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      Eh. Oat milk is really popular for some reason. It could very likely be the only other milk they know. If someone was drinking rice or soy milk though then yeah I don’t know how they wouldn’t be familiar.

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        I tried soy milk before I tried oat milk because soy was the only cruelty free milk I knew about. But I eventually tried all the varieties and determined that oat milk tastes the best.

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          Oat milk tastes like oats. Which is good if you want to taste oats, and bad if you want to taste anything else.

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          It’s pretty good. Creamy, not too grainy or anything, tastes pretty good with the vanilla and doesn’t use nearly the amount of water crop wise.

          But also I can cook with it.
          But I do look forward to if that yeast milk ever makes it to market.

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          Soy milk is great, but it’s not a good milk substitute.

          It should taste beany, and that’s not really what I want with my cereal. A Chinese cruller, on the other hand…

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    “that’s a lot of choices”

    Stfu and pick one. You sitting there having a casual conversation on your couch. Meanwhile the driver just standing there in the milk aisle staring at their phone for 5 minutes while you want to know all the options and hem and haw.

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    Life pro tip: If you are vegan and lactose intolerant get oat milk. Out of all the alternatives that one tastes the closest to the real thing by a country mile.

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    Imagine your job being to shop for richer people and have to write them because of something like that. What a time to be alive.

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          It’s the same problem as all the other ride share companies. They don’t pay their drivers enough and they massively over charge customers. Drivers get no benefits and have to use their own cars while DoorDash makes a fortune. It’s disgusting greed and it doesn’t help restaurants either

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            Yea, but it helps me eat a cheesy gordita crunch when I’m drunk at 1am

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            Over charge how?

            I know a few things could be pennies more expensive on the items in store. They often lack deals found on Native apps.

            it’s usually cheaper to buy on doordash here than from the restaurants own app. I did get 3 years free DoorDash plus or what ever from Amazon Prime though, I likely won’t renew the subscription.

            The only rip off is suggesting a 5 dollar tip on a 20 dollar order. Always tip $0.

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              it’s usually cheaper to buy on doordash here than from the restaurants own app.

              What the hell kind of bizarre place do you live in?

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                  They do that elsewhere as well.

                  The problem is that apps like Doordash also increase the price of each item individually. So if you order from the restaurant itself, the sandwich might be $10 and fries might be $3. But if you order from Doordash, the sandwich will be $12 and the fries will be $4, then they have delivery fees, AND have all of these other extra mystery fees and then paying the delivery driver on top of that.

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                No.

                The prices for Pizza Delight are the same on thier app and on Door Dash.

                Pizza Delight has a 7.99 delivery fee here.

                Door Dash has no delivery fee but a Service charge of 2.5%.

                Door dash is the clear winner.

                The only place I seen with larger mark ups on in store items is Loblaws. That’s what the frequent 50% and 25% coupons are for though.

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          DoorDash were listing restaurants without their permission on the app. So a bunch of restaurants would either get orders they couldn’t fulfill, or DoorDash would just tell customers not to order there because they were unavailable, despite not being given permission to list them in the first place.

          DoorDash is a brutally scummy company. Genuinely one of the worst service economy companies going around.

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            I think Uber that exploits their workers about the same, while also racing to get autonomous driving available no matter how many accidents happen to be quite a bit scummier.

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      Not everyone busy it as a milk substitute. I buy it because it tastes nice, and don’t bother with alternatives.

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        Yup, I keep a carton of oatmilk in the fridge for coffee (and occasionally to drink on its own, but it’s full fat so it’s rather caloric), and a carton of good ol’ cows milk as well. I don’t need it as a milk substitute, I just like it!

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    I genuinely wonder who skimmed milk is made for.

    If you can’t drink whole milk due to the fattiness, you’d surely just drink semi-skimmed milk (2%)

    And if you couldn’t drink it due to the lactose, you’d just go for milk alternative.

    So who is skimmed milk for? Who’s buying it?

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      People who are still afraid of dietary fat from the anti-fat craze of the 80s and 90s.

      If you’re watching weight, cutting calories from milk of all places is the worst place to do it. At least from whole down to skim. All the healthy stuff actually just so happens to be in the tasty part, the cream, since milk does these thing of mixing the ”sugar” into the cream in the form of Lactose. Cutting that out just leaves you with a worst-tasting, less nutritious beverage aside from the fewer calories.

      If you want fewer calories but still have nutrition, soy is the way to go.

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        The soy would be great if they made it less salty. It’s usually much cheaper than cow titty juice in my region.

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          I’ve found the shelf-stable tetra-pak versions usually have fewer ingredients. Trader Joe’s brand here in the US is just soybeans and water.

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            I forgot those existed. I don’t have trader joes but I’ll check the relevant section for equivalent products next shopping haul.

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        It is healthier.

        Stop drinking fat water you literal babies.

        You don’t need trace nutrients from cow titties, you need to eat some goddamn vegetables.

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          Fuck that, trace nutrients from cow titties are goddamn delicious and I will not be shamed into drinking the sad calcium-water wannabe that is 2% or skim milk. I will drink my whole milk loud and proud, fuck the fat content. My bones are smiling at me, Imperials, can you say the same?

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            There is really nothing better than whole milk on a bowl of granola for breakfast. I wasn’t a whole milk fan until I had kids and tasted what whole milk was like on cereal and in coffee. Plus if you actually have a cup of whole milk, it’s so satisfying and filling, it’s practically a meal substitute.

            Now there’s no going back.

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          Consider I’ve joked that skimmed milk is water dyed white, I can’t help but laugh at whole milk being called fat water haha

          Wouldn’t you be better off drinking a milk alternative if you wanted a healthier drink? Oat milk is healthy and environmentally friendly(-er)

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      I haven’t drank milk in decades but before I quit I was drinking skim because the milk with fat made me nauseous and it tasted better. Eventually even skim milk made me nauseous. Fortunately I have always liked my coffee black. Although I cut out caffeine a few years ago so now it’s black decaf on a rare occasion. Yeah I’m fun at parties too.

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        To be fair, that sounds like an intolerance to milk/lactose, which is a pretty good excuse for cutting milk out your life.

        Probably not worth pointing at now, but have you considered trying milk substitutes. Oat milk is pretty good - I keep some at home cause I like both it and regular milk.

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          Yeah I don’t miss milk and cheese doesn’t bother me. I don’t drink high calorie drinks, just water or carbonated water most of the time.

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      If you’re on a low-fat diet ordered by a doctor for some sort of health reason, or maybe if you simply prefer the taste of skim? I can’t imagine anyone preferring it, but people do enjoy some strange things so maybe.

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        That would be a valid reason, but that wouldn’t explain the massive volume it sells at.

        Seems from the comments here that some people do actually prefer skim, can’t fathom why, but they do

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          My mum does, it’s all she’s had my whole life. She would buy us full cream and her skim. She is skinny and ripped af for her age. I drink soy and oat now and she brings her own milk to mine when she visits lmao

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    I just thought up a great business model and it’s five times as exploitive as doordash plus we could roll it out for Christmas. By the time the novelty has worn off we should all (and by we, I mean everyone who isn’t working for or using the app) be rich. Who wants to help me build doordance?

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      Soy milk is the only non-dairy milk I’ve tried that comes close. It’s not 1:1 but it’s good enough to be used with cereal and not be super weird at least. And the vanilla flavored one isn’t bad as just a drink.

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        This is interesting to me. I attracted a number of downvotes too when I said I like soy milk. Maybe this is one of those things like pineapple on pizza that’s very polarizing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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            Soy has always been my favorite. I mostly drink plant milks on cereal, and I feel like it works better flavor-wise and has the creamiest texture, but ultimately different people have different tastes.

            I’ve never tried a variety that tasted bad at all – oat, flax, cashew, rice, hemp, whatever – they all taste good to me.

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          There are a strange group of people who look down on others for eating soy because they think it contains enough estrogen to make you trans or something.

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              There are a number of federated instances that have no join requirements. People can just join them without an admin approval. So they join and lurk for a few weeks downvoting things they don’t like and then they go on a spam spree posting racist or violent content, before swiftly being banned.