Benefits of reduced fat milk overstated

[Askold]

I grew up on a farm and we got milk straight from the cows.

Or technically from the tank after milking the cows.

[Cerim Treascair]

I used to drink skim like a motherfucker as a fledgeling.  Still will, given the chance.  Usually it's 2% nowadays though.

[Old Viking]

It's best to avoid any comestible purported to be healthful.  As Russell Baker once suggested, somewhere down the line they'll tell you it's killing you.

[Yaezakura]

I can't stand the taste of reduced fat milk, anyway. Always just tastes like someone added a couple drops of milk to a jug of water. Whole milk is where it's at.

[Feral Dog]

Oh man... real whole milk is something else.   It tastes so good to me.   I can only get it around here from the Mennonite farming community in Delano TN, not too far from where I live.  It has to be labeled that it's not for human consumption since it's not pasteurized.  Pretty much from the cow's tit to the jug.

Even better is goat's milk, but I haven't had that in ages.



Yee haaaw.

I've never had unpasteurized, but I have had non-homogenized slow-pasteurized and it does taste different from homogenized flash-pasteurized (the method the majority of milk suppliers use).

[starseeker]

where the hell do you live? I didn't know anybody still got milk delivered like anywhere.

Outer suburb of west London (UK), think most of the borough's still served by milk floats from a handful of dairies, I walk past the local one to get to the shops and train station. There was a case a few years ago where a milkman got lost and ended up with the milk float on the M1, which got some snarky comments from the traffic helicopter.

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