love the stuff i easly drink 3-4 pints a day

 

[Semirhage666]

Milk that is not skim is disgusting and slimy.

 

[Nomenclature]

Milk that is not skim is disgusting and slimy.

 

[Kester]

Nup.

I hate milk.

 

[Under-taken]

Yes, whole milk, in cereal once a day.

Sometimes will have a coffee/mocha, too

 

[Gamby6]

Actually, i've read studies a few years ago that found it had no measurable feminizing effect on males. The phytoestrogens in soy have something like one-thousandth of the biological activity that estrogen has, so you would have to drink gallons and gallons of it to actually have any effect on your reproductive health, let alone to actually "feminize" you.


I know it's bad form to say something like this without citing any sources, but I haven't been able to find the studies on Google yet. As soon as I have sources. . .or even if I find out anything different, i'll post it here in this thread.


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That's because when milk proteins are digested, they break down into something called "casomorphin", which is an opiate that acts on the opiate receptors in your brain. The natural function of this is to get baby cows to crave their mother's milk, so they'll keep drinking it and growing.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casomorphin


ALL mother's milk - cow, human, cat, pig, dog, etc - naturally contains opiates that make their baby want to keep drinking the milk. That's why babies have to be "weaned" off of it once they can eat solid food. . . .and why you developed a taste for it after drinking it for awhile.

I used to not like milk at all. I didn't even drink milk as a kid. My mom never forced me to drink either. That's why I'm surprise to find out how I develop taste for it. But, nonetheless, you post is interesting. I have no idea there's something addicting in milk that would make someone who drinks hook to it. Good post!