Editing Milk (section)

==In language and culture==
[[File:From Abhisheka To Panchamrutha.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Hindu [[Abhisheka]] ritual in [[Agara, Bangalore Rural|Agara]], [[Bangalore Rural District]], Karnataka]]

In [[Greek mythology]], the [[Milky Way]] was formed after the [[trickster]] god [[Hermes]] suckled the infant [[Heracles]] at the breast of [[Hera]], the queen of the gods, while she was asleep.<ref name="Leeming">{{cite book |last1=Leeming |first1=David Adams |title=Mythology: The Voyage of the Hero |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-511957-2 |page=44 |edition=Third |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YJawuz5Q1vEC&q=Milky+Way+Heracles&pg=PA44 |access-date=October 19, 2020 |archive-date=February 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223073744/https://books.google.com/books?id=YJawuz5Q1vEC&q=Milky+Way+Heracles&pg=PA44 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Pache">{{cite book |last1=Pache |first1=Corinne Ondine |article=Hercules |title=Ancient Greece and Rome |date=2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-538839-8 |editor1-last=Gargarin |editor1-first=Michael |editor2-last=Fantham |editor2-first=Elaine |volume=1: Academy-Bible |page=400 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lNV6-HsUppsC&q=Milky+Way+Heracles&pg=RA2-PA400 |access-date=October 19, 2020 |archive-date=September 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200915083848/https://books.google.com/books?id=lNV6-HsUppsC |url-status=live }}</ref> When Hera awoke, she tore Heracles away from her breast and splattered her breast milk across the heavens.<ref name="Leeming"/><ref name="Pache"/> In another version of the story, [[Athena]], the patron goddess of heroes, tricked Hera into suckling Heracles voluntarily,<ref name="Leeming"/><ref name="Pache"/> but he bit her nipple so hard that she flung him away, spraying milk everywhere.<ref name="Leeming"/><ref name="Pache"/>

In many African and Asian countries, butter is traditionally made from fermented milk rather than cream. It can take several hours of churning to produce workable butter grains from fermented milk.<ref>Crawford ''et al.'', part B, section III, ch. 1: [http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/t0251e/T0251E15.htm#ch1 Butter] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060203034019/http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/t0251e/T0251E15.htm#ch1 |date=February 3, 2006 }}. Retrieved November 28, 2005.</ref>

Holy books have also mentioned milk. The Bible contains references to the "[[Land of Israel|Land of Milk and Honey]]" as a metaphor for the bounty of the Promised Land. In the [[Qur'an]], there is a request to wonder on milk as follows: "And surely in the livestock there is a lesson for you, We give you to drink of that which is in their bellies from the midst of digested food and blood, pure milk palatable for the drinkers" (16-The Honeybee, 66). The [[Ramadan]] fast is traditionally broken with a glass of milk and dates. In Jewish religious law, [[Chalav Yisrael]] is the term regulating consumption of milk.<ref>and other dairy products.</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=March 4, 2009 |title=Hamodia Magazine |newspaper=[[Hamoia]] |page=3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Shain, Ruchoma |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QdxHnvnHdtMC&pg=PA149 |title=All for the Boss |publisher=[[Feldheim Publishers]] |year=2001 |isbn=1-58330-470-3 |pages=149–150 |authorlink=Ruchoma Shain |orig-year=1984}}</ref>

[[Abhisheka]] is conducted by [[Hinduism|Hindu]] and [[Jainism|Jain]] priests, by pouring libations on the [[Murti|idol of a deity]] being worshipped, amidst the chanting of [[mantra]]s. Usually offerings such as milk, [[yogurt]], [[ghee]], [[honey]] may be poured among other offerings depending on the type of abhishekam being performed.

A [[milksop]] is an "effeminate spiritless man," an expression which is attested to in the late 14th century.<ref name="etymonline.com"/> [[Milk toast]] is a dish consisting of milk and toast. Its soft blandness served as inspiration for the name of the timid and ineffectual [[comic strip]] character [[Caspar Milquetoast]], drawn by [[H. T. Webster]] from 1924 to 1952.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/milquetoast |title=Caspar Milquetoast |publisher=Dictionary.reference.com |access-date=November 17, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131121010417/http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/milquetoast |archive-date=November 21, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> Thus, the term "milquetoast" entered the language as the label for a timid, shrinking, apologetic person. Milk toast also appeared in Disney's ''[[Follow Me Boys]]'' as an undesirable breakfast for the aging main character Lem Siddons.

To "milk" someone, in the vernacular of many English-speaking countries, is to take advantage of the person, by analogy to the way a farmer "milks" a cow and takes its milk. The word "milk" has had many slang meanings over time. In the 19th century, milk was used to describe a cheap and very poisonous alcoholic drink made from [[methylated spirits]] (methanol) mixed with water. The word was also used to mean defraud, to be idle, to intercept telegrams addressed to someone else, and a weakling or "milksop." In the mid-1930s, the word was used in Australia to refer to siphoning gas from a car.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5GpLcC4a5fAC&pg=PA943 |author=Green, Jonathon |page=943 |title=Cassell's Dictionary of Slang |publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson |isbn=978-0-304-36636-1 |year=2005 |access-date=October 19, 2020 |archive-date=May 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508053353/https://books.google.com/books?id=5GpLcC4a5fAC |url-status=live }}</ref>