Got Milk?

Just wondered what people like to drink - which version of diary product most keep in the fridge.

What lives in your fridge?

I don't drink much milk (like zero) but I have a few varieties in my fridge for cooking. Your poll doesn't allow that possibility.

Can we change Homo to Whole?

I don't drink much milk (like zero) but I have a few varieties in my fridge for cooking. Your poll doesn't allow that possibility.

Actually it does (but you have to read it)

"What sort of milk do you prefer to drink (not cook with or put in coffee/tea)?"

I take it you would be an 'I don't drink much milk' vote.

Can we change Homo to Whole?

I take that description straight off the milk carton. Sorry if it hits a sensitive spot.....

I drink skim milk and use it for cereal quite often. Traci refers to it as water and prefers 2%...if she buys milk, it's 2%, if I buy it's skim

Perhaps you should also add Raw milk as a choice. We buy whole, unpastuerized, unhomogenized milk from a local farmer. Don't imagine many people have this availability but it is common in our area.

I drink skim milk and use it for cereal quite often. Traci refers to it as water and prefers 2%...if she buys milk, it's 2%, if I buy it's skim

A brand here, Creamland, adds extra milk solids to its nonfat milk. The first time I drank it, I thought it was mislabelled and was really 2%.

[Jenise]

I don't drink much milk (like zero) but I have a few varieties in my fridge for cooking. Your poll doesn't allow that possibility.

Same here. Bob will drink milk (2%), and there's nearly always cream in the fridge, but me? NEVER.

Also don't drink any straight, but keep 1%, Whole (Homo), 1/2 & 1/2, light cream, and heavy cream in the fridge for cooking, garnishing, and cereal. We also keep chocolate milk for coffee and grandkids.

Yeah, I am among the non-drinkers too - basically never have a drink of milk, but of course cook and use it in coffee/tea.

I find it interesting that there are so many non-milk drinkers. Apparently that is a very European attitude, but it would seem to defy the cult of milk on this continent.

I recall that the difference in bringing up kids - to drink a LOT of dairy here and very little in Europe, has been cited as one of the reasons for differences in incidence of various ailments - maybe some of our medical members recall specifics.

[Jenise]

I find it interesting that there are so many non-milk drinkers. Apparently that is a very European attitude, but it would seem to defy the cult of milk on this continent.

In my case it was just a childhood revulsion to any food or liquid that was cold, white and dairy, or dairy-looking, owing to the mistaken belief that same was a constituent in my mother's smelly and ever-present hand cream.

I don't "drink" milk either, but do occasionally have chocolate milk, and I make smoothies with milk. I always use skim.

I voted I don't drink milk as well.

We usually have 1% in the house that I use for steaming for cappas. Sometimes pick up some whole milk for the same purpose. Very different microfoam with whole milk.

We always have skim, 1%, half-and-half, and heavy cream in the fridge. Often we'll have buttermilk and manufacturing cream as well, with whole milk occasionally taking up space. And I pretty much never drink any of it. The wife and daughters go through gallons of skim on a weekly basis. The 1% goes on my wife's cereal and the rest is used for cooking and coffee.

I have always detested drinking milk. My Mom gave up on trying to get me to when I was something like 4.

However, if one puts enough chocolate syrup in it...... I'll choke it down.

Perhaps intentionally, perhaps not, your poll seems restricted to the milk of cows.

When visiting the USA, I'll occasionally down a glass of cold whole cows milk and will enjoy it thoroughly. When in Israel, Provence, Greece or Turkey, I will fairly often seek out whole pasteurized goat's milk. A world of difference in flavor and ease of digestion for adults.

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Rogov

C'mon, I can't be the only "homo drinker" here.

C'mon, I can't be the only "homo drinker" here.

"Not that there's anything wrong with that....."

I'm the second homo milk drinker, but I really don't drink much of it.

We usually have skim and heavy cream in the house. (I can mix up anything I want that way! (joke, joke))

I'm lucky enough to get it straight from the cow. I drink un-homogenized milk--even after we skim off the cream (most of the time), what's left tastes nothing like the chalk water grocery stores sell.

i did not wote, because i only drink raw-milk and this is no option on youre poll

C'mon, I can't be the only "homo drinker" here.

All the percentages are "homo," not just the whole milk, so you're not alone.

C'mon, I can't be the only "homo drinker" here.

All the percentages are "homo," not just the whole milk, so you're not alone.

Nag, nag. I've amended to clarify that whole milk = homo (even though the first is a description of a process and the second of fat content and lack of removal of same). Feel free to amend your votes to suit.

And raw milk (you lucky few) can come under whole milk.

The results that interest me is that among adults, milk drinking as opposed to adding to coffee or cooking with it is fairly low. I suspect that many would never think to pour themselves a glass of milk (unless it was to warm with the addition of a wee dram to encourage sleep, of course).