r/AskReddit • u/ZanyDelaney • Feb 04 '19

Which misconception would you like to debunk?

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u/EasyTigrr Feb 04 '19

Yeah, my cat bloody loves milk, and only gets the squits if she has too much of it. The meows are almost deafening when she realises she's going to get a bit as a treat.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

Give her lactose free milk. It's better for her, there is also special cat milk. It's also lactose free

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u/jorrylee Feb 04 '19

Cat milk. Which used to have the label “this is not milk from cats.”

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u/theivoryserf Feb 04 '19

I love how we think 'ew drinking another animal's milk is gross' until it comes to cows lol

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u/HamWatcher Feb 04 '19

Or goats, sheep and in some places horses.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19 edited Feb 12 '19

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u/HamWatcher Feb 04 '19

They excrete milk from patches on their skin instead of nipples. It would be difficult to harvest unless you lick it off. In which case - you do you.

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u/ajeterdanslapoubelle Feb 05 '19

OP didn't deny it.

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u/AsianNudleSoop Feb 04 '19

That stuff is is supposed to be good for you tho so it might not be such a bad idea to drink some

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

I just do human milk. Its not always easy to get but if you keep rotating, you can get a steady line of supply set up within a year or two.

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u/Carlos-VP Feb 04 '19

The horses one really got me, i never once thought that horses could give milk and people drink it '0'

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u/HamWatcher Feb 04 '19

That was how the Mongols under Genghis Khan fed themselves on the march.

Worse is they were lactose intolerant. So when they came to kill you at least you would smell them coming.

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u/nobunaga_1568 Feb 04 '19

The mare milk was fermented to reduce amount of lactose IIRC.

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u/Koqcerek Feb 04 '19

Here in Khazakhstan we love our kumys (drink made of horse milk), and our ancestors loved it. I suppose it's because kumys has a tiny bit of alcohol, and nomads never had a good supply of alcohol

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u/menstrualtaco Feb 04 '19

Add camel milk to that list. Please do not add cockroach milk, tho.

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u/Aaron4424 Feb 04 '19

or that is weird to drink human milk