Comment on UK | Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to label vegan drinks

CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• kata1yst@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Almond milk has been called ‘milk’ since it was first written about in the 13th century.

  There is no logical reason people need the distinction made clearer 800 years later.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How many writers described her skin as milky white? Burn the books!

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  • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • kata1yst@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What do you think changed?

      From my perspective, people made this and used this in their own homes. It was in cookbooks. Being able to buy it in a store doesn’t change the context of 800+ years of history.

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      • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • demeritum@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    People kinda forgot that medieval people couldnt just constantly rely on the lactate-carnist duploly and had several alternatives now considered “trendy” “chemical” products.

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• OmegaMouse@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Peanut butter isn’t butter, but it’s called that because enough people agreed to call it so. It’s a useful way to referring to something that has similar properties. Likewise, if I ask for a coffee I’ll continue to ask for oat milk and not ‘oat drink’ as the latter sounds stupid.

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  • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • OmegaMouse@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I don’t think there’s any need to come up with a better name if we have one that works perfectly well already. Maybe I’d be ok with something else, provided it was cooler than ‘spod’ :p

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No, I want to overthrow cow milk and destroy that industry. So I call all milks “milk” except cow milk, which I call cow juice.

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Oat Splooge.

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• Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A milk is the result of the process of milking

  It can produce other fluids as well.

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  • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I was being facetious, but I actually get your point now - and yeah, I agree.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    eu

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