This is why it should be called plant juice... Juice comes from plants, not milk. Oat juice ffs
this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2025
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I never liked milk much (always tasted cheesy to me, except the raw stuff, that tastes like hay), then I became lactose intolerant. Most alt milks taste better to me, and oat milk is just better in coffee. Say what you will about America but at least I can get oat milk with my decaf at any real coffee shop. Some gas stations have milk alternatives too, but it's not as common.
Oat milk isn't rare outside the US. It's a bit harder to get in French coffee shops, but not that much.
This is just France being French. Especially because Toulouse is a small regional airport.
Luckily the EU protected us from associating fake milk with the real good animal milk. He probably was confused because she didn't ask oat 'barista' or 'drink' /s
Personally, I agree with you. Oat milk just meshes remarkably well with the general flavor profile in coffee. It's thick, has the right general umame taste, and the texture is a lot less offensive than almond milk.
If I'm making a sweeter coffee, then I'll go for coconut. But oat is definitely superior in regards to complementary tastes. Dairy is versatile (and, IMHO, the only right way to make a properly foamy capuccino), but there's just something in oat milk that just makes coffee feel like a sturdy, rustic, wholesome drink instead of a delicacy.
haha vegans are soooo stupid, amirite
Yes.
Vegan bad le updoots to the left
Why are the French so touchy about their shitty food? Oooh I put a pound of butter on everything! Italy is right next door, take some lessons France!
French cuisine may be somewhat overrated, but by no stretch of the imagination is it shitty.
And it's not as if the Italians are any better when it comes to being snobby about mediocre food.
i had oat butter a while back, and suddenly I understood why all the dairy conglomerates are lobbying hard about the legal names
Because they stand to lose a shit ton of money?
yes
oat milk is an alright substitute, helped by being cheap
oat ice cream has a slightly different texture and flavor, though its harder to notice in the Ben & Jerry's
But oat butter is indistinguishable from cow butter
You have shitty taste buds if you're actually being real and not a troll/bot for the oatmilk industry.
That's because cow butter in many cases has like 0 unsaturated fatty acids. In such cases it doesn't even come from cows, but they hydrogenate oil to make a cheap and unhealthy replacement.
helped by being cheap
It's twice as expensive here :(
Cow milk has economy of scale and subsidies on its side, milk alternatives would be cheaper given an equal playing field
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To be fair to that barista, the translation of "oat milk" in French ("lait d'avoine") isn't obvious if you don't already know the word. Also keep in mind that the letter H is (almost) silent in french, so he probably thought that client just had a weird accent when they kept asking for "hawt milk"
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Small shops getting pissy about alt milks is my fav bait.
I bring oat milk in a pocket flask whenever I go to the local coffee shop for dates, which gets some looks, but needs must
At least you have realistic expectations. Can't blame you for that!
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There's no freaking way a barista at an airport doesn't know vegetable milks exist. It might happen but damn that's rare nowadays. It takes them nothing to have some vegetable milk on the side, it lasts more so it's not like they might run into supply issues. Weird.
Again, you vastly overestimate our level of English as a nation. The h is a super common problem. And we still think people drinking lait d'avoine are some sort of radicalised weirdos. Also TLS is a small airport, we don't do that sort of fancy stuff here.
Right, they're confusing Toulouse with a major hub, like Roissy. Some provincial airports are worse than others, but Toulouse is probably not the most cosmopolitan, even with all the aerospace stuff in the area.
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Oat milk genuinely tastes better than regular milk to me, but it is not cheaper where I'm at.
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