To feel queasy every time MIL says...

[MommaTonda]

We drink alternative milk in our house as we prefer the taste. The kids drink oat, almond and soya milk when at home and don't know any different.

When we are at MIL's house, she always offers the kids a glass of cows milk (not sure why) and she calls it "granny's milk".

AIBU to feel queasy every time she says "Who wants some of Granny's milk?" 😅(Can't find a vomit emoji)

Send me the therapist's number - I need an appointment asap! 😂

What??!

Just 'milk' will do. I say that as someone who only has oat milk or lactose free. Those are what need the extra descriptor, not the real unadulterated stuff.

Aaarrrggghhh my eyes!!!!

Or in the sketch with Victoria Wood and Celia Imrie:

'Fresh from the udder!'

@Backtomyoldname not that it matters, but OP wrote ‘as we prefer the taste.’

I’m sliently cackling as I try to BF my LO to sleep reading that

When I was 15, my only sibling was born. Mum breast fed him.
One afternoon Dad made himself a cup of tea and complained the milk tasted funny, and asked why the milk was in a blue jug.
Mum replied ' that's MINE'
Dad.. 'what do you mean the milk is yours?'
Mum... pointed to her boobs... 'No I mean it's MINE'

I can still remember Dad's horrified face

Oh that's made me chuckle 🤭 😂😂😂

I think you are being a little bit silly

My ex MIL used to keep asking me about my pussy. ‘How’s your pussy , Self?” Etc. Worst time was when she said to her dog “ Can you smell Self’s pussy?” She was genuinely oblivious.

I did have a cat by the way.

Presumably those who think OP is being ridiculous.

She no doubt would find it perfectly normal if MIL talked about granny's biscuits (or anything else other than milk).

And no, I'm not a granny - I just think it is childish.

I wouldn't have thought anything of it. My auntie used to like sterilised milk. She was the only person we knew who drank it so everyone in our family referred to it as Auntie X's milk. We never thought she actually produced it any more than we thought that Church Juice - the particular brand of orange squash we always got at Church events and nowhere else - was grown in the graveyard.

At DP's house DM drinks cranberry juice which is now referred to exclusively as Nanny Juice.

I'd have just corrected her by saying ' Granny is asking if you'd like some cows milk DC, would you?' and move on. It is a bit cringeworthy whichever aspect you approach it from

It's a bit odd that she feels the need, do you think she disapproves of the choices you make in your household re: milk alternatives?

I can see both sides... "Granny milk" does sound a bit odd. But equally, it's an innocent description...

We refer to whole milk as "X's milk" because only one of my children drinks it. Similarly, oat milk is "Y's milk" and/or "Mummy's milk" because that's the milk we use.

Cow's milk, goat's milk, sheep's milk, human milk = milk
Everything else = not milk
Only mammals produce milk

Grim

Better than Grandads milk though

Who on earth offers milk as a drink ?

@crispcreambun 😂😂😂😂 that made me howl

🙄My DF drank milk with every meal. He lived till he was 92

That's is funny. Eldest dc refers to cows milk as normal milk 😂
As test family have goats milk or oat. Utter teenage distain

I mean I'm with nanny on this , cows milk so much better for you than fake milk full of sugar and additives 🤮

"More bubbly milk Sir?" - Julia Davis in Hunderby.