NDR Poll: Milk

mrs.jacinthe

I keep causing confusion at the coffee shop by ordering skim milk in my americano.  So I'm thinking this must be regional ...

 

[Poll]

alicat32908

I've always called it skim milk too and I'm in the South.  But as I recall when I buy milk the carton or jug typically says fat-free and not skim. Maybe the terms are just interchangeable?

TheBridesMom

I say skim milk, and I have been in socal for nearly 30 years, and southern AZ before that.

 

ETA:  I don't buy cow's milk very often, but I have noticed that some cartons say fat free skim milk.  When I was a milk drinker many years ago, they didn't say fat free.

NewlyWeds13

I am currently in Milwaukee, lived in Cleveland, Washington DC, NYC, and Boston before that and called it skim milk in all places.

natablue

I grew up in PA, where we always called it skim milk. But when I buy it at the grocery store in upstate NY, it's labeled fat-free milk.

emoflamingo

Oops, I clicked the wrong one. Meant to hit "skim" and for some reason it went down to non-fat.

I think the stores here mark it as skim. Then, 1%, 2% (which is what we buy) and whole. 

lshoes32

I call it skim, and have lived all over the country as an army brat and indecisive adult. But I notice in the coffee shops they always say non-fat. I really don't know what the cartons here say, and I buy 1%.

darby0422

I call it skim milk at home, but always say nonfat at Starbucks.  I voted nonfat.  I hope I'm not a poll ruiner!

kaylie622

It's all the same. I notice that Starbucks calls it non fat.

GnomeSweetGnome

I voted for "skim" but after thinking about it, I use skim interchangeably with non-fat, depending on where I'm at.  I always say "non-fat milk" at Starbucks - and I have to emphasize that in order to make sure they don't try and make it a "skinny" (w/ sugar-free syrup).

Ginger Le Coeur

I always called it Skim milk, but when I order my latte at Starbucks I order a non-fat latte...

darby0422

GnomeSweetGnome:

I voted for "skim" but after thinking about it, I use skim interchangeably with non-fat, depending on where I'm at.  I always say "non-fat milk" at Starbucks - and I have to emphasize that in order to make sure they don't try and make it a "skinny" (w/ sugar-free syrup).

Shudder!  That sugar-free syrup is terrible!  I do the same.

Knitty

Here they call it nonfat.

dairygirl19

It's skim milk where I come from too!

Non-fat and fat-free mean the same and the terms are pretty interchangeable. They're just marketing terms because it apparently looks/sounds better than "skim."

That said, there really is no such thing as fat free milk. To qualify as skim milk it only has to be .5% fat or less. It' virtually impossible to get all the fat out of milk anyways.

GnomeSweetGnome

dairygirl19:

It's skim milk where I come from too!

Non-fat and fat-free mean the same and the terms are pretty interchangeable. They're just marketing terms because it apparently looks/sounds better than "skim."

That said, there really is no such thing as fat free milk. To qualify as skim milk it only has to be .5% fat or less. It' virtually impossible to get all the fat out of milk anyways.

This is interesting.  I've started noticing .5% milk in the store recently, an the same brand will also offer skim/0%.  I wonder how they're getting away with that?

Temp663997437501443

Like a few others, I usually call it skim milk but when I order something from my [independent coffee shop] I would say a non-fat latte or whatever.

That said, anyone working in the coffee business should be aware of the synonymous nature of those three terms.

dairygirl19

GnomeSweetGnome:

dairygirl19:

It's skim milk where I come from too!

Non-fat and fat-free mean the same and the terms are pretty interchangeable. They're just marketing terms because it apparently looks/sounds better than "skim."

That said, there really is no such thing as fat free milk. To qualify as skim milk it only has to be .5% fat or less. It' virtually impossible to get all the fat out of milk anyways.

This is interesting.  I've started noticing .5% milk in the store recently, an the same brand will also offer skim/0%.  I wonder how they're getting away with that?

It's marketing for the most part. Playing on the overly health conscious.

There are some new methods out there to make it entirely skim but they're not all that effective yet.

~NB~

I wish there was an "all of the above" option because I call it all those things.

krennersds

Since I've been studying nutrition I've started using all three interchangeably, but I voted "fat-free" since that's what we called it in my family when I was growing up. 

StatlerWaldorf

Ginger Le Coeur:

I always called it Skim milk, but when I order my latte at Starbucks I order a non-fat latte...

Me too

BrianaBones

I've always known it as skim. 

starbucks is really obnoxious with trying to enforce their lingo. I always say large or medium when I order, not whatever names they use. They always try to correct me with a confused look on their face, like they don't know what a large coffee is.