• @SpaceNoodle
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    511 months ago

    Or maybe just because they aren’t actually milk

    • @tekila
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      1111 months ago

      I guess words can’t be used in different context, especially when the plant-based alternatives are drop-in replacement for animal milks and the term has been used for hundreds of year to describe both plant-based milky substances and animal secretions.

      Source: https://english.stackexchange.com/a/478323

    • @[email protected]
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      911 months ago

      Milk of the poppy, milk thistle, milk of magnesia…

      it’s almost like the word means a white liquid, of which mammalian breast milk is one type.