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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    I know a person who thought that the “plant milks” are flavours of regular milk until it was explained to them. Like chocolate milk.

    All people are at least a little stupid. We’re all stupid in our own way. Something that seems obvious to you and I may seem mind-boggling to someone else.

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      Would have been hilarious if big dairy brought them into the trial as an “expert witness”.

      “Yes, that’s right ladies and gentlemen, I am a real life strawman.”

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      Yeah there are idiots, but what’s the harm? They may be shocked to find there’s 0 dairy, but how does that impact them? The nutrition info is on the label, as is the ingredients.

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        a lot of people are just extremely insecure about their food habits, the idea of eating something they’re not used to genuinely makes them freak out

        it’s something i had to ease myself out of, and my dad still can’t get over.

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      Law has a concept of the average idiot (cannot remember the real term). When applying confusion as a risk. Honestly milk has been used so much in English. (Coconutsand other things) I think that would fail.

      I ANAL though.

      Its more likely that oat milk is intentionally selling as a mamory milk alternative. That was made as an argument. But it is clearly a biased response from the court.