Whole milk tastes watery now...

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Has anyone else noticed?
I just had really disappointing cereal that tasted like semi skimmed milk was used.

FuckYouEzekiel

I wouldn't want a famer putting his arm up my arse and removing my calf.

Nor would I want anybody to attempt that.
Not least because it's impossible.

It's a little worrying how some posters have suggested raw or un pasteurised milk. Please, please do not drink raw milk. You can contract listeria or any manner of nasty things.

Jersey milk is very creamy. The pasteurised sort...

I find the local milk changes with the seasons + weather - as PP have said, it's creamier in spring when they're off munching on fresh grass. It's been similar here recently, think it's the wet wet weather.

Don't buy unpasteurised milk unless you're used to drinking it, the health benefits some people drink it for might give you an upset stomach if you're not used to it!

I noticed the same! We get milk from a milkman now and it is noticeably a lot thicker.

Oat drink. You legally can't call it oat milk and you would be silly to call a white drink milk. Let's respect mothers.

I make my own so legalities don’t really come into it. I don’t think my friends will try to sue me for putting my oat milk in their tea.

Bless you for trying though sweetie.

I love my oat milk. HTH.

You are correct. We have a choice luckily.

A local farm sells raw milk. I keep meaning to try it. Our local organic is unhomogenised. It’s a very strange coincidence that I always need to open a new bottle and have the cream when I’m having my granola? 😜

What?

We have a choice between giving birth via our arses or our vaginas?
Monotremes might, but neither cows nor humans do.

I presume the pp means that farmers/vets do sometimes have to put their hands ‘up a cows arse’ during pregnancy/delivery. I was brought up on a farm, not in the U.K but I presume that happens here too.

Why the hell does every thread about food have to turn into a bloody lecture about dairy farming/meat eating or whatever? Let people make their own choices without the patronising comments. Oat drink isn't milk. It's irrelevant to the OP.

To address the OP, DS1 is the only person in our house who drinks whole milk and he has noticed this too. Some of the supermarkets have started using clear lids on the cartons and he has gone to the fridge to double check that he didn't use the semi skimmed by mistake. No doubt another money saving exercise.

I had assumed it was down to the wetter than usual weather making it more watery. Same as European tomatos (from last years crop) being more acidic due to the drought.

But we are talking about supermarkets and their incessant greed. I'm finding the milk goes off a lot quicker now too, several days before the BB date.

Fair enough.
I wasn't brought up on a farm and thought the usual route to assist births was via the vagina not the rectum.

Either way, it's probably best that someone gives the cows a bit of assistance in a difficult birth.

'Let's respect mothers'

🤦🏻‍♀️dear god

Yeo Valley organic is very noticeably tastier than supermarket whole milk

Asdas milk still lasts for days past the BB date

Some very confused posts about mammal anatomy here. Cows usually deliver their own calves naturally. Sometimes they need a bit of help from the farmer or vet. No putting hands up arses. Calves stay with their mothers till they have drunk colostrum and they are then taken away. If you don't like this then don't drink cows milk. Some farms have a calves at foot regime. But that costs. Pay more for milk is the answer.

Cows have a very flexible and capacious colon due to their grassy diet and vets will regularly insert their whole arm into the rectum in order to feel other internal organs through the bowel walls. When a cow is giving birth this might include applying pressure on the uterus to assist with contractions.

Asdas milk still lasts for days past the BB date

Thanks. We usually have Sainsburys or Co-op. Might be time to change.

JaukiVexnoydi

Cows have a very flexible and capacious colon due to their grassy diet and vets will regularly insert their whole arm into the rectum in order to feel other internal organs through the bowel walls. When a cow is giving birth this might include applying pressure on the uterus to assist with contractions.

Fair play. Every day's a learning day.

And doubtless that's what FuckYouEzekiel meant by:

I wouldn't want a famer putting his arm up my arse and removing my calf

Although I think - if I were a cow (no sarcasm!) - I'd be quite pleased to have some assistance with my contractions if the birth wasn't straightforward.

Try https://pipersfarm.com/collections/milk-yoghurt-kefir/products/grass-fed-jersey-milk

Waitrose Duchy whole milk.

I'm not suggesting the milk hasn't changed, but could the lack of clinging to the cereal be a result of the cereal formulation having been altered?

If the milk tastes different in other things or on its own, then it's the milk too, but if it's mainly how it reacts with the cereal it may be that the cereal is using slightly different (cheaper?) ingredients or processes that are changing its texture/clinginess.

I find a lot of foods I'm looking forward to are disappointingly different nowadays, I assume because of cost-cutting, etc.

weather has been odd the last couple of years (heat, drought, cold, wet and all combinations thereof).

that will have affected feed and with that the milk composition and taste.

I buy from the local milk hut where the sell shakes too. Or a local hut at the back of the pub in the village

no different.

I guess the farmers who are able to survive are the ones who can produce the highest volume of milk as opposed to the ones who can produce the best-tasting milk, so squeezing farmers on cost means they're under pressure to focus on volume, which presumably often comes at the expense of quality/taste.