Drink?
Posted: Wed 21 February, 2007 Filed under: Domestic, Weirdness 15 Comments »The other night, I went to make a drink before going to bed, and decided on a raspberry milkshake. (cue memories of Alberto Frog and his amazing animal orchestra. Or is that just me?) No idea why, but I actually like them just before bed. Weird, but true. Anyway, the conversation went something like this :
Me : I’m just going to make a drink [does so]
Herself : That’s not a drink, that’s a milkshake.
Me : Um. I’m going to drink it. It’s a drink.
Herself : No, that’s milk. Drinks are mainly made of water
Me : Ooookkkkkkkkkkk then.
So, who’s right?
I’m with you Lyle — besides, milk is something like 90% water, so even with her argument, you’re still right. 🙂
1. Milk is a food stuff – a fluid yes but not a drink.
2. Yes you can DRINK milk but it’s not a drink, like squash or coke which have no nutritional value ( which was the point being made)
3. Milk is part of a nutritional balanced diet and is part of the food groups. Drinks are not.
4. Babies drink milk as a food, Be it baby milk/cows milk.
5. more of a BOD than an alberto my darling!!!!
Bod : Main character in the programme
Alberto Frog + Orchestra : Milkshake section, and guessing which one Alberto was going to have.
Bod, eh? I’ll keep my ears open for a neighbour who has his own theme tune then.
Da-doodie-doo-doo-doo-ba-ba-ba. Da-doodie-doo-doo-doo-ba-ba.
Where does that leave protein drinks then? Are they a drink on account of, you know, being called drinks and because they are drunk, or are they food because they’re made of protein powder and water.
I gotta go with Lyle on this. Oh, and the dictionary definition:
Aha. Herself has got a bitty confused about labelling. “Drink” as in a carton of “Raspberry Juice Drink”, means that the product contains added water. Usually lots of water. So you end up buying water, fruit juice (possibly only a tiny amount), and artificial flavour, in descending order.
Thus, in the LABELLING SENSE ONLY, what you made wasn’t a “drink”.
But clearly, outside of carton-speak, anything drunk is perforce a drink. The fault lies with the caring, sharing food industry scuppering the language and being allowed to get away with it. Hmmmm. IhopeImakemyselfclearsir.
Do you drink it? Then it is a drink.
Do you chew it? Then it is a food?
Do you.. umm… no that’s it.
Food or drink. One or t’other. Easy.
Gordon, by this rationale, oysters, thrown down the hatch and never chewed, are in fact a drink.
Ah, but you can chew them – you decide whether or not you’re going to.
Although soup would be another example of where the rationale falls over…
milkshake hum sounds like a drink to me, to be honest you cant chew milk can yeh now lol
Nah you are all getting caught up on the semantics. We are not disagreeing about the fact that milk is a drink ie it can be drunk. We are disagreeing about the fact that milk is a food stuff where ribena etc is not. Protein drinks are more on the food side than the drink side as you don’t drink them to quench thirst you drink them to build up muscle or weight and in some circumstances you use them as a suppliment or instead of a meal as the calorific content is high.
Soup, oysters and anything else you can easily SWALLOW is not a drink but food as it has a nutritional value.
So a drink isn’t a drink if it has nutritional value?
“…use them as a supplement or instead of a meal as the calorific content is high.”
This is reasoning I can subscribe to – seeing as how that makes a couple of cans of Stella a meal replacement (there being 220kCal in each 550ml can).
So 4 cans of stella is just under 1000 calories NOOOOOOOOOOO!
So where is the nutritional value and food element of stella then, Dragon? (Which was the origional argument)
If you google balanced diet you will get triangle/plate diagrams which show milk as a food group or part of a balanced diet, funny, can’t find the picture of diet coke, ribena or stella in there, why is that i wonder? Could it be that they have no nutirional value which was the original argument.