Great, Michelle.  The more of us that do this, consistently, the more the public will be challenged to think.  "Milk" is human - other milk is other milk. 

Virginia
in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

> Michelle Swanson in Myoming wrote:
> 
> In our house, the term 'milk' really means human milk.  Everything else 
> is 'rice milk', 'soy milk', or 'cow milk'.  When ordering my daughter's 
> preferred beverage at restaurants, we always ask for a glass of 'cow 
> milk'.  We usually get funny looks from the server, but it is second 
> nature to us and to our children, to call 'cow milk', 'cow milk', 
> because that's what it is!
> 
> It certainly gives our servers a small pause...

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