Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

[Tante Shvester]

[Brinestone]

*craves*

Actually, not really. Pregnancy has a way of making sweets somewhat less palatable to me.

[Porter]

Mmmmm.... moist

[Jonathon]

*drools*

[BlackBlade]

That holds no appeal to me.

[rivka]

That holds no appeal to me.

I do not understand people like you.

[BlackBlade]

That holds no appeal to me.

I do not understand people like you.

It's simple diminishing returns.  I'd love a piece of dark chocolate, I don't want a mountain of it, with extra sugar.  But it's also a function of my disliking food without beverages.

[Porter]

There's no way I'd eat that delicious piece of cake without a glass of milk.

[rivka]

In order of preference: a cup of coffee (w/ lots of milk), a cup of tea (sugar or honey, no milk), or a glass of milk. But yeah, definitely not without a drink.

[Porter]

My order of preference: a glass of fresh goat milk, a glass of whole milk from the store, a glass of other milk from the store.

[rivka]

Ugh, I hate whole milk. It tastes like drinking straight fat.

[Jonathon]

That's why it's so good! Duh!

[rivka]

*shudder*

[BlackBlade]

 

[pooka]

We buy whole milk, but we pretty much never drink it. 

I was extremely averse to sweets my first trimester.  It's actually what prompted me to tell some of my coworkers I was expecting, because someone talked about getting me some donuts.

[fugu13]

I love that I can get Starbucks to make things with whole milk, and sometimes I even indulge and go half and half. Not that I go to Starbucks too often, but we have a lot of gift cards saved up.

I drink a lot of whole milk (from a carton -- much better than from plastic, I discovered fairly recently. If we had a front porch I'd get it delivered daily), but it amusingly takes down my fat intake in a lot of my cooking, because I use it instead of heavy whipping cream (though I do cook it down more, resulting in some heavenly sauces that require a lot of stirring).

[pooka]

I did not know that half and half was 12% fat. 

[dkw]

Now that both kids are over 2 we should probably switch back to non-whole milk.  But I really don't want to.

[BlackBlade]

I grew up on UHT milk, it's the kind that is super heated then chilled quickly, then heated again I believe, and then sits on the shelf unrefrigerated and won't go bad for months.  I could never drink it warm, and it was only cold enough with ice cubes, and every summer when we came to Utah, we'd get so excited to drink normal milk.  Looking back, that stuff was disgusting.

BTW We drink 1% milk in my home, it's a compromise between whole, which is gross, and skim, which is also gross.

[rivka]

UHT milk is only drinkable very, very cold. But it is acceptable for cooking.

[sweet clementine]

hm.  In googling what the UHT of UHT milk stood for I discovered an interesting blog that claimed that over the next few years/decades the world will switch to UHT milk entirely, relegating the usual pasteurized milk of today to the same "niche market" sphere as real fresh milk.  I would be real sad.

[Annie Subjunctive]

I steer clear of the entire problem by drinking only bat milk.

[Tante Shvester]

Just like a wee little baby vampire.

[Scott R]

The word "moist" makes me crave chocolate cake.

It's so delicious and moist!

[Scott R]

*craves*

Actually, not really. Pregnancy has a way of making sweets somewhat less palatable to me.

Wait, you're pregnant?  I did not know this.