Milk In Brazil: I Want To Go Home
Reading Time: 2 minutes As the most dominant species on the planet, we humans enjoy feasting on the milk of unsuspecting animal mothers from time to time.
In order to best prepare milk for human consumption, I personally believe that the following are an important part of the milk carton process:
- Ensure that the milk is cold (but not too close to freezing).
- Package the milk in a container large enough to distribute multiple servings.
- Make sure the milk receptacle can easily pour its contents without mess.
- Ensure a fat content of two percent.
Behold, the “milk selection” of a Brazilian market. Note how many of the aforementioned criteria are not adhered to in this photograph – most egregious of all: the milk is not refrigerated.
Even when you do put this stuff into the fridge, it comes nowhere close to the real thing. These boxes of UHT (Ultra-High-Temperature) milk have a supposed shelf life of around six months when left unopened. Which means they cannot be trusted.
Apparently, this milk is quite popular in many European countries as well. I will need to plan my next visit appropriately.
Cold delicious glasses of milk quickly became dearly missed, and without the delicious white elixir to wash down my Passatempo and coxinha, I don’t know how I managed.
There is cold dairy products we normally keep it next to the refrigerators by the meats and cheeses. The only problem with that is you have to boil the milk before re-refrigerating it due to the bacteria spores in the milk. That’s why we prefer to buy the (UHT) milk , due to it not having bateria spores and being able to just store it in the fridge . I get this post is old but it’s very anticipated , you should’ve probably learn the norms and asked brasileiros what to and how to do stuff before going online and spewing bullshit out your asshole you call a mouth . This is why people hate you bigoted white Americans
I just enjoyed buying fresh goats milk from the local farmer here in Brazil. Honestly, Gabriel you sound like the racist. If you don’t like what someone says about Brazil then tell them. If you come to the United States you are free to criticize anything that you like.
Im In Brazil now and as a British person, I was shocked to have learned that they pretty much have no fresh dairy. No fresh milk, cream, or butter and even there yogurt is made with powdered milk. How can this happen in a country which is supposed to be one of the largest food producers?
Too hot for fresh dairy.
Please don’t visit anyone anymore and just stay in your comfy hometown you pathetic wimp…SMH HAHAHA unfuckingbelievable
We refrigerate the milk right before consumption, but there’s no point in keeping it all refrigerated if you’re not gonna drink it right away. Space and energy for that are expensive.
Plus, since we consume it quickly (and a lot of it – gone through 3 boxes in a day myself), we don’t feel the need to refrigerate all boxes.
Basically, as long as you put a new box in the fridge when the last box is about half empty, you’ll always have cold milk ready to drink.
We also don’t drink directly from the box. We pour it into a glass, so milk lasts longer here since it doesn’t have any mouth germs to spoil it.
Perhaps this article is in need of an update. I’ve spent a lot of time in Brazil (and elsewhere) since first writing this and it’s a wonder to me that it’s still getting traffic :)
Just because it’s different doesn’t mean it’s bad. Calm down.
I agree… The person that wrote this do not need to like it, however, it is what I always say about Americans… They have a hard time to get out there backyard! I have residing in Japan for almost 10year, also in the USA for around 7 and it’s natural to see things differently everywhere you go, it’s what make it all so cool, to see “things differently”… Anyway, I have notice in the USA that folks are not really open to nothing and are pretty boring, sorry to say
Vc é descendente?