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I'll probably stick to asking for oat milk instead of "porridge water" or whatever the new mandated name will be. To be honest I do think calling it "milk" lets them inflate the price when it is essentially porridge water.

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[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought George RR Martin invented the phrase "milk of the poppy" to describe apine/opium in his ASOIAF series. Never crossed my mind that he might have lifted it from a history textbook.

[–] gerbler@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I mean you might be right. However there exists a Ukrainian Christmas dessert called poppy milk that's just poppy seeds and water.

So I'm gonna give myself this one on a technicality haha