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I'm reading a book called "Words to eat by : five foods and the culinary history of the English language" by  Ina Lipkowitz. In there she talks about  milk, and how there are strong feeling about adults and milk.  She also postulates that people of Northern European extracton are very much pro-milk, and others are not.  So I thought I;d get an idea from my friends here.

Part 1- I'm basically a B- I put it in tea/coffee or cereal, or dunk my Oreos in it.  I almost never have it as a drink.
Part 2- I'm of German/British/Irish etc. extraction.

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I like it.. I don't really have it much outside my cereal but if I got in the habit of doing I wouldn't be adverse to drinking it more often..  I like that it's cold and not too thin like water (I refuse to ever do skim).  I used to do 3.8% but it's just too fattening and more expensive.  2% is just perfect.  When I get the urge a tall glass of milk with Hershey's mixed in is heaven!

I drink it all the time, usually have a large glass with each meal. 

I'm of Polish/German heritage.

I love it too much. :tongueout: hardly meet a glass of milk i didn't like. Though i really don't care much for Skim (always though in some cream if it's there and no one is looking :wink:)

I like milk plus drencom. It sharpens me up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouw3jpArc_A

Quote from: Rev. Powell on June 07, 2012, 04:13:01 PM
I like milk plus drencom. It sharpens me up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouw3jpArc_A

But does it get you ready for a little of the dirty twenty to one?

Actually, I have to drink it on a daily basis. One of the medicines I have to take every day requires that I take it with something dairy.

I will say that I am also probably one of the few people who actually likes buttermilk. A number of years ago, a number of military people were polled to find out what was some of their least favorite and most favorite foods, and buttermilk, came in, if not dead last, then almost dead last, even behind some foods that were fictious. On the other hand, if I have to drink milk straight, without mixing it with anything, then I prefer to drink buttermilk.

I do as well and am also German/ Polish with a little eccentric WASP for good measure.

Milk-Noooooo.
I NEVER drink milk.Ever.
Water-yes.
Coffee-sure.
Ice tea-yeah.
Whiskey.Certainly.(NO beer.-or wine.)

No milk.
And I'm not lactose intolerant. I love cheese and cottage cheese.
I don't like milk-or ice cream either,for that matter.

And I'm Norwegian.Go figure.
( And I DON'T like sardines! Or sea food. I like perch and blue gill though. Snapping turtle and frog legs too.)

I have it with my cereal, and add it to chicken and dumplings or clam chowder, but don't just drink the stuff flat out.

I'm not lactose intolerant but I do prefer silk soy milk over regular milk. Go figure.
That said, I still use milk from time to time but not as often like in the old days.

Love it, grew up with it being my favourite thing to drink [full cream, none of this skim milk watered down nonsense.]

Funnily enough, don't really buy milk these days, so I've pretty much come to a complete halt in my milk drinking habits.

I'll say this though: milk in some areas is just terrible and I can understand why people wouldn't choose to have it except in Coffee etc.  I've tried some in different countries and in some areas its heavily sugared, or feels and tastes different, but I suppose its like the water supply: home always tastes better.

I like milk but don't drink it much.  My kids have cornered the market on milk consumption and we literally go through about 3 to 4 gallons a week.  Yes...a week...

Milk is the greatest!  Grew up in a dairy-farming area; milk was always my favourite thing to drink.  I am of British extraction.

Seems to me a regional preference would be based on history and culture (call it tradition): I would think that the farther south you went in the 'old world' the less likely it would be for cows to be kept for the purposes of milking.  For a number of reasons, mainly practical. 

Newt, thats really the point she was trying to make.  The further south you go, the fewer cows there are...more sheep and goats whom you tend to hit up for cheese. 
 

I love milk...and the colder the better. I have switched to 1% or even fat free due to doctor's orders. Since my heart surgery I have gone to lower fat in a lot of things. I must admit that I'd switched to 2% many years ago so the adjustment wasn't too bad. In fact,my older sister had some 5%  pure Jersey milk one time and it was so rich I could only take one drink.

I drink lactose free milk nearly everyday. I never drink tea or coffee though but occasionally I will enjoy an hot chocolate.

I'll drink a glass (ice cold only) with an extremely sweet dessert like cake or pie.

I recently tried soy milk (just ok, weirdly greasy), almond milk (better), and coconut milk (the best!). When ever I feel the need to buy milk it will probably be one of these form now own.

The only drawback with these fake milks is they're kind of yeechy in cereal, so if I get the hankerin' for some Frankenberry or Count Chocula it's whole milk again.

German/Pole here, and I 've always liked it. I don't drink it as much as I used to, but when you have a taste for it there's nothing else like it.

(http://www.funcoast.com/files/imagecache/lead_art/story/images/got-milk-2.jpg)

Quote from: JaseSF on June 10, 2012, 04:08:47 PM
I drink lactose free milk nearly everyday. I never drink tea or coffee though but occasionally I will enjoy an hot chocolate.

Same here about coffee and tea....I do like hot chocolate,though.

I enjoy it when I drink it but don't go out of my way to drink milk.  Usually, just cereal and coffee.  Don't like it in tea, prefer tea straight or with a little honey. 

I'm of Germanic/French/Swedish ancestry. 

I've never been a big fan of milk. I like it, but it's a take it or leave it sort of thing.

As far as milk drinking goes, the Danish are on average the tallest people in the world, and they are great milk drinkers. In the absence of other evidence, it may be that the consumption of milk is a very good thing as far as human health goes.

Then again, I gather that some cultures find the consumption of cheese disgusting, and many cultures find the idea of cheese just terrible.

It would be a toss-up for me of one of the human inventions I love more, cheese or beer. Cheese is one of the things that makes my life worth living. I love it, wouldn't want to live without it.

I use it in my coffee / tea and a full glass with some nice homemade choc chip cookies :thumbup:

Quote from: Newt on June 08, 2012, 08:04:55 AM
Milk is the greatest!  Grew up in a dairy-farming area; milk was always my favourite thing to drink.  I am of British extraction.

Seems to me a regional preference would be based on history and culture (call it tradition): I would think that the farther south you went in the 'old world' the less likely it would be for cows to be kept for the purposes of milking.  For a number of reasons, mainly practical. 

This also follows with lactose tolerance - the further north you tend to go in Europe, the higher the percentage of people are lactose tolerant.  It's like 99% in Nordic regions.  For those who don't know, most non-white people are not lactose tolerant.  In other words, the majority of the world's people are lactose intolerant.  Something like 1 in 8 Asians, for example, are lactose tolerant.

Me, I quite like milk, though I don't drink it straight up too often these days.  That has more to do with me drinking very few of my calories at all - prefer to drink non-caloric beverages and eat more solid food.  When you're losing weight, it's a lot easier to cut calories when you're not drinking any of them.

There were a lotta weird commercials about milk in the 80s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgQWXroVzS4