Here in Chile hundreds of people claim to be lactose intolerant including my SIL. She is extremely lactose intolerant... so much that she can eat all the ice cream she wants, all the cheese that she wants, all the yogurt that she wants, but heaven forbid she drink milk. Oh wait, I mean heaven forbid she drink white milk. She of course can tolerant chocolate milk, strawberry milk, and vanilla milk. But for white milk, she must drink it, well like a baby. In a Minnie Mouse cup, heated with sugar added to it. (No joke) And, the white milk has to be "sin lactosa" of course.
My darling husband also claims to be lactose intolerant sometimes. He can however eat cheese practically by the package, yogurt, and ice cream with no worries. He can also drink the milk I love, the milk I dream of at least once a week. Fresh milk, the kind from central Minnesota that you know came from a local cow within the last week. Not this crap in box that well, you really don't know when it actually came out of the cow.
I don't know why this "lactose intolerance" bothers me so much! Probably because they blame their dislike of milk on lactose intolerance where I just say no way in hell am I drinking that shit. (Of course I'm talking Chilean milk in a box) I would never say no to a large glass of Kemps 1%. Never!
Sigh. Sorry for boring posts, I still have a week before I can spill my guts!!!
6 comments:
oh my god that would drive me bat-shit crazy. My brother was lactose intolerant as a kid, and belieeeeeve me, that's nothing they want to joke about having. It's no fun at all.
The funny thing is, is that they aren't joking. I am thinking about putting it in the same box as where you go to a job and they pretty much tell you you are hired only to call and say that they don't need anyone for that job. Instead of saying "no we aren't going to hire you" (I don't like milk) they say "oh everything looks really good we'll be calling you with the news soon"(I'm lactose intolerant.) It must be a nicer way so as not to hurt the milk's feelings..... at least I know I can get Ro to drink milk in the US....since I don't drink it here it isn't fair for him to have to drink it.
annoying, especially that it can be so selective, but don't hate too much, people are much more lactose intolerant here in general.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance
look at the map. in south america it says 65 -75% of adults are intolerant, where as ... 12% of european americans, or 5% of scandinavians
i think each person knows what their body can handle or not. and some people use these things as excuses to be picky too. i, for example, will usually feel HORRIBLE after a malt (doesn't stop me though...) yet fine after excessive amounts of ice cream or cheese.
lydia, I can understand that some people can tolerate some things, but not others. What I don't understand is why chocolate milk,strawberry milk or vanilla milk can be tolerated... but not white milk. It doesnt make sense at all.
crazy, isnt it? i can do chocolate milk fine, but regular milk makes my stomache grind.
but i hardly thing those chocolate and strawberry drinks here count as milk theyre so modified!
Well, there are different levels of lactose intolerance, but seriously...that's a bit extreme. I lived with this bat sh*t crazy lady who claimed she was lactose intolerant but as you said would turn around and eat ice-cream.Hmmmm.... I just chalked it up to all that crazy she had going on. Sorry...
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