Specifically it was chocolate-flavored soy milk. I figured that would be “safer”.
The experience of drinking the soy milk went roughly like so:
[pours the milk]
“Hmm. Maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me, but it looks ever so slightly opaque compared to dairy milk…”
[gives it a good sniff]
“…It smells like basically nothing. Just as I like it!”
[tastes it]
…
…
…
“…Yeah??? OK! I can fuck with that!”
[puts glass down]
“Well, it feels somewhat watered down, yet also a bit saccharine; and the chocolate flavor is clearly different from what I’m used to; but on the whole it’s not bad, it’s just different, and ‘different’ is exactly what I was expecting. Really, as a whole this milk is largely indistinguishable from a different brand of dairy chocolate milk I’ve had previously.”
[gulps down the rest of the glass]
“I mean, you know, it’s not like the flavor on its own is preferable to what I’m already used to — God knows this costs a bit more as well — but I would gladly only drink chocolate milk that tastes slightly ‘off’ if it means less animal abuse. This hardly counts as any sort of sacrifice.”
[drinks two more glasses]
“Honestly, I take back what I said, this is just good. Why on Earth isn’t this just the standard milk already‽ Why was this stuff just hidden away in some random corner of the grocery store, where I nearly missed it completely‽ I mean I know the answer already, I’m just saying it’s messed up…”
Very cool and pleased for you! I’d argue the reason it’s not the standard is that it’s just not pleasant to many.
I’ll drink oat milk all day any day, I’ve tried soy milk so many times wanting to like it, and I simply can’t finish it.
Well, really, I’m more just thinking about plant-based milk in general being the standard. I would like to try other types of plant-based milk for comparison.
Fair enough, suppose I agree honestly! It’s odd they’re not more standard given how they’re often even preferable in many cases.
Now that I drink plant milks I can’t stand a plain cup of dairy milk. To think that, when I was a kid, an authority figure tried to make me drink 3 whole-ass cups a DAY. The douche made me feel like a bad kid for not doing it.