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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.
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.
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
This is why it should be called plant juice... Juice comes from plants, not milk. Oat juice ffs
I'd argue that juice is a liquid you merely extract from a plant. If you try to squeeze the liquid out of oat, you get oatmeal at best...
I call BULLSHIT! There is NO WAY that anyone who works in this field doesn’t know what oat milk is… keep trying to uproar your fan base but everyone on the PLANET knows what oat milk is…
I've lived in France for more than 6 years at ind point, and I can tell you that sometimes they'll just refuse to acknowledge English words.
Many does not speak english good enough to care.
Source: I live here
You vastly overestimate the level of English of my compatriots. This is a 100% plausible mistake for the average English speaking French person.
Also unless it was a Starbucks or some really fancy coffee shop, we absolutely do not have oat milk as standard. And I've been to TLS, I don't recall that kind of coffee shop there.
In english, probably not. I had to look it up to know it's lait d'avoine
I call bullshit too. Especially because I was at this exact airport a couple of weeks ago, and they specifically asked what kind of milk I wanted when I ordered a coffee.
There are often multiple places to buy coffee in airports.
And you should never underestimate stupidity.
When I was in the army, during one exercise a fellow NCO didn't have his blank-firing adapter on his rifle, as it's a bright yellow bulb on the end of your barrel. (It does two things, smashing the balsa-wood bullet of the blank and increases pressure in the barrel to enable properly function of the recharge even with the much lower powder-charge of the blank.)
So I looked closer, and he didn't have the safety catch on safe on his rifle. So I took it away from him — fast. And what you do to secure a gun is to remove the magazine and pull the bolt back to check if it's loaded. And it was. Sure, it's a "blank" with very low charge and balsa wood bullet, but it's still not safe.
My point being that this fucking töhö had been accepted in leader training and graduated from it in the Finnish military, when even the first minutes of any basic ass gun training should've prevented him from doing precisely what he did; pointing a loaded gun at someone.
So I can completely believe a Frenchman not knowing what oat milk is, no matter if he worked customer service in an international airport.
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
It only counts if you pour the oat milk super slow while maintaining unflinching eye contact with the staff.
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.
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.
I think this might be a meme about how the french don't like anything that goes against their national values, which heavily relies on eating "proper" food, i.e. no oak milk garbage ... but i could be wrong here.
like how they refuse to speak any language but french
haha vegans are soooo stupid, amirite
Yes.
Vegan bad le updoots to the left
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"
Do Americans make this stuff up and really think Europeans don't know what Ost milk is. Bitch please
Ost milk
I mean, you're not helping your case here...
I think this can only come from language barrier, oat milk in french is "lait d'avoine" which doesn't sound similar at all.
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.
Oat milk genuinely tastes better than regular milk to me, but it is not cheaper where I'm at.
