>So, your answer is no.  Americans don't analogize a delicious or >especially
>thirst quenching drink with mother's milk.

Odd, because I think Canadians do.  Mind you, I spent 4 years in the
UK, so perhaps that's why the term seems normal to me.

Maybe we should use the phrase more -- in the analogous sense, rather
than the literal one -- to help CHANGE the North American perception
of term.  Personally I'm going to try and use it twice in
conversation this week.

(By the way, as an idiom, it doesn't have to refer to a liquid.  It
can be used to mean the same as "she took to it like a duck to
water", ie, "it was like mother's milk to her".)

Jennifer Landels, BA, CCE
Vancouver BC