"Milk - all kinds"
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (63594)
United States
March 18, 2022 1:50pm CST
This was an exact quote on a menu at a pretty fancy hotel back in the mid to late 1980s, in Nashville.
I was not in Nashville for the country music... not a country music fan. I did get to pet a horse, I do like horses, but I wasn't there to pet a horse either, that was just a bonus.
No, we, Connie and I, were there because Tom Baker and Colin Baker were there for a something... It was my only chance to meet Tom Baker, it was, I think, my third and final time to meet Colin Baker.
Now, we couldn't afford to stay in the fancy hotel, but just down the block was a less expensive one that we did spend 2 nights in. The hotel we were staying in didn't have a restaurant, but did have a little convenience store - I managed to heat up something I had brought with us because I was still in the early days of my food allergy diet - and I had discovered I really don't like raw broccoli. The nice guy in the convenience store let me nuke the broccoli, yes, we did buy other stuff there.
However, the first morning we were there, we went over to the fancy hotel's restaurant for breakfast.
That was when I spotted the above notation on the menu.
The waiter, a super chill older dude was our waiter. He asked if we were ready to order. I told him I had a question.
I asked him what kinds of milk did they have.
"Well, regular milk... low fat milk... chocolate milk... maybe... maybe butter milk..." I'm still looking at him expectantly. "What do you want? Goat milk?"
Connie started laughing, I reached down beside myself and said: "As a matter of fact, I brought my own."
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@marguicha (222855)
• Chile
18 Mar 22
Ina normal supermarket here you donĀ“t get many kinds of milk. But now it is better as they have almond milk.
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@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
19 Mar 22
@LadyDuck that makes sense, but what do they call it? milk substitute? I've had people tell me that almond milk uses so few almonds it is a waste of money and that some of the others, like soy milk, taste like flowers. I'm really not the one to ask, since I've never had any of them. If I have to pick one that isn't cow's milk I'll go for goat's milk.
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@LadyDuck (471355)
• Switzerland
19 Mar 22
@marguicha Our stores are no more allowed to call "milk" the almond drink and all other sort of new drinks to substitute milk. Those are not "milk" as they do not come from a mammal. Finally some common sense.
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@snowy22315 (180478)
• United States
18 Mar 22
You would probably have to be in some kind of vegan restaurant or in Portland to get goat milk on the menu.
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@snowy22315 (180478)
• United States
19 Mar 22
@ElicBxn You're right about that. I wasn't thinking. I should have said vegetarian PvP facto vegetarians would be all over goat milk.
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@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
19 Mar 22
@snowy22315 I had bought this goat milk "fresh" as in not in a can, but in the dairy section of Whole Foods before it was a big deal, Whole Foods was started in Austin... It is a bit seasonal since the goats milk "dry" up in the fall. Maybe they have figured out a way to not let them dry up now, we are talking about 30+ years ago.
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@kaylachan (69370)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18 Mar 22
I am sure they weren't expecting that.
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@JESSY3236 (19912)
• United States
22 Mar 22
lol I never had butter milk or goat milk. I used to drink regular milk, but I now drink almond milk and oat milk. I do have some lip balm that supposedly has goat milk in it.
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@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
26 Mar 22
I am using Vaseline on my lips because they are so sore. I looked up and the internet said that if something burned when it was applied, then you probably needed to go with something without anything in it. Vaseline is the only thing that doesn't burn my lips and, sometimes, my lips feel on fire. They were worse before I used Vaseline.
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@Deepizzaguy (102624)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
18 Mar 22
I like the slogan about milk.
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@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
19 Mar 22
@Deepizzaguy ahhh... like buttermilk? Connie... @maggiepie (may she rest in peace) would drink it, I don't care for it. People add it to cakes and stuff, but I think it makes cakes less sweet, and if I have anything, I have a whole mouthful of sweet teeth.
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@Deepizzaguy (102624)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
19 Mar 22
@ElicBxn I mean the different kinds of milk since some of them I have never heard of before.
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