Comment on UK | Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to label vegan drinks
OmegaMouse@pawb.social 14 hours agoPeanut 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.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Oat drink definitely does sound stupid, and I think oat milk will probably stay in the dialect, but have you considered we could come up with a cool cyberpunk name like “spod” or something?
OmegaMouse@pawb.social 14 hours 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
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours 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.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
My primary complaint about this is that it is needlessly confusing for juice consumers, since if you juice a cow you get blood, and not milk.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Oat Splooge.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Also an emission and not an emulsion 😉