# What's the strangest thing you've heard of that has been transformed into "milk"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2025, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347 "2025-04-22T03:37:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347/1 "2025-04-22T03:37:59Z")
How about watermelon seeds? > **[Força Foods - World's FIRST Watermelon SeedMilk](https://forcafoods.com/)** > > Our simple recipe contains no sugar, is an excellent source of calcium, rich in vitamins, and is packed with protein. We offer a smooth, creamy, and delicious milk-y flavor, but with a fraction of the environmental footprint, powered by watermelon... ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347/2 "2025-04-22T03:41:10Z")
[Cockroach (henroach?) milk.](https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/cockroach-milk-nutrition#what-it-is) supposed to be really healthy, but labor intensive to acquire and would take some getting used to. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347/3 "2025-04-22T04:00:59Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347/4 "2025-04-22T04:28:18Z")
[Rock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_milk). ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347/5 "2025-04-22T05:47:46Z")
Human kindness. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347/6 "2025-04-22T05:51:14Z")
Awww. I like this. Gave me a giggle. Thx. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347/7 "2025-04-22T06:22:22Z")
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: > **[The Weirdest and Wackiest Types of Alternative Milk](https://www.socialfixation.com.au/post/the-weirdest-and-wackiest-types-of-alternative-milk)** > > Plant milk is on track to take over 50% of the market over the next few years, and within that, oat milk is on the rise. ---
**Author:** ![Plutonium\_Chef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/plutonium_chef/32/11211_2.png) [@Plutonium\_Chef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plutonium_Chef)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347/8 "2025-04-22T15:01:37Z")
How about a joke, or possible hijack? [Introducing Wood Milk: Aubrey Plaza’s Newest Product](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4klWmwC2ds) ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347/9 "2025-04-23T00:32:56Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > The reason they call it almond milk is that no one would drink it if they called it nut juice. 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.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almond_milk#Production) ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347/10 "2025-04-23T00:56:45Z")
Tiger milk. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347/11 "2025-04-23T01:33:21Z")
Potato milk. > **[Potato milk is now a thing — so we tried making our own](https://www.today.com/food/trends/what-is-potato-milk-rcna15442)** > > Can you dig it? 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. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347/12 "2025-04-23T03:17:16Z")
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. > **[360.pdf](https://www.europeanreview.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/360.pdf)** > > 55.43 KB ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347/13 "2025-04-23T04:38:26Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347/14 "2025-04-23T14:20:22Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > 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.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almond_milk#Production) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347/15 "2025-04-23T14:30:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347/16 "2025-04-23T14:37:08Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347/17 "2025-04-23T14:46:16Z")
Milk of magnesia surely qualifies as a strange thing to turn into “milk”. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347/18 "2025-04-23T14:55:48Z")
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.