If something becomes “popular”, it is usually because somebody with influence had an economic interest in popularizing it. Or, it’s converse: Nothing happens unless there is money to be made by making it happen.
I don’t think I’ve drank a single glass of milk since I was a kid.
I drink a gallon of milk, by myself, every week.
Unless we’re having chili, buffalo chicken dip or pizza (when I have a beer) I have at least one, usually two, glasses of milk every day with my dinner.
Suffice it to say I’m not going to be on NPRs study 
I stopped drinking milk 33 years ago. I’ll put it in my tea or coffee, but that’s about it.
BTW the thread title is too vague when the original post is about national milk drinking habits.
As a family of 5, we go through maybe 4-5 litres of 1% per day. (just over a gallon) and maybe 7-8 gallons a week.
I probably drink 1-2 gallons a week depending on what we’re eating. I use it in cereal, I might have some with lunch (if at home), and I always have at least one tall glass with dinner and maybe a little more with dessert.
My kids have a small glass of milk with every meal and the school has a milk program as well.
It’s been at least 40 years since I’ve had milk as a stand-alone beverage.
As to the OP’s question:
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Ever read/hear a story about a trend among Americans and find yourself just the opposite?**
All the time. The most unfathomable is when I hear that Dancing with the Stars if popular. I’m not saying I’m better than other Americans, but I constantly am reminded I’m different. (Okay, I am better than those who watch Dancing with the Stars) (kidding)
The dogs wait for it. They wait for lots they don’t always get.
I think the same thing when it comes to the proliferation of comic book superhero movies. And zombie stuff. I would have expected such things to have a fairly small niche audience. The wide-spread popularity is perplexing to me.
Probably a good thing I didn’t seek a career in predicting trends.
Make sure to boil your camel urine.
The original post was the OP’s contribution regarding the thread title. I don’t think The OP was looking for a discussion about milk.
I’d be interested in knowing the milk drinking habits of people who live in cities/use public transportation versus those who do their grocery shopping using their own vehicle.
I feel like if NPR did their interviews further out in to suburbia, they might get different answers than they got in downtown DC.
I mean, no doubt there are plenty of people who get their groceries via their own vehicle who still don’t drink milk (I’m assuming a bunch of non-milk-drinkers who already replied here take their cars to buy groceries) but it also seems like the inconvenience of getting milk from the store could be a deciding factor for people living in the city.
Or the OP is just an example of the subject of the title.
I am not into the trend of posting all of my personal business on social media or the internet in general.
Well, if you went just by my household, the most popular drink of all would be lemonade. I literally drink it by the case (about every six weeks, I order 12 cases to be delivered).
I use milk daily on my cereal and in my tea, but never drink a glass.
I also don’t drink alcoholic beverages, carbonated beverages, or coffee.
So in the beverage category, pretty much every trend passes right by me.
ZipperJJ - I live in the city and use public transportation. Milk is one thing that’s available in almost every corner store. About once a week I stop at the liquor store on my way home to pick some up, and I know about a dozen stores within a few blocks of my house that have it for sale.
I am a Millennial and I have yet to use Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, etc.
Politically, I am the opposite of what my demographic is increasingly voting.
They must have been interviewing people walking out of Whole Foods. I switched to soy due to being slightly intolerant of dairy, but I would guess about 90% of the friends whos refrigerators I’ve seen has had at least a gallon in it.
Most “trends” applied to millennials are either head-slappingly dumb or vague enough to apply to literally any generation.
Milk has too many carbs for me, but I keep the largest size of heavy cream that I can find.
In the broader spirit of the OP, though, I usually find that, yes, I’m the opposite of most trends that are reported. Except ketosis, I guess, which is reported as a trendy, fad diet, except I literally know no other people (not on Reddit or the SDMB) that actually use Keto, so I’m not certain I’d even consider that a trend.
Even considering my scant sample size, I don’t really believe that things can even be trends until I start seeing them out in the world, unless presented in a journal, I suppose.
:smack: You’re right. One doesn’t necessarily need to buy one’s milk at the grocery store along with groceries. I don’t even have to do that, in the suburbs! I just seem to only remember to buy it when I’m at the supermarket.
Duh me.
That’s really not in conflict with most of the statements in that interview. I can’t remember the last time I drank a glass of milk, but I usually do have at least a quart of it in my fridge. OK, I have kids, but even before having kids, there was usually a quart around for other uses. Same with my folks. I’ve never in my life, literally, seen either of my parents drink a glass of milk, but there was always a gallon in the fridge growing up and there still is a gallon in their fridge. There’s cereal, coffee, tea, cooking, etc. that they use it in.
Modern American diary herds are inspected so closely and rigorously, there would be negligible risk that anyone would suffer any illness from drinking unpasteurized milk. Just as you don’t need to well-cook supermarket pork anymore, there is no risk of trichinosis exposure in a modern pork farm.
Furthermore, the number of people in the USA who are lactose intolerant is probably (but I don’t know) much larger than the number who would test positive for MERS-Cov reaction. Mostg lactose-itolerant people (about 75% of African and Mexican Amricans) can safely drink camel milk.
I’m not advocating for a camel milk industry. I just said camel milk was he last milk I drank, it ws delicious, and for me, harmless, even unpasteurized. And so did everybody else in the country where I happened to be. A country where over 90% of the population is lactose intolerant as adults.
No doubt the huge dairy lobby sees to it that there is plenty of negative pop-media reports against camel milk.
Are you strictly talking about camel milk here?
Not getting your point.