How about watermelon seeds?
Cockroach (henroach?) milk. supposed to be really healthy, but labor intensive to acquire and would take some getting used to.
And really only designed for baby cockroaches.
I’ve read about a fish that secreted a mucus-like substance from its scales, after the young hatched. Proto-milk, I guess you could call it.
Rock.
Human kindness.
Awww. I like this.
Gave me a giggle. Thx.
The reason they call it almond milk is that no one would drink it if they called it nut juice.
I head this from a comedian once and I’ve been calling it nut juice ever since. Mrs. Geek drinks a lot of it and she has just accepted that I’m always going to call it nut juice when we make out our weekly grocery list.
Getting back to the OP, hemp milk, pea milk, microbe milk, and others:
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Because this is the Dope I feel compelled to point out that “juice” isn’t really an accurate term for almond milk. It’s not a juice that’s squeezed out of the almonds. It’s generally made by soaking ground almonds in water.
Tiger milk.
Potato milk.
I don’t know why but that’s more repulsive to me than any of the other stuff people make into milk. I love potatoes! But I’ve never eaten a chip and declared that I wish it was milk.
Here is a description of it from the above article:
It’s bad. Supremely bad. It’s translucent yellow with the texture of thin, boiled cornstarch. It smells like (surprise!) boiled potatoes. It tastes like boiled potatoes. All the recipes say you can use it as you would any plant-based milk. Well, to that I say, no. No, you cannot. To do so would be an affront to potatoes and to milk. Look at those potato starch granules, floating in the water like penguins in a Florida swimming pool. They’re obviously way off course and very embarrassed to be there.
Somehow the reality of it is worse than I imagined it would be.
Just remembered that I once saw a recipe for non-dairy baby formula made from - are you ready for this? - LIVER. A quick Google search revealed many results. One wonders who thought of this, although I did see this journal article, about children with severe food allergies.
That sounds like something the Onion’s writers would come up with. (Onion Milk, anybody?) Haven’t some people been obtaining a variation of that in recent weeks anyway? Oh, yeah, I know, it’s really birch or maple sap, but anyway…
So it’s steeped. It’s nut tea, not nut milk.
It being nut tea gives a whole new shade of meaning to that popular college prank called “teabagging”. Which term is NSFW to Google if you’re not already familiar with it.
Always alert to wordplay, I noticed the name “Dug” for potato milk, which refers to how the spud is obtained in the first place, but also “dug” is another word for breast.
And I feel the “need” to point out that the concept of almond milk is quite old, going back as early as the 8th Century, and with it appearing in tons of recipes by the 13th. It was common both where almonds were popular (e.g. Baghdad and Egypt) and later on as a replacement for dairy milk for religious reasons, like during Lent.
Basically any liquid that comes out white and opaque gets called milk fairly early.
Milk of magnesia surely qualifies as a strange thing to turn into “milk”.
In Spain and Mexico they’ve been drinking barley milk, chufa milk, and rice milk for ages. Horchata from Latin hordeata ‘made from barley’, from hordeum ‘barley’. Also known as orgeat in French and orzata in Italian, made from almonds. In Italy, latte di mandorla ‘almond milk’ is sold as a sweet thick syrup that you mix with water for a delicious drink, with rich almond flavor unlike the bland almond milk we get here.
The best vegetal base for milk IMHO is chufa or tiger nuts (Cyperus esculentus). Not a nut but a tuber. A tuber! Hear that, potato milk fans? I used to get chufa from MOM’s Organic Market, but the supply dried up. While they were available, I bought a nutmilk bag and enjoyed homemade horchata de chufa. It’s really good, but awfully expensive, though.