Mmmmmmilk

[azsnowman]

Do you drink milk? Me, BLECH! As my pappy always used to say, "Milk's for calves and babies!" I use milk on my cereal, but plain ol' white milk, YUCK!! I LOVE chocolate milk. Guess my distaste for milk came when I was back in high school some 28 years ago........it was after football practice one HOT autumn day, came off the field and had a pint of milk, WELL.....hot weather, churning stomach, need I say MORE!!

Dennis

[Skywatch_NC]

I'm a chocolate milk person myself...same as you, Dennis!

During my childhood years I also enjoyed strawberry milk on occasion.

Eric

[breeze]

LOL, Dennis, I just DON'T like drinking milk! Phew! I remember growing
up - my Mama and I had many a war over "you're not getting up from
this table until you drink your milk, young lady...." And, being the
whiner that I was, "But, whyyyyyy? Milk is for calves....I'm not
a calf!" I'll cook with it, but, if I find myself in the VERY occasional mood
for cereal, I like to top it off with vanilla soy milk - but, I'll only drink
so much of THAT, too!

[nholley]

I am enjoying a large glass now.....with an Oreo or 4.

[kkcool]

As an adult I find that I cycle in and out of drinking/wanting milk. Don't know why. Actually, I do that with water and Gatoraid also. More often than not though I can do without milk.

breeze-are you sure we didn't grow up together? When I started reading this post I was thinking about a childhood memory. When I got to your post I had to make sure I was remembering my childhood and not yours. Same table, same whinning, but mine had a happy ending.....Big sis came to my rescue with the chocolate syrup! Yeah for big sissies!!!

[wxmann_91]

I have to drink milk...still growing up.

[chicagopizza]

I'm the oddball here. I enjoy milk...and cheese. Anything dairy. I would go to the Wisconsin State Fair and I couldn't leave without getting a nice cold glass. They had the most delicious raspberry milk!!

[Miss Mary]

I was born in 1955. Back then mothers gave their babies whole cow's milk in a bottle and rarely did a mother nurse her children. My mom started giving me cow's milk and within a week, I almost died. It was discovered that I was allergic to milk and dairy products. The doctor put me on soy milk formula. I did fine then. By age 3 I had outgrown my dairy/milk allergy. But I didn't like milk much. Of all things my mom said I wanted to eat butter, straight from the butter dish. Just hand me a stick and I was happy. But of course she didn't, she needed it for baking and cooking! She caught me sneaking a stick here or there, and I'd happy just munching on plain butter! Growing up I did drink milk but probably not near enough to meet daily requirements. It was the only beverage we were permitted to have in lunchroom cafeterias (even HS). Milk is just always my last choice in a beverage. In my 40s I began to notice if I had a bowl of ice cream, I'd get so sick. Or if we made goetta (similar to sausage, a Cincinnati thing) and eggs, I'd get very sick. I avoid fried eggs, milk and large servings of ice cream. For example, I ask for a child's size scoop of ice cream. Fewer calories too but it doesn't nearly mess me up like a bowl of it would. I guess I have residual lactose problems.

I've been taking Caltrate calcium supplements for years, once I realized I couldn't drink much milk.

But here's another odd observation - I need plain daily yogurt for another reason and it never makes me ill! Odd!

Mary

[TexasStooge]

I have to drink milk...still growing up.

Same here.

[Pburgh]

When I was young I didn't like milk at all. I would say that in the past 10 or 15 years I've really grown to love skim milk. I guess it's my bodies way of telling me that it needs that calcium. The milks gotta be extremely, icy COLD.

[arkess7]

i love milk......i try to have a glass every night........good for the bones

[Miss Mary]

I recently read in a women's magazine about a new diet, mainly comprised of daily products. I'm sure it mentioned skim or low fat milk. But low fat cheeses, yogurt, egss, were on it.

Not that I'm going to go nuts on dairy.

But it is a food group that you don't think of when you try to lose weight.

Mary

[HurriCat]

Well, for a lot of folks, all that dairy-induced G-A-S will indeed add a feeling of weight loss

Re: Milk - I'm hooked on Mayfield milk and only get it once or twice a year. Visiting relatives always bring me a couple of gallons. I even bought a bunch of Mayfield Dairy items off of eBay, including this little plush cow wearing a Mayfield T-Shirt.

We do have the Mayfield ice cream locally - pretty good!

[Skywatch_NC]

I think the Cleaver family is/was from Mayfield!

Eric

[breeze]

As an adult I find that I cycle in and out of drinking/wanting milk. Don't know why. Actually, I do that with water and Gatoraid also. More often than not though I can do without milk.

breeze-are you sure we didn't grow up together? When I started reading this post I was thinking about a childhood memory. When I got to your post I had to make sure I was remembering my childhood and not yours. Same table, same whinning, but mine had a happy ending.....Big sis came to my rescue with the chocolate syrup! Yeah for big sissies!!!

LOL, darnit, kkcool - I was the baby, and, only girl - didn't have a sissy
to rescue me! The brothers? Hmpft! They'd already drank their milk
and were making fun of ME!

[azsnowman]

Now....how about BUTTERMILK?



Most ALL of my aunts and uncles back in West Texas drink buttermilk with cornbread crumbled up in it......DOUBLE "BLECH!"

Dennis

[chicagopizza]

I never tried it and I never want to!! I have heard too many people say they don't like it.

[streetsoldier]

The only reason for milk in my view is to lighten my COFFEE.

'Nuff said.

[Skywatch_NC]

Cereal w/out milk would be yuck for ie...

Eric

[streetsoldier]

Cereal w/out milk would be yuck for ie...

Eric

Depending on the cereal, I eat it straight out of the box, often until empty at one sitting.

Would that make me a "cereal killer"?