Where is your milk from?

[lordkenmore]

I also hated milk when growing up.

 

When I was in late elementary school, it was discovered that I had an allergy to milk. Apart from froth on top of cappuccino (which I sometimes drank, starting in my mid teens), I haven't had anything remotely ressembling plain milk since that time. I never missed it.

 

I'm not sure how bad the allergy is now. The last time it got tripped off, I was about 19, and went to a college professor's house for a class holiday party. I had non-alcoholic eggnog (probably the stuff sold in cartons in every grocery store this time of year). I'd never had it before, and probably had too much. I had to read a poem, and IIRC my nose was starting to run about the time of my reading.

 

But about 10 years ago, I went through a phase of making cappuccinos...and I think there were times I probably should have tripped off the allergy, if it's still active. Then, again, I was only using organic milk...and there might be something there that might make a difference.

 

As far as I can tell, other dairy products haven't been a problem.

 

It's been a long time since I've bought actual milk.

 

In recent history, I've also become more conscious of other issues, such as animal welfare, which reduces my enthusiasm for milk (or dairy, in general) to even lower lows. Plus I'm hearing some people in favor of plant based diets say that dairy is really not a healthy choice for anyone but a baby cow.

 

 

[this post was last edited: 11/25/2017-06:06]

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Somehow I was allowed to bring a can of passionfruit juice to school (made cat noises & meowing & even imitated a baby "Goo Goo, Ga Ga" to myself as my kindergarten teacher forced me to drink the disgusting chocolate milk that I somehow could tolerate in preschool... The white that I'm sure I'd tried I must have disliked even more!) and somehow was never bullied, picked on, or bartered for it--none of it snatched away from, let alone, causing any-'one' or my entire of class joining or creating any kind of "juice revolution"...

Nowadays, I will drink my milk--Whole, but my overcrowded fridge right now only allows ONE jug, so for our daughter it's 'a jug of 2%',--and that's only to go with, or rather, justify, eating baked goods, desserts, or sweet treats... --Plus I use it for making pancakes, and oatmeal, while I dislike the wife making it for hot cocoa, as she (and the daughter who also likes & insists it be made that way) never finish it & one or two cups are found lying around at room temperature! Doesn't help that the stuff never gets completely stirred, for even if/when they do finish it, the remains scraped out (& hopefully eaten)...

-- Dave

 

[philr]

It doesn't seem to work with my Canadian milk!

 

[rp2813]

Clover-Stornetta Farms in Petaluma, CA comes right up.   Lucerne, which is Safeway's house brand, doesn't register.  No surprise there.  They likely source it from any number of dairy operations.

 

I stopped buying milk from Trader Joe's.  I'm pretty sure it's re-badged product from Altadena Dairy in SoCal.  It reliably turns bad before its sell-by date.  Altadena has made the news more than once for salmonella issues.   Those incidents may have been associated with their raw milk, a product that IIRC can't be sold in California anymore, although a black market exists for it.

 

I drank a lot of milk as a kid.  Two quart bottles were delivered once a week.  We only had soda once in a while, or if we chose to spend part of our allowance on a 6-ounce bottle of Coke, which had to be drunk on the spot in order to avoid a deposit charge for the bottle.

 

These days, I only use milk for cereal and for the occasional recipe that calls for it.

 

[circlew]

Carnation or Pet, as I only buy evaportated milk for cooking.

 

[iej]

Grass fed, free roaming, Irish cows.

My milk, meat and eggs have to be fully traceable. I will eat meat, as long as I know how it’s produced both for my own health and also for animal welfare reason.

I’d go veggie before I’d eat battery eggs or intensively farmed chicken or pork.

 

[washman]

walmart private label 2 per cent

<h1>Dean Dairy Products CO Of PA</h1>
<h2 id="location">Location: Sharpsville, Pennsylvania<span id="seperator">//</span>Dairy: 42-75</h2>

 

[firedome]

cool post...

found out Wegman's comes from Upstate Niagara Coop, Inc Rochester NY, makes sense since Weggie's is HQ'd in Rochester. Price-Chopper Milk comes from Garelick Farms LLC in Renssalaer NY (Albany), though we don't often shop at P-Chop.

 

[henene4]

Fun thing

I was in China on a school exchange for 2 weeks a few years back.

First week was staying at my exchange students place in Shanghai.
Flight left evening here in Germany, we landed at 1PM local time after the 11h flight.
We looked at the school as group, then seperated with our exchange students to our familys.
I went to bed at 11PM local time after being up for more then a day and going 10000km around the globe.
Night was short, up at 6, dressing up, then breakfast.

I was sitting there, eating my wok fried sausage with a cup of milk.
Glancing at the milk carton I saw something that at first indicated to me that sleep deprevation was makeing me go mad.
But upon closer inspection, I was just floored.

That milk karton had a stamp of origin on it, as its verry common if not mandatory in the EU.

It came from a town less then an hour of driving away from my hometown back in Germany.

As the chinese market is pretty much void of dairy containing food (most dairy would be icecream or pizza), just normal day to day dairy products like plain milk are shipped around the world in their pasteurized form and then sold at a HUGE markup in a few select stores.

I was just flabbergasted to literally travel to another part of the globe, flying for hours, just to drink milk basicly out of my neighbourhood back home.