PetSugar and I recently got into a discussion over milk. I grew up knowing that there was whole milk, lowfat milk and nonfat milk. However she grew up calling nonfat milk skim milk. We think it might a coastal thing, but aren't sure. So tell me, what do you call it?
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me too ciao bella- its skim to me!
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is it a regional thing? I've always called it skim - from Louisiana
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Nonfat, I'm on the West coast.
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I'm an East Coaster - Skim.
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I'm in MN, and we call it Skim. Or water. haha. [[I do drink it though]]
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Grew up in California calling it Nonfat milk. But now that I've been in New York for half a decade, I'm all mixed up because I keep hearing it called skim milk now. But that's only at Starbucks. Maybe its different at the grocery store?
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Louisiana - skim. Or like laura, water
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Skim milk here in MA
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Louisiana... definitely skim milk!
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i didn't realize it was an east/west coast thing. i like using the term "nonfat" because i like to remind myself that i am making a healthier decision and saving my milk fat for ice cream
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Skim, and i am a florida girl by way of illinois
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Skim and I am from Canada!
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Skim - Texas girl here.
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Fat free
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skim in nebraska
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It's skim in OK.
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Skim. And it wasn't lowfat either, it was 2% (or maybe it was 1% - I'm not a milk drinker). From CT.
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Skim- chicago girl right here. My hubby is air force brat and he says Skim too.
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Minnesotans have always called it skim.
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Skim, West Coast.
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And ali brings up another good point. We didn't call it lowfat - it was always whole, 1%, 2%, and skim in Maryland.
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skim at home, nonfat at starbucks - st. louis
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Me too - it was skim, 1%, 2%, and whole. I grew up in the Southeastern US.
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Yeah it was always 1% and 2% too.
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But yeah, for some reason I order nonfat at Starbucks. Weird.
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I never heard it called "nonfat" until I moved to California. (Before that I lived in the South/East/Midwest.) I thought it was just changing with the times thing, but maybe it's coastal.
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Skim, Indiana. I think it could have to do with how the milk is made or something though? Because at Kroger there's both skim and nonfat milk...
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My grocery stores call it either skim or fat free in some cases.
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Nonfat. I haven't heard the term "Skim milk" since the 80s.
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Skim. I grew up in TN but live in CA now and I hear non-fat, which I never really thought much about.
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ohio says skim milk
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it's skim in Indiana
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nonfat
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yep it was also 1% and 2% in NJ. i always order my starbucks drinks with skim milk. because if i say nonfat or skinny then they give me the sugar free syrup too and i don't want that- just my skim milk! and as someone else said above- i drink skim cause i save the fat for my ice cream
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skim in chicago. though now i can just order a skinny vanilla latte; which i hate, but it is easier than the old mouthful, sugar-free nonfat vanilla latte
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i think i call it 2% or blue or green lol. I don't know i don't drink milk that much.
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Skim! Canadian here.
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interesting topic yum!
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i'm from the east coast and i have always called it skim
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I'm a west coaster by way of Oregon and Idaho, and have always called it skim, as well as whole, 1% and 2% milk. Nonfat sounds icky, fat is so necessary!!
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nonfat in california!
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Cali here too, always been nonfat to me.
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i really think it is a coastal thing. i grew up in california and all of my life, i've heard 'nonfat'. it says 'nonfat' on the carton, i'd always order a nonfat latte at starbucks, etc. but when i moved to the east coast for school, all of a sudden i started hearing the word 'skim' everywhere. a girl at dunkin donuts even said "um, we have skim milk," when i asked her if they had nonfat milk for the coffee! but when i was in london, they kept on calling the lattes 'skinny'. go figure.
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I'm really confused now because I just stopped by the grocery store on an errand and it has both skim AND nonfat in the same dairy case. By the same company and brand. One's got light blue caps and the other's got orange.
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west coaster here and I've always called it skim milk and I remember hating to drink it as a kid because it was a bluish color.
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former jersey girl in me used to call it skim. now i call it non fat. i guess 10 years in california does that to you (although I'll never convert from twizzlers to red vines!)
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I call it skim too (another East Coaster), except at Starbucks where it's nonfat. But Starbucks is a West Coast company, so that's probably why it's nonfat there.
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I can't drink it.
Skim milk, I'm a east coast milk drinker