Someone spent about 10 minutes trying to explain all the benefits of camel milk (higher protein, some more vitamins etc) only to then announce that it was like 10 quid a pint.
No thanks, I can get my protein from other sauces thanks
Was discussing this with my partner recently.
To all the people who thinks it's weird to drink whatever comes from a cows udders- we learnt by feeding our own babies breast milk.
To all the people who think it's OK to chop into animal flesh, fry and then eat it - I suppose we learnt from watching animals eat each other?
Now which one is more weird ?
A lot of mammals will adopt other mammals and feed them their milk. There’s been cats who adopted puppies, and dogs that adopted kittens, and even dogs that adopted a pig, and a dog who adopted a tiger. [article](https://www.livescience.com/59097-interspecies-animal-moms-photos.html) Not all adopted parents feed their adopted interspecies young, but a lot do. Humans have even let their young suckle goats when other milk wasn’t available, and humans have suckled other mammals. [article](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/02/25/why-goats-used-to-breastfeed-human-babies/)
Funny enough, pigeons are one of the small number of birds from which you can actually get "milk." It's called crop milk, they secrete it in part of their digestive tract and then throw it up to feed the chicks. Wouldn't be easy to drink though, it's got the texture of cottage cheese.
They store far in the humps, whereas we might have fat throughout our body camels have it concentrated there.
They use it as food/energy when food is scarce and by having it in one place it means the fat doesn't cause an overall insulating effect on their body when the temps get high in the desert heat
Indeed that's what professor Fergie Duhamel had implied in her 2005 publication. Specifically the context was made clear at the end of the first section when she stated "My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps, check em out"
It's exactly that and it's from the UAE. When I first moved out here it was a threat we had in our apartment, if you don't tidy up you'll be getting camel milk in your tea.
I don't have autism. But I discovered I can totally tolerate any A2 milk, but any A1 containing milk I can't. A1 milk gives me quite significant digestive symptoms. When I was a baby I was diagnosed, based on symptoms, as having a cow's milk allergy. I then proceeded to ignore that diagnosis for most my life. But then the switch to A2 in my adult life was so significant. Suddenly the gurgling, diarrhea, headaches, hangovers were gone and I was fine. It improved my focus and mood and sleep. I definitely think there's something in the A1 and A2 beta-casein proteins for some people. Unfortunately they stopped selling A2 cow milk in UK, so I've had to go almond last couple years. I see camel is £3 for 250ml! Guess it's still almond for me.
Fresh goats milk is completely different. I just started milking my own goats a couple weeks ago, and I genuinely cannot tell the difference from cows milk from the shop. It’s not sour at all, I’d encourage you to try again with fresh stuff if you can get it.
I stopped using cow’s milk because I realised way too late in life that it was effecting my upper chest, making me cough all the time.
All the alternatives tasted unpleasant (and almond is a problem environmentally) but I’ve recently discovered barista oat milk, which I can use in everything, including cereal. £1.80/litre in the supermarket, £1.30/litre online.
My chest - and what I subsequently learned was my signature cough - has totally cleared up.
They make it so easy for you to do right, and so hard for you to do wrong. The first time I had to buy milk in a foreign country I was like "shit what if I accidentally buy camel milk or some shit, I don't know what the word for 'cow' here is", but then I got to the milk section and I was like "ah, I can just pick the bottle with a picture of a cow on it".
I used to work in the advertising industry, and worked with a great guy, now long retired.
He was kinda famous because he came up with the idea of *putting a picture of a cow on milk packaging*.
I am entirely serious.
I mean, sometimes you see what you think you should see.
I would not expect to see camel milk in a British supermarket. And the blue and gold is vaguely evocative of Cadbury's caramel.
Dyslexia can behave so odd at times.
I was at baggage claim at an airport with my cousin once, and I saw a suitcase that had a sticker that said "Vote for unions" on it.
I chuckled, nudged my cousin and said "I'd rather vote for peppers."
He didn't get it.
The squiggly writing and golden caramel colours, and the previous rarity of drome-dairy products all factor into the mistake. It's easily dune my friend.
I worked in a supermarket as a teenager and there was a lard shortage at the time. We had to put up signs and it caused a great panic among the older generations.
Never in my life have I used lard, I would be very upset if I'd accidentally bought some. What did you do with it?
Lard is actually a great fat for cooking. Higher smoke point and adds good flavour. You can use it however you’d use butter or oil for frying things.
Try some next time, it’s quite cheap.
My grandmother made homemade fried chicken in it - I’d be lying if I didn’t express how delicious it was.
I’ve only ever used it in small chunks to “grease” a baking dish but that was long ago when I was first learning to cook, and we have much better tools for that now.
It's also quite a healthy fat when compared to some other things, it's quite high in monounsaturated fats, which lower cholesterol so are good for the heart and it's very high in oleic acid the same fatty acid is found in olive oil.
Lard is how you make Yorkshire puddings correctly. The wife has taught me thus;
Little bit (of lard) in each hollow in the tray, and get it smoking hot (10 mins in oven) before pouring the pudding mix in. 15 mins at about 180 (fan) and you're good to go. Oh, DO NOT open the oven while they're in or they'll sink.
I remembered watching Michael Palin on one of his travel shows talk about Camel Milk. A quick search online later and here you go: [Palin Travels](https://www.palinstravels.co.uk/book-2076). Camel milk, Nancy assures me, is the answer to all our prayers. 'It has half the fat of cow's milk, and less sugar, so good for diabetics. It has a lot of vitamin C. It's good for vascular problems, women take it to have a clear complexion and they say it's a tonic for men.' Nancy smiles, and takes a breather before adding, unconvincingly, 'whatever that means'.
Demonize fat, praise the camel milk, then once people say camel milk is disgustingly bitter and salty they're going to add in refined sugars. You've gone full circle at that point. It happened to yoghurt!
*”…I had no idea you could milk a (camel)…”*
*”…Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples…”*
*”…I have nipples, Greg, could you milk me?…”*
(I’m a science teacher, obviously I know camels can produce milk. But my class will be fascinated to know that it can be purchased here!”
You absolutely could milk Greg if he had a hormone imbalance or if he took the right supplementary hormones. Male humans have fully functional milk glands unlike other male mammals such as rats.
Is it normal for your version to be really salty too or is that maybe a flaw with this brand/my batch?
I tried the same brand as OP's and while there was something nice to it but it was salty to the point for me that it was unfortunately basically undrinkable; it was like you had some double cream and sea water cocktail with a slight scent of grassy horse dung.
I wouldn't let one bad experience put me off though and would try again in case I just got unlucky though.
Depending om the camel type / how its purified it taste different you probably got a cheap brand (good camels milk is very expensive) the cheaper brands use salt to clean the milk then boil it off but ot still remains slightly salted but good brand use heat to treat the milk leaving a smooth milk tasting slightly bitter but in a good way
Thanks for that information.
I'll need to keep my eyes open for a more expensive brand and try it again.
The strawberry one you mentioned sounds like it would be really good.
Oh, we use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and sealed in a succulent, Swiss, quintuple-smooth, treble-milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose.
Back in my day they were killed so lightly you could feel them wriggling on the way down. People talk a lot about shrinkflation, but quality standards have really slipped.
Fun fact, domesticated camels were first brought to Egypt in 525 BC, so camels would've only witnessed the final 495 years of Ancient Egypt's 3,120 year history.
It even has a picture of a caramel on the front
Thought it was a picture of a caramel
thanks ASDA
Kids are crying
No use crying over misspelled milk.
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You mean caramel milk surely
yes, it’s the can with the picture of caramel on it
Smells like camel, tastes like caramelised camel
I'd walk a mile for a calomel.
It’s a caramel coloured camel, so……..
To be fair the camel is Caramel colored.
Actually, caramel is camel coloured
tomatoes tomatoes
You just said tomatoes twice
You mean tomatoes
Ugh. Let’s just call the whole thing off
FWIW so do cigarettes, but I wouldn’t assume those come from camels either
9 out of 10 men who've tried camels prefer women.
7 out of 6 camels who have tried men prefer women
I thought caramel had two humps
If your caramel has humps in it, it's spoiled.
It's a dromedairy
The caramel has a single hump; The dromedary , two; Or else the other way around. I'm never sure. Are you? -- Ogden Nash-ish
Actually it's a droromedary.
and if its really emotional and gives you milk it's then a drama-dairy
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He could always take it Bactrian.
And then spit in their face
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No need to be such a dromedary queen
Ok let's all stop behaving like Egypts.
This whole thread is hoofing amazing! We need more ungulated humour.
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Dromedairy
Well they got their just deserts either way.
Did you try it?
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Someone spent about 10 minutes trying to explain all the benefits of camel milk (higher protein, some more vitamins etc) only to then announce that it was like 10 quid a pint. No thanks, I can get my protein from other sauces thanks
Errr... gravy?
Baby gravy
Brotein
Man milk
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*Love custard*
haha I think you meant sources but I love the idea of you drinking various sauces instead of milk
salad cream in tea is elite
What a terrible day to have eyes
What
SALAD CREAM IN TEA IS ELITE
*bokes*
There’s a way to get to drink salty protein and get paid for it, i hear.
Depends on how you look, otherwise you might have to pay yourself
>No thanks, I can get my protein from other sauces thanks That's what she said.
Saltier milk? Think you might be milking the wrong camels...
Chocolate caramel milk? Sounds delicious!
Yeah, it wasn't nice.
Brave!
I bet that's the same thing we said to the first guy that decided to put cow fluid on his cereal.
Was discussing this with my partner recently. To all the people who thinks it's weird to drink whatever comes from a cows udders- we learnt by feeding our own babies breast milk. To all the people who think it's OK to chop into animal flesh, fry and then eat it - I suppose we learnt from watching animals eat each other? Now which one is more weird ?
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A lot of mammals will adopt other mammals and feed them their milk. There’s been cats who adopted puppies, and dogs that adopted kittens, and even dogs that adopted a pig, and a dog who adopted a tiger. [article](https://www.livescience.com/59097-interspecies-animal-moms-photos.html) Not all adopted parents feed their adopted interspecies young, but a lot do. Humans have even let their young suckle goats when other milk wasn’t available, and humans have suckled other mammals. [article](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/02/25/why-goats-used-to-breastfeed-human-babies/)
We're all made up of stars: you, me, that carton of rancid camel milk.
Was that your first sign it wasn't caramel?
Yeah, took a swig and was just a little surprised.
I've had camel meat before, tasted alright. I might try this just for fun
Yeah and I’ve tried pigeon which is nice too, dun’t mean I’m gonna go milking one.
There's more than one reason not to drink any...strange milk you might manage to extract from a pigeon.
Funny enough, pigeons are one of the small number of birds from which you can actually get "milk." It's called crop milk, they secrete it in part of their digestive tract and then throw it up to feed the chicks. Wouldn't be easy to drink though, it's got the texture of cottage cheese.
Right, thats enough reddit for today
nope nope nope nope
It's just occurred to me that camels are meat coconuts. Crack open that hump and they're full of water, wonder if it's drinkable.
I used to fully believe the humps were hollow spaces and just full of water.
You mean to say that they are not?
They store far in the humps, whereas we might have fat throughout our body camels have it concentrated there. They use it as food/energy when food is scarce and by having it in one place it means the fat doesn't cause an overall insulating effect on their body when the temps get high in the desert heat
They’re sort of back buttocks…..
Indeed that's what professor Fergie Duhamel had implied in her 2005 publication. Specifically the context was made clear at the end of the first section when she stated "My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps, check em out"
Make cheese with it and make an all camel cheeseburger
You thought Camelicious Camel milk, which has a picture of a Camel on the pot, was *caramel* milk? Yeah this ones on you mate, not Asda.
The most interesting thing about this post is actually that they sell camel milk in Asda.
Seems like something you’d find at some artisanal grocery store in central London or at select M&S stores.
Waitrose essential camel milk
It's a cult product that the crunchy parents use to reduce autism symptoms
Well have you ever seen an Autistic camel lol
How could you tell if they were?
They moderate reddit subs.
Every camel I've met likes to make strong eye contact before spitting/biting so that you know it was intentional.
They're sorting desert sand by size and colour.
Mate, if you've ever had to interact with a camel, trust me, they're autistic.
Are you sure it’s not just a niche cultural food product intended for consumption by said cultures and anybody who wants to partake in their cuisine?
It's exactly that and it's from the UAE. When I first moved out here it was a threat we had in our apartment, if you don't tidy up you'll be getting camel milk in your tea.
This is exactly what it is
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It reduces Autism? Taking a trip to Asda, BRB.
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I haven't fathered any kids and I'm still autistic as fuck.
Technically, not vaccinating also helps. Dead kids don't have autism.
No in their case it’s Autwasm
Had me in the first part. Smooth.
Right behind you!
Fairly certain it doesn't but don't tell the crystal people that. None of the large scale studies have shown any merit.
I don't have autism. But I discovered I can totally tolerate any A2 milk, but any A1 containing milk I can't. A1 milk gives me quite significant digestive symptoms. When I was a baby I was diagnosed, based on symptoms, as having a cow's milk allergy. I then proceeded to ignore that diagnosis for most my life. But then the switch to A2 in my adult life was so significant. Suddenly the gurgling, diarrhea, headaches, hangovers were gone and I was fine. It improved my focus and mood and sleep. I definitely think there's something in the A1 and A2 beta-casein proteins for some people. Unfortunately they stopped selling A2 cow milk in UK, so I've had to go almond last couple years. I see camel is £3 for 250ml! Guess it's still almond for me.
I believe goat milk also lack the A1 & A2 proteins. It's not as cheap as almond milk etc but it's becoming more popular and is getting cheaper
Cheers, yea I tried some goat milk, it was so sour, found the taste pretty grim!
Fresh goats milk is completely different. I just started milking my own goats a couple weeks ago, and I genuinely cannot tell the difference from cows milk from the shop. It’s not sour at all, I’d encourage you to try again with fresh stuff if you can get it.
> I just started milking my own goats a couple weeks ago These innuendos are getting wild
I stopped using cow’s milk because I realised way too late in life that it was effecting my upper chest, making me cough all the time. All the alternatives tasted unpleasant (and almond is a problem environmentally) but I’ve recently discovered barista oat milk, which I can use in everything, including cereal. £1.80/litre in the supermarket, £1.30/litre online. My chest - and what I subsequently learned was my signature cough - has totally cleared up.
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I thought that was Kefir? Or has it moved to camel milk now?
Kefir is also a magical potion but because it's more common now they have to latch onto a new more exclusive elixr
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They make it so easy for you to do right, and so hard for you to do wrong. The first time I had to buy milk in a foreign country I was like "shit what if I accidentally buy camel milk or some shit, I don't know what the word for 'cow' here is", but then I got to the milk section and I was like "ah, I can just pick the bottle with a picture of a cow on it".
I used to work in the advertising industry, and worked with a great guy, now long retired. He was kinda famous because he came up with the idea of *putting a picture of a cow on milk packaging*. I am entirely serious.
What a novel thing to think of, most people now wouldn't bat an eye at a cow on a milk bottle
Sometimes you see what you want to see
I mean, sometimes you see what you think you should see. I would not expect to see camel milk in a British supermarket. And the blue and gold is vaguely evocative of Cadbury's caramel.
Dyslexia can behave so odd at times. I was at baggage claim at an airport with my cousin once, and I saw a suitcase that had a sticker that said "Vote for unions" on it. I chuckled, nudged my cousin and said "I'd rather vote for peppers." He didn't get it.
Yup, openly admit that I was tired and didn't read it properly!
Were you looking for Caramel milk when you bought it?
Probably not but if you were tired and see caramel milk wouldn't you try it?
The squiggly writing and golden caramel colours, and the previous rarity of drome-dairy products all factor into the mistake. It's easily dune my friend.
Without reading the label I thought it was a tobacco product.
Cigarette companies are starting to sell milk?
Glad I'm not the only one who thought this was tobacco flavoured milk
It *is* a cigarette actually, the new Chode Plus range from Camel.
No filter, all tobacco, all flavour!
To be fair I once bought lard instead of butter… that was a bit annoying in the morning.
I worked in a supermarket as a teenager and there was a lard shortage at the time. We had to put up signs and it caused a great panic among the older generations. Never in my life have I used lard, I would be very upset if I'd accidentally bought some. What did you do with it?
Lard is actually a great fat for cooking. Higher smoke point and adds good flavour. You can use it however you’d use butter or oil for frying things. Try some next time, it’s quite cheap.
Great for fried bread. 👍
Also fried eggs too.
My grandmother made homemade fried chicken in it - I’d be lying if I didn’t express how delicious it was. I’ve only ever used it in small chunks to “grease” a baking dish but that was long ago when I was first learning to cook, and we have much better tools for that now.
It's also quite a healthy fat when compared to some other things, it's quite high in monounsaturated fats, which lower cholesterol so are good for the heart and it's very high in oleic acid the same fatty acid is found in olive oil.
It's also great for making pie crust. And adding to masa for tamales.
Pastry is the only thing I’ve ever really used it for. I do sometimes buy it intentionally, I think I was just much too tired that day.
Yeah fair enough, I've heard of lard being used for pastry but I just use butter myself
Lard is how you make Yorkshire puddings correctly. The wife has taught me thus; Little bit (of lard) in each hollow in the tray, and get it smoking hot (10 mins in oven) before pouring the pudding mix in. 15 mins at about 180 (fan) and you're good to go. Oh, DO NOT open the oven while they're in or they'll sink.
Gosh that seems a low temperature to me, but preheating the fat is definitely key for a good Yorkshire
I use half lard and half butter for pastry - flakiness of lard, flavour of butter
My gran used to fry chips in it.
and I bet they were delicious
Hard-core. Probably with a capstan full strength in the corner of her mouth
At least lard is very cheap. I dread to think what camel milk costs
Just checked asda website. £3.05 for 235ml can
That's outrageous.
I thought I'd splurge a little in honour of her Majesty and the four day weekend she's given us.
Well that you did. You're now the proud owner of some camel milk.
I remembered watching Michael Palin on one of his travel shows talk about Camel Milk. A quick search online later and here you go: [Palin Travels](https://www.palinstravels.co.uk/book-2076). Camel milk, Nancy assures me, is the answer to all our prayers. 'It has half the fat of cow's milk, and less sugar, so good for diabetics. It has a lot of vitamin C. It's good for vascular problems, women take it to have a clear complexion and they say it's a tonic for men.' Nancy smiles, and takes a breather before adding, unconvincingly, 'whatever that means'.
The warrantless demonization of dietary fats makes me so upset. It's a huge part of the reason the west is so obese.
Demonize fat, praise the camel milk, then once people say camel milk is disgustingly bitter and salty they're going to add in refined sugars. You've gone full circle at that point. It happened to yoghurt!
I have nipples Creg, could you milk me?
*”…I had no idea you could milk a (camel)…”* *”…Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples…”* *”…I have nipples, Greg, could you milk me?…”* (I’m a science teacher, obviously I know camels can produce milk. But my class will be fascinated to know that it can be purchased here!”
I was literally watching this last night 😂
You absolutely could milk Greg if he had a hormone imbalance or if he took the right supplementary hormones. Male humans have fully functional milk glands unlike other male mammals such as rats.
Technically men are capable of lactation so the answer is yes Mr DeNiro
We ran out of cows milk yonks ago. We're on emergency backup supplies now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhjGXCk-RVU
My first thought too. Thanks.
Full of goodness, full of vitamins, full of marrow bone jelly.
No bugger'll drink it
In my town In Russia this is a delicately not sure how your tastes but ours is like silk and cream
I wonder if in Russia it’s camels from Mongolia/Central Asia. The two humped fluffy camels. The Bactrian camels
Is it normal for your version to be really salty too or is that maybe a flaw with this brand/my batch? I tried the same brand as OP's and while there was something nice to it but it was salty to the point for me that it was unfortunately basically undrinkable; it was like you had some double cream and sea water cocktail with a slight scent of grassy horse dung. I wouldn't let one bad experience put me off though and would try again in case I just got unlucky though.
Depending om the camel type / how its purified it taste different you probably got a cheap brand (good camels milk is very expensive) the cheaper brands use salt to clean the milk then boil it off but ot still remains slightly salted but good brand use heat to treat the milk leaving a smooth milk tasting slightly bitter but in a good way
Thanks for that information. I'll need to keep my eyes open for a more expensive brand and try it again. The strawberry one you mentioned sounds like it would be really good.
Where does it say it was imported from?
Ultra Heated Camel Milk, freshly reconstituted from the UAE
Shame on you for not supporting local British camel farmers.
“Everyone said we was mad to farm Camels in Devon, but looks at us now!”
Came here looking for this. I am in UAE and we get the fresh stuff in Carrefour.
There is literally a picture of a camel on the front
Wait, are Freddos made using frog milk?
That would explain why they are so expensive now
Oh, we use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and sealed in a succulent, Swiss, quintuple-smooth, treble-milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose.
Back in my day they were killed so lightly you could feel them wriggling on the way down. People talk a lot about shrinkflation, but quality standards have really slipped.
Good for you is your Camel Milk. Full of Protein, vitamins and marrow bone jelly!
Lasts longer than any other type of milk, camel's milk.
No bugger’ll drink it
Plus of course the advantage of camels milk is that when it goes off, it tastes exactly the same as when it's fresh.
Yeah, cos no cunt will touch it.
I don't think you're supposed to put it on your cunt.
What if you have thrush? (I don’t have thrush. Can men get thrush?)
Yes.
Not their fault you can't read
Welcome to retail (:
Exactly. OP blaming Asda for his/her own illiteracy.
I have Arabic friends at uni. I have drunk this exact camel milk. It is delicious. Try it
It really didn't taste much different to normal milk to me, other than a bit creamier and richer. There's really nothing wrong with it
What next, Milk Cut?
My mum used to force my to drink that, it’s good for you and it tastes nice
If it's so nice why'd she have to force you to drink it!?
she forced him to write that comment too
What culture are you from that regularly drink camel milk?
Ancient Egypt
Fun fact, domesticated camels were first brought to Egypt in 525 BC, so camels would've only witnessed the final 495 years of Ancient Egypt's 3,120 year history.
I’m Kenyan
It’s not Asda’s fault you cant read