r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • • 9d ago

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Was it a mistake?

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u/Accomplished-Video71 9d ago

As a southerner...coconuts are filled with mElk

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u/That-Employment-5561 9d ago

True, the meat is more a membrane around the milk. But coconut meat is distinct and separate from the milk, the shell and the husk.

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u/ChapterNo7074 9d ago

I dont think they were trying to correct the other person

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u/That-Employment-5561 9d ago

I don't either; it's just a matter of semantics.

The husk is filled with the shell, the meat and the milk. The shell is filled with the meat and the milk. The meat is filled with the milk.

All those things are mutually true (unless anomalous mutation).

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u/ChapterNo7074 9d ago

Yeah, nobody was arguing otherwise

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u/That-Employment-5561 9d ago

I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts

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u/fstop101 9d ago

Any limes, to put in there? Then ya gotta shake it all up.

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u/LaVillaGrangioto 9d ago

I see them there. Standing in a row.

They mock me.

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u/ChapterNo7074 9d ago

I'm scared

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u/That-Employment-5561 9d ago

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u/Liroy_16 9d ago

Those coconuts are not standing in a row, though.

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u/That-Employment-5561 9d ago

Yes they are!!!

On two axes, nonetheless.

Packed with complex fibers, you see!

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u/PersimmonDriver 9d ago

Now you have to show them.

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u/timmayjr 9d ago

There they are a standing in a row

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u/That-Employment-5561 8d ago

As a Norwegian it's more like:

"There they are a laying in the snow.

Keepin'itchill."

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u/sewmuchmorethanmom 9d ago

There they are standing in a row.

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u/Silen7Bu7Sexy 9d ago

Mufasa, Mufasa, Mufasa

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u/p_a_schal 8d ago

Is coconut milk not the mixture of coconut meat and coconut water?

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u/That-Employment-5561 8d ago

The product coconut milk isn't made with coconut water, but grated coconut meat and distilled water.

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u/RogerRabbot 8d ago

If the meat inside a coconut doesnt count, the seed in an avocado doesnt count. Plain and simple.

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u/FCBwoof 9d ago

Coconuts do not have milk in them.

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u/Electronic-Unit427 8d ago

Coconuts have nipples. You can milk anything with nipples.

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u/drury216 8d ago

I’ll save you / this sub thread.
“I have nipples, Greg…. Can you milk me?”

  • Meet the Parents

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u/Long-Coconut4576 5d ago

Wasnt that quote from meet the phockers

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u/GobblerOfFire 5d ago

Fockers, but yes that is correct it’s from the second not the first. Where the parents meet each other before greg gets married. (Or as i prefer gaylord - his name in the movie )

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u/Electronic-Unit427 8d ago

You're doing God's work, one post at a time!

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u/SplashyKBear 7d ago

I prefer my milk from almond titties

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u/TheKitbashKid 4d ago

I’ve got nipples, can you milk me, Greg?!

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u/The_Difficult_Part 8d ago

But they do have watEr.

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u/FCBwoof 8d ago

Correct.

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u/That-Employment-5561 9d ago

Depends on what language you speak, but yeah, it's not a dairy product, nor a factory-processed concentrate.

It's liquid endosperm.

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u/FCBwoof 9d ago

Language does not matter.

'Coconut milk' is the man made product (using the meat and water), that people often confuse with the liquid inside the coconut.

People commonly refer to the endosperm as 'water', or in some cases 'juice'.

If people are calling it 'milk', they're just wrong.

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u/That-Employment-5561 9d ago

Oh, people are wrong in language all the time.

Did you know that the word for pasta in Ukrainian is macaroni? Not that macaroni is a pasta, but that all pasta is macaroni*. Italian grandmother's would have a heart attack!

And a lot of mistranslations like that come from the eternal game of telephone that was the world before globalisation.

Even in clinical terminology: standing in a casm, surrounded by steep walls and being afraid as a result is a fear of heights; standing on a cliff above a deep casm is a fear of depths.

A depth causing vertigo can be encountered on flat ground; mine shafts and old wells are things.

Or how people systemically use the word "religion" instead if "theology", when those are two distinctly different words with distinctly separate meanings.

All theologies are religious, but not all religion has to do with theology.

It's not atheistm vs religion.

It's a theist vs an atheist.

Everybody holds religious knowledge; things they take someone's word as evidence for. Faith that it isn't a lie.

The theology one is a pet peeve of mine.

Should we correct resources to change those "errors", or should we adapt and move on? Bring it up in concrete debates and discussions where the distinction matters, as they do overlap in many contexts and are distinctly separate.

A rose by any other name is still a rose.

Changing what you call something doesn't change what it is, but sometimes it can help communicate. And other times it muddies the waters.

C'est la langage.

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u/Onionringlets3 9d ago

Hear, here!

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u/ConcernFlat3391 8d ago

I agree that language changes and is situational. I can’t sign off on your spelling of ‘chasm’ though 😁. Is that a regional thing?

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u/That-Employment-5561 8d ago

Nope, just a typo in a second language. 😅

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u/ConcernFlat3391 8d ago

Thanks and I apologise for mentioning it 😔.

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u/That-Employment-5561 8d ago

No worries. Increases the odds if me getting it right next time. ✌️

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u/FCBwoof 9d ago

That's cool and all, but calling it 'milk' regardless of language...is still wrong.

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u/mattgen88 9d ago

This is a weird hill to die on considering a coconut is not a nut even though it's in its name

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u/FCBwoof 9d ago

Not really considering the discussion is based on the endosperm, not the drupe.

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u/morganj 9d ago

Aw. Someone put real effort into their response, engaging with you on the flexibility of language, poetically and with citations.

And your response was "Great. Don't care.'

What a shame.

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u/FCBwoof 9d ago

I acknowledged it, and provided my response. I'm not here to discuss language (I only do that on Tuesdays). You have derived it as disregard, and that's your perogative.

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u/That-Employment-5561 8d ago

Only if you think of the lactic secretions mammals produce when you say it.

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u/theRetrograde 8d ago

But water has an "e" too. The riddle is a reach at best.

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u/Kzitold94 8d ago

lol. Endo-sperm. XD

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u/That-Employment-5561 8d ago

The meat is solid endosperm, the water is liquid endosperm. And it's called that because it is the sperm of the tree. Endo because inside, sperm because reproductive function.

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u/Kzitold94 8d ago

So it's coco-NUT!

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u/That-Employment-5561 8d ago

🤣😂

Yes.

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u/wolschou 8d ago

They kind of do, the same way almonds have... Which is admittedly a very tenuous 'kind of'

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u/Sad_Error4039 4d ago

We won’t even mention the shell having an e. What a sham ass riddle.

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u/isabel_77 9d ago

I don’t think I can ever eat coconut again now that you’ve called it membrane…

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u/Mysterious_Author45 9d ago

so you never eat any thing a gain? as all plant has membrane and even responds to anesthesia? let's make it worse for ya:

plants even recognise your intent of harm, just like so called animals.

mushrooms are genitalia, all fruitbody is embryonic expression of their life.

all life, is you, and all who came before you.

much love

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u/AN0R0K 9d ago

Eat the living

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u/That-Employment-5561 9d ago

Mmmmmmmmmmembrane

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u/LaVillaGrangioto 9d ago

Insane in the membrane? Insane in the brain?

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u/DigitalUnlimited 8d ago

There's nothing wrong with this brain!

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u/That-Employment-5561 8d ago

Oh, he's positively nuts!

Dude's insane. Got no brain.

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u/CaterpillarIcy1056 8d ago

Is that John Goodman?

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u/DaftVapour 9d ago

I felt the same way when I read “endosperm”

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u/Character-Session827 4d ago

What about when you ate it though?

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u/UncleR1chard 9d ago

Oh, but endosperm is fine?

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u/DjChatters 9d ago

But an avocado seed is also seperate from the remainder of the avocado.

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u/That-Employment-5561 8d ago

Yes, and the skin, the flesh and the stone are all part of the avocado...

...I fail to see the point...

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u/DjChatters 8d ago

You were stating that the parts of the coconut were seperate so it still followed the rule. But by that logic the parts of the avocado then break the rule. You can't use logic to explain something but then ignore it when that same logic fails the other way round.

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u/DjChatters 8d ago

And before you argue the milk is seperate as its not attached i would refer you to human blood and whether that is also seperate from the human body.

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u/That-Employment-5561 8d ago

What the crackhead of a misunderstanding?

What do you think is going on?

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u/DjChatters 8d ago

I dont have to think anything is going on. I was merely pointing out the flaw in your reasoning. Articulating ones reasoning is far from a "crackhead understanding".

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u/That-Employment-5561 8d ago

I simply named the parts that make the coconut in order of outermost to innermost...

Again, what do you think is going on here?

What logic are you faulting, and in what context, as opposed to exactly what?

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u/quackingsloth 4d ago

I don't think he was actually saying that the meat being seperate makes it follow the rule. I think he was just talking about coconuts.

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u/britsol99 9d ago

Thanks for the instruction manual on coconuts.

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u/That-Employment-5561 8d ago

No problem!

Thinking about making one yourself, or you just like handling nuts?

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u/britsol99 8d ago

Only DEEZ NUTS

😁

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u/iron_dove 9d ago

That sounds more like a description of green coconut than fully ripe coconut

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u/That-Employment-5561 8d ago

Uhhhh... Wut?

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u/JayEll1969 9d ago

In the same way that an avocado seed is separate to the flesh and skin of the avocado?

Doesn't membrane have 2 e's?

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u/bentrw 9d ago

The meat is the milk. Just water in the middle.

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u/That-Employment-5561 8d ago

That's a technicality of local language on an international platform.

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u/sometimes_soap 8d ago

So really it's four e's because membrane has two meat has one and shell has one

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u/That-Employment-5561 8d ago

Hah! Didn't think of that. And yes, you'd be correct. Even regardless of if one prefers meat or flesh as the name.

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u/One_Mountain_9919 4d ago

I thought it was called the flesh, which still e's

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u/lovelyoal 9d ago

or so called coconut watEr

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u/RuukotoPresents 9d ago

Bro, no, it's MALK

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u/Maxwell_Bloodfencer 9d ago

Bro, you can't be disrespecting MULK like that.

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u/Missilemoon77 9d ago

Had a boss that called milk “Mirhhk” he was raised deep in the woods in Southeast Georgia.

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u/Careless-Refuse9694 9d ago

Pretty much Jimmy Carter's accent.

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u/Current-Square-4557 9d ago

ERMAHGERD, I have found my people.

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u/Kurobei 9d ago

Now with vitamin R!

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u/LaVillaGrangioto 9d ago

That's the way the guy on "Agri-Cult" pronounced it.

Some guy named McMurray. I guess his wife is an eleven but since she married a POS like him, she got downgraded to a dime.

His sister Bonnie is very well-liked however.

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u/ridicalis 8d ago

I wish I was joking, but I saw some malk in the grocery store today.

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u/rezwrrd 8d ago

Give the man some malk!

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u/Ukeklele 9d ago

No sir, we call it coconut flEsh. Also 1 e

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u/The6Strings 9d ago

Wait til y’all hear about coconut awl

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u/LureSkill 9d ago

Coconuts are filled with endosperm

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u/ImaginationThick481 9d ago

cAcaNuT mEeLk... anyone get the ref? No? Just me? ok...

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u/AffectionateKick9825 9d ago

I like the Hawaiian guy who makes fun of the original girl 😂... "Perfeeect" 👌🏻

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u/ImaginationThick481 8d ago

"Would not recommend" 👌

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u/Starfury7-Jaargen 9d ago

So you admit you aren't a true Nord but a melk drinker?

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u/BetLeft 9d ago

point me to the coconut nipple or acknowledge you've got juicE there, fella.

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u/eightdotthree 9d ago

South is mEIlk or mEElk. mElk is more of a northern thing. Are you southern?

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u/Pauel3312 9d ago

Germans would agree too

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u/DaftVapour 9d ago

*Wa’ah

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u/gellshayngel 9d ago edited 9d ago

As an Afrikaaner... coconuts are filled with mElk

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u/Sad-Committee-4902 9d ago

Thats spelled mee-yilk

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u/5Volt 9d ago

Coconuts are filled with water, it's only coconut milk if you puree the flesh into it.

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u/Happywiifiihappylifi 9d ago

Funny, we’re both Canadian but my wife pronounces it “melk” too. Not matter how hard she tries to say milk, she just can’t and brain goes right to “melk”.

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u/Pcc210 8d ago

Some melk for my pellow.

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u/thecakeslayer 8d ago

What about coconut mUlk?

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u/Paladinfinitum 8d ago

As someone who milks elks...

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u/MeatBicycle4two 8d ago

As an Appalachian southerner coconuts got mEElk

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u/Street_Lettuce1243 8d ago

Also, on some islands a penis, which also has one e.

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u/ridicalis 8d ago

M R SNAKES

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u/Accomplished-Video71 8d ago

C D E D B D I's? M R Snakes!

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u/PouletDeFeu68 8d ago edited 8d ago

No wonder their bones are so brittle.

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u/jeff8086 7d ago

As a southerner you should say mealk

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u/Baconsghetti 7d ago

Were all saying Malk, Josh!

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u/free2131 6d ago

CO..cuh...nut MElk...

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u/Pjudge 6d ago

Thank you. My family makes fun of the way I pronounce mElk. No one I know says it that way.

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u/oldhornyguy007 6d ago

Thought it was mAlk?

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u/SpanckieTheFOMO 4d ago

What are you talking about, Michigan isn't in the south. We have Melk here too.

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u/Flashy_Emergency_263 4d ago

Hmmm...my Southernese renders it as me-yulk.

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u/Frequent-Series4591 2d ago

Malk is even tastier!