10.15.2007

Milk

I'm not crazy about milk. I have never been one to have a frosty glass of the stuff or, until recently, even dip cookies in it. From my experience, milk has only two real uses:
  1. Cereal
  2. Making Kraft Dinner (or "Mac & Cheese" in American)
I've tried to convince myself that it's just in my head. Every once in a while I'll decide that if I just get a chilled glass and fill it with brand new cool milk and gulp it down my esophagus, that I will become enamored of its frothy goodness, but each time to no avail. It may simply be in my head, but I have learned that just because something is in your head doesn't mean that is is not real.

I know of some people who don't stop using milk when the "expiration date" "passes" because it "doesn't taste bad yet." I am not one of these people... in fact I am the opposite of these people.

Case in point: I poured myself a heaping bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios this morning and found two jugs of milk in the fridge. one "expires" in four days, the other in six. After opening them, I didn't feel 100% confident that they were 100% okay because something just didn't feel right about the whole situation. If you're familiar with the little girl in Signs, you may understand how I feel about milk I find in the fridge. I poured my cereal back into the box and just had toast instead.

Milk to me is a strange beast. One that I can not quite live without, but that I will never be completely comfortable with.

4 Comments:

Janelle said...

when i was eleven or so i stopped drinking milk for about two years because i'd had a nice tall glass of disgusting expired milk. i don't think i've fully recovered either.



Laulau said...

I like vitamin D milk because it tastes better longer (all the way up to the date).



reneeebony said...

i'm a little lactose intolerant and i drink lactaid milk (milk without lactose) and let me tell you it is awesome. i've always disliked milk, but this milk stays good for like 2 months. i know right, wierd, but ince you try it, it'll change your life.



Victoria said...

I was once tested for vitamin D and calcium deficiencies because I would CRAVE milk. Turns out I'm fine, I just love milk. You people who don't like it are weird.