Not a surprise when the Irish diet was basically milk and spuds. If you couldn’t have milk you probably died off.
Wouldn’t it be tied bottom?
I fucking love milk
And we have the best bainne in the world.
Do Italians just slowly poison themselves everyday with cheesy pasta?
Interesting that we tied with DK since both countries have thriving dairy industries. However I’m surprised at Brazil – I thought they had gazillions of cattle so they must produce quite a bit of milk as well as the beef.
Is this self reported or based on some kind of testing? I know plenty of people with chronic unexplained stomach problems who refuse to stop eating dairy. Personally I tried to go vegan for a while and failed, but when I tried to eat dairy again it went straight through me. It seems I was never able to eat it but had some kind of tolerance because I was having it every day.
We can’t beat the Danes at anything, can we?
Further evidence to my theory that Denmark is actually Ireland if Ireland was in an alternate universe where we could get our shit together.
Similar population that are outnumbered by livestock (more pigs in Denmark than people)
Heavy and destructive drinking culture
Miserable weather
Fairly flat topography relatively speaking
Historically looked down upon by larger neighbours
Pretty bad National cuisine
Niche language that’s very difficult to speak but they all speak English anyway….
And now apparently we’re all swimming in milk. Just imagine mads mikkelsen in a flat cap and you’re there
IIRC Trinity’s population-genetics department were doing research at one stage to try and date when we started to develop our lactose tolerance.
I developed lactose intolerance as an adult. I am not happy about it.
Looking at this with tears in my eyes having developed some kind of intolerance to dairy in the last few years while I butter my toast with plant based butter 😱 snacking on my soy yoghurt 😭 and sometimes my vegan ice creams (which are actually lovely )
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Put us above Denmark on goal difference
I’d like to drink milk from the milkman’s wife tits in the morning.
Let’s not milk it.
Ok who’s here is holding us back from beating Denmark ?
Tolerate it cucks
The fucking Danish again.
Even our mythological stories are about magical cows or stealing magical cows. Wealth was even measured by how many cows you had.
A pint of butter milk to wash down the 7lbs of potatoes consumed by the average irish male daily a century and a half ago.
Isn’t there a theory that lactose intolerance may have been the reason that the Vikings abandoned their settlements in North America.
Native Americans have a high incidents of lactose intolerance, the Vikings traded with the Native Americans and may have traded dairy products as they did bring cattle with them. The Natives got sick, though the Vikings had tried to poison them and ran the Vikings off.
No idea if its true or not.
We just stay winning
I propose we celebrate by initiating a new national turn of phrase: “Milk shittingly unlikely”.
As likely as an Irishman shitting his pants from lactose intolerance. About 5% likely.
We’re a very tolerant people in fairness.
We are simply superior
Having a culture and economy based around cattle for 1000’s of years (correct me if I’m wrong here historians but I believe it to be pre Bronze Age), it seems very unusual that we haven’t developed a lot of tolerance to milk??
EDIT: Ignore this I read the title as lactose intolerance. We are very lactose tolerant according to the list which makes perfect sense.
EDIT 2: typo
Most allergies and intolerances can be mitigated through exposure therapy. So, if dairy is a fixture in the Irish diet, those who were intolerant would slowly adjust and the degree to which they became discomforted would gradually subside.
Surely this table is the prevalence of lactose intolerance?
If 4% was the prevalence of lactose tolerance , we’d be joint last going by this.
Had raw milk recently, not homogenized or pasteurized and just cooled in the farms machine thingy. Forgot what it tastes like when it wasn’t as heavily processed as it is now. I was shocked at how different it tastes, and how much cream is in it. The cream just collected at the top. It was so much nicer.
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Not a surprise when the Irish diet was basically milk and spuds. If you couldn’t have milk you probably died off.
Wouldn’t it be tied bottom?
I fucking love milk
And we have the best bainne in the world.
Do Italians just slowly poison themselves everyday with cheesy pasta?
Interesting that we tied with DK since both countries have thriving dairy industries. However I’m surprised at Brazil – I thought they had gazillions of cattle so they must produce quite a bit of milk as well as the beef.
Is this self reported or based on some kind of testing? I know plenty of people with chronic unexplained stomach problems who refuse to stop eating dairy. Personally I tried to go vegan for a while and failed, but when I tried to eat dairy again it went straight through me. It seems I was never able to eat it but had some kind of tolerance because I was having it every day.
We can’t beat the Danes at anything, can we?
Further evidence to my theory that Denmark is actually Ireland if Ireland was in an alternate universe where we could get our shit together.
Similar population that are outnumbered by livestock (more pigs in Denmark than people)
Heavy and destructive drinking culture
Miserable weather
Fairly flat topography relatively speaking
Historically looked down upon by larger neighbours
Pretty bad National cuisine
Niche language that’s very difficult to speak but they all speak English anyway….
And now apparently we’re all swimming in milk. Just imagine mads mikkelsen in a flat cap and you’re there
IIRC Trinity’s population-genetics department were doing research at one stage to try and date when we started to develop our lactose tolerance.
I developed lactose intolerance as an adult. I am not happy about it.
Looking at this with tears in my eyes having developed some kind of intolerance to dairy in the last few years while I butter my toast with plant based butter 😱 snacking on my soy yoghurt 😭 and sometimes my vegan ice creams (which are actually lovely )
[deleted]
Put us above Denmark on goal difference
I’d like to drink milk from the milkman’s wife tits in the morning.
Let’s not milk it.
Ok who’s here is holding us back from beating Denmark ?
Tolerate it cucks
The fucking Danish again.
Even our mythological stories are about magical cows or stealing magical cows. Wealth was even measured by how many cows you had.
A pint of butter milk to wash down the 7lbs of potatoes consumed by the average irish male daily a century and a half ago.
Isn’t there a theory that lactose intolerance may have been the reason that the Vikings abandoned their settlements in North America.
Native Americans have a high incidents of lactose intolerance, the Vikings traded with the Native Americans and may have traded dairy products as they did bring cattle with them. The Natives got sick, though the Vikings had tried to poison them and ran the Vikings off.
No idea if its true or not.
We just stay winning
I propose we celebrate by initiating a new national turn of phrase: “Milk shittingly unlikely”.
As likely as an Irishman shitting his pants from lactose intolerance. About 5% likely.
We’re a very tolerant people in fairness.
We are simply superior
Having a culture and economy based around cattle for 1000’s of years (correct me if I’m wrong here historians but I believe it to be pre Bronze Age), it seems very unusual that we haven’t developed a lot of tolerance to milk??
EDIT: Ignore this I read the title as lactose intolerance. We are very lactose tolerant according to the list which makes perfect sense.
EDIT 2: typo
Most allergies and intolerances can be mitigated through exposure therapy. So, if dairy is a fixture in the Irish diet, those who were intolerant would slowly adjust and the degree to which they became discomforted would gradually subside.
Surely this table is the prevalence of lactose intolerance?
If 4% was the prevalence of lactose tolerance , we’d be joint last going by this.
Had raw milk recently, not homogenized or pasteurized and just cooled in the farms machine thingy. Forgot what it tastes like when it wasn’t as heavily processed as it is now. I was shocked at how different it tastes, and how much cream is in it. The cream just collected at the top. It was so much nicer.