No milk today (or rather, Monday)

[ridicully]

I'm a bit disappointed that I missed the milk-quality course on Monday.
In addition to the excretions of cows and sheep and goats and buffalos and probably horses, they had human milk.
Perhaps I enjoy doing gross things a bit too much, but I would have loved to taste-test it.

Comments

[becky-h.livejournal.com]

Eh, I don't think it's at all gross. Lots of babies do just fine on human milk for ages. Which brings up the question: Why is drinking goat milk better/less gross than drinking human milk? Not that I'm like flaming you or being a bitch but I personally don't get it.

Oh and human breast milk tastes really sort of weak and sugary. LIke... skim milk in the bottom of the bowl after cereal.

[ridicully]

It's not so much that *I* would think it gross, more that the people around me would have - and I like to shock people this way *g*

I think the real problem with drinking breast milk is, that in my mind it's sort of intimate. Babies are entitled to drink their mothers milk. Even if it's in a glass, I'd feel like I'm crossing some line.
And drinking goats milk is better, because there is more of it. More milk is always better.

[becky-h.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I love that explanation and it makes some sense to me. The only other one I've heard is "It's a bodily fluid" Yeah and so is you know, cows milk ;-) On the other hand making it i ntimiate makes me all warm and squishy *Grins* Thanks for taking the time to EXPLAIN that in a way that made some sense in my brain.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

I would have loved to taste-test it.

Me too.

And I'm not absolutely sure why I would see it as "gross", though it's true that I get an odd feeling about it. Surely it ought to be less gross than cow or goat or sheep milk, all of which I have consumed?

And as for eggs...

[ridicully]

I think I have less problems drinking cow milk, because I don't feel like I'm taking liberties I'm not really entitled to. Sort of like I should at least know the person who provided the milk. I'm not actually walking up to her and touching her breasts without asking, but it feels a bit like it.

And I refuse to think about eggs.

[here-be-dragons.livejournal.com]

Hee . . . I'd actually be curious about that, too. I know that I have tasted human milk (my mum nursed me), but that was a long time ago. And I could never quite convince myself to taste my own when I was nursing Connor . . . seemed cannibalistic, or something. :D