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That's a lot of goat's milk.

yeah, what's with all the goat's milk?

have you got orponed baby goats?

My theory is that he got a voucher for 1000 extra clubcard points when you spend a tenner on goat dairy products.

Both my wife and daughter are cow's milk intolerant, so we go through a lotta goat's milk. That's about 4 day's supply there :)

Ah. I find that goat's cheese and milk congest me less than cow dairy products. Thank goodness for goats.

Oh, we had one once. She was called Heidi!

I am really into soya milk (well as into soya milk as anybody should be, without being creepy)

I'm a soya milk fan too, although I have been known to have goats milk. Did you buy any Tunnock's Euphro?

Rice milk is good for cereal.

No Tunnock's T-cakes this time, but quite a lot of other nice stuff :)

A goat called Heidi!

Yes!

She was white.

Never seen that. Sounds good.

Used to have to drink goats milk, horrible on cereal but tolerable in tea. Then I became allergic to that as well, so moved onto Soya milk, which was just foul in everything. So I decided to stop being a pussy and become a runny-nosed man and drink cows milk.

The Alpro soya milk is a massive improvement on older brands

It seems to me that your more of a "Pussy" for drinking it if it makes you ill.

My flat mate can't take it at all and eats his cereal dry! now thats a real man. I bet John wayne would have eaten dry sharpened cereal.

Well, yeah, but like any allergy exposure to the contaminant slowly wears off it's effectiveness. So now it barely affects me at all.

Is that true of all allergies? do you build up a resistance? I would have thought that people would be treated so as to avoid the reaction of death to simple items, eg nuts, and egg.

Apparently we all have the potential to be allergic to peanuts, Your status can go from tasty to deadly without you even knowing..... well until you eat one that is.

Somewhere there is a peanut with your name on it! be afraid.

This could of course just be an urban legend.

I can't find evidence to back up the peanut theory, but I didnt look to hard.

Desensitisation does in some cases work, see here

It's the sore throats that bother me most with the cow milk/cheese stuff. So, black tea it is (most of the time -- sometimes the immediate need outweighs the risk of a sore throat/congestion, especially if we're talking ice cream).

Things like ice cream and cheese should be OK. My understanding is that raw milk is what causes the biggest problems.

I don't tend to drink milk, because I don't like it. But it's cheese that causes me throat problems. Hmpf. I think I should also be in a drier climate.

They obviously all manifest in different ways/degrees of seriousness. I mostly just piss mucus from my nose, which is a charming image.

Do you write poetry as well Rich?

Mine flows down the back of my throat and congregates. Glorious.

Hmmm, I would go into the issue of my gills (the holes I was left with after my adenoids were taken out), but that's heading into the realm of far too much information.

I like summer. Things are better in summer. Winter is bad.

heh heh.

I really can't stand soya milk, but luckily I've never seemed to be lactose intolerant at all, which is lucky (fingers crossed).

I've always been a cow milk kinda girl until recently. While at my husband's parents house I sampled something called, "Silk" which is, of course, soy milk -- but this one was chocolate. Chocolate Silk. It tasted just like it sounds, luscious. Mmm.

Mmmmm indeed.

Swedish Glace non-dairy ice cream is good too.

Ah waitrose

We don't have Waitrose north of Nottingham.

Glad to hear other places sell it

Oh I am wrong.

There's one in Harrogate for a start. And one in Otley. Hmmm. Wonder what I am thinking of. Unless they've sprung up recently. Seems unlikely.

Tesco. Intermittently. And Holland and Barrett.

I actually really like Waitrose, they have nice things

They held me to ransom in Twickenham.

Them and M&S; Simply Food. It was either that or being ripped off by Tesco Metro in Richmond. There was always Iceland. Hmmm.

At least I ate well.

I am pretty sure that my mum has not gone to iceland!

Euphro, you must have a nice sized fridge! (or one with the shelves all changed to accommodate large milk containers? : )

Lizzie, Silk is my normal brand of non-cow (soy)milk. good stufff. : D

and, Steve... John Wayne, I see him as more of a beereal kindof guy. (beer+cereal. )
actually, no. he'd probably manage something like whisky, instead. or .
wait.
ahem. John Wayne is probably a steak and potato sort of person, at breakfast. yeah. i'm not sure why that took me so long to figure out.

Is Bereal your own invention?

.....no comment. (possibly, it had something to do with my sleepily getting my letters jumbled while explaining what i was eating to someone over the phone. quite likely though, there are many folks who've done the same thing.)

Classy chick that you are :)

i just noticed the alpro soya milk i drink (the unsweetened one in the red carton) doesn't have any calcium in it. is this true for all soya milk?