Although I will admit that’s an interesting little fact, I would have been perfectly fine not knowing it.
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magnetosphere@fedia.io 1 year ago
Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No need to thank me. You’re whale cum.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
So many questions. How does one go about milking a whale? How do you make cheese from milk with a thickness similar to No. 4 Fuel Oil? Who was the first person to attempt to milk a whale? Who is buying up all these whale dairy products? Is there such a thing as a whale milk cheesecake?
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So I elected not to look into it, because I doubt that zoos are selling it. Which means it’s likely sourced from whalers
Japan, Iceland, Norway, are all actively fishing commercially (though Japan uses the cover of “scientific” expeditions to justify it.)
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Must be an April Fools prank.
215 Juniper St. Pismo Beach CA doesn’t exist.
CoolGirl586@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well the reviews are from the Oculus marketing lead, a, Simian Field Reseacher (sic) and an independent shoe salesman. Two of them even have the same picture. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that this isn’t real.
Plus they’re touting it as the new sustainable future of dairy. That alone is an insane thing to claim. There are fewer than thirty thousand gray whales in the world. They produce eighty gallons of milk a day. That’s about twelve cows worth if you ignore that most of it is going to be drunk by the whale’s calf.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yup.
I’m thinking it either flopped or was never a thing.
I doubt it’s something that could be reliably commercialized.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Plus cow dairy requires constant breeding in order to keep the cows milk supply up. Just like humans, they only produce milk after giving birth and for a limited time.
Breeding cows in captivity is pretty standard fare these days.
I’m not sure whale breeding is an industry that currently exists. Nor is whale sperm harvester. As if milking a female whale is complicated enough.
AdmiralShat@programming.dev 1 year ago
But why is this any more disgusting than cow milk cheese or goat milk cheese?
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well.
I hate to break it to you… but the whales probably aren’t milked more than once.
My guess is it’s sold by whalers.
vox@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
aaand they’re sold out
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
That earthly address does not exist. Pismo Beach is just that, a beach. (You can successfully dig for clams there, or you could when I was a kid.) And there’s no street by that name anywhere in the vicinity.
Gbagginsthe3rd@aussie.zone 1 year ago
100% that someone has tasted/drunk/chewed whale milk. In fact I don’t think there would be many species that haven’t been milk tasted by a human at this point
strawberry@kbin.run 1 year ago
humans are some curious little fucks
Sizzler@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
You spelt disgusting wrong
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I’d drink whale milk without hesitation. It’s probably fishy, though.
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Whales are mammals, so it probably tastes humany.
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Rat milk, I guarantee you no one has ever tasted that.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You’d be totally wrong.
It’s a bit thin and watery, and the taste isn’t very strong. But it is slightly sweet.
Source: used to breed pet rats, and mama rats leak sometimes. No reason to not taste it when that happens.
Wasn’t yummy, but it wasn’t bad either.
And, yes, I’m certain it was milk and not urine.
Hell, our neighborhood had a cat back when I was a kid. Not a stray, but not anyone’s cat either. She was super sweet, loved kids, but did not love being in houses. But she did love our back porch for birthing. And she was perfectly fine with any of us handling the kittens, and loved belly rubs while producing milk. So, it was inevitable to end up tasting it if you were an adventurous kid that knew where the milk in the fridge came from because you’d milked cows before.
Most milk tastes roughly the same tbh. We’ve bred cows and some goats to where they’re different, but the taste varies more by diet than animal. Mind you, I haven’t gone around sampling everything, but I don’t have an artificial mental block about tasting it either, and I’ve been around a lot of livestock and pets that were lactating over the years.
Fat content is the real, major factor after diet.
Carnivores, or omnivores that eat a lot of meat, tend to be a little “gamy” compared to herbivores. Goats are an exception, but the ones I’ve had “from the tap” so to speak, were bred for milk, so weren’t as gamy as it can get.
Horse milk is pretty funky. Not bad, but I wouldn’t pour a glass either.
Trying to think of anything that stood out from the herd, so to speak, but nothing comes to mind beyond that.
AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Have you ever met the kind of people that keep rats as pets? I’m gonna guess that at least 1% of them have tasted rat milk.
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
There have been studies on rat milk, which itself suggests that someone has developed a process to extract it. I think if you spend sufficient time thinking about how to extract milk from rats, and you have no interest in drinking it, it’d be weirder than the alternative.
Scrof@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
There are milk dogs at least in Vietnam right now.
TwinTusks@bitforged.space 1 year ago
Also cat milk and … rat milk
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How TF does a baby whale nurse then?
strawberry@kbin.run 1 year ago
? it just drinks it? like sure its thick but it still flows
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 year ago
The analogy of toothpaste was used but yoghurt in a poch might be a better analogy.
bane_killgrind@kbin.social 1 year ago
Imagine dairy flavored toothpaste
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 year ago
The whale milk must flow.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I know this one! Baby latches on and Mama pumps a big gulp of milk, baby swallows one, done! So baby doesn’t have to hold it’s breath too long.
The address is the ad doesn’t exist, though. Which is good because there’s no way anyone could ethically harvest whale milk.
wieson@feddit.de 1 year ago
High pressure washer style
strawberry@kbin.run 1 year ago
? it just drinks it? like sure its thick but it still flows
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So maybe more like a milkshake? Her milkshake brings all the calves to the yard?
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
If I found a block of cheddar in my fridge with the consistency of toothpaste I’d throw it out, so I have no clue what this guy’s deal is.
LeafOnTheWind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cheddar isn’t the only kind of cheese…
mrbaby@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Go on… 🤔
tiredofsametab@kbin.run 1 year ago
Many (most? I'm not sure) cheese are not hard cheeses. A lot of delicious cheeses can be very creamy (sometimes in a shell that's more solid).
olutukko@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sounds like you are missin the point on purpose
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I’m addressing the final statement that “[Whale Milk] is basically cheese.”
Apologies, that comment was made as I was falling asleep and this one is being made during a period of half-wakedulness that I hope to prove temporary.
Zehzin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Must consume the forbidden icing
crawancon@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’ve never had whale milk but I am willing to give it a whirl. who’s with me
BobbyNevada@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Yeah! Put that on the bucket list! I want to suck whale milk straight from the teat! Feed me big mama!
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
that would bring a new meaning to “full cream” ice cream…
terry_tibbs@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Would this be the freshest cheese possible? Considering that cheese is traditionally not fresh in the slightest.
spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 year ago
cheese is traditionally not fresh in the slightest.
Oh, but it can be. Farmer’s cheese and other fresh milk cheese types curdle the milk proteins using an acid reaction to citrus or vinegar rather than fermentation.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fresh cheese is typically called curd. Curd needs to be compressed and aged to make actual cheese.
Chef@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You didn’t answer the question though…
eeltech@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That must make some ultra indulgent ice cream
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
More like icecheese
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
so making cheese from whale milk would be like SUPER cheese.
Ginger666@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Rule 34 anyone?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Whale smegma?
Blackout@kbin.run 1 year ago
I dont know about that. This sounds like some pro-whale propaganda to me.
nivellian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I read that some countries still hunt for whale meat :( And now they wanna milk them too :(((
stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 1 year ago
The ocean: *state of impending catastrophe *
Humans: can we make another kind of cheese from them?
Isoprenoid@programming.dev 1 year ago
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cm0002@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I wonder if there’s a hidden whale/dolphin society debating whether or not to invade humans right this very moment
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 1 year ago
If whales are smart enough to debate that, they probably have cultural memory of almost getting whaled to extinction. Which would make them like us less, but on the other hand, might make them afraid to get us too upset at them
spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Perhaps it’ll make your day better to know that Pacific nations have passed legislation recognising legal personhood for whales and dolphins, granting them rights against being hunted?
stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Honestly makes sense
Looking at a dolphins brain is enough to convince me they’ve known what’s up for far longer than we have