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Question number 1: Milk in Spain.

Some years ago I visited Spain and noticed that the milk was kept in the cupboard rather than the fridge. Warm milk in cereal is very...disconcerting. My question is this- how the hell does the milk keep without being refrigerated? Is is processed in some way?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UHT

So yeah, it's a different way of processing.

A shelf life of up to nine months?!? Woa.

But once you open it, it goes bad more quickly. Well now, that's interesting.

Also no lactobacillus makes making homemade yogurt much more difficult.

I wonder if it even really goes sour or if it manages to spoil in some other way.

It strikes me that thus far, the title of this thread is a pun. Culture...milk...get it?


This still gets me, though. If it goes bad more quickly when opened, wouldn't you want to refrigerate it anyway once it's open?

MixedMyth wrote:It strikes me that thus far, the title of this thread is a pun. Culture...milk...get it?


This still gets me, though. If it goes bad more quickly when opened, wouldn't you want to refrigerate it anyway once it's open?

What, and let the refrigerator industry win?

I like the differences in cultural slang. It makes for some fun situations at work.

For example, over here "lush" means "nearly alcoholic." In England it apparently means "lucious, sexy." So the other day one of the stagehands was talking about his male cousin, and he called him a lush. Two of the dancers were in the room, and took it that the stagehand had a crush on his own cousin...

MixedMyth wrote:It strikes me that thus far, the title of this thread is a pun. Culture...milk...get it?

Oh, come on. As if we'd have any other type of culture around here.

- Joel Fagin

Kat North wrote:I like the differences in cultural slang. It makes for some fun situations at work.

For example, over here "lush" means "nearly alcoholic." In England it apparently means "lucious, sexy." So the other day one of the stagehands was talking about his male cousin, and he called him a lush. Two of the dancers were in the room, and took it that the stagehand had a crush on his own cousin...

I had to explain the term to War after having called Komi a lush several times when she showed up to chat drunk on cider.

The non-Americans can't understand how we get along without the word queue, either. We reject your ties to the French aristocracy !

Here's what I wonder:

How comes you Americans eat pork with apple sauce and cheese with crannbery sauce? Wth? Apple sauce and crannberry sauce are sweet! Main course is not supposed to be sweet!

I dunno, it just tastes good. Cranberry sauce goes with turkey, too, but I'm not a big fan of cranberry sauce.

Cheese is good with fruit, though. I like to eat quiche or something with grapes.

I guess it's sort of like putting mint with lamb chops? Pork can be dry, too, that probably has something to do with it.

When I visited France as a kid the milk was kept the same way as in Spain and I could not drink it. At all.

In fact, I can hardly eat prepared food in France. It tastes weird. I would exist on bread, chocolate and salami whenever I was there, and the occasional weird tasting supermarket pizza.

mcDuffies wrote:Here's what I wonder:

How comes you Americans eat pork with apple sauce and cheese with crannbery sauce? Wth? Apple sauce and crannberry sauce are sweet! Main course is not supposed to be sweet!

Wuagh! I sure don't eat that. I have heard of it, though.

Oh man, how could I forget cranberry sauce with turkey? Put those on a sammich with mayo and MMMmmmMM!

You're just crazy, Sortelli. French foods tend to be a little more undercooked than Americans like it: Omelettes are a little runny and meats are a bit rarer, but they taste great. I haven't had steak tartare (the meat's pretty much flat out rare), but I'd like to try it.

And apple sauce with pork is nummy. You eat cranberry sauce with turkey, but not this?

I never eat cranberry sauce.

Or cranberries at all for that matter.

mcDuffies wrote:Here's what I wonder:

How comes you Americans eat pork with apple sauce and cheese with crannbery sauce? Wth? Apple sauce and crannberry sauce are sweet! Main course is not supposed to be sweet!

Well, because pork is sort of a 'sweet' meat, so it goes well. As for cranberry sauce...I have more often seen it with Turkey, especially at Thanksgiving. It goes well because it's not entirely sweet...the tartness really comes through, so it works with meat.

Heh. I don't know if any of that made sense, but there it is.

Turkey and cranberry sauce.... mmmmmm...


Ham with cherry sauce, MMMMMMM

Sortelli wrote:When I visited France as a kid the milk was kept the same way as in Spain and I could not drink it. At all.

I know how that is. The milk in Japan tasted horrible.

It's all just food! I'll eat it no matter what country it gets cooked in!

Blue box milk is weird in some places? It's fairly common here, especially in bush communities and stuff where people only shop like once a month or longer. We do fridge it though, once it's open. The containers are kind of small though, so I'd suppose one could just leave it out if they had a large-ish family.



See? That milk belongs to my neighbor/friend.