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> What makes that the actual version?

That it's milk with almond. Like "chocolate milk" is milk with chocolate and "milk coffee" is coffee with milk.

So if I'm Catholic, it's OK for me to drink almond-flavored dairy-milk during Lent? Win!

From medieval and Renaissance-era recipes, religious rules appears to be the main reason almond milk is used. Because it's not dairy.

Not sure about that, but I do know that if you want to eat capybara on Fridays as your fish dish you should be fine.

Do you have a problem with the name "peanut butter"? It isn't butter with peanuts in it. Or mincemeat pie, which isn't made out of minced meat?

Proper mincemeat pies contain suet and have a very different taste from the vegetarian ones. So yes, in that case it is a problematic name that conflates two usefully distinct things.

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