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.

Errrr. What? Cream in your blood? You have to be kidding me. That's not how digestion works.

There is a shortage of research into it (there is some which concluded there were no health benefits to homogenisation) but it's an extra process that is easily avoided IMO. It's unnatural enough drinking the milk of another species. No need to go berserk processing it.

YANBU, I've been studying all day and understand the importance of brain fuel, however my dh made me sizzling sea bass with a goats cheese salad for lunch (smug), conversely the milk man (2015) suggests you pre-order and help out your local farmer.

Well you are not wrong that cream in your bloodstream wouldn't be good. But it's not going to happen from drinking homogenised milk.

The health benefits of homogenisation are that you're not drinking rancid milk.

Another one struggling to see how non-homogenised milk would result in less fat (not 'cream particles', dear lord) being absorbed into the bloodstream, unless you have some sort of health issue that makes you less able to digest fats in the first place (and even then, I'm not sure the boundary would be between homogenised and non-homogenised).

And you are joking about the cream-in-bloodstream-thing aren't you??

Ok, yes, I knew how homogenisation worked that was why I wondered how smaller cream particles could be less healthy than large ones....now I see. It is so the cream doesn't get into your blood. Surely then having double cream in coffee like me would be the best thing then as the cream particles will be huge

200ml of tesco blue top, 9.4g of sugars
200ml of tesco green top 9.6g of sugars
200ml of tesco red top 10g of sugars

No real difference between blue and green

That's the theory, SayraT.

I'll carry on as I am then

We drink semi skimmed, but have very happy memories of being first to the bottle and getting the "top of the milk" over rice krispies, food of the gods!

I had to switch over to green when my waistline was getting bigger 3 years ago. And now I just drink my coffee with double cream.
YABU for trusting man to go shopping without sending him text with thorough description of items needed.

Eurgh to blue milk, too creamy. I like red.

Cow boob juice [boak]

Mmm cow boob juice yummy!

I'm with Koala on this one.

I often wonder who looked at the white stuff coming out of their animals udders and thought 'Yum!'

I like the green or the orange/purple 1% stuff in hot drinks.

I like the blue for drinking cold, but don't like the skin it leaves on a hot drink as it cools.

"cream in your bloodstream" now...
I am quite silly , but honestly, l can't see how that is possible?

If you want to make your own clotted cream you have to get unpasteurized double cream.

Now that's got a higher fat content.

Mmmmm clotted cream

I'm paraphrasing but increased saturated blood fat was the implication. Also concerns about hormone interaction. I'd need to read up on it again but basically I prefer to buy non-homogenised, organic milk wherever possible.

I'd assumed it was similar to sugar. Fructose is the fastest sugar to hit the bloodstream, presumably because it's the least complex/smallest?

Milk round here is from Rodda's, billed as "The Locals' Milk".

Always sounds a bit Royston Vasey to me.

We have 4 kinds of milk in our fridge atm- blue for 3 y.o, red for DP, almond milk for me (can't stand any dairy except cheese) and expressed boobie milk

We have silver top from the milkman. It's lovely - proper milk bottles, too.