Milks - update

[Laurence Horn]

I was just down at my brother's house for Christmas; he's lactose intolerant so they stock almond milk for their coffee and cereal.  I told him I didn't even know almonds had breasts.

LH

On Dec 30, 2011, at 2:16 AM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:

> The people at the coffee shop I was at today had forgotten to pick up almond milk. (According to a barista at another coffee shop, almond is the up-and-coming thing, but you should order it not foamed because it doesn't turn out very good.) The barista suggested I try hemp milk. She assured me it has omega-three and no THC.
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> According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almond_milk, almond milk is made from ground almonds. Similarly, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp_milk says that hemp milk or hemp seed milk is made from ground hemp seeds.
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> The OED has "almond-milk" (time to drop the hyphen, perhaps), but no definition. Looking at the relevant definition of milk, it seems a little out-of-date:
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> A milky juice or latex present in the stems or other parts of various plants, which exudes when the plant is cut, and is often acrid, irritant, or toxic. Also: spec. the drinkable watery liquid found in the hollow space inside the fruit of the coconut.
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> Probably the most common substitute milks for coffee lattes are soy and rice. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soy_milk, soy milk is made by grinding, and according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_milk, rice milk is made by pressing.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_(disambiguation) gives these milk types, along with grain and plant milks.
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> The grain milk article says: "Grain milk can be made from oats, spelt,rice, rye, einkorn wheat or quinoa."
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> The plant milk article adds barley to those, and goes on to list legume, nut and seed milks, to wit:
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> Legume milks:
>        • Lupin milk
>        • Pea milk
>        • Peanut milk
>        • Soy milk
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> Nut milks:
>        • Almond milk
>        • Cashew milk
>        • Coconut milk
>        • Hazelnut milk
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> Seed milks:
>        • Hemp milk
>        • Quinoa milk
>        • Sesame seed milk
>        • Sunflower seed milk
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> Doubtlessly, other milks exist as well.
>
> The OED has a leg up when it comes to tiger's milk, which is not listed in Wikipedia.
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> Benjamin Barrett
> Seattle, WA
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