I go through a gallon plus a week just by myself and sometimes I'll kill a couple of gallons. I've loved cold milk all my life. Warm milk would gag a maggot.

I make it a point not to keep it around. I would easily go through half a gallon a day if left unrestrained. I love the stuff!

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Purchase two gallons every time I go to the grocers, and have a large glass with every meal... sometimes more. Then there is the late night hot chocolate and snacks!

Phil

i did until mid May....was using a cooler for a fridge out at Scott's so didnt keep alot of cold stuff on hand so quit drinking milk.....havent started back up....

No - Can't stand the vile stuff!

Ice cream or butter? You betcha!

Several times a year though, I get a craving for a peanut butter & jelly sandwich or raisin bran. The wife keeps a jug in the 'fridge 'cause she likes it in her coffee. I can't figure that one out, that's for sure.

I love sweet milk and buttermilk.......

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I should drink a lot more to get the vitamin D. Half a gallon usually sours before I finish it.

Don't drink a lot but nothing better than a very cold glass with warm oatmeal raisin or chocolate chip cookies right out of the oven.

I go through a half gallon a week by myself, but I eat cereal at work for breakfast. I rarely have a glass of milk.

At one time drank a half gallon per day to put on some weight. Now I just wolf down a quart or so per day.

Like Mickey, I go through a lot of milk. I'd say I drink through a gallon every 4-5 days. At least one giant glass of it gets a couple of heaping TBSPs of Ovaltine, the original malt kind. Have loved the stuff since childhood.

for those that work out, chocolate milk is just as good as most of the after work out protein drinks you buy.....most use whey protein anyway

Yes I do! With dunking graham crackers! Both my dogs wait for their piece of cracker too!

( that was not a racial slur)

A gallon or two of buttermilk a week.



Mike

I drink two gallons a week. I only drink raw milk, though. Pasteurized milk gives me monster hay fever.

I wish I knew as a child what I learned about eight years ago when I switched to raw milk. Suddenly, what had been a lifelong misery, was gone, i.e., two allergy seasons every year since I was a little kid, lasting as long as two months each, where I'd often be so sick from constant sneezing that I'd have to spend days at a time in bed hopped up on Benadryl.

Suddenly, overnight, eight years ago, I discovered what it was like not to suffer from hay fever. And I had no idea that it had anything to do with pasteurized milk till I switched to raw and found out. I was like, "Hey, this is the time of year I'm supposed to be miserable with hay fever, WTF??" Have hardly had an allergy-related sniffle since. Where I used to never be without antihistamines, I haven't kept them in the house in years, as they're just not needed.

Only later, out of curiosity, did I research it and discover that this was a common experience for folks who switched from pasteurized milk to raw. The theory is that pasteurization destroys the enzymes necessary for properly metabolizing the milk proteins. Not being properly metabolized, when they enter the blood stream, your body recognizes them as foreign matter and triggers the immune system in response, i.e., what we call "hay fever" is the body's immune system going on full tilt to destroy and/or expel the unmetabolized milk proteins.

I drink a fair amount - gotta be skim milk and it's gotta be just above freezing.

my german shorthair would lean over your steak to try and steal a drink out of your glass of milk....that dog will do anything for a taste of some milk

A good friend drinks a couple of gallons a week usually with Jim Beam mixed in.

BUTTERMILK! - It's good for the soul!

Are you part European? Asians usually don't do well with milk past childhood.

Ya.

Micky i loved to drink milk before the 80's.

I worked for a school system and delivered groceries to 16 of them.
There was nothing better than getting a few fresh rolls and 2 pints of ice cold milk,on a hot day.
By lunch time you were not hungry.
Till one day when i got ahold of a pint that had clabbered real bad.
That has spoiled me on white milk but all is not lost i make chocolate milk and put it in the freezer till ice starts forming.
Then toast some bread and put peanut butter on while warm.
Might have some tonight it's been a while.

I'm also a milk junky. At least a gallon and half a week.

I'll have to ask my brother how well my nephews handle milk. I know my sister in law can't drink it, being Chinese.

My family of 4 drinks about 5 gallons/week. I can do 1 1/2-2 myself no problem but it MUST be ice cold.

Two to three gallons a week in the colder months, 3 to 4 gallons a week in the warmer months.

Many folks would disagree about the warm milk thing, especially babies.

A cup of hot skimmed milk can be mighty soothing for a sore throat or after being ill a while with a delicate stomach.

Yes sir...bout 3 gals every 5 days or so!

Pot lickin good! by Sharps45 2 7/8, on Flickr

Goes mighty good with 'Lightfoot Beans' sausage, rice and potlicker!!

In HS one fine, scorching hot summer day, me and several friends had awakened in various places and poses all over some suburban home--including the lawn, roof and basement floor-- all drunk as skunks. Crawled to the car and all set off in search of somewhere we could get something to drink. With that sickening hangover and horrible dehydration, no one was in a great mood, myself included. Got to an Arby's to get something in our stomachs and to get rehydrated. I ordered four cartons of milk and a couple sandwiches. As I was about to pass out from dehydration and the remaining alcohol content in my blood, I popped one of the cartons at the counter and tipped it greedily into my gob, only to be rewarded with a pile of cottage cheese like nastiness. I immediately starting yakking the milk, and leftover booze all over the counter. The manager started yelling at me and telling me to get out of his 'restaurant'.

I took exception to his poisoning me with milk that I saw aftEr the fact was expired two weeks prior, and decided he needed to be wearing what was left in the carton, so hummed it at him in response. It exploded against the side of his head. We went at it then and there at the counter. He wasn't a very proficient fighter. And thus ends my milk-tastrophe tale. I still love the stuff, but since that fateful day, will check the date and ALWAYS smell my milk before chugging any.

Something really good is needed to salvage Jim beam.

Yes, gallon a week, sometimes more.

RMulhern, I don't know what the hell that dish is, even after reading your description, but it looks great!

Rattler, I just discovered the choco milk as a recovery drink. It keeps me going just knowing I get it as a reward.

chocolate milk and chocolate donettes used to be my hangover cure.

mike r

Always been a milk drinker.

As a kid we always had milk goats, and eventually a brown swiss cow.

I still drink store-bought, about six gallons a month.

I love milk and cookies! One time I poured me a tall glass and grabbed a handful Oreos. While I was getting started on my treat, I noticed the milk seemed to have a funny odor so I thought maybe it's sour. That wasn't the case though. Our three dogs had cornered a albino skunk in the back yard and the smell got to me before the news did. Oh well, so much for a relaxing evening watching TV and eating/drinking milk and cookies.

None in the house.........never have liked it too much. On cereal is about only time I ever use it; don't have any cereal either.

Got Milk? Yes I do! I drink about a 1/2 gallon to 1 gallon a week.

I love raw milk.Never got sick from it.Along with that I use raw honey.Just about anything that is pasteurized has all the good things removed.

Used to drink a couple of gallons a week. But I haven't had a glass in at least 10 years now. Started drinking water & tea back then and gave up all carbonated drinks too.

But I still get plenty of Dairy products weekly. Consume at least a gallon of Blue Bell Ice cream a week, and plenty of sharp cheddar cheese

Raw milk from backyard animals is full of natural antibodies. You can't beat it.

I'm trying to put some weight on and drink at least a quart of chocolate milk per day, sometimes more! Love it!

I miss not being able to get raw milk straight from the cow, my Uncle has been departed for 40 years and his son, my cousin dose not keep milk cows, keeps beef cows thou, up till a few months back I drank a lot of milk and I would rather have a glass of cold milk or chocolate than any of the sodas, but I have to watch my carb intake, due to Diabetes, I got good control on things and I am loosing weight, but I can drink a quart or two of milk in a sitting like I did! I had milk with my breakfast this morning and well nothing like a tall glass of cold milk to get you going in the morning! its good for you, my mom said if you want to keep your teeth drink milk, she was right,and I have all of mine!

I'm that way with tomato juice and V-8. I'll drink every drop of it if it's in the house.

no, i find it disgusting since i found out where it comes from.

I drink a quart to a quart and a half a day. Almost 70 now and I like it as much as I did when I was a kid.

Yea I am that way with V-8 too!

A full glass with every meal. I have done it since I was a small kid and even at 75 I am still healthy as a horse, do not wear glasses and still have "urges" so I believe that it must be good stuff. But, it has to be sweet milk, I have never been able to stand the taste of butter milk.

drover

I love a big cold glass of milk better than any drink. We generally go through around 6 gallons a month with what I drink and the wife uses in cooking. Other than on cereal my wife never has cared for milk at all. It's been years since I've drank any fresh still warm milk straight from a cow. My grandmother kept one old Jersey milk cow just for the milk, buttermilk and butter. You could sure tell when the cow had been grazing on wild onions as the raw milk would smell and taste awful. As much as I love milk I can't handle it onion flavored.

Never met an individual whom raised on a dairy farm, was not addicted to the product.

I have seen more than once when my Dad, Mom, and six kids consumed over five gallons of fresh whole milk in a single day.

Rewarmed milk is kind of nasty. But fresh from the teat, squirted straight into a tall glass, and covered with foam..........OH MY, that's the scent and flavor of heaven.

A bunch of those aromatics burn off in the first five minutes, and it never tastes or smells the same again.

Ask any barn cat or dog, they will stand on their hind legs and lap up warm milk as long as one will squirt it into their mouth.

Momma has successfully weaned me from fresh whole milk, and onto 2% homogenized. That is probably a good thing as the two of us empty an average of three gallons a week.

Go through about 3 gallons a week...prefer whole milk but 2% works in a pinch

I'm in my early fifties, and I do too. Only had two cavities in my life, and my dentist says I have the teeth and gums of a fourteen year old.

Milk is for baby cows.

I like V-8, and usually keep it in the house, but a can or two per week is good for me.

PS for a while there, I was making fresh V-8. Tastes just like it, but a little better. Just put celery (with the leaves) tomatoes, green leaf lettuce, and carrots, in a juicer and it tastes like fresh V-8. Better for you, too, due to all the living enzymes.

Me either. It's only good for fried chicken.

Yep, it's how they put on muscle, bone, and teeth. What fattens them up is grains.

Just me and the wife at home and I buy 4 gallons at a time, a couple of times a week. They wife kept griping so I did switch to 2% a few years back. It took some getting used to, but now I am fine with it. miles

Not a good idea. Switch back to full fat. Two percent and less is little more than sugar water, which is bad for your pancreas. The fat slows the conversion to blood sugar, thus saving the pancreas. Also, there's absolutely nothing unhealthy about consuming saturated fat. The medical establishment has had that wrong since the 1950s, and are only now starting to admit it.

Why would anyone drink cow mucous? You might as well drink cow snot! Milk IS for baby cows. We are supposed to drink human milk and then only as babies (or a taste if you can talk the wife into it). Look at what happens to calves that drink cow's milk, they grow up to be big and stupid. You wanna drink that stuff too?

Actually, I used to have it with my cereal until my ENT specialist told me to stop. He says it causes more allergies than we think. He did say it was meant for baby cows and that there is no reason for humans to drink it and that goes for all milk products. I haven't missed it and feel better.

If its me or baby cows,baby is gonna be breakfast.

Loved it as a kid.

Didn't drink much of it for most of my 20's and 30's. Now I can't drink it. The Ol' belly don't like it.

Mostly almond milk now. The chocolate almond milk is great!

Is it working? curing lust miles

He's both right and wrong. Pasteurized milk is the main culprit for most sufferers of hay fever and other common allergies. That's because the process destroys the natural milk-protein enzymes. Absent those, you cannot properly metabolize milk protein, and your body responds to their presence in the blood as if foreign matter entered your bloodstream. We call that immune response hay fever or allergies. Switch to raw, and you won't have that problem. All the digestive enzymes are intact, so no unmetabolized milk proteins make it into your bloodstream.

Use milk on cereal every morning.

Icy cold with or without Hersey's Syrup. Even better with a hand full of home made cookies. Also the aforementioned with Hersey's to dunk Cinnamon graham crackers in. I'll eat a whole package at a sitting doing that and I am still lustful towards my wife!

Yep a gallon and a half at least a week.

You may very well be right about unpasteurized milk being better regarding allergies but I've seen cow's udders/teats being covered with dirt and [bleep] and milk will sometimes contain puss. There is a reason why they started pasteurizing the stuff cause people were getting sick. It's no big deal for me to avoid the stuff.

Quit milk in 2005. Haven't touched it since. Same with Diet Coke too. Prior to, I was putting down a gallon a day of each.

I drink a couple glasses a day. I switched to organic milk about a year ago. It stays fresh a lot longer. The dates on the cartons I bought today at BJs are in the middle of October. I don't know what they do different but it tastes better for weeks.

People started getting sick when they started moving the dairy cows off the pasture and into the cities, where they were kept in filthy surroundings. People getting sick from milk was already on its way out due to steadily improving sanitary standards in the dairy industry, based on voluntarily seeking seals of approval from organizations promoting same (much like electronics are now safer due to the economic motive in the industry to seek the Underwriters Laboratories seal), when the pasteurization laws first started getting passed in the early Twentieth Century.

Probably ultra pasteurized. Link

When I grew up on the farm drank a gallon a day, now a gallon in a week. Only liked "fresh" warm milk.

I drink about a gallon a week.

'Bout 1.5 gals here.

Ever milked a cow that's been eating bitterweed? I've done it many a time but my dad made me get out in the pasture and pull up every bitterweed in it. Solved the problem.

1/4 to a 1/3 a gallon a day

2 gallons of a week since He delivered us to the land of milk and honey.

Yep. I hated that job.

BTDT too, plus thought I was gonna die every morning pumping up and sticking a match to that POS Coleman lantern bomb to go milk.

Dayom. Now that's a biotch.

We strained Elsie's milk through cheese cloth. It filtered out any teat born germs. Grandad had jerseys for milk and clabber.

Gunner, we let some of the milk sour and made sour creme butter. You ever lay a lip over that slice of heaven on earth?

I can't agree more.
I'm pretty sure that I feel the same way about milk,that Steelhead does about Scotch.
It would be a toss up if I had to drink a glass of milk,or a glass of fresh horse piss.
Turns my stomach just thinking about milk.

The only "milk" I drink is the bit of cream that lands in a rare cup of coffee. Been that way since I was 12 or so.

i can drink it everyday.mostly white milk,has to be very cold.sometimes i will spoon a glass full of ice cream and add some milk. stir it up like a shake then eat it with a spoon.

Never ever touch the slimy stuff,ED K

Not like my youth, but I know I go through a gallon a week.

About a gallon a week here and lots of buttermilk. Drank raw milk for years till all the farmers that would sell it went out of business.

Can't really say it better than that. And I was raised on a dairy farm.

I found out when I was 12,that Bourbon and milk do not blend well
I swore off the stuff since....

Raw milk for homemade ice cream is killer......
Other than that, maybe a glass every other week or so.

You're doing it wrong. It is ice cream, not ice milk. Let the cream come to the top, skim it off, make ice cream. Growing up we had Brown Swiss cows, then uncle had Jersey's. They had lots of good cream to make ice cream with, especially when compared to the times the Holsteins were in the mix. About the consistency of frozen butter. Good stuff.

With PBJ, warm chocolate cookies and with my cereal. Other than that no. A quart a day and I would be schitting through a screen door without clogging it.

Hardly any milk for me. I'll start to crave it after a week or so without drinking it.

That's one of my favorite evening treats, KW and about the only time I drink milk anymore.

As a kid I drank a lot of milk, but for some reason I just don't drink it much anymore. Might be because my wife insists on buying expensive organic milk for the kids and at $4 a half gallon I don't think we could afford for me to drink it too.

Maybe we'll get a good milk goat one day and I can drink all I want once it's chilled in the fridge. Good goat milk is pretty tasty stuff.

Last night I made a pan of oatmeal butterscotch bars (from scratch, of course) and after baking them and letting them cool just enough to not burn my mouth, finished off a whole row of them along with three 16 oz glasses of milk.

Nothin' says, "mmm, mmmmm, mmmmmmmmm!!!" like fresh baked goodies still warm from the oven and large quantities of ice cold milk.

Arnold from Pumping Iron

I don't often buy it, and can't comment on it lasting as it's never around long enough to go bad but I agree that organic seems to taste much better to me.

OK, Mick, you convinced me.After reading the first 30 or so post, I went to the fridge, pulled out the half gallon of milk with the expired use date, sniffed it, then drank the whole thing. Guess I'll start drinking it again.

Oh hell yes, Granny used to leave a block of homemade butter out at all times, about a 4x4x8" chunk, good stuff.

I've been to many a big game hunting camps where there was no milk. Never missed it.

Milk might be the nastiest drink on the planet. My wife and kids love it,but I don't even like buying it.

We use 3 gallons a week.

Grew up on a dairy farm. Lived on the stuff. It was food. Last year or so I've cut way back, trying to lose weight. We now go through about a gallon a week. My wife said this morning that when I was using heavy I was drinking a gallon a day.


I LOVE milk. 'Specially with chocolate chip cookies.

Yea, that moo juice will really put the pounds on a Cookie Monster.

When I was in my 20s milk made my stomach hurt really bad but I loved it. Now I can drink it and it doesn't bother me at all, but I can take it or leave it, unless I'm eating something real sweet and thats what i want to drink with it.

I go through about a gallon a week myself. When I was growing up in the 50's we lived about a mile from my Grandpa who owned a dairy and mom would get raw milk from him. She would bring it home and let I sit for a couple of hours and then pour off a couple on inches of cream from the top to use for coffee or cereal. Once we were visiting my uncle in town and stayed for lunch and was served store bought milk. I thought it was bad and wouldn't drink it.
Doc

I can't much drink pasteurized milk anymore either. Tastes like boiled milk.

This is what milk was made for - accompanying a big batch of fresh baked deliciousness. In this case it's right out of the oven oatmeal scotchies which, despite the less than manly name, is pretty close to heaven on earth for taste buds. Basically it's just one big oatmeal butterscotch chip cookie. I doubt this batch will live to see the light of day tomorrow...

That looks great, Jim. Care to share the recipe? Pretty please?

Send it to me via pm if you don't want all these uncircumcised Philistines to have it.

Here ya go, Mickey.

http://www.food.com/recipe/nestle-oatmeal-scotchies-20376

Or you can look on the back of a pack of Nestle's Butterscotch Morsels, that's where I got the recipe but it's identical to what's in the link. Only difference I do is to put in a whole teaspoon of ground cinamon to give it a little spicier flavor. It says to bake the panful for 18-22 minutes, I bake them the minimum 18 minutes so they're a little less crispy and more chewy. Also you can substitute chocolate chips for a little different taste, it's all good!

I've already finished off a whole row of those and three glasses of milk since I posted that pic a while ago. (burp!)

PS Don't worry about the Philistines, only true connysewers of fine eats who can do more than open a bag of Doritos will bother with these, anyway.

Thanks, Jim. You need to listen to a sermon on the sin of gluttony now, since you didn't offer us any.
The recipe calls for flour but doesn't specify plain or self-rising. Which do you use?

I love cold milk. Now I limit my intake to using it on cold cereal when I don't cook breakfast. If I drink more than a glassful I have reaction. Milk makes me fart.

The back of the butterscotch bag just calls for all-purpose flour. I use either Pillsbury's Best or Gold Medal All Purpose. But you can try either self-rising or plain to see what happens. It's not going to ruin the goodness but the texture might come out funny. I probably shouldn't admit this on a he-man website but I like to bake stuff like this and give it away, and often try different ingredients just to see what will happen. I tried using some cake flour once to see if it would make them lighter or more cake like but it just made them more crumbly.



A sermon on gluttony probably wouldn't hurt but I'm not sure how effective it would be. I usually take most of it into work or tonight I took about half the pan to a local restaurant that is staffed by a bunch of young women in their late teens to early twenties. Not like I plan to date any of them at this age but it sure makes them smile to see me walk in the door with a plateful of these and I always get great service there.

You're a sly old fox, you are. I fix lunch for the crew at my vet's office about once a month or so. They all love me. When my first wife was in the hospital having Michael, my son, I baked the nurses a sour cream cake and carried it to them. I am much the same way as you it seems. We'd probably make a good team, Jim.