oldcoot
Senior Cook
You lept into mind at lunch today, "Elf - BW prepared a tasty potato soup - quite possibly the best she's ever made.
A contributing factor was the generous use of Half-and-half milk (neither unique or the first time, however) And that reminded me of a minor pet peeve.
"Whole milk"! The stuff being peddled here as "whole milk" is little more than colored water. But half-and-half looks, tastes, and feels much like the Jersey milk that was dellivered in glass milk bottles to our porch step each morning some 65+ years ago. The bottles were half filled with cream. (On cold winter mornings, it was a race to get the frozen cream that had pushed up the paper cap before my siblings or the neighborhood cats. In depression days, that was every bit as good as ice-cream!).
I'm amazed the milk producers here in Califonria can get away with such a claim. But then, the Dairy Lobby here is extremely powerful - we've been being ripped off by them for yearss, and no end in sight.
A contributing factor was the generous use of Half-and-half milk (neither unique or the first time, however) And that reminded me of a minor pet peeve.
"Whole milk"! The stuff being peddled here as "whole milk" is little more than colored water. But half-and-half looks, tastes, and feels much like the Jersey milk that was dellivered in glass milk bottles to our porch step each morning some 65+ years ago. The bottles were half filled with cream. (On cold winter mornings, it was a race to get the frozen cream that had pushed up the paper cap before my siblings or the neighborhood cats. In depression days, that was every bit as good as ice-cream!).
I'm amazed the milk producers here in Califonria can get away with such a claim. But then, the Dairy Lobby here is extremely powerful - we've been being ripped off by them for yearss, and no end in sight.
