Quote Originally Posted by Fynn View Post
I like chocolate milk, but I rarely drink it. I mostly have like 2% milk (don't know how you guys call it, semi-skimmed?), but I also hardly ever just drink it, I mostly just make pudding with it
2% milk would probably be called 1% milk in the U.K. Up until the last few years, we had three types of milk:


Blue - Full-fat, whole milk. Great for use in decadent milkshakes, but terribly unhealthy otherwise.

Green - Semi-skimmed. The highest I'd go up to, and the most popular type.

Red - Skimmed. What I'd get for myself. Barely any fat.


Then in... 2008, was it? New regulations meant that any milk that fell outside of these three categories in regards to fat content could also be labelled as 'milk' and not a 'milk drink', as long as the fat content was in the name and was not labelled as skimmed, semi-skimmed or whole.

Thus gave birth to 1% milk:

Orange - According to the Dairy Council (yes, such a thing exists), "1% fat milk contains 40% less total and saturated fat than standard semi-skimmed milk. In addition, it has a lower energy content than semi-skimmed, and slightly lower levels of vitamins A and E, but has a higher calcium content."

That actually sounds pretty healthy. I might convince Mr. Carny to consider orange capped milk instead of the green variety.

Also, the colours vary. I'm just used to seeing blue as whole and red as skimmed. I think that's the most common typing anyway.