If you were given a shopping list with dairy milk on it what would you buy?

[Katieweasel]

Would you buy the much needed treat your DW had looked forward to eating all day. Or would you, like my DH, buy 6 pints of milk assuming the "dairy" was to differentiate between different varieties of milk! First and last time DH is entrusted to do the weekly shop unsupervised!

I can pretty much guarantee my husband would buy chocolate.

I wrote bananas x2 on the list last week. I meant 2 bags of bananas as we buy them that way and always right them on the list that way. DH bought 2 individual bananas.

@TerrifiedandWorried

I would do that - buy two bananas,

but if it says Paracetamol x 2 I don't open the box and press two out. Although strangely if a Doctor had put that I would.

@RoseGoldEagle

When I saw the title of your post I thought you were going to say he’d bought say a Cadbury’s caramel, or maybe a fruit and nut, rather than a plain bar of Dairy Milk, and that would have been bad enough! I would never have thought actual milk!

I thought the same!

Now, we buy cows milk and oat milk, so my dh might have made the same mistake.

@TerrifiedandWorried

I would do that - buy two bananas

I would too. Don't understand why they even have regular bananas in bags, I get it for organic so you can't put them through as regular on the self serve. You can just pick out small bananas or ripe bananas though.

I read it as cows milk so you would have got 4 pints of semi skimmed.

You need to write ‘Dairy milk choc’ if you want chocolate!

That said my brain might work this way as I am vegan and differentiate between cows milk and oat milk.

Just asked DP and he says 'chocolate'.

We only buy actual milk though - sometimes specifying 'blue' or 'green'. I am amazed at the number of people who have normalised plant-based alternatives.

Why wouldn't he be able to do the shopping again? Sounds like he won. Not such an idiot.

I am amazed at the number of people who have normalised plant-based alternatives

And I'm amazed that milk designed for baby cows is so normalised in general. I don't think many people would but human milk, but it would be a much more logistical thing to have on the market.

And no, I'm not vegan.

It's hilarious these plant based milks are even allowed to be called milk.

It's not milk...It's a drink. The fact its vaguely the same colour as actual milk doesn't make it milk.

The fact its vaguely the same colour as actual milk doesn't make it milk

I don't think they called it that because of the colour 😂

And I'm amazed that milk designed for baby cows is so normalised in general. I don't think many people would but human milk, but it would be a much more logistical thing to have on the market.

Tell that to the Maasai

Damn, autocorrect. That should say logical rather than logistical.

@OddHoleySocks

The fact its vaguely the same colour as actual milk doesn't make it milk

I don't think they called it that because of the colour 😂

So why call it milk? You could just as easily call orange juice, orange milk. Why don't they? What particular thing about these plant based milks make them worthy of the title milk? Why not call it oat juice, almond juice or oat drink or almond drink?

What do the Masaii have to do with human milk being a more logical thing for humans to consume than milk from other animals? I don't understand your point.

Because they are used as an alternative to cows milk. In tea/coffee, in cereal, in batter mixes. I can't see many people putting orange juice in their tea 😂

@OddHoleySocks

What do the Masaii have to do with human milk being a more logical thing for humans to consume than milk from other animals? I don't understand your point.

I'm saying that humans consuming animal milk isn't purely a marketing ploy...It's happened for millennia

I wasn't trying to open up an argument, but genuinely surprised at the number of people responding who find the term 'milk' so ambiguous.

I would agree with @formerbabe that it is an odd term to use for things they aren't really milk. The dictionary definition isn't 'a liquid you pour on cereal'.

@OddHoleySocks

Because they are used as an alternative to cows milk. In tea/coffee, in cereal, in batter mixes. I can't see many people putting orange juice in their tea 😂

Sweetener is used an an alternative to sugar. It's not called sugar.

It's not milk...almonds are not lactating mammals

I'd have bought chocolate and wouldnt have thought otherwise.

Milk should be just "milk", of skimmed milk etc for a particular preference. Oat milk, rice milk for dietary requirements.

Sorry, I'd have bought semi skim 😁 But we do have different types of milk in our house. The chocolate kind of dairy milk would just be known as Cadburys.

I just asked my DH and he said chocolate. I think he's a keeper

Milk is sold as a food item. Plants milks are sold as a food item. They do a similar job. That's presumably why they are called milk. It's not a difficult concept to grasp. I don't think anyone is going to suddenly think an oat is an animal 😂

The fact that using cows milk in this way has happened for many years doesn't change the fact that it's quite an odd thing to normalise, when doing it with human milk would be considered at best odd and at worst disgusting.

I would have bought a bottle of milk , wouldn't occur to me that it was a bar of chocolate