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.

Yuk to green! Raw cows milk from local organic farm in our house. Or failing that jersey unhomogenised. Grandparents were dairy farmers :-) Although we shouldn't really drink cows milk as it's not supposed to be good for us. Sigh.

Crazy. But yes had read that...

Am trying to get into Soya milk. But its a bit grim isnt it.

The hot italian barristas at my local coffee shop tell me every week that full fat cows milk is the best for you - all the rest are "full of sheeet".

Dietary at doesn't make you fat.

OMG your colour system over there is totally wrong!

Red = full fat (red alert, watch out, warning, fattening)
Blue = semi skimmed (everyone likes blue, it's neutral, like on plugs)
Green = skimmed (green means go, healthy option, fat free)

I'm in France by the way.

Fat free is not healthy......

Guide to French milk (on the whole):

Red: UHT filth, bin
Blue: UHT filth, bin
Green: UHT filth, bin

They're obsessed with it (though you can get fresh milk, if you look for it, and sometimes raw milk, even in the supermarket).

Oooh Ooooh am beyond excited with this thread I love milk and drink usually 3 to 4 pints of semi skimmed per day and i love it but everybody i know says that it is really bad for you , I think it makes me feel better .

Wow, that's what, 1000kcal just from milk?!

Yes French milk is disgusting.

I can't really believe that there are 112 (113 with this one) posts about milk on this thread.

In answer to the OP - get dressed and get yer own sodding milk lazy so and so

Where have you been time

MN milk threads are classics. This is the only time or place you will hear people caring so much about what milk there is. Most;people take whatever there is and don't really care of their friend puts semi in their tea or coffee on a visit.

It reminds me of that scene in outnumbered where she pretended to give her sister an organic chicken breast buy in reality it was the same supermarket version she gave every one. only for the sister to wax lyrical about how you can taste the difference

I personally think milk I'd the vilest substance ever and I didn't even like it as a toddler. I cried whenever I was given milk.

I'm often stumped at the sheer amount people claim to drink.

We have 3 types of milk in this house lol.
Blue for the kids,
Green for DH
and i have the yellow 1%

We go though a lot of milk the kids, (we have 3 that use cows milk) go through a full 6 pinter a day. Me and dh go through about 2 pints each a day.

"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. "

See that's the bit that would piss me off. Replacing it with blue or green wouldn't bother me. I prefer blue but so many people think green is healthier and buy that, that I'm used to either. But using up the last supply of something you all use and not considering other people in the house - that's annoying.

OP you are definitely not BU.
My own preference is blue for coffee, cereal and glasses of milk, green for tea. Unhomogenised full cream as a treat for me and anyone I like enough to share it with...
As a child I visited a friend whose mum had a bottle of sterilised milk. It had a brown foil lid, and I really thought it was therefore from a brown cow

Green top is apparently the most popular as (for reasons not worth repeating) asda staff told me so on Saturday, so must be true

We have green for most of family and blue for ds (1). I don't really like blue.

My parents have red which I preferred while I lived there but which I now find thin after having been converted to green by dh.

I didn't say it wasn't disgusting, just that your colour scheme is clearly wrong.

Fait enough Chatte

It used to be colour-coded foil lids in a completely different colour scheme again - in my area, at least, it was blue and silver squares for skimmed, red and silver stripes for semi, plain silver for full, and plain gold for nonhom. I would torture my brother by turning the skimmed milk tops inside out to make him think we'd had a pint of full-fat delivered

I grew up in England in the 80's and one of my fondest memories is of getting up first to get the cream from the bottle of gold top milk in the morning for my coco-pops

I think yabu op but personally I hate blue.

In terms of health I think it's unlikely to make a blind bit of difference to your weight or health which one you use.

www.milkfacts.info/Nutrition%20Facts/Nutrient%20Content.htm

This is just one link but if you research you will see green milk has more nutrients than blue milk. It's suggested that kids over age 5 should not be drinking blue milk, they gain no benefit other than the fat content.

And the fact that it tastes better.

That's not the same as evidence that it will actually impact on your long term health buttercup.

No I don't think either will have negative health impact as such, more that unless you favour the taste, there's no nutritional benefit to full fat - just added calories which quickly add up.