Gen Z will never understand having a gallon of milk poured down your throat every day growing up

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Part of hte problem with nutrition and trends is people seem incapable of understanding something can be simultaneously good and bad for you at the same time. Milk is overall pretty good for you if you don't, y'know, shit yourself immediately after consuming.

@CountScrofula Not sure how the fact intolerances exist change anything.

There will be exceptions to everything.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Intolerance isn't a yes/no question it's a gradient. Lots of kids were still made to drink the stuff when I was young when they probably shouldn't have. A more sophisticated understanding of how humans maybe have a tough time with lactose is at play.

Understanding it is still almost certainly better to drink milk than it is to drink artificial sweeteners or HFCS. Nutrition is complicated.

@CountScrofula Huh. Here in Canada it was heavily encouraged but nobody was making you drink it. We just got bombarded with Got Milk? Ads.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I'm a province over, and it may just be differnet experiences growing up but I stole this post from a meme and a couple responses I've seen from friends in Alberta are:

"My evil grandma forced us to drink a glass every day"

"My aunt wouldn’t let us have a glass of juice or water at dinner unless we had a glass of milk first."

And so forth. A lot of parents wer ekind of fixated on it.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I remember those. Especially the one set to Beethoven's 9th symphony. It was real horrorshow. (For those who get the reference, that's great, but for those who don't, I'm not gonna explain it)

@CountScrofula Wow. Didn't realize you were Canadian. I was actually born in Red Deer and have family in Lethbridge.

Anyway, I guess it really was dependent on how much stock one's family put in the government food guide stuff and the milk ad campaigns.

The closest I got when I was in school was those single serve milk cartons at lunch in elementary school.


For me what was worse was in Rockland, Ontario in the early 90s we were given fluoride in a liquid mouthwash kind of liquid. They claimed it was watermelon flavoured. That was a daily thing in class and it tasted vile. lol

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Hah yeah I had the fluoride rinse in school as well.

And yeah I live north of Edmonton and although I've been around Canada I'm back in the town I grew up in.