What about the 2%?

[WolfeMacleod]

With all this talk of the 1% vs. the 99%, what about the 2%?




I can't stand 1% or skim. I like whole, personally. My GF only buys 1%.

[genrex]

Same thing in this household.


Another quandary -- does anyone sell good 1/2 & 1/2 anymore?

The 1/2 & 1/2 they sell at the big supermarkets seems to be 1/2 cream and 1/2 whole milk.... there's no buttermilk in it at all. I think *real* 1/2 & 1/2 is supposed to have some buttermilk in it.

[plumb4u2]

personally I was raised on 2% and that is what my kids are being raised on

[widgeon13]

I love whole milk but my wife won't buy it for me. It's great w/ CC cookies.

[Baz]

I'm a skim milk man....LOVE THE STUFF!

[BE911SC]

For a real breakfast treat try whole milk on Corn Flakes or Wheaties. Yeah, your arteries will clog faster but hot-damn is it good! Also, the milk in parts of Europe is to die for. We were on vacation in Paris, Brugge and Amsterdam last year and the milk there made my morning Cork Flakes heavenly.

[herr_oberst]

WHEN I WAS A KID, a long, long, long, very very long time ago, my grandma fed us cold cereal with 1/2 and 1/2 for breakfast. Real half and half; the farm had it's own dairy. Whole milk looked blue and watery compared to that, let alone the 2% that mom served.

It's a wonder I don't tip the scales at 300, but thanks, grandma, wherever you are.

[wdfifteen]

As kids we used to go down to the milk house and get whole milk out of the bulk tank. My mom ragged us about it because she had not pasteurized it, but as soon as she got milk out of the pasteurizer she'd skim the cream off for their coffee. I like my whole milk.
One time the cooling system on the bulk tank stopped working and the stirrer ran all night as the milk got warmer. When we opened the tank the next morning there were 5 pound balls of butter floating around in the tank. Good stuff!

[WolfeMacleod]

This is so sad. Even after explaining it to her, my GF didn't get it.

[A930Rocket]

While milk as a kid, but skim, 1 or 2% now. Whole milk looks and tastes like Elmers glue now since I've been drinking the light stuff so long.

[oldE]

I grew up on a small mixed farm and remember lugging bottles of fresh milk into our neighbours' houses. Twenty five cents/quart. Mom always wanted one Jersey cow in the herd for the butterfat. When regulations came in prohibiting the sale of unpasteurized milk, we made butter for a few months until the herd was sold.

Later, I worked as a supervisor/spare driver for a dairy and was re-aquainting myself with a driver's home delivery route. As we rolled into one fellow's driveway, I got the litre of Homogenized and the litre of Blend which the old guy had gotten for years. The milk was for his tea. The blend was for his cereal. The driver stopped me and said the doctor had made the old guy cut back on his butterfat intake. So I put the blend back and got skim. Again I was corrected.

When the Doc had told the fellow to cut out butterfat in his milk, he figured skim for his tea was OK, but he still took blend for his cereal!

Look at it this way. Homogenized milk is 96% fat free.

Les