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Micro-related: A Place Further than the Universe - a lovely anime about four high school girls going to Antarctica. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Place_Further_than_the_Unive...
Weird they don't stock UHT milk. I buy milk for 6 months and keep it in my pantry. I honestly can't tell the difference between modern UHT milk and mass-produced "fresh" milk (at 2% anyway). They could in theory ship in UHT milk instead of fresh, and stock enough extra to last a few more months in winter. It would be fun to make your own cheese down there as a hobby! Eating by the seasons is also pretty interesting,…
Imagine how many fresh vegetables they could have with a miniaturized nuclear reactor on-site! The limit right now is how much diesel they want to waste. Imagine the alternatives!
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(creds: I was down to McMurdo as a researcher three times) I suspect this has to do with space and weight constraints, and probably a touch of old-school procurement practices. In the not-too-distant past, basically everything was flown to south pole station, so weight was at a premium. Powdered milk weights a lot less than UHT milk. Now they do a traverse to the pole with sleds and tractors, so weight is less of an…
Whoa I had no idea: "To reduce the cost and increase the efficiency and reliability of transporting fuel and materials to South Pole Station, USAP established an overland traverse route from McMurdo Station to the South Pole. The traverse route is approximately 1,030 miles long and took several years of route-finding to prove and to mitigate areas with crevassing. This route is traveled by the South Pole Traverse (SP…
Ah yes, the Mountains of Madness pass.
(ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of_Madness)
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I'm surprised you can't tell the difference between UHT and regular milk. I've tried a few brands in the UK, and there's a clear difference in tea / coffee, and it's particularly marked if you're drinking milk on its own. Maybe the UK is lagging behind on UHT? Or I'm just buying the wrong brand.
> mass-produced "fresh" milk (at 2% anyway) At 2% I would not even bother considering this product as a milk.
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I'm surprised you can't tell the difference between UHT and regular milk. I've tried a few brands in the UK, and there's a clear difference in tea / coffee, and it's particularly marked if you're drinking milk on its own. Maybe the UK is lagging behind on UHT? Or I'm just buying the wrong brand.
> mass-produced "fresh" milk (at 2% anyway) At 2% I would not even bother considering this product as a milk.
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Coming from drinking Irish milk, American milk already tastes like water. I can understand UHT being interchangeable if the baseline product is already bland.
American milk is very varied, sounds like you’re describing plastic gallon jug skim milk. If you want something a bit heartier, you can probably find creamline milk from a local farm.
Generally everything is available in the USA, but there are some surprising cases where the default product is of noticeable lower quality than the default in Europe.
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> mass-produced "fresh" milk (at 2% anyway) At 2% I would not even bother considering this product as a milk.
I don't think you deserve all the down votes. I grew up in the U.S. in the 90's drinking healthy 1% or skim milk, then lived in Europe for two years drinking probably 3.5% or 4% and I tried going back to low fat milk and just can't. Whole milk all the way