Soy milk is DELICIOUS.

I had it for the first time today and immediately ran out and bought both 1/2 a gallon of vanilla and 1/2 a gallon of the chocolate varities.

Screw cow's milk! It's so totally last year.

No?

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It's gross.

Yes it is. :)

Your "comment" section of your profile is the best thing I've read in a while.

I'm honest to a fault. This is, of course, why no one ever believes my ruse. :)

(edited for spelling)

I think it's awful, myself. Even in coffee. Now rice milk isn't so bad.

It's white and milky and delish.

Be happy - I won't compete with you for it! ;)

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:crazy:

soy milk is as different as wiones are different


Silk is considered the most lactose like and very sweet depending on if the sweetened variety. I like the unsweeted kind a lot

Westsoy just sucks in my opinion. Tree-barkish

Vitasoy is very nutty on the palate. Some people like it. Some don't

Trader Joe's is watery ; almost no flavor

And that's juts 4 brands. There are many other national brands--none tasting teh same.

Rice milk is ok. Lots of variety there too.

Almond milk is my workhorse..... I like it best of all the above.

I'll keep that in mind the next time I try it.

The one I tried I didn't like. Forget which kind it was, though...

I had stabbing gas pains when I ate a soyburger from my health foods store a while back. I am afraid of soy now.

Michael Jackson would probably get a bit upset...
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I love soy milk in the morning but if rice milk is better for us I'll change again.

soy juice.

I do believe the milk industry has paid mucho for that mindset.

Hi.

Juice = " the natural fluid, fluid content, or liquid part that can be extracted from a plant or one of its parts, esp. of a fruit."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/juice

Milk = "an opaque white or bluish-white liquid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals, serving for the nourishment of their young."
(or)
3. any liquid resembling this, as the liquid within a coconut, the juice or sap of certain plants, or various pharmaceutical preparations."

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/milk

Soy milk is definitely juice, and also milk, at least if you look at the dictionary definitions.

Personally, I think if marketers called it something other than milk, perhaps more people would be inclined to drink it for what it is and not expect it to be a replacement for cow's milk. Kind of like veggie burgers -- I like the ones that look and taste like beans/grains/etc., and don't try to pretend they are meat.

But soy milk isn't?

Kinda...you know...proved it yourself, I think. Thanks for the help, though.

(at least not in the U.S. -- it's at most mixed in with other beverages) and it comes in shelf-stable cans so nobody's looking at it to substitute for cow's milk.

I never said soy milk wasn't OK. Of course it's OK. I like soy milk. I like coconut milk in recipes (not so much by itself). I like some nut milks (hazelnut, especially in coffee). (Rice milk = icky, but that's just a personal preference.) I'm not going to cry to the government that we can't call it milk, lest people get confused and the Got Milk? campaign's trademark get diluted. Call it what you want. But MonkeyFunk (and Lewis Black, I suppose) isn't wrong -- it's technically juice. Nothing wrong with juice, either. Juice is good for you.

I'm not making a value judgment...just a marketing judgment. Call it "milk" and put it in a carton that's identical to the one cow's milk comes in and plaster comparisons between it and cow's milk all over the carton and some people expect it to taste like cow's milk and then deem it nasty when it doesn't. (Which it doesn't.) I wonder if some of those same people might be more inclined to drink it if it was called something else. That's all.

I think that it comes down to more than taste, and comes to the utility of the liquid. Soy/rice/whatever milk does largely stand in the shoes of bovine milk in many examples. Taste is, well, just that.

To me, milk is the nutrition provide from a mother's teat to her young. Guess I'm just stupid. Technically, then, cow's milk would just be cow juice. But then, who'd buy that? Sounds like freshly squeezed cow to me. A marketing nightmare.

And as an fyi, the actual definition of milk:
an opaque white or bluish-white liquid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals, serving for the nourishment of their young.

"of their young"

It's cow juice all over again. So then, yes, MonkeyFunk and Lewis would be wrong.

With Tabasco and pepper.

And that's a great start to your day!

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got me - :7

:hi:

have soy lips and butts in them.

:)

and my son is obsessed with chocolate soy milk, he'll drink it with everything.

When I was reluctant to try soy milk, a friend recommended I try the chocolate first. I did and POW!! I was hooked! I buy the little cartons, and just carry it around with me all the time. I love it!

:)

I use it in everything I would use normal milk in (we buy the plain organic variety.) I buy the ones on the shelf (not the milk case) and then refrigerate it at home. The best thing is that it keeps so long. We used to throw out so much cow's milk because we couldn't get through it all before it went bad. Not a problem with the soy milk, haven't had to throw out a single drop.

but you should read up a bit about Soy and Phytoestrogens. Before you get too hooked, ya know. I really liked it too, but we decided to stop getting it altogether.

Actually, that's charitable. The main promoters of the idea that soy is harmful quack like ducks.

I rather like this article on the issue. http://www.foodrevolution.org/what_about_soy.htm

* Cow's milk provides more than nine times as much saturated fat as soy beverages, so is far more likely to contribute to heart disease.
* Soy beverages provide more than 10 times as much essential fatty acids as cow's milk, and so provide a far healthier quality of fat.
* Soy beverages are cholesterol-free, while cow's milk contains 34 mg of cholesterol per cup, which again means that cow's milk is far worse for your heart and cardiovascular system.
* Soy beverages lower both total and LDL ("bad") cholesterol levels, while cow's milk raises both total and LDL cholesterol levels, providing yet more reasons soymilk is better for your health.
* Soy beverages contain numerous protective phytochemicals that may protect against chronic diseases such as heart disease and osteoporosis. Cow's milk contains no phytochemicals.
* Men who consume one to two servings of soymilk per day are 70 percent less likely to develop prostate cancer than men who don't.

I knew you'd be quick with good information! :)

I understand how you like to read positive stuff about soy milk. Reality is that right now there's positive science about it, but there's also negative science. It just is too early to proclaim soy milk to be nothing than goodness, I suppose.

which pretty accurately summed up all of that research. :eyes:

You are right, ThomCat. After seeing the start of the article first, I assumed it was one of the other brazillion articles out there that are prejudiced one way or the other. I stand corrected. :blush: Guess I should work on my own prejudices, huh?

Cows live miserable lives and milk is bad for humans. So, soy and rice milk are OK but not in quantity. that's what I think, I think.

to drink soy milk again. And I'll do rice or almond milk, but think soy is just nasty.

Soy makes you gay. Quick! Eat a snickers and do something manly!!:spank:

:sarcasm:

:rofl:

it's Just Right for cereal, I can't ever have cereal with regular milk now.
And when I get soy milk it lasts for two months so we can use every drop.
I've used it in recipes too and so far it acts just like milk.

for cereal and cookies.

I like Vanilla flavor soy milk for my cereal. I rarely eat beef or drink cows milk the last several years. I think Americas beef consumption is responsible for most of obesity and heart conditions. I do still eat ice cream now and then, I'll take my chances with that.

I feel that the one I've had last tasted... watery.

Some of the cheap soymilks can definitely be watery. But the good stuff is fantastic!

To summarize: "There's no such thing as soy milk, because there's no soy tittie, is there?"

"When I was a kid there was one kind of milk. Moo-cow-fuck-milk; that was it. And maybe chocolate moo-cow-fuck-milk too."

...:thumbsup:

right now I consume skim milk to keep my weight down.

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and I'm a carnivore. Soy milk. It's not just for vegetarians & vegans anymore. ;)

dg

:hi:

How's it going?? :hug: :hi:

dg

I'm spending a lot less time in the lounge recently though. Too many assholes and bigots need to get beat down on serious threads.
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How are you doing? :loveya:

I'm doing okay. Glad to hear you're doing fine. Don't let the jerks get you down; we need ya! :loveya:

dg

I am a carnivore myself.

try it again. Most brands are a lot better than they used to be; less beany, and smoother.

I love it.

Vanilla Silk... My fave