I have tried six more types of plant milk since my last update about 27 days ago. I have determined that the best type of plant milk for me is store brand oat milk from Rema 1000.
''Look ma, no English!'' (good)
Unlike other types of plant milk, this kind tasted really good right away. It's mild and pleasant but clearly distinct from dairy milk. And that's what plant milk really should be, not an imitation of dairy milk so much as something that can fill the same purposes as dairy milk while having a different identity.
My second favorite kind of plant milk I'm going to say is almond milk, I tried Alpro brand. It tasted a lot like dairy milk with an almond flavor added.
I also tried rice milk, but it honestly did not impress me, especially since the carton I got turned out to be leaky.
A thought that's been going through my head while trying these plant milks, though, is that oat is something which is cultivated locally here in Norway, while soy and almonds and rice are all imports only. So this was another reason why I wanted to try oat milk, because local ingredients are better for the environment, and food sovereignty is important to build.
Problem is, though, Rema 1000's oat milk is actually manufactured in Italy. There is however another brand called Ur-kraft that makes oat milk entirely using local ingredients, so I might try that another time, although it does cost a bit more... But it feels like sort of a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation, though, because the packaging of Ur-kraft just gives me kind of icky vibes. See for yourself:
''Look ma, no English!'' (bad)
So, you know, I'd like to support local ingredients without also supporting drumming up patriotic sentiment and playing into nationalistic archetypes — just like I'd like to support the end of animal exploitation without also supporting diglossia with English.
Anyways, as I've been trying to establish a "revolutionary base area" in the realm of milk, I've also been trying other things to cut down on my consumption of animal products.
Among these things — and I won't be talking about everything I've tried — I tried Alpro's soy-based chocolate pudding, which was a yummy treat; fava beans with paprika spices, which I did enjoy decently; and a Stabburet brand veggie burger. That burger was decent in quarters but I found that trying to eat a whole burger in one sitting was just a bit much flavor-wise.
That burger does go into the whole debate of what place plant meat has in a transition towards veganism, though. I won't go on about that debate other than just acknowledging it exists, and saying that I think I'll use plant meats to a limited extent as a stepping stone to ultimately shifting my diet away from eating anything that plays into the "meat culture" at all.
There are a lot of things I'd like to try going forward, but my circumstances don't necessarily make trying everything too easy, whether it be the ability to find things in stores or just the time to prepare meals for myself. Things may be shifting up for me soon so I'll try to seize opportunities as they arrive.
Urkraft is ultimately "just a word" — there are plenty of perfectly innocuous uses of it, in fact it's even used as the Norwegian word for the hypothesized "superforce" of physics. But that doesn't stop the word from meaning what it does and raising the question of why a brand would call itself that!
i dont know about norway since it has a lot of mountains, but here in Germany pictures of hiking in an alpine landscape with the word "urkraft" definitely has certain "connotations"
Yeah, that's how it sort of comes across to me, too, that even if it is a normal word at the end of the day, that in context it still just feels kinda sus.