Basic Instructions by Scott Meyer for August 13, 2021

Man is a rationalizing animal.

my daughter, a vegetarian, came home with a jug of oat beverage from Trader Joes. to their credit, the thing tasted like milk and they didn’t use the word “milk” at all. unlike Almond Milk or Soy Milk …

Well, you eat the cow….

Scott is milking this for all it’s worth.

I’ve tried Oat Milk and Soy Milk. They taste almost exactly the same over cereal, but the Soy tastes a little better alone, and they both taste better than Cow Milk (to me)…

Scott used to live on a farm, so he’d be thinking about the origin of milk more often than most people.

Rick WAS paying attention. He just didn’t take you seriously.

Milk is the one substance that evolved for the purpose of providing nutrition for mammals. I don’t know why Scott has to get all weird about it.

To go through life not knowing the pleasures of a milkshake, root beer float or a mocha latte is a shame. Also, perhaps due to my wife’s natural disposition, human milk is kind of on the sweet side.

So it’s what it looks like, not where it comes from?

“self-deluding” would be more accurate than “civilised.” Especially as it is a liquid designed for consumption by mammals. Hard to see that eating a mammal is somehow more “civilised”