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I’m allergic to milk. Trying to explain that to people sometimes goes like this:
“I’m allergic to milk.”
“You mean you’re lactose intolerant?”
“No, I’m allergic to milk. I can digest it just fine.”
“What do you mean?”
“Milk. I’m allergic to it.”
“What happens when you drink it?”
“My throat starts to swell up and get itchy. It’s hard to breathe for a while.”
“OOOOOH. You’re allergic to milk.”
“Yeah.”
An acquaintance of mine will literally die from anaphylactic shock if he ingests anything with even traces if milk...think severe peanut allergy, but for milk. It's not the lactose, it's some protein in it or something, and fucking everything contains traces of milk.
God damn, pour one out for your friend, that's an incredibly rough allergy. Hopefully they have some reliably milk-free food sources.
EDIT: specifically pour out the glass of milk for your friend they might accidently drink it.
Hey! Me too.
Cows milk only. I can enjoy goat and sheep.
You leave those Goats and Sheep alone!
The boomer crusade against alternative milks is one of the weirder forms of toxic masculinity and smacks of subservience to and brainwashing by the milk lobby.
They tried to narrowly define that can be called milk. Thankfully it did not pass.
As a funny aside, this was my autocomplete suggestions when looking up this bill:
I would imagine there is a funny story behind this.
Here in Germany they did succeed with it. Oat milk has to be called something like "Hafer-Drink" (note the anglicism) (literally "oat drink").
Completely wild to shit on soy milk in coffee.
Like, if you're trying to be toxic about your coffee, how do you even justify diluting the coffee with milk in the first place? Can't even do toxicity properly, get real
Since plant based milks are just basically water with the plant stuff in it, can't we make coffee milk and put that in our coffee as a milk alternative?
My sibling in Christ, that's just coffee
No, coffee is burnt coffee milk. We need actual raw coffee milk.
Look if somehow I can get a latte made with coffee milk … I need this.
I didn't realize I was lactose intolerant for the longest time. I just assumed everyone had some food that gave them the booboos and it was just the price of living. I thought intolerance was synonymous with allergy, and since it didn't kill me, I just assumed I didn't have it.
How I found out:
Me: I sure do love ice cream. Sucks that it makes me stomach hurt.
Friend: So you're lactose intolerant?
Me: Oh, no, no. Ice cream and milk have just always messed up my stomach.
Friend:
Me:
Friend: That's what lactose intolerance is.
A ton of adults legitimately don't know that most people develop some degree of lactose intolerance as they age. They think lactose intolerance is like a rare disorder rather than the norm for mammals. It feels like the kind of thing they should have taught us in health class.
"Around your mid 20s you should pay attention to if milk makes you fart a lot."
Same with my younger brother. He once told me that he has diarrhea least one time a day. He tought that this is a completely normal thing and is not willing to change anything. He would rather shit his pants than give up milk.
"One hot bean juice with cold bean juice, please."
"And can I get that with some of the sweet bean juice, please?"
(Chocolate)
That's why I order with almond milk because nut juice is more manly.
I like oat milk because it's like goat milk but with less G.
Oat milk is superior than any other option for coffee drinks and I will die on this hill
They recently switched to oat milk in our office and it’s just nasty to me. I tried to like it but no I just can’t do it.
Do you want to hear the story about how I figured out how I had lactose intolerance after eating 3 helpings of an ice cream dessert with extra whipped cream?
I'm in
It involved farting all the way home. Like a puff escaping with every step walking a few blocks home. I was so damn glad to be walking late at night. And I just felt miserable with my bubbly, knotty guts the whole night and the next day.
Seriously, I love ice cream and eat as much as I can get my hands on - but nothing in the world would make we want to go through that again. So happy for lactase tablets and vegan options.
For that I envy you lactose intolerant folk. My celiac’s disease has me violently (and painfully) vomiting if I eat any gluten. 🤮
I don't understand why you'd drink a soy caffè latte, because I don't understand why you'd drink a caffè latte, because I don't understand why you'd drink any type of coffee.
Real milk contains mammal estrogen instead of just the plant kind.
Do these people also only eat plain boiled rice for fear of soy sauce?
Like... what is this arbitrary ranking you have there that put soy milk below milk?
in one episode of the culture war the right wing focused on soy as leftist and woke and disgusting because it contains phytoestrogens, which are very unhelpfully named and don't actually function like human estrogen but they love to pretend they do. there's also vague bigotry because wow soy is sooo different and different is bad. there's also the fetishization of history and white men's culture of drinking cow milk, and if you are lactose intolerant they probably also expect you to just deal with the pain and the shits because a real man must always experience pain or whatever.
IMO the real issue with alternative milks is that they're popular with left-leaning people, because of concerns about the environment or animal welfare. And rightwingers hate everything that might make the world a better place and/or is popular with left-leaning people.
oh wow i totally forgot about anti-cruelty ideas and initiatives, but you're totally right. i apologize.
