Gravy, milk, and Britain oh my!

[Benjamin]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., aichambaye at y... wrote:> 
> In the grand word scheme of things, American milk is weird. We 
> process it a lot and we like it thin (1/5% milk? you have to 
> admit...) But it's what I know and love... and learned to cook 
with! 
> So I don't know if recipes change when you use the other stuff.
> 

The main problem with very-low-fat / virtually-fat-free / whatever-
you-call it milk is that it makes tea go grey, so it looks a bit 
disgusting of an early morning.  Also it is absolutely no good in 
White Russians.


> 
> Heather M., who now wants sausage gravy and biscuits (not cookies), 
> instead of a donut, for breakfast with her restaurant-sized glass 
of 
> Diet Mountain Dew.

Surely mountain dew should be just pure water, plain and simple, with 
perhaps a bit of granite: hence the addition of 'diet' would be 
superfluous?

-Ben.