Post Axq8iLfybw4SNaV7AG by eleanorrees@mas.to
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 (DIR) Post #Axq1KQX8CUYmob0fDc by sarahtaber@mastodon.online
       2025-09-03T18:48:54Z
       
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       When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"That's... usually not the case!In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? https://youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
       
 (DIR) Post #Axq1KRh5sw7iPmg8O0 by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-09-03T18:56:34Z
       
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       @sarahtaber ...and kids got sick and died. But no one remembers dead kids except their parents and kids' friends.Alan Turing's best friend as a youth got TB from the "family cow"."raw milk" is an ingredient in nostalgia nazi cooking.
       
 (DIR) Post #Axq1KVMKG5t5mWzbZQ by sarahtaber@mastodon.online
       2025-09-03T18:49:29Z
       
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       Boiling milk before use was just what you did. They had dedicated cookware for it. (Specially shaped to contain boil-overs, which milk is really prone to.)Household hygiene had SERIOUSLY high stakes back before hot running water & pasteurization.That's… like… why they taught home economics.
       
 (DIR) Post #Axq5Q5gT1xjhhpKgj2 by JWneural@mstdn.social
       2025-09-03T19:42:23Z
       
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       @tomjennings @sarahtaber Before the pasteurization laws of the early 1900s, many thousands of kids died of milk borne diseases
       
 (DIR) Post #Axq8iLfybw4SNaV7AG by eleanorrees@mas.to
       2025-09-03T19:08:16Z
       
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       @sarahtaber The Welsh branch of my family tells the story of the day a small cousin said to my great-aunt, "That milk won't be any good because you haven't blasted it"  -- because she would usually forget the milk and then exclaim "Blast!" when it boiled over, and he thought that was a crucial part of the process.
       
 (DIR) Post #Axq9UK0i6fkr774fNQ by ube@spergia.net
       2025-09-03T20:27:28.033519Z
       
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       @sarahtaber everyone does outside of america and its generally fine nobody boils it 🙏
       
 (DIR) Post #AxqBRcDq8gVedV3Ksa by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-09-03T20:49:56Z
       
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       @sarahtaber "Women's work" right. A lot of skills there no one wants to "pay for".