"You're Outta White Milk", "What's 'Earth Friendly' Mean?", "Wild Thing!", and More!

[Lingering Grin]

You would be horribly confused if you came over here. XD Whole has a blue cap, Skimmed a red cap, 1% milk an orange cap and Semi Skimmed a green cap. There's also this weird organic filtered faffed around with milk that has a purple cap; it's Whole milk that supposedly is as healthy as Semi.

I refer to milk by cap colour too; for example if I'm getting milk from the store, my list would go "1pt green milk - 6" rather than "1pt semi skimmed milk - 6". XD

Oh yeah, I know it differs from place to place, I was just using the colors I see around here.


I buy whole milk usually, it tastes better and it's better to cook with.

[NightWatch]

I buy whole milk usually, it tastes better and it's better to cook with.

OT but I love whole milk, it's so delicious, but I can't drink it. High cholestorol runs in my family, and of all the foods I eat regularly with high cholestorol content (like eggs and red meat), whole milk is the only one that affects my cholestorol level. So I get to drink 1%, because skim just tastes like water.

[SG15Z]

For those that seem so interested in the topic. Here's a full list of the label colors for milk varieties by country.

[Dreamstalker]

Oh, and the best thing for hair removal is either Aliens-type acid, or fire....
Won't treat the rest of you very well... but you [b]would[b] be hairless

Rubbing alcohol on the skin makes for both hair removal--albeit with an icky smell--as well as a fun visual effect.

Yikes. Seriously, even I don't know where that thought process came from.

*snorts milk up nose...at least I didn't get it all over the computer*
Good lord. I like your sense of humor

[RetailWorkhorse]

Rubbing alcohol on the skin makes for both hair removal--albeit with an icky smell--as well as a fun visual effect.

Dare I ask, how in the WORLD would that work?

[bainsidhe]

You would be horribly confused if you came over here. XD

Nope, 'cause some of us read the labels (unlike all those pesky SCs)

[CiggyStoreClerk]

Around this area, the labels tend to be Whole Milk is Red, 2% is Purple or Green, 1% tends to be Purple or Green (whatever the opposite of the 2% is), and Skim tend to be either Blue or Grey.

It sounds like you're from Quebec. If so, 2% is Green, 1% is Purple

Also, my younger sisters (10 and 6) call whole milk "fat milk"

[Dreamstalker]

Dare I ask, how in the WORLD would that work?

It needs to dry first, only the vapors ignite.

*disclaimer: I'm not suggesting that anyone actually try this. I did not do it myself, but had it demonstrated to me by a person who had done it before*

[dalesys]

It sounds like you're from Quebec. If so, 2% is Green, 1% is Purple

Also, my younger sisters (10 and 6) call whole milk "fat milk"

My mother calls skim milk "decalfinated".

[Lingering Grin]

It sounds like you're from Quebec. If so, 2% is Green, 1% is Purple

Also, my younger sisters (10 and 6) call whole milk "fat milk"

Florida actually

[Buglady]

In western Canada anyway (not sure about other provinces), we tend to have whole milk labelled as "homogenized" milk.

"Homogenized" does not fit vey easily on a label.

Yes. We have Homo Milk.

My houseguests (from Georgia) just about KILLED themselves laughing when they innocently reached into the fridge to get milk for their coffee and found THAT. Then they took pictures...

[Muses_nightmare]

In western Canada anyway (not sure about other provinces), we tend to have whole milk labelled as "homogenized" milk.

"Homogenized" does not fit vey easily on a label.

Yes. We have Homo Milk.

My houseguests (from Georgia) just about KILLED themselves laughing when they innocently reached into the fridge to get milk for their coffee and found THAT. Then they took pictures...

You know you're Canadian when you can say homo milk without snickering. :P

We have it in BC as well. I don't drink it, I can't stand anything more than 1%, skim is just fine with me!

[Nyoibo]

Come to think of it, someone would have to invent some weird milk flavors to even remotely cover the bases.... meh.

Nah, White=Plain, red=Strawberry, Black=Chocolate, Yellow=Banana, that pretty much covers them.

Dare I ask, how in the WORLD would that work?

The judicious application of fire.

[Buglady]

You know you're Canadian when you can say homo milk without snickering. :P

Haha, exactly! We should use that at the border to check who is a real Canadian

We have it in BC as well. I don't drink it, I can't stand anything more than 1%, skim is just fine with me!

Oh, I can't stand skim milk! Bleah! It is too thin to be real milk and too thick to be anything else. I have texture issues.

(Also I just figured out that skim milk reminds me of the powdered milk Mom used to get when I was a kid - it was cheaper than fresh milk at the time, and we were *beyond* broke. So... not a happy association).

Nope, 2% is as low as I can go, and in coffee it HAS to be cream, not milk. I have also been known to pour light cream (10%) over my cereal or oatmeal, but only as a treat, not every morning. When camping - evaporated milk, YUM.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

At least he didn't ask for "homo milk."

Actually, some jugs of milk really DO have that printed on them.

Around here, whole milk is also referred to as "red-top." So if a customer is asking for red-top, we automatically know they want the whole milk.