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"What milk in your coffee, sir?"
Will it be ordinary, permeate free, skim, light, A2, soy, lactose free, gluten free, goat, sheep, or will sir's coffee be plain black?
It is a complex conundrum to decide what your milk choice will be today in many coffee shops.
It is that same issue of choice where too much choice is the problem. Hark back to the time when a cappuccino was just that and the big question of choice was cup or mug - no, not even a take away.
Is the coffee any better?
While choice of coffee blend has improved, and that itself creates more choice..............is it worth it?
I admit, I do prefer certain coffee blends - and a current one from the Brazilian Cerrrado region is a bit of a favourite right now - and best drunk black.
Aficionados might even say - is there any other way than black to drink coffee?
But so many milk choices, so many! Think of the experimental interactions within a simple [???] cappuccino. Eleven or more milk choices by shall we say three or four available blends at mild, normal, strong or extra strong - That is a staggering 11 milks x 4 blends x 4 strengths = 176 options.
No wonder that barista is sometimes a bit short in the mornings!!!
Blinded by choice - best to do your own. If you stuff it up........too bad.
Recent reports are surfacing in China about high hormone levels in young children who have been drinking a particular milk brand of powdered milk.
Some children have been tested for hormone levels and results indicate that these are at levels equal to adult women, and the young children have been developing breasts.The suspicion is that hormones fed to dairy cows to boost production are being found in milk. This livestock production practice is generally banned in most countires.
Comes back to the same issue.............do you trust Chinese food, especially fresh food imported to Australia?
Other than milk, there are a lot of fresh and frozen vegetables from China arriving in Australia via New Zealand, where they are repacked and get to qualify as "free entry" since they are now ostensibly "from New Zealand".I for one am very unsure about food quality control in China.............let alone issues around corruption and poor production practices. While milk from China does not come to Australia, it does get exported to some other countries of SE Asia.read more here- http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/7733883/china-milk-powder-blamed-for-baby-breasts/ No doubt there will be more media coverage.
