About the fucking milk.

[DisappointedOne]

DH was out helping a neighbour. Asked him to pick up some milk in the way back because the dribble he put back in the fridge isn't enough for the day as I'm still in PJs trying to study. He's brought back GREEN TOP milk. We haven't had green top milk in this house for the best part of a decade. 4 pints of the fucking stuff.

Asked whether the shop had no blue top milk and he said "they did. I thought this was what we had". Shows how often he makes a cup of tea.

I was wondering what weirdos bought blue top milk, here you all are .

Green top, because I'm a normal person. Red top in a desperate situation (no green top within the 6 corner shops around my part).

Didn't know milk could fornicate....

Blue milk is better for you than green milk. Fact.

Blue isn't proper full-fat milk though is it? When we got full-fat milk delivered in bottles there would always be cream on the top (if the bastard blue tits didn't get to it first). Blue top milk never has cream on top

They all have the same amount of carbs, just different amounts of fat

gatorade that's due to homogenisation not the fat content.

Blue milk is fine in tea, you use less of it

But carol if green has less fat, it has more of something else, guess sugars maybe. But the amount is teensy, surely, unless you drink pints and pints of the stuff

You are all BU for drinking udder juice

Technically if you remove the fat the proportion of what's left that's carb is higher though, carol. Not that I suppose it makes much difference to your health.

Blue as standard, gold as a treat.

I must be weird because I can't tell the difference between blue and green, just tastes like milk to me. Red never passes my lips.

About 95% of your daily diet should be 5% fat or less. Blue top (just about) falls within that category, so isn't that bad for you. BUT, I have now got used to semi skimmed in tea so wouldn't like it.

I live in the US. There is no consistency about color at all. Every single store and producer has their own system. We are expected to READ the packaging!

We have semi skimmed as main.
Then about 4 pints of Jersey milk for coffee.
To me, that looks the least buggered about with.
I remember when the milkman bought 'red top' = homogenised

kick we used 2‰ when we lived in the states.
They mess with milk a lot Ime.

Ew MILK! Can't stand it.

Gold milk is absolutely bloody delicious. Organic blue top milk otherwise. Or nothing.

Non-organic milk is the absolute most rank though, so disgusting what is in it

Cravandale is lovely!
So fresh... No after taste.

In our local greengrocer you can get "Jess's Ladies Special Breakfast Unhomogenised Milk", from an organic dairy farm in the Cotswolds. It's non-homogenised, they literally just pasteurise what comes from the cows and stick it in a bottle. That's still got a proper layer of cream on top and everything, yum.

You can get proper (organic) non-homogenised milk from Waitrose and Ocado too - that's what we usually have. Unfortunately DH saw fit to have 2 huge bowls of (paleo) granola this morning before he went out leaving about a tablespoon full for DD and I. So we needed some to tide us over until our food delivery on Tuesday.

Yes, homogenised milk is much unhealthier than non-homogenised. And generally speaking I like my food to be messed around with as little as possible. As someone else has said, when you remove fat what's left is proportionately more carby.

(Whole milk is typically about 4.5g carb per 100ml while 1% milk is about 5%. It's a slight difference, but I'd rather have the extra fat and vits from the whole milk.)

I have double cream in practically everything else, but treat myself to a small cappuccino (at home) every day which you can't do with cream and water, and cream in tea is just wrong. 4 pints of milk will usually last us over a week, except when Mr Greedy is in the house.

When I was a child, we used to have a little square of wood that the milkman would place over the delivered milk to prevent the tits from helping themselves to the cream.

On the occasions that he would forget, the foil tops were decimated and the cream plundered. The final straw came one day when my mother poured milk on to her Weetabix, followed by a small slug that had decided to join in with the milk-theft partay that had occurred in the early hours of the morning.

I believe my father marched down to the garden gate to have a stern word with the tits sitting in the walnut tree. They flipped him the feather and carried on with their antisocial behaviour whenever the opportunity arose. I escaped to the relative safety of the city, where now I just get shat on by starlings.

Fecking birds. And milk. Modern life is rubbish (mostly).

I think there's very little taste difference between blue and green. I'm obviously not a milk connoisseur.

We have dairy cows so we drink real full fat milk, as in we drain off the fat with a sieve and use it to make butter. But I don't mind either blue or green in a cup of tea or coffee.

Goat milk all the way. All forms of cow milk taste weird to me now!

Talc, you win the award for funniest post of the day

Hmm, I would say YABU, green top isn't a terrible substitution, red top would have been far worse! YANBU for normally getting blue top in the first place though, red top is disgusting, just milk flavoured water, blue top is tastier and better for you, as well as still being technically low fat!