How do you feel about drinking milk?

[tracy]

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.

[JaseSF]

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

[Raffine]

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.

[Hammock Rider]

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.

[tracy]

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.

[Couchtr26]

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. 

[Mofo Rising]

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.

[Venomx73]

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

[Jim H]

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.

[retrorussell]

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