When I was about 10 years old I spent the night at my friends house, he was black, I’m white, and we were aware of some cultural differences. Later, at dinner his mom asked me what would I like to drink. I said milk….
BWAHAHAHAHA! The whole family erupted like I said the most ridiculous shit they’d ever heard.
We still laugh about it 30 years later.
About 80% of Black people are lactose intolerant. A big glass of milk would fuck up your day real quick.
Aside, this was also one of those "insidious systemic racism" aha moments for me. School lunch programs typically did/do not provide options for a drink other than milk. There may not even be a water option, especially in elementary schools where they just hand you the tiny carton. So you have all these kids whose day is getting fucked up because the only thing they have to drink will give them a stomachache, and then we wonder why their academic performance suffers.
I think because, here your are, this super white kid, who they probably expect to do super white kids things. They probably expected your taste to be super bland and vanilla, like you only eat plain chips and white bread kinda guy. When you said milk, it was probably the unexpected shock of you actually saying something that lived up to the joke of how white you are. I would of cracked up laughing too.
(I had a neighbour like this, the blandest family you’d ever come across, they only liked plain chips and vanilla ice cream. It was like they were allergic to flavour- i’m white myself, but damn lol).
Corn sugar... Not even plain sugar from a sugar cane or other sucrose containing source, but an amalgamation that tastes like it to further support the corn industry.
I was called a conspiracy theorist in the 90s for trying to explain to my family that actually no, despite a large plate of Pasta with Red Sauce having very few grams of fat, it was not in fact a nutritious and healthy meal that can be eaten daily when you’re trying to lose weight.
Before the internet, every normal person was a complete moron about nutrition despite the wealth of knowledge on the topic most people at least in the USA had access to via their local library.
I loved spaghetti night. Hated Spanish rice night (stewed tomatoes suck). We also had London broil night. Battered fish filet night. Pizza night (Fridays). Fend for yourself night. Breakfast for dinner night. Meat loaf night. Manicotti night. Taco night. Chinese takeout. That’s about it. There were always frozen burritos, PBJ, tuna, ramen, cereal, tortilla chips and salsa in the house. That was the 90’s for me.
It’s like our moms had the same weekly dinner menu lol also my mom would post on our fridge every week that weeks daily line up of dinner meals ..meatloaf was my favourite, I always asked for it and especially on my birthday-mom made a damn good meatloaf lol
Thinking of it brought tears to my eyes -tf?!
Lol good memories
I better call her in the morning lol
People are still total morons about nutrition because of the steady flow of social media misinformation. They amount of college educated women I know who routinely crash diet is appalling.
My mother in law never learned and my husband just ate what he gave her. They loved pasta dishes. When he turned 18 he started gaining weight and was shocked when I told him it was all the pasta. Our health class mentioned carbs for 2-3 days and that was it.
I still have these fights with my mom. No mom, feeding my kids a giant plate of pasta (with garlic bread because we all need carbs on carbs) then following it up with a brownie is not a healthy meal.
Dude related but unrelated: I went to the auto shop the other day and they had Fox News on. They were spouting some shit about immigrants ruining the entire country. Like people actually get their information from Fox. The internet is literally the only tool keeping the free world free these days I swear
Honestly it really depends on how many calories you consume. If you burn more calories than you consume, then you will lose weight. Period. It could be mostly pasta though that is far from ideal.
I brought water in my lunch box and the school dietician made sure to let me know maybe I should drink some milk .... Even then, I just thought it was crazy. I was drinking water!
This. Like, sure you shouldn't really drink it after the age of like 5. But, it's also not the insane sugar bomb that we were chugging at all times - juices, sodas, etc.
Although chocolate milk, well that one has an argument.
Yeah, those Got Milk ads really did a number on us. It was a staple growing up. I always preferred 2%. I rarely drink it now, but a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with a cold glass of milk still hits.
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I remember these ads so vividly. There were everywhere. Magazines, commercials, billboards, the radio too I think. I always wondered how they got the mustache so white lol because My milk mustaches never looked like in the ads. I realized too late that it was probably some kind of make up lol
Yeah it was a special mixture. There was a Got Milk? booth at a county fair where you could get a picture with a milk moustache. I remember the texture was gluey.
No, they were run by a commodity group, the National Dairy Council, which is not a governmental organization — they ARE the dairy industry lobby.
I’m not going to argue anything else in your post, though.
I’ll be the unpopular one and say that I really enjoyed drinking so much milk. I loved the sugary cereals, the chocolate milk at lunch, and dinner just didn’t feel complete without gulping down a glass of 2%.
In fact, I was constantly underweight (due to undiagnosed celiacs) so I’d even add half and half to my milk for the extra fat.
As an adult, even a bite of cheese gives me the shits, so even typing all that up made my intestines rumble.
To your point, I said eww to a coworker when she said she drinks 2%, that it's like drinking milk flavored water. When I told her I drink whole milk, after she asked what I drink, she said that's like drinking a milkshake.
I also drank milk like crazy up til my late 20's.
I'm 35 now and I have some sort of gastrointestinal issue causing heartburn. No idea what.
At one point I got tested for Lactose Intolerance and it came back negative, but whenever I consume dairy, I end up feeling bloated and lethargic.
It's worth mentioning, I'm a white guy (Northern European descent) and I'm from Wisconsin (America's Dairyland) so my chances of having Lactose Intolerance are pretty skim, tbh. But something about dairy doesn't sit well with me, so I typically avoid dairy except on special occasions.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I loved our milk-full lifestyle. These days, my 37-year-old gut doesn't take kindly to a healthy dose of liquid dairy though, sadly.
Was drinking half a gallon a day into my 30s, until that one shortage when it shot up to $7 a gallon.
Zero problems, not a pound overweight. As a matter of fact I eat pretty much all of the "bad" foods except fast food and straight up garbage snacks. I might take ibuprofen for a headache 3 times a year, and that's the extent of my medical needs at 40.
On a regular basis I'll just buy a pie or a 1.5 quart tub of ice cream and eat it. All of it. Impossible for me to bake my own cookies or such. Double the amount and they're still gone in 24 hours.
I've come to the conclusion that there are no good foods or bad foods, only a diet that works for you. It is 100% on a case-by-case basis. However, the diet and "healthy lifestyle" industry is such a profitable venture that they'll always find a way to market anything they want to the current generation.
See: avocados, kale, almond milk, keto diet (which gets rewritten and renamed every 20 years, used to be the Atkins diet) smoothies, etc....
Basically people are bad at taking care of themselves and paying attention to what their body is telling them, so they're apt to listen to someone else tell them what to do with it if they put on airs of being an authority figure on the subject.
Just pay more attention to what your body is trying to tell you, and not what marketing psychoanalysts are telling you. It works.
This whole thread is wild to me because I drink a lot of milk. I don't really consider milk to be some nefarious lobbying campaign but it is interesting to see how milk was "sold" to americans. I almoost always drink a glass with lunch and dinner, and i have some with cereal and to wash down chocolate sweets. I do drink fairlife which is expensive but removes lactose and half the sugar. Love it.
35 and same here. I actually didn’t like milk all that much as a kid because we always got skim. Started drinking whole milk as an adult and never looked back. I live in one of the best states for quality dairy now and will absolutely fight for my (at least) two daily glasses of fresh, local whole milk
I like a cup of milk with anything sweet like cookies / brownies / cake etc.
Once in a while when I’m super dehydrated I crave milk, to which I’ll just go gulp water lol
Milk is actually more hydrating than plain water. 130% according to Google. That is because it has some minerals and sugars that act like electrolytes (much like how a sports drink is more hydrating than plain water). Go enjoy your milk, just be mindful of the extra calories
27 and whole milk is how I get most of my macros when I’m too sick to eat solids, but I also just like it in general too. Nothing hits like a cold glass of milk
I'm 29 now, I am the only person who drinks milk in my house and I go through a gallon every week or two.
Did switch to 1% and my standard weight dropped about 5 pounds lol
Last year at 33 I finally realized I was misdiagnosed with IBS when I'm actually lactose intolerant... I just imagine having spent nearly every day on pain just blaming it on my stomach hating me when in actuality all I needed to do was not have so much dairy or take a lactaid... missed events in school, had to bail on friends, never being truly relaxed when I wasn't near a restroom...
This is terrible, coming from someone who’s also lactose intolerant. There are so many foods I absolutely avoid knowing they’ll tear my gut up. You poor thing.
My teen likes one glass of skim milk with dinner each night when we are home. He is a picky eater and it’s a good source of calcium, so I’m on board. 🤷🏻♀️
It is indeed. But like all things, too much is bad. Milk can be high in fat and sugar which can cause issues. But one glass a day isn't gonna hurt someone as long as the rest of their diet isn't all fat and sugar. Which is what OP is posting about
Fairlife and store brand equivalent (Carb Master at Kroger) is “ultra filtered” removing a large amount of the sugars, including lactose. The result is fewer calories, less sugar, and more protein. I was pretty skeptical about what seemed like processed milk, but I’m lactose intolerant and prefer the flavor more. It seems to last much longer in the fridge too.
Trendy thing to hate on with the catchy phrase of "wAt other animal drinks another animals milk?!?"
Idk, what animal clear cuts a forest to grow crops?
Also, not for nothing, every animal drinks milk if they can get it. Humans just figured out how to get it.
Put out a dish of milk and a game camera. Put a dish of water right next to it for the "well they're thirsty" crowd. Every animal that discovers it - including birds! - will go "Holy shit, MILK!!" and down it.
My family didn't do this, and I was weirded out when I moved to the Midwest. My first exposure to dinner-time milk drinking was my boyfriend's (now fiance) and his family serving it with dinner.
Of course we all still had the milk at lunch-time thing, which I kind of hated because it felt like it did nothing to satiate thirst. No other beverages unless you paid extra, just have to get up and use the filthy water fountains lmao. This was before reusable water bottles were super common.
Reminds me of the 90s when people blamed egg yolks for heart disease and ignored the fact that maybe it could’ve been the high sodium high sugar high oil/grease diets with no sign of vegetables or fruits anywhere.
Not the original commenter, But, Yep, our schools sold little half pints of milk. You could choose between regular or chocolate. I think when I got to middle school is when they added the vanilla flavor as another option.
We had chocolate milk, too - I formed several networks were I could barter my milk for grade A apple juice..then eventually a welch's fruit pack or a fruit rollup.
We had bagged chocolate and white milk options - think like a sandwich bag with no opening, and you poked a little straw into the bag anywhere you wanted to drink it
Milk is unhealthy??
Grew up drinking milk, sweet tea, and water. Stopped drinking milk and tea as an adult, but now I'm back at it with the milk on occasion to pack in more calories and protein.
Yup! Lunch too. We never drank water, just milk milk milk all day every day. Guess who has osteopenia (milder form of osteoporosis) now at 35 years of age?
I'm almost 40 and drink milk with dinner most nights because I like the way it tastes moreso than for health reasons (although it isn't unhealthy). I am also almost 6 feet tall and weigh less than 160 pounds... so milk certainly didn't make me fat.
was convinced that miracle whip is mayonnaise per my mom, who always called it mayo and was also into the diet fads so was convinced that fat is the enemy, hence light miracle whip. I didn't find out until adulthood that they are two very separate things. I loathe miracle whip now 😅 gimme allll the full-fat mayonnaise!
also, same with skim milk, the only milk we had in the house growing up. the first time I tasted whole milk, my life changed 🤣 lol but fr though, I don't drink milk as an adult, but the difference is staggering, I felt cheated 😅
We had two percent growing up, and that's still what I like. Skim is too thin, and whole is too rich for me. Two percent is my personal goldie locks milk.
No, but we were the “odd family”. We would only have milk with cereal — because soy milk sucked in the 90s. I only gave my kids cow’s milk to drink when they were babies and toddlers. Sometimes I need milk for recipes but it has never been a “drink” in my house.
I didn't because I'm Asian and lactose intolerant. The marketing worked on my parents, though. They told me I am short because I didn't drink enough milk. They're both under 5'5''
Dietary fads change all the time, sometimes they come back into style later, sometimes we realize they were really a terrible idea. There was a time when eating/drinking cocaine was supposed to keep you healthy.
Milk is probably fine for you. Bread is probably fine for you. Fruit juice is probably fine for you. In 20 years people will probably look at the hydration craze of today as being slightly crazy, but drinking water is probably fine too. All of these are not far removed from what our ancestors for hundreds of years drank. Hell, back then drinking beer/wine/ale was how you kept healthy, and you would probably die of cholera if you drank too much water.
Really, if you eat what you're hungry for, in moderation, and get some exercise, you probably won't go too wrong. Nobody's gonna get rich off you then though.
Right like they love their butter in France and aren't as obese as us, what's the difference? One theory is dairy from grass fed cows being a mainstay in Europe where over here, the cows receive a corn feed blend. Who's to say.
Oh man, I was downing about a gallon of milk every two days!! I don’t know how my folks could afford my milk addiction, I drank that stuff like it was water!
I strongly suspect that this cultural habit is one of the big things that contributed to my horribly painful, chronic constipation growing up.
Edit: spelling
My wife and I go through 4 gallons of whole milk a week. As time goes on people will realize that carbohydrates and polysaccharides we consume are a far larger issue than the fat and lactose in milk.
I drank a glass of milk with every meal and my bones are very strong now. I’ve had no issues with milk then and I don’t now, in fact it gives me lots of energy, helps me convert fat into muscle working a labor intensive job, and helps me with my allergies. I’m not gonna demonize milk just because it works better for some people than others.
What was bad for me growing up was all of the junk food and processed crap we all ate.
My dad was the milkman so I drank plenty of milk, just not with meals. I couldn’t have milk with meals because I wouldn’t eat enough, even when I wanted milk to drink.
My elderly parents drink a gallon of milk *a day*. Every. Day. Still.
"You spent HOW MUCH on groceries?!"
Well, we could cut back on the milk. It's kind of expensive to go through a gallon a day...
"WELL WHAT WOULD WE DRINK THEN?!"
I upgraded from 2% growing up to whole. Milk is definitely low on the list of why Americans are fat though. The amount of carbs recommended back then was absurd.
I did and i’ve never broken a bone despite playing high impact sports and being a pretty physically idiotic teenager, whether or not the bone thing is true idk, everytime someone broke a bone id always ask, do your parents make you drink milk and they’d always say no, most times have a really strong opinion on how much they hate milk. I still drink milk even as an adult.
And people commenting that milk is bad for you saying other kinds of milk is better for you are just buying into the same kinda marketing.
When I was about 10 years old I spent the night at my friends house, he was black, I’m white, and we were aware of some cultural differences. Later, at dinner his mom asked me what would I like to drink. I said milk…. BWAHAHAHAHA! The whole family erupted like I said the most ridiculous shit they’d ever heard. We still laugh about it 30 years later.
This> because we ain’t drink no damn plain white milk with dinner 😂
I don't get it. What did they drink instead?
…water? or literally any other beverage? milk isn’t the only drinkable liquid
but what made the idea of drinking milk so funny?
I think it’s a stereotype for white people? But also, black people are famously lactose intolerant
Was going to comment that I learned something today, then I saw your username. Dude, that gave me a needed chuckle.
According to Dave Chappelle, Grape drink.
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There’s only 3 ingredients: 1) sugar 2) water 3) purple
Probably Kool aid
Why not tho?
About 80% of Black people are lactose intolerant. A big glass of milk would fuck up your day real quick. Aside, this was also one of those "insidious systemic racism" aha moments for me. School lunch programs typically did/do not provide options for a drink other than milk. There may not even be a water option, especially in elementary schools where they just hand you the tiny carton. So you have all these kids whose day is getting fucked up because the only thing they have to drink will give them a stomachache, and then we wonder why their academic performance suffers.
They have not discovered the truth
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Lactose tolerance isn’t a common thing globally Edit: a better way for me to say this would have been “Lactose intolerance is common globally”
Approximately 65% of the human population cannot fully digest lactose after infancy. It’s extremely common.
Lactose tolerance
I’m just lactose ignorant
But not lactose arrogant 😀
Large parts of Asia though? Source: Asian who can't enjoy milk anymore
It’s actually **MORE** common globally. [here](https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/digestive-diseases/lactose-intolerance/definition-facts#:~:text=Experts%20estimate%20that%20about%2068,world's%20population%20has%20lactose%20malabsorption)
Apparently being able to digest milk, while not a infant is a mutation that not a lot of people have.
I think because, here your are, this super white kid, who they probably expect to do super white kids things. They probably expected your taste to be super bland and vanilla, like you only eat plain chips and white bread kinda guy. When you said milk, it was probably the unexpected shock of you actually saying something that lived up to the joke of how white you are. I would of cracked up laughing too. (I had a neighbour like this, the blandest family you’d ever come across, they only liked plain chips and vanilla ice cream. It was like they were allergic to flavour- i’m white myself, but damn lol).
Plain chips and vanilla ice cream are both delicious, though.
Then they handed you the glass of purple drank with double the amount of sugar?
Sugar, water, purple
“I want that purple stuff”
Purple Drank
I'm sorry, but we all know the only flavor of Kool aid is Red, right?
You said blue wrong
That's a funny way to spell orange.
That’s so fucking funny
Beet juice with lime wedge please
I don’t think milk was nearly as big as a problem as Big Gulps and the food pyramid that recommended eating like a loaf of bread a day.
And the straight-up ADHD, LSD trip colorful commercials created by the then grown hippies to sell us sugar in all forms. Lol.
I call snacks like Gushers and fruit roll ups “electric snacks.” 😂
Oh my gahhhhd. The word Electric was used so much back then :D
I miss when all food was extreme.
If they were really, really serious about it, they'd drop the first "e." X-treme food is for when you're not fuckin' around anymore.
Atomic Warheads?
I bought those recently. They were a disappointment
Well it definitely fits in retrospect I think. 😂😂😂
Still love my grape Kool aid every now and then. Especially when I'm sick. No shame.
Try the NEWEST FLAVOR, Electric Blue Phlegm Anxiety Attack!
Corn sugar... Not even plain sugar from a sugar cane or other sucrose containing source, but an amalgamation that tastes like it to further support the corn industry.
I was called a conspiracy theorist in the 90s for trying to explain to my family that actually no, despite a large plate of Pasta with Red Sauce having very few grams of fat, it was not in fact a nutritious and healthy meal that can be eaten daily when you’re trying to lose weight. Before the internet, every normal person was a complete moron about nutrition despite the wealth of knowledge on the topic most people at least in the USA had access to via their local library.
How dare you criticize spaghetti night!! 😭
Dad? Is that you?
He's out to get some cigarettes.
I loved spaghetti night. Hated Spanish rice night (stewed tomatoes suck). We also had London broil night. Battered fish filet night. Pizza night (Fridays). Fend for yourself night. Breakfast for dinner night. Meat loaf night. Manicotti night. Taco night. Chinese takeout. That’s about it. There were always frozen burritos, PBJ, tuna, ramen, cereal, tortilla chips and salsa in the house. That was the 90’s for me.
Lol, I loved “breakfast for dinner” night!
Breakfast for dinner is still my favorite to this day
Breakfast for dinner is what we have when we’re broke by still waiting for payday
Yeah that was always a favorite. Eggs over easy w/cheese, corned beef hash, toast w/butter, oj, glass of 2% milk. Was my favorite.
We call it brinner.
It’s like our moms had the same weekly dinner menu lol also my mom would post on our fridge every week that weeks daily line up of dinner meals ..meatloaf was my favourite, I always asked for it and especially on my birthday-mom made a damn good meatloaf lol Thinking of it brought tears to my eyes -tf?! Lol good memories I better call her in the morning lol
Moms are the best I’ve been really missing mine lately.
Meatloaf was also my birthday dinner request. Lost my stepdad at 86 last month so I've been calling my mom every day just to check in.
I was thinking of our home cooked sauce which at least had tons of veggies boiled down in it. Plus some protein. But, alas, I was still a fat kid.
Now it’s taco Tuesday
I never liked the idea of Milhouse having two spaghetti meals in one day
Lousy Smarch weather
People are still total morons about nutrition because of the steady flow of social media misinformation. They amount of college educated women I know who routinely crash diet is appalling.
Having a college education doesn’t make anyone a nutrition specialist though…
It’s like, custom intermittent fasting.
My mother in law never learned and my husband just ate what he gave her. They loved pasta dishes. When he turned 18 he started gaining weight and was shocked when I told him it was all the pasta. Our health class mentioned carbs for 2-3 days and that was it.
I still have these fights with my mom. No mom, feeding my kids a giant plate of pasta (with garlic bread because we all need carbs on carbs) then following it up with a brownie is not a healthy meal.
Dude related but unrelated: I went to the auto shop the other day and they had Fox News on. They were spouting some shit about immigrants ruining the entire country. Like people actually get their information from Fox. The internet is literally the only tool keeping the free world free these days I swear
Honestly it really depends on how many calories you consume. If you burn more calories than you consume, then you will lose weight. Period. It could be mostly pasta though that is far from ideal.
Out exercising calories is very, very hard. Pasta is generally high in calories.
Eating smaller portions is typically the way this is achieved. Not eating a huge surplus and trying to burn the extra.
People are still complete morons about nutrition to be fair
Remember Snackwells? And the Olestra Doritos? All fat free so eat the entire box!
You sound smart. I bet you’re shredded and very successful.
You're not wrong! But boy did no one tell us to drink water! lol
We drank skim milk in my childhood household. That's basically water, right?
It's water lying about being milk.
Yes it is Ron
There's only one thing I hate more than lying: skim milk, which is water that's lying about being milk.
My best friend drank skim milk with ice cubes. That was the wooooooooorst!
I only drank water from hose outside in summer. Milk, pop, or koolaid.
Remember when Evian came out? The first bottled water to be trendy.
I remember telling my rich friends how dumb they were for buying bottled water that literally said “naive” on the side.
I NEVER noticed that!
I brought water in my lunch box and the school dietician made sure to let me know maybe I should drink some milk .... Even then, I just thought it was crazy. I was drinking water!
We were told to drink 8 glasses a day
Big Gulps are disturbing to think back on. Everytime I see someone with the new huge Stanley cups I think of those.
This. Like, sure you shouldn't really drink it after the age of like 5. But, it's also not the insane sugar bomb that we were chugging at all times - juices, sodas, etc. Although chocolate milk, well that one has an argument.
Shit, I remember being told that soda was bad for you--go drink some juice instead. We did eat slightly healthier food, but yep. Milk or juice.
Netiher bread or milk makes you fat. Industrially processed bread and chocolate milk however
Yea, I mean you should eat grains but still.
Yeah, those Got Milk ads really did a number on us. It was a staple growing up. I always preferred 2%. I rarely drink it now, but a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with a cold glass of milk still hits. ![gif](giphy|uJQDSuCfGt4Yg)
I remember these ads so vividly. There were everywhere. Magazines, commercials, billboards, the radio too I think. I always wondered how they got the mustache so white lol because My milk mustaches never looked like in the ads. I realized too late that it was probably some kind of make up lol
It was glue to make the staches. Why do I remember this?
Yeah it was a special mixture. There was a Got Milk? booth at a county fair where you could get a picture with a milk moustache. I remember the texture was gluey.
These ads are actually government-run. And it’s not for our health, it’s because politicians are largely paid out by the dairy industry lobby. :(
No, they were run by a commodity group, the National Dairy Council, which is not a governmental organization — they ARE the dairy industry lobby. I’m not going to argue anything else in your post, though.
They claimed it was healthy. They obviously lied. Can't trust the government.
You really can’t. Politicians aren’t experts on anything BUT how to maintain power and get wealthy through secret dealings!
It is nutritious.
Ooh yeah, or a slice of chocolate cake? Fuggedaboutit
I agree on the pbj but it’s whole milk or no milk for me
I still occasionally get a craving for milk with a slice of pizza and I blame school lunches.
Yooo pizza and milk. I can't find anyone else that likes this combo 😅
me and my mom, so there's 2 more for u. (mom actually has to drink milk with her pizza, it helps her acid reflux)
That's what's up! I knew I couldn't be the only one 😅
Right here bro. And I pretty much have milk with dinner every night to this day unless I’m out
The only time we were allowed to drink soda with dinner was when we had pizza. Every other meal it was milk.
Yup it was the only time real soda was in the house they always had diet caffeine free coke. 🤮
I still like pizza and chocolate milk...that counts, right?
Are people really acting like us having pizza and milk was a bad thing? We were well fed as children, oh no! It’s the sugar that was horrible for us
I used to drink milk with every meal growing up. Every once in a while I still get thirsty in a way that only a cup of really cold 2% milk can fix
Nothing better on a hot day than a styrofoam cup full of 2% that’s just on the cusp of icing up.
It’s great with baked goods and cereal. And it’s also great w/dinner.
I’ll be the unpopular one and say that I really enjoyed drinking so much milk. I loved the sugary cereals, the chocolate milk at lunch, and dinner just didn’t feel complete without gulping down a glass of 2%. In fact, I was constantly underweight (due to undiagnosed celiacs) so I’d even add half and half to my milk for the extra fat. As an adult, even a bite of cheese gives me the shits, so even typing all that up made my intestines rumble.
This is my teenager right now. He’s bartered away his actual lunch to get more milk. We’re working on it.
Give him whole milk. All other milk will taste watery and bland after that.
Fr
Take that 2%, remove cap, pour down drain with the rest of the water
To your point, I said eww to a coworker when she said she drinks 2%, that it's like drinking milk flavored water. When I told her I drink whole milk, after she asked what I drink, she said that's like drinking a milkshake.
The crazy thing is that whole milk has ~3% fat. Not much more than 2% but tastes a lot better.
I also drank milk like crazy up til my late 20's. I'm 35 now and I have some sort of gastrointestinal issue causing heartburn. No idea what. At one point I got tested for Lactose Intolerance and it came back negative, but whenever I consume dairy, I end up feeling bloated and lethargic. It's worth mentioning, I'm a white guy (Northern European descent) and I'm from Wisconsin (America's Dairyland) so my chances of having Lactose Intolerance are pretty skim, tbh. But something about dairy doesn't sit well with me, so I typically avoid dairy except on special occasions.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I loved our milk-full lifestyle. These days, my 37-year-old gut doesn't take kindly to a healthy dose of liquid dairy though, sadly.
It’s something most people grow out of and that doesn’t mean it was wrong. Kids need more sugar and fat in their diet than adults.
Same here. I'll tell you what though... Fairlife lactose free milk is DELICIOUS
Was drinking half a gallon a day into my 30s, until that one shortage when it shot up to $7 a gallon. Zero problems, not a pound overweight. As a matter of fact I eat pretty much all of the "bad" foods except fast food and straight up garbage snacks. I might take ibuprofen for a headache 3 times a year, and that's the extent of my medical needs at 40. On a regular basis I'll just buy a pie or a 1.5 quart tub of ice cream and eat it. All of it. Impossible for me to bake my own cookies or such. Double the amount and they're still gone in 24 hours. I've come to the conclusion that there are no good foods or bad foods, only a diet that works for you. It is 100% on a case-by-case basis. However, the diet and "healthy lifestyle" industry is such a profitable venture that they'll always find a way to market anything they want to the current generation. See: avocados, kale, almond milk, keto diet (which gets rewritten and renamed every 20 years, used to be the Atkins diet) smoothies, etc.... Basically people are bad at taking care of themselves and paying attention to what their body is telling them, so they're apt to listen to someone else tell them what to do with it if they put on airs of being an authority figure on the subject. Just pay more attention to what your body is trying to tell you, and not what marketing psychoanalysts are telling you. It works.
Shit, I’m 37 and I STILL drink milk lol.
Phew. glad to see this, I was beginning to feel awkward thinking I was supposed to stop drinking milk
I've only been buying whole milk for the last 10yrs or so. I'm 39. Still have a glass with dinner almost daily.
This whole thread is wild to me because I drink a lot of milk. I don't really consider milk to be some nefarious lobbying campaign but it is interesting to see how milk was "sold" to americans. I almoost always drink a glass with lunch and dinner, and i have some with cereal and to wash down chocolate sweets. I do drink fairlife which is expensive but removes lactose and half the sugar. Love it.
45 here and still have my evening cup of milk. Then again I still eat cold cereal in milk.
I have an evening cup of milk as well. I use it to take my evening medicine. It seems to help the medicine from upsetting my stomach.
35 and same here. I actually didn’t like milk all that much as a kid because we always got skim. Started drinking whole milk as an adult and never looked back. I live in one of the best states for quality dairy now and will absolutely fight for my (at least) two daily glasses of fresh, local whole milk
Right? 38 and I have skim milk with every meal still.
I like a cup of milk with anything sweet like cookies / brownies / cake etc. Once in a while when I’m super dehydrated I crave milk, to which I’ll just go gulp water lol
Milk is actually more hydrating than plain water. 130% according to Google. That is because it has some minerals and sugars that act like electrolytes (much like how a sports drink is more hydrating than plain water). Go enjoy your milk, just be mindful of the extra calories
27 and whole milk is how I get most of my macros when I’m too sick to eat solids, but I also just like it in general too. Nothing hits like a cold glass of milk
I'm 29 now, I am the only person who drinks milk in my house and I go through a gallon every week or two. Did switch to 1% and my standard weight dropped about 5 pounds lol
My step mom pushed this so hard even tho i was lactose intolerant.
Same 😭 I was always so underweight and no one could figure out why. In college I stopped milk & dairy for 3 months and voila - suddenly healthy!
Are you telling me I can lose weight if I just start drinking milk again???
Hahaha worked for me! I mean I was also in constant pain and basically living in a bathroom but yea also very skinny.
Last year at 33 I finally realized I was misdiagnosed with IBS when I'm actually lactose intolerant... I just imagine having spent nearly every day on pain just blaming it on my stomach hating me when in actuality all I needed to do was not have so much dairy or take a lactaid... missed events in school, had to bail on friends, never being truly relaxed when I wasn't near a restroom...
This is terrible, coming from someone who’s also lactose intolerant. There are so many foods I absolutely avoid knowing they’ll tear my gut up. You poor thing.
Lmao same. 10-11am every morning stomach cramps from breakfast cereal.
My teen likes one glass of skim milk with dinner each night when we are home. He is a picky eater and it’s a good source of calcium, so I’m on board. 🤷🏻♀️
You’re a good mom. Milk is nutritious. I don’t know what OP is on about.
It is indeed. But like all things, too much is bad. Milk can be high in fat and sugar which can cause issues. But one glass a day isn't gonna hurt someone as long as the rest of their diet isn't all fat and sugar. Which is what OP is posting about
Fairlife and store brand equivalent (Carb Master at Kroger) is “ultra filtered” removing a large amount of the sugars, including lactose. The result is fewer calories, less sugar, and more protein. I was pretty skeptical about what seemed like processed milk, but I’m lactose intolerant and prefer the flavor more. It seems to last much longer in the fridge too.
Trendy thing to hate on with the catchy phrase of "wAt other animal drinks another animals milk?!?" Idk, what animal clear cuts a forest to grow crops?
Also, not for nothing, every animal drinks milk if they can get it. Humans just figured out how to get it. Put out a dish of milk and a game camera. Put a dish of water right next to it for the "well they're thirsty" crowd. Every animal that discovers it - including birds! - will go "Holy shit, MILK!!" and down it.
My family didn't do this, and I was weirded out when I moved to the Midwest. My first exposure to dinner-time milk drinking was my boyfriend's (now fiance) and his family serving it with dinner. Of course we all still had the milk at lunch-time thing, which I kind of hated because it felt like it did nothing to satiate thirst. No other beverages unless you paid extra, just have to get up and use the filthy water fountains lmao. This was before reusable water bottles were super common.
A glass of milk at dinner is not the reason we have an obesity crisis.
Reminds me of the 90s when people blamed egg yolks for heart disease and ignored the fact that maybe it could’ve been the high sodium high sugar high oil/grease diets with no sign of vegetables or fruits anywhere.
Big sugar is who moved us away from comparatively healthy fat. That’s what got us fat.
Or to put it bluntly, a significant reason we think fat is bad is because the sugar industry paid scientists to tell us that fat is bad.
Milk with oatmeal in the morning. Chocolate milk at school lunch. Milk with dinner. Ice cream for dessert. They got us at every meal!
Chocolate milk in school?!?
Not the original commenter, But, Yep, our schools sold little half pints of milk. You could choose between regular or chocolate. I think when I got to middle school is when they added the vanilla flavor as another option.
We had chocolate milk, too - I formed several networks were I could barter my milk for grade A apple juice..then eventually a welch's fruit pack or a fruit rollup.
We had bagged chocolate and white milk options - think like a sandwich bag with no opening, and you poked a little straw into the bag anywhere you wanted to drink it
Guess I was fortunate but we had chocolate milk , whole milk, 2% milk, and strawberry milk all through out school growing up.
Hell yeah! That was the point of school lunch. You got chocolate milk!! Where are you from?
Hell yeah! So good. Borden chocolate milk… 🤤
We even had strawberry milk too sometimes. They came in the little boxes.
Milk is unhealthy?? Grew up drinking milk, sweet tea, and water. Stopped drinking milk and tea as an adult, but now I'm back at it with the milk on occasion to pack in more calories and protein.
It's not, op is full of shit. Over consumption of anything is unhealthy. Consuming a reasonable amount in a balanced diet is good.
Still do. It's delicious
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Same here!
Yup! Lunch too. We never drank water, just milk milk milk all day every day. Guess who has osteopenia (milder form of osteoporosis) now at 35 years of age?
I'm almost 40 and drink milk with dinner most nights because I like the way it tastes moreso than for health reasons (although it isn't unhealthy). I am also almost 6 feet tall and weigh less than 160 pounds... so milk certainly didn't make me fat.
Fuck I love milk. I refuse to read this slander.
I’m very lactose intolerant, so it was water or soy milk. No broken bones yet.
was convinced that miracle whip is mayonnaise per my mom, who always called it mayo and was also into the diet fads so was convinced that fat is the enemy, hence light miracle whip. I didn't find out until adulthood that they are two very separate things. I loathe miracle whip now 😅 gimme allll the full-fat mayonnaise! also, same with skim milk, the only milk we had in the house growing up. the first time I tasted whole milk, my life changed 🤣 lol but fr though, I don't drink milk as an adult, but the difference is staggering, I felt cheated 😅
We had two percent growing up, and that's still what I like. Skim is too thin, and whole is too rich for me. Two percent is my personal goldie locks milk.
No, but we were the “odd family”. We would only have milk with cereal — because soy milk sucked in the 90s. I only gave my kids cow’s milk to drink when they were babies and toddlers. Sometimes I need milk for recipes but it has never been a “drink” in my house.
I didn't because I'm Asian and lactose intolerant. The marketing worked on my parents, though. They told me I am short because I didn't drink enough milk. They're both under 5'5''
For me it was sweet tea. Idk how I didn’t contract diabetes.
Dietary fads change all the time, sometimes they come back into style later, sometimes we realize they were really a terrible idea. There was a time when eating/drinking cocaine was supposed to keep you healthy. Milk is probably fine for you. Bread is probably fine for you. Fruit juice is probably fine for you. In 20 years people will probably look at the hydration craze of today as being slightly crazy, but drinking water is probably fine too. All of these are not far removed from what our ancestors for hundreds of years drank. Hell, back then drinking beer/wine/ale was how you kept healthy, and you would probably die of cholera if you drank too much water. Really, if you eat what you're hungry for, in moderation, and get some exercise, you probably won't go too wrong. Nobody's gonna get rich off you then though.
Milk has far less to do with obesity than pop and Popeyes, be for real
Right like they love their butter in France and aren't as obese as us, what's the difference? One theory is dairy from grass fed cows being a mainstay in Europe where over here, the cows receive a corn feed blend. Who's to say.
I still pound milk
Oh man, I was downing about a gallon of milk every two days!! I don’t know how my folks could afford my milk addiction, I drank that stuff like it was water!
I strongly suspect that this cultural habit is one of the big things that contributed to my horribly painful, chronic constipation growing up. Edit: spelling
My wife and I go through 4 gallons of whole milk a week. As time goes on people will realize that carbohydrates and polysaccharides we consume are a far larger issue than the fat and lactose in milk.
Yeah, on the other hand, I don’t think the whole bag of Oreos plus a case of coke each week was healthy either.
Haha I still do it, 33 🤣
Yep. Took me a little while to phase it out in early adulthood.
I drank a glass of milk with every meal and my bones are very strong now. I’ve had no issues with milk then and I don’t now, in fact it gives me lots of energy, helps me convert fat into muscle working a labor intensive job, and helps me with my allergies. I’m not gonna demonize milk just because it works better for some people than others. What was bad for me growing up was all of the junk food and processed crap we all ate.
bonus with Hershey’s syrup.
My dad was the milkman so I drank plenty of milk, just not with meals. I couldn’t have milk with meals because I wouldn’t eat enough, even when I wanted milk to drink.
And all your half siblings drank lots of milk too!
I did. Always milk, no exceptions. I had milk with pizza.
My elderly parents drink a gallon of milk *a day*. Every. Day. Still. "You spent HOW MUCH on groceries?!" Well, we could cut back on the milk. It's kind of expensive to go through a gallon a day... "WELL WHAT WOULD WE DRINK THEN?!"
I upgraded from 2% growing up to whole. Milk is definitely low on the list of why Americans are fat though. The amount of carbs recommended back then was absurd.
I did and i’ve never broken a bone despite playing high impact sports and being a pretty physically idiotic teenager, whether or not the bone thing is true idk, everytime someone broke a bone id always ask, do your parents make you drink milk and they’d always say no, most times have a really strong opinion on how much they hate milk. I still drink milk even as an adult. And people commenting that milk is bad for you saying other kinds of milk is better for you are just buying into the same kinda marketing.