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[May16]

almond milk is tits

Just not from tits.

 

[weekend_warrior]

FUCK NO.

Whole milk is the best milk. Hell if cream and half & half wasn't so comparatively expensive I'd drink that.

 

[vicissitudes]

I love you.

 

[J-Roderton]

I love whole milk. My college dining hall only has skim and 2% in their giant milk dispensers.

 

[suzu]

Whole milk is gross after switching to 2% for a while. If you go back it's like drinking butter

This. I can't go back to drinking whole milk anymore. I barely drink milk anyway.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I've always drunken whole milk, and there's nothing like it when it's fresh.

 

[goldsoundz]

1% for me. Tastes close enough to 2% with less fat, and not watery like skim.

 

[dcdobson]

Grew up with skim and I love it.

 

[entremet]

Whole milk or 2 percent. 1 percent or skim are both disgusting.

 

[Vox-Pop]

2% is the best thing ever if you grew up drinking nonfat milk.

 

[DanteFox]

try straight from the cow one day. Now THAT's milk.

idk man, it tasted too bitter to me. Plus it's warm, yuck.

 

[SoulPlaya]

Whole milk isn't the best milk.

It's the only type of milk.

Everything else is garbage not worthy of being called milk.

Exactly.

 

[SouthernDragon]

Pfft.

Whole milk makes you healthy and strong. In fact, that's my "light" milk drink. When I feel like drinking something REAL, I drink kumis. I prefer Colombian Kumis, though.

Most people I know can't handle it, because their mothers hated them and gave them skim milk.

 

[TheKaeptain]

Whole Milk from tap is awesome. Even though she only let me do it once or twice. Said it was for the baby.

 

[RebornYeti]

Oh man, I only just discovered the awesomeness of whole milk when I started work at a Coffee Shop. I used to only drink 2%, and even then I didn't really like it.

Now, any coffee drink I make for myself can only contain whole milk. No questions.

EDIT: Half and Half is pretty good too.

 

[Goro Majima]

1% for me. Tastes close enough to 2% with less fat, and not watery like skim.

This.

2% is too rich for my blood and skim almost has a green tint to it (though I'd probably use skim in cereal)

A glass of whole milk is a recipe for a guaranteed stomach ache.

 

[weekend_warrior]

This.

2% is too rich for my blood and skim almost has a green tint to it (though I'd probably use skim in cereal)

A glass of whole milk is a recipe for a guaranteed stomach ache.

What's the matter, can't handle your lactose? What kind of Wisconsinan are you?

 

[Goro Majima]

What's the matter, can't handle your lactose? What kind of Wisconsinan are you?

Maybe it's because I'm nearly 30 but lots of cheese and milk are way harsher than it used to be

I know, I'm a disgrace to my home state.

 

[Kimosabae]

All skim here. Drank whole growing up, and it contributed to me being a little fat ass. I'm a gym rat now, so I don't need the extra calories. I only drink milk for utility purposes.

It was a hard transition to Skim at first, but now, it's the other way around. I find whole and 2% absolutely disgusting, unless it's an ingredient in some sort of compound recipe (shakes, ice cream, pizza - stuff I stay away from anyway).


Actually, Whey and Casine protein powders do a lot to ease the blandness of skim now that I think about it.

 

[Xelinis]

And yet the extremely healthy Japanese and Native American (hundreds of years ago) populations love their rice and corn. I don't doubt the statistics in that study, but it makes more sense to me that people on such different diets probably don't have the same reaction to a diet that has a high ratio of carbs vs. fats vs. proteins.

Native Americans had high levels of activity, whether it be through daily chores or their regular rituals.

The Japanese have excellent portion control and a very nutrient-rich diet.

 

[RevenantKioku]

I'm pretty sure the milk I drink here in Japan is like 6% or 8% fat.

It's goddamned delicious.

 

[MadraptorMan]

I do my best to stay away from milk altogether, but if I have to drink it, I drink skim. Milk comes from cows and it's for baby cows!

Also it sometimes plays havoc on my digestive system.

 

[teh_pwn]

Native Americans had high levels of activity, whether it be through daily chores or their regular rituals.

The Japanese have excellent portion control and a very nutrient-rich diet.

Physical activity doesn't have much to do with it. The Pima went from being a very fit tribe to being so diabetic that they're studied as the most diabetic culture in the world between 1850 and 1930. What changed is they went from their traditional fish, meat, corn, vegetables lifestyle to eating 50+% of their diet as flour and sugar (government felt bad that they killed off the Pima's food supply, so they provided rations). They still did lots of hard labor (high physical activity), but they still overate.

I've heard that the Japanese culture is good with portion control - but why? Why stop eating if the food is there? If balance is obtained by calories, what are the implications of being off just by 5 calories per day over years? How do animals prevent themselves from starving or getting so fat that they can't survive? I think the Japanese are able to portion control because they don't consume foods high in fructose or lectins, which both in labs have been shown to cause rats to overeat.

All skim here. Drank whole growing up, and it contributed to me being a little fat ass.

I seriously doubt this. Whole milk was the only milk before the obesity epidemic. It was a food that people consumed in good portions without counting calories - because calorie labels didn't exist.

 

[ianp622]

This.

2% is too rich for my blood and skim almost has a green tint to it (though I'd probably use skim in cereal)

A glass of whole milk is a recipe for a guaranteed stomach ache.

I've always had an easier time digesting whole milk than low fat milk. I thought it was something about the fat slowing down the absorption, so you had more time to process it.

 

[Souldriver]

It's funny how when I was used to whole milk, skimmed milk was so nasty and watery, and now that I drink skimmed milk, the whole milk has become nasty and buttery.

But it's just habit. I'm sure that I find whole milk is nastier. Especially ice cold next to something chocolate (brownie, cereal, ...). Hmmmmm....

 

[Dai101]

FUCK NO.

Whole milk is the best milk. Hell if cream and half & half wasn't so comparatively expensive I'd drink that.

You are clearly a man of exquisite taste

 

[CabbageRed]

I drank skim for far too long to like anything else. Whole milk tastes fine but makes my cereal and mouth feel like they've been covered in a thin layer of plastic. I get plenty of dairy fat from cottage cheese* and yogurt.

*Although I prefer the texture of fat free cottage cheese.

 

[m3k]

no everyone else is crazy

although when i go back to new zealand i find almost everyone drinks light or skim milk

i know its better for my cholesterol but yuck

 

[Android18a]

I used to only like whole milk, but these days I have semi-skimmed on my cereal instead. I find whole milk a bit sickly creamy now.

 

[hydragonwarrior]

I've gotten used to skim milk since I drink so much water lol

To be honest I treat any kind of milk as just a good water alternative, especially when eating something sugary. Even skim milk is fine with cereal since most cereal is sweet enough as it is.

 

[Kimosabae]

I seriously doubt this. Whole milk was the only milk before the obesity epidemic. It was a food that people consumed in good portions without counting calories - because calorie labels didn't exist.

Didn't want to suggest that milk is solely to blame. I came from a low income, single-mother family, so sugary breakfast cereal was often consumed in large quantities throughout the day to the detriment of balanced nutrition. You said yourself high-sugar diets and whole milk were potentially problematic.

'True" meals often consisted of fast foods, and school lunches.


Thanks for the informative posts BTW.

 

[iamblades]

Whole milk is the only milk worth drinking really.

I'll settle for 2% with cereal or something, but if I'm buying, I'm buying whole.

 

[Seraphis Cain]

Whole milk is the ONLY milk.

I'm originally from the deep south, and we called it sweet milk down there.

 

[SnakeXs]

Glad to see so many real men in this thread.

People who like white water, or people stuck in 1980's "dietary fat = body fat!" mentality can all go choke on their disgusting sad excuse for milk.

 

[Sofo]

Whole milk appreciation thread! It was a sad day when I moved to low-fat milk because my parents said they wouldn't buy two kinds of milk if one was only for me. Also, not sure what they've done to milk around here, but Norway's one tastes a lot better (I'm from Barcelona).

 

[Combichristoffersen]

Used to drink it as a kid, but as an adult I try to avoid it. Tastes way too much of fat for me. Semi-skimmed, low fat or skimmed for me.

 

[Red]

Whole milk is the best milk.

Although, American whole milk tastes very watered down to me.

There's nothing better than a glass of fresh milk early in the morning. When I was younger I used to spend time on my grandparents' farm, and man, was the food ever delicious.

That said, I don't agree that American whole milk tastes watered down. I don't like it, but it's for the opposite reason: I think it tastes pasty and thick, almost like drinking paint. Makes me nauseous.

When it's store-bought, I'm a skim kinda guy.

 

[BowieZ]

I prefer to EAT ice-cream, not drink it.

Pure milk (aka skim) without the added fatty cream all the way.

 

[Monocle]

I drink a gallon of milk or less per month. It's always whole milk. Accept no substitutes.

 

[TylerD]

Whole milk for straight drinking or following something delicious and chocolaty. Vanilla Silk for my two cereals (half cup bran buds / half cup grape nuts / quarter cup raisins) or Granola.

 

[moniker]

Whole milk is gross after switching to 2% for a while. If you go back it's like drinking butter

But butter is delicious.

no everyone else is crazy

although when i go back to new zealand i find almost everyone drinks light or skim milk

i know its better for my cholesterol but yuck

No, it's not.

 

[JGS]

This. I can't go back to drinking whole milk anymore. I barely drink milk anyway.

I switch between skim and whole all the time. They're like two different drinks. My parents only bought whole milk and my wife only drank skim, so skim won.

But I get whole at every opportunity and prefer to cook with it.

 

[Ogni-XR21]

I honestly don't understand how anyone can drink anything else but whole milk. Is a 2% difference in fat really worth the loss in taste while any other food has that much more fat in it...

 

[TheLastCandle]

I don't drink milk, so I can't speak of the varying degrees of deliciousness for drinking purposes.

I do put it on cereal when I have that though, and for that I use skim or 1%.

For cooking, 2% or whole for sure.

 

[Skilotonn]

Since I was a kid it was Carnation milk (butter milk), when I moved out on my own I pretty much stopped drinking milk, then years ago I got into drinking whole milk to bulk up, read about the 2% milk and that didn't last that long because it tasted like water with milk dripped in it, and for the longest of while I've been back on the whole milk, and Carnation milk when I was back home on vacation.

I admit that I didn't know that whole milk was 3.25% fat, good job with the marketing of 2% milk to seem like it was that much of a difference from whole milk - it's had its own stigma for so long.

 

[SolidusDave]

I definitely prefer 3.5% (="whole milk"...) though I can also drink the 1.5-2%. Actually, the latter tastes somewhat more "fresh" after e.g. sport.

I don't like the milk directly from the cow though, but I think it's the general different taste and not the fat (which is also just 3.5%-5%).


ewww+pointless@ anything else

 

[Aurora]

Whole fat milk is the only real milk. It actually angers me to see people using skimmed or semi-skimmed unless they're on some crazy diet.

 

[Rad-]

I don't like the taste of whole. Tastes too creamy.

And skim is not totally healthy either btw. The processing has removed good fats from the milk. 2% organic milk is what you should drink if you wanted to go for the most healthy choice.

 

[Wads]

I've never tried it, but I'm going to because of this thread. I grew up on 2% and then we switched to 1% when my mom got into that Weight Watchers crap that never works.

 

[Seth C]

Another vote for almond milk right here. It is my favorite.

From childhood to now I've done the entire transition.

Whole -> 2% -> 1% -> Skim -> Soy -> Almond