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Igel

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19. The existence of cream is the justification for skim milk.
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 09:37 PM
Jan 15

I like skim milk. For some purposes.

I like whole milk. For some purposes.

I like cream. For some purposes. (Butter too, but I repeat myself.)

If I'm going to be out working 10 hours mowing, raking, weeding, pruning, muching ... Just give me a gallon of raw milk in the morning and call my consumption of it by quitting time "average lunch", as opposed to lunch as a function of time.

Call it "pro-choice."

(As for the Obama-era insipidification of school lunches ... The amount of student lunch 'food' tossed, abandoned, even just plain chucked ... all uneaten ... was amazing. And this high school teacher saw capitalism in action--many of my classes had at least one person with a small snacks stand in their overstuffed school backpacks, and some carried small ice chests. Sodas, Cheetos, Doritos, chips, candy bars, cookies ... They'd buy $20 in snacks and take home $60 at the end of the day. Junk food as drug. They luved them them the Obama-era food bans. While guv stats said how many 'healthy' meals were 'consumed' ... Making the half-assed assumption that all student lunches carried away from the serving line were actually eaten. Maybe I should reduce the fat in that to "eighth-assed assumption." Or specify "non-fat half-assed". BTW, my now-ex and I would regularly buy student lunches--teachers can do that. New rules, after a couple of attempts we decided that we couldn't tolerate the stuff. But somewhere a bureaucrat got its wings and soared to a far higher pay grade.)

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....the Ag Dept sent a social media post showing Trump with a glass of milk and a "milk mustache" riversedge Jan 14 #1
Oh, thats MILK! I thought he'd just had another meeting with Putin. Callie1979 Jan 14 #7
First he saves Christmas and now he saves milk! MorbidButterflyTat Jan 15 #16
Check out his hands ... SomewhereInTheMiddle Jan 16 #22
OK, I'm not going to lie. mwb970 Jan 14 #2
I LOVE whole milk with Oreos. truthisfreedom Jan 14 #5
Same here, but I'm not a child and mostly it's on cereal. greatauntoftriplets Jan 14 #8
I use it for tea and for some recipes, like soup mwb970 Jan 14 #11
Now and then I'll drink from the carton. greatauntoftriplets Jan 14 #12
My wife grew up on a diary farm PCB66 Jan 15 #15
The existence of cream is the justification for skim milk. Igel Jan 15 #19
I haven't heard that one. But I love his bit on buttermilk. Aristus Jan 16 #25
I grew up on a dairy farm so it was allways milk straight from the cows. As an adult riversedge Jan 14 #14
TSF hypnotized by milk bottle. Sneederbunk Jan 14 #3
Probably dreaming of Vladdy MorbidButterflyTat Jan 15 #17
Woody Allen predicted the future DBoon Jan 14 #4
This is making America healthy again? tishaLA Jan 14 #6
And what we've done for the last 20 years has made America healthier? Igel Jan 15 #20
Well, in the overall scheme of things, I don't see this as a hill to die on. Kablooie Jan 14 #9
Let's talk about ANYTHING other than Epstein. Buddyzbuddy Jan 14 #10
Trump: I look forward to getting it all the time. I open a refrigerator and I say: milk with rice, milk with water, milk riversedge Jan 14 #13
it's said he doesn't drink. Igel Jan 15 #21
Boy, when that adderal wears off he crashes hard. travelingthrulife Jan 15 #18
Are we done with the milk issue? Is there anything left to discuss? CTyankee Jan 16 #23
EPSTEIN FILES EPSTEIN FILES EPSTEIN FILES EPSTEIN FILES EPSTEIN FILES Bengus81 Jan 16 #24
He's so concerned about what kind of milk kids drink in school MIButterfly Jan 16 #26
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