How do you feel about drinking milk?

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

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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[retrorussell]

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!

[Jack]

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

I'm of Polish/German heritage.

[Leah]

I love it too much. 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 )

[Rev. Powell]

I like milk plus drencom. It sharpens me up.

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

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

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?

[BoyScoutKevin]

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.

[lester1/2jr]

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

[RCMerchant]

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.)

[indianasmith]

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.

[claws]

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.

[dean]

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.

[Mr. DS]

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...

[Newt]

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. 

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

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.