anonnie ♡ · 2mo
hi sana, i’m here to talk about milk. here’s the thing, okay, i’ve noticed that when you describe the experience of adding milk to a thing, you tend to talk about how the milk makes it less blank, like less carbonated, less sweet, etc, whereas I always assume someone would add milk to a thing to make it taste MORE like milk. yk, creamier. milkier. I don’t know what exactly I’m on about. something something, the reductive properties of milk. thoughts? 🎤
This question is so funny 😭😭😭 like I need you to tell me who you are right now because we need to be friends or at least mutuals (if we aren't already)
I totally get what you mean, but honestly I just don't think of it that way at all lol. Like it makes so much sense when you say it like this, but I've never once thought about it analytically. I think it's just a personality thing? Like you know how there are "glass half-full" and "glass half-empty" people? I'm a "less _" person, not a "more _" person.
To me, the milk is the "bland"/plain component whereas the coke/pepsi/cola-type soda is the "flaver"/main aspect. The milk is just what I dilute the soda with, if that makes sense? Functionally, the milk just waters down the soda - or that's how I look at it. The reason why I started sometimes adding milk to my cola-type sodas is because I don't like carbonation because it's just overwhelming and makes the drink kinda hard to swallow? Because like you're swallowing additional air? Carbonation isn't necessarily a dealbreaker for me, but for most of my life, it was just something I had to put up with if I wanted a soda. Because adding milk is adding more liquid, it basically waters down the soda (like when you have ice in a soda that melts) and that makes the carbonation more spread out and therefore less intense. I like a 1:1 ratio (or pretty close to it) the most, and that practically eliminates all of the feeling of carbonation.
I guess what I'm saying is that, to me, the milk is a solution to my issue, not an addition to the drink in its own right. As for the "less sweet" thing, idk lol. I'm not good at describing stuff, so when I descirbe the taste to people, that's just the best I can come up with. It's like an ice cream float, but because the ice cream is milk, it makes the overall product less sweet, rather than in that case more sweet. Though, yes, like you said, it does make the soda taste more like milk. I just never think of it that way lol
Thanks for your question!! This actually made me laugh aloud, and it's so fun (and funny) to be asked such an introspective question lol
