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I have yet to see commercially available pea milk where I live.

The paper is here

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Do we have to call it pea milk though?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

No. In fact, I hope the manufacturers store it in testicle-shaped bottles.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I only drink golden showers brand

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Essence of pea

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I already don't call it that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I prefer a different spelling?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, we should call it pea mammry fluid from a different species.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Just call it fake milk made from peas

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

White pea juice.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Try showering in it. The experience is golden.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I tried pea milk for the first time a couple of weeks back, albeit it was chocolate flavored. It was pretty good and is a good alternative to water-hungry almond milk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

pea milk is the only cow milk alternative i am willing to drink. all the other immitations are unbearable..oat, almond etc... yuck

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

For cereal and similar breakfast applications, I quite like oat milk. It does have a strong oat flavor though.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's great if you can handle its pea-ness.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

My kids love drinking pea.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does it have qualities that would make it useful replacement in cooking and baking, or is it a drink alternative? The archive link isn't working for me, so sorry if this is in the article. I'm really curious.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Or the real question, does it make cheese?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pea cheese, just what I need

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Well of course. Peas are a lot smaller than cows and will eat and fart a lot less.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Hell yeah, give peas a chance!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s not really milk.

We should just call it pea. Already reminds us of a liquid.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah if people want this to catch on you can't call it pea milk.

Peas are a type of pulse. So let's call it pulse milk that sounds a lot more appetizing :>

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Peas are just seeds, so call it seed milk.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

You aren't going to pea in my milk!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

we don't have data for its water usage though?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The colour of it makes me feel a bit noxious. Maybe I shouldn't have eaten that candy snake I found in my jacket pocket just before jumping into bed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Yes. I was relying on autocorrect to help me out and after not finding the correct spelling after half a dozen attempts I gave up in favour of whatever that word I used is. I am on my side, half asleep.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This is one of those things that everyone understands. Like "nauseous" may not be accepted as English by some upper class conservatives in charge of writing dictionaries, but to the rest of us it's understood and frequently used.

A language is a tool to communicate, not a bunch of rules.

It's this same grammar nazi logic that leads to dialects spoken by middle class and rich white people to be the "correct" one while those spoken by black people and lower class white people are seen as "incorrect".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think everyone understood that the original commenter meant nauseous/nauseated instead of noxious. The corrector was being an annoying pedant, so I was pointing that out by correcting their “incorrect” word.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oat milk is pretty good. I recently switched over to it from soy milk and it's high in calcium and all the other nutrients. Very creamy.

Edit: damn that's batshit crazy, I should give pea milk a try.

Here's the comparison table of the nutrients in the article

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10504201/table/Tab2/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I've had pea milk, doesn't seem too rare in the UK. It was nice enough, maybe slightly watery compared to oat (my go to) but that could just have been the brand.

The comparisions are interesting, but also kind of demonstrate the futility of debating between plant based milks. There's a clear worst candidate here, and it isn't plant based. If your thinking of switching, choose your favourite, soy might be the second worst but it's significantly less than half the emmisions of cow milk.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

pea juice*

peas do not have nipples.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I have nipples. How do I get milk out of them?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

You've just got to drink a lot and then suck really really hard

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Now I'm thinking about other options. Tomato milk. Grape milk. Orange milk. Lemon milk.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Gonna have to start calling stuff "peanut spread" and "hot assorted meat trimmings"

Also, we've been using the word milk to include plant milk since the year 1200

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