* Disclaimer: A coconut is not a cow, and coconut MILK is a non-dairy product.
Action: MILK is not a copyrighted word, trademark, or brand. MILK is in the public domain. We will continue to use the word MILK without censure or punishment when referring to non-dairy products. with which we use to make awesome stir-fries like this one:
Coconut MILK with tofu triangles, ginger, and veggies:
Ingredients:
Cocunut MILK.
Firm Tofu, cut into triangles.
Ginger.
Garlic
Veggies
Basil
Hot pepper sauce
Prepared rice
Instructions:
Deep fry the tofu add ginger and garlic then add the coconut MILK.
steam the veggies.
serve with basil and hot pepper sauce over rice.
www.washingtonpost.com/...
Got milk? The answer isn’t so simple anymore.
Big Dairy has had it up to here with these alternative beverages masquerading as milk, and now the Food and Drug Administration plans to start forcing plant-based products that co-opt the language of lactation to abandon the act. That’s right: The official definition of milk involves “lacteal secretion,” and, as the head of the FDA said last week, “an almond doesn’t lactate.”
As it turns out, this isn’t entirely fair to almonds. Labeling botanical liquids “milks” is more than a newfangled marketing maneuver that must speedily be put out to pasture. Francis Bacon noticed in 1626 that “there be plants, that have a Milk in them when they are Cut,” and Encyclopaedia Britannica acceded a century and a half later that “the emulsive liquors of vegetables may be called vegetable milks.”