I have been a big milk drinker my whole life and at 63, not likely to stop too soon.
I guess I am a bit different from most people in that I consider milk a true beverage. It goes well with many other things, but I enjoy it as a stand alone drink. I would prefer a big glass of ice cold milk over any other stand-alone beverage.
Mmmm . . . ice cold milk. I used to go through about two gallons of whole ilk a week, but the last few years I have cut back to 1 to 1 1/2 gal a week and found 2% to be acceptable and am now going with 1%.
I’d be hesitant to trust NPR ‘‘people on the street’’ interviews as indicative of some overall trend in the US population. I love me some NPR, but the majority of its fans are latte-sipping, white collar, co-op investing organic foodies.
I have a possibly unhealthy predilection for copious amounts of dairy, but I might fit the stereotype yet, as the gallons of milk in my fridge are organic and the cheeses are all fancy.
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Yeah, some of the comments I see against social media make me think that the people saying this stuff either haven’t actually experienced social media directly, or they have a really shitty feed.
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Social media (Facebook in particular) kind of ruined my life for a while, and honestly, I tried my damnedest to curate my feed on several occasions, but nothing I did seemed to stem the ride of vacuous, pointless recreational outrage and articles that could be read in two minutes. I lived in a shrill, stressful echo chamber, despite my active efforts to befriend people and follow sites that ran contrary to my own views on things. Nor could any amount of curation salvage my own weakness for arguing with stupid people on the internet. Believe me, my failure to make it work weren’t for lack of exposure nor lack of trying. In the decade or so I was engaged with social media, I saw a marked shift in social attitudes and the overall credulity of the average member, trends which have been happily seized upon by the internet media, or possibly created by them. I honestly believe this shift will be the downfall of us all, so apparently, I’ve become a paranoid loon and I’ll be over here in my corner with my tinfoil hat, lamenting the decline of civilization along with Nicholas Carr.
(I can’t be too far gone. I’m still on Messenger.)
See, I get that. I ate a vegetarian diet for almost a decade because of a vein in a chicken wing. Well, it was the straw that broke the camels back, but that one long stringy vein flopping around and nope, I’m done. My ex husband’s overcooked steaks also helped the cause.
Then I started a job in a deli…
I get what you’re saying, but I still feel like a hypocrite. Mostly because I think milk isn’t meant for humans. It’s meant for baby cows. And yet, cheese. Mmmm
I actually don’t even dislike the taste of milk. I remember enjoying a cold glass of milk(seriously turns my stomach just thinking about it) when I was a kid.
One of my favorite statements by the star in Stephen Fry in America went something like, “The thing about America is that if you can say anything about them in general, you find that the exact opposite is also true.”
I am so not what all Americans are doing that I don’t even argue with the television set about how I’m exceptional. Because I haven’t owned one since 1972.
Apparently one of the things everybody is doing now is making up shit about how everyone is now doing something, as a unit.
Have at it, it’s another thing I’m not doing, sorry.
Of course the dairy industry has always had huge economic interest in popularizing the idea that it’s normal for humans to continue drinking milk long after they stop breast feeding.
Not an American, but it’s rare for me to drink a glass of milk on its own - I mainly use it in my coffee, or when making scrambled eggs or something like that.
I gather using milk in coffee isn’t a big thing in the US? I always have to ask for actual milk when I’m at a restaurant there and I’ve had one or two odd looks as a result at times.
