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.

We have gold top only. Delicious - even better than that Duchy O stuff from Ocado. Non-hom as well, from the milkman (he orders it just for us, bless him). Shop milk tastes a bit horrible to me now (though somehow I struggle on with it out of the house )

Yanbu. I won the milk wars in this house - blue top or the lovely sainsburys unhemogenised stuff for us.

How does he not know what type of milk you get?

Low fat's pretty much been debunked now anyway.

yabu to get het up over milk its just milk it really doesn't matter

YANBU
How can he not know what sort you usually have?
In the Blue camp here but not sure that is relevant!

That infuriating ability some people have to waft through life, not noticing other people's preferences, what's normally bought, what's needed to keep the household going, the minutiae of everyday life like the fact that OP hasn't had semi-skimmed milk in the house for years. OP, YANBU.

On a faintly related note, I agree with a PP who said it is neither fish nor fowl. I have full fat for drinking and skimmed for tea (I prefer it), and have often likened semi to half-sugar Coke, and scoffed at the idea that that could ever exist as a concept. Except now it does

So... We'd be better off (in this house) sticking to gold top then?
What a hardship eh?

Ooh, what he doesn't know could fill an enormous book. This is just another "surprise" in a very long list.

I'm in the red camp, struggle to drink semi.

YANBU that he is completely absent to not recognise what you usually have at home!

Another vote for blue top or creamier.
Red is pointless and makes sad anaemic joyless hot drinks.

I'm confused, how is blue healthier than green now?

It's a sad state of affairs that your DH has no clue on such a basic household fact, but green for blue in itself is sensible and no big deal.

My dd once brought in the milk with slug attached and deposited it in the fridge. Luckily the slug didn't make its way into any cereals.

Blue has more fat and less lactose (sugar) than green, Seamstress. High dairy fat intake related to less central obesity

The milk marauders in my childhood were crows. If we had skimmed delivered (blue and silver foil), they flipped off the slate left there to fend off bluetits then left it alone. If it was silver or goldtop, massive bloody crowbeak straight through the lid. The milkman started having to put a brick on top of the slate.

DD has conniptions if I buy that Waitrose blue organic milk (because it's non-homog). Arggghhhh teenagers-

YANBU
He obv needs to do more of the shopping

(we have green and blue here)

I cannot drink full fat milk. It's like all you can taste is the awful creamy fatness of it, thighs gaining in inches with every cup.

calleigh its actually still low in fat though. :)

We used to only ever have green in the house, but I got a fancy for some full fat milk when pg with DS1.

Now we just have lots of blue for me and the kids and DH gets a wee pint of green for his tea.

Can't stand full fat in tea or coffee, and I'm not going to bother having more than one type of milk in the fridge so it's green top for me.

And there is abdolutely no evidence that non-homogenised is healthier than hom.

I drink so much semi-skimmed milk that since I moved to a place with no freezer I had to start watering it down - I just can't be carting that much milk home.

I don't mind blue top in things or on things, but I'd never just down a cup of it - there's some weird farmy aftertaste that reminds me it was squeezed from an cow's manure-flecked udder.

Skim or green milk is better for making pancakes than full fat, I find.

disappointed why is homogenised milk less healthy than non-homogenised milk?

Just wondering, I don't drink/use milk at all....I have cream instead

My cousins have a dairy farm and produce their own milk (pasteurising and homogenising it themselves in their dairy) I didn't like it when the milk had a layer of cream on the top so prefered it when they starting homogenising (even though I don't drink it now).

disappointed why is homogenised milk less healthy than non-homogenised milk?

Just wondering, I don't drink/use milk at all....I have cream instead

My cousins have a dairy farm and produce their own milk (pasteurising and homogenising it themselves in their dairy) I didn't like it when the milk had a layer of cream on the top so prefered it when they starting homogenising (even though I don't drink it now).

disappointed why is homogenised milk less healthy than non-homogenised milk?

Just wondering, I don't drink/use milk at all....I have cream instead

My cousins have a dairy farm and produce their own milk (pasteurising and homogenising it themselves in their dairy) I didn't like it when the milk had a layer of cream on the top so prefered it when they starting homogenising (even though I don't drink it now).

The process of homogenising takes the cream, which would naturally float to the top, and force it through tiny holes so that it breaks up and emulsified in the milk. People prefer the aesthetics of it, but the downside is that those cream particles may be small enough to cross directly into your bloodstream, which isn't good for you.