If you drink milk, people look at you like some sort of weirdo. It may be a midwestern thing but I grew up drinking a glass of milk (and a slice of bread and butter) with every meal.
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>If you drink milk, people look at you like some sort of weirdo.
Maybe where you live. Most places this is absurd.
Personally, I drink a lot less than I did growing up. The main difference is I switched to having water with meals instead of milk. But we still manage to go through about 2 gallons a week.
I can't be bothered to mess around with separate lactase packets, or specifically seek out the lactase-added milk.
Also, the last time I tried shelf-stable ultrahypermegapasteurized milk, it put me off drinking factory-processed milk. Nothing like preventing spoilage on the shelf by spoiling it before it even goes into the container. I might try 260nm UV-C irradiation pasteurization someday.
I don't trust that individual dairy farms can reliably control E.coli and Listeria, and I don't appreciate the degradation of the product caused by the high-temperature methods used to rapidly pasteurize in a continuous flow. And none of it is worth it, if I just end up farting all day anyway.
Why don't you buy it if you love the taste?
My family uses about 13 gallons per week, one per person.
"The 2007 milk consumption per capita in Finland was 361.19kgs, with milk consumption per person at about 34.34 gallons per year."
I don't often drink milk, but I buy a lot of it for making bread, and other cooking needs.
I'm surprised people would notice if you drank milk, or that you would care. People will judge on anything, after all!
My Grampa used to have half a loaf of bread with his tea every night