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[which_chick]

So I'm at the grocery last night and I'm perusing the dairy aisle for the good milk which is like skim milk only has added calcium so that it looks whiter and less bluish than real skim milk. (Of course I can't be drinking that watery bluish crap, it reminds me of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle for some reason.) Anyway I have not been able to find the good milk for like three weeks. It's possible that they've stopped carrying it, the bastards. As I was looking through the aisle for that which I could not fucking find, I came upon the following item, which confounded me no end: Fat-free Half-and-Half

I thought Half-and-Half was supposed to be half milk and half cream. What is this product? How can you have fat-free cream? It's like nearly totally fat. There'd be nothing left if you made it fat-free! (Well, not really. Cream is made out of LOTS OF FAT, though, and I can't imagine that taking out the fat would result in a tasty coffee additive.)

V. confusing.

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[fooliv.livejournal.com]

For the same reason there's a diet caffeine-free Coke on the market: people exist who Fail To Grasp The Concept.

Eh, I like skim. Regular is too fatty & 2% just tastes plain weird. But then, I don't drink milk, just absorb it as cereal-soup in the mornings, so I suppose skim filtered through all of the loose sugar washed off of my generic Froot Loops is a considerably different substance than skim straight out of the carton.

[sara-merry99.livejournal.com]

I have been perplexed by the fat free half-and-half for a while. It is a peculiar product, though it does a satisfactory job of whitening coffee somehow. (I'm not sure how it manages it, but it does taste nicer than the nasty fake creamer stuff that's never seen the inside of a cow.)

I think they take out the fat and put in some thickening agents or something.

[electroweak.livejournal.com]

I think they take out the fat and put in some thickening agents or something.

Carrageenan by the bucketload.