I was listening to this NPR story, and I just had to laugh when I heard the lede, and the little snippets from “people on the street” interviews:
I went into the kitchen to take a census of our milk supply, and found four full gallons of whole milk, plus a half-empty one. Not to mention three two-pound containers of full-fat unsweetened Greek yogurt (one of which is half-empty), nearly a pound of grass-fed butter, and various kinds of cheese. We are practically singlehandedly supporting the dairy industry.
The aggregate decline is indisputable, but I wonder if they really didn’t find anyone with a family like ours, or if they skewed their sample to underline the point. If everyone were like those people, the decline would have been far steeper and the industry would be circling the drain.
As for the opening question, regularly. As Mark Twain said, “If I find that the majority agrees with me, I rethink my position.”
As for the milk, I go through a gallon of milk a moth, in cooking/baking, on cereal, and in smoothies. The last time I drank milk straight from a container, as is, it was unpasteurized room-temperature camel milk, about a liter of it.
I grew up in Wisconsin, where we quenched our thirst with milk, not water.
With all due respect to you and Mark Twain, you shouldn’t let the majority make your decisions. Which is what you’re doing by opposing majority opinion just as surely as if you were following majority opinion.
They weren’t doing a survey, so it’s quite possible they skewed their sample, not to underline the point, but because they were just looking for voices to colour the story. It’s also possible (likely I think) that milk consumption varies substantially between American sub-culture, and they could just have picked a street with mostly non-dairyists.
Yeah. I think though if I were the editor of that story, I’d tell them to keep looking until they found one person at least to carry the mantle of “big (or at least moderate) milk drinker”.
I don’t think in my entire life I’ve drank a glass of milk. I use it in cereal and cooking all the time, but I can’t recall ever just drinking a glass. I vaguely remember getting little milk cartons in early elementary school, but that’s about it.
I probably did, on rare occasion, but I have no memory of it
Various parts of my body are still recovering from the “tight pants and shirts for men” thing circa 2015, a trend I should have started ignoring sooner than I did.
I’ve found that most declarations that begin with “All women <love/want/use/prefer>” generally don’t apply to me at all. I don’t think I’m unique, but I don’t care about fashion trends, don’t go crazy over shoes, don’t much like jewelry - maybe I’m the anti-stereotype?
And I will have a glass of milk if I’ve got cake or brownies, or maybe cookies. However, I haven’t baked any goodies in ages, so I don’t know how long it’s been since I had milk that wasn’t in a recipe or over cereal. This thread has made me want cereal - off to the kitchen with me.
So there’s a whole group of people out there who eat cookies sans milk? Weird.
I drink about a half gallon to a gallon a week.
If i’m eating something with a tomato base (spaghetti) or a cheesy dish, I usually wash it down with a tall glass of skim milk.
(I converted to skim milk some 20 years ago because of the fact that I drink so much milk)
I’ve learned to be cautious and skeptical about the whole process of deciding or determining what is “becoming a thing.”
I remember when I was a kid, back in the sixties, I heard on radio and TV and from movies, that my entire generation was growing their hair long and rebelling. So over the summer before High School, I grew my own hair out, in order to fit in. Only to discover that I was in the ten percent minority at my school after all, and those people all disagreed with each other over everything BUT hair.
Back then, the number of people in a position to CLAIM that there was a fad rolling across the nation, was minuscule. There were only four or five TV channels, and no such thing as watching movies that the local TV stations and theaters didn't want you to watch. Now, we have so many inputs, that people have taken to self-segregating their own outlook on the world, only listening to the people who say things that please them. So we know even LESS about what is or isn't a REAL fad.
And of course, there are often reports of fads, where the people describing them, and the people jumping on the fad, actually have the wrong idea about why the thing got started at all.
I’m not saying I’m cautious too, but by the time I decide to jump on the next ‘thing’ it’s typically already been on the way out for some time. :smack: :o
As for the OP, I always drink the milk from the cereal bowl, every day, but rarely have just a glass of it.
Being a bit of a Luddite and being older I find I care less and less about any sort of trend. I was just having a conversation about something similar the other day and saying I finally get why my parents and grandparents had old crap around their houses, if something still worked or was fixable, you just kept it. I’m doing the same these days.
As for milk/dairy, there’s a gallon of whole milk, a pound of butter, a quart of full fat unsweetened greek yogurt, and several types of cheese in the fridge right now.
Entertainment Tonight: “Everyone is [thinking/talking about/doing] X.”
Me: “No, they aren’t.”
Ditto. And yet I think I’m a girly girl.
Now, milk is disgusting and I’ve never used it except as coffee creamer…until just recently, when smoothies became part of my new healthy diet. I just can’t seem to get along with the in-crowd.
