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I always considered pure milk as baby food and cows milk for baby cows, milk makes good cheese ,butter and ice cream , to drink it straight brings on my gag reflex. yuck.
I grew up in an all-white area of the northeast, and my mother didn't let us drink milk with our meals because she thought it would "fill us up" and we wouldn't eat as much. We always had milk to drink in between (it came from a local dairy and was creamy and thick). The chocolate milk was the best. The grownups always drank coffee after the meal.
I still like milk, but I only drink whole or 2 percent milk at home. I work as a cook in a school cafeteria, and we have free milk to drink with our meals. I don't enjoy it as much there because it is chalk water...errr, I mean skim and 1 percent. We were forced to discontinue the 2 percent this year, the only stuff that was palatable.
We had milk with every meal when we grew up. We're white. Not sure if it's a cultural thing or not. What did you drink with your meal?
"White" isn't exactly an ethnic group, you know. Some ethnicities -- obviously mostly the dairy-based economies like the Maasai and the ethnic groups on the grassy plains of central Europe -- drink milk all day long. But maybe it is just some people's personal preference. We appear white but my family is very mixed -- Irish (lots of milk), Asian (also none), Ukrainian (LOTS of milk), German (lots of milk), Mediterranean (milk here and there). My dad hates milk and we were raised almost completely without it, not because of our ethnic background or our race but because what my dad wants, he gets.
Think about it -humans are the only creatures on the planet who as adults drink the milk of another creature.
If we are going to drink any milk, why not the milk of our own species.
Think of the job opportunities for women!
Somebody always loves to jump up wave and say that one every time the subject of drinking milk comes up...but we're also the only species that cooks our food and deliberately grows crops and raises livestock. Not exactly natural, either. And adjusts our diet so widely to what's available to avoid starvation, which is probably how we started using milk products in the first place.
I still drink milk and I'm in my fifties. No so much as I did when I was younger, because I try to avoid drinking calories. But sometimes...there's nothing so calming and satisfying as a nice glass of milk. It just makes my tummy feel happy. Of course, lactose-intolerant people aren't going to feel that way.
The OP is from years ago, but yes, we drank milk with every meal growing up. We were your typical meat-and-potatoes type of family, English/Dutch heritage.
Our family's milk came from a local chain of dairy owned convenience stores that sold their milk in returnable glass one gallon bottles.
That milk was the richest most creamy whole milk I have ever tasted and I drank copious amounts of it.
Fast forward to today. I'm a distance runner and drink close to two gallons of whole milk a week.
From running alone I average approx 6000 calories burned a week and more than that if I'm in training for an upcoming race and milk is part of my calorie plan in order to maintain my weight.
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I'm from the MidWest & white. Growing up as a youth I drank milk with my last 2 meals of the day every day. Milk with breakfast I can not stomach, have to have cold glass of OJ for breakfast, well I'll put a little bit of milk on my breakfast cereal, that's it. Not sure about the cultural or generational thing. I'm in my 50's & still love milk every bit as much as when I was much younger, just not to drink in the morning though.
When I was little, my mother stopped offering me milk because I refused to drink it. When my son was little he refused to drink it, as well. We just can't stand it.We do eat plenty of cheese, though.
I was the same way as a kid. My mom would give me a glass of milk, and it would go to waste. Even now, when I do get the rare urge for milk (VERY rare!), it has to be ice cold.
Harrier prefers Grape Nuts when he eats cereal and he eats it sans milk.
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