Buttermilk is not (necessarily) butter milk

[torden]

so you telling me they don't milk butter cows?

[EPMTUNES]

I love how you always tell the story of food through the lens of historic necessity.

[TheRoboteer]

Anecdote about buttermilk which ties into the whole "energy drink" point you mentioned in this video and also crosses over my two loves in life - food and motorsport:

After the 1933 Indianapolis 500 race, the winner Lous Meyer was exhausted from the effort of the 500 miles, so he requested a drink of buttermilk in order to refresh him. After winning it again in 1936 he made the same request, and was photographed swigging from a bottle of buttermilk while holding up 3 fingers to represent the fact that it was his third time winning the race.

Ever since 1936 every winner of the Indy 500 has repeated Meyer's tradition, though the buttermilk was fairly quickly replaced with regular milk which somewhat matches up with what Adam said about buttermilk drinking being a somewhat older tradition. Such is the strength of the tradition for post-race milk, that there was even a near-riot one year when former Formula 1 world champion Emerson Fittipaldi drank orange juice after the race instead of milk in order to promote his home country of Brazil's orange industry.

[thomasking]

“A ‘buttermilk sky’: a typically mellifluous and evocative southernism.”

Maybe my favorite sentence from this channel

[AlexandreBFK]

In Austria, we have 2 kinds basically, butter milk and what we call sour milk. Buttermilk is made from the leftover of producing Butter, then fermented, so it’s more liquid, and sour milk is whole milk that is fermented (sounds more like what you describe), so a lot more creamy. Never used it for baking but it’s a lovely Drink

[unchartedsteppes]

In my South Indian language (Telugu), buttermilk is called "majiga, " and we eat it with rice all the time. Majigannam (an agglutinative word meaning buttermilk with cooked rice) is probably the most common thing eaten in South India.

[GnaD]

In Poland we also have buttermilk called "maślanka" - a word that also derives from word butter, it also originates from the highlander part of the country and is commonly found in every grocery store on the shelf right beside kefir

[listaja]

Buttermilk is actually really popular among like 80+ year olds in Finland as well. I remember always drinking buttermilk at my grandparents when I was like a 5 year old. When I drank regular milk my grandpa used to actually diss me for not drinking buttermilk. :D He preached about it's health benefits to me till the day he passed away last year.

[juliabogajo]

Me, a Brazilian trying to use mockup buttermilk or sour milk to make American recipes while my kefir is staring at me lol

Thanks, Adam!

[graefx]

When I started making my own kefir I was surprised it tasted nothing like the yogurt-y stuff you can buy, it was a lot closer to "buttermilk", I really liked it and found out my grandmother drank buttermilk a lot.

[nosillec]

I live in Mongolia. Our national beverage is Airag, which is basically the same thing but with horse milk instead of cow. People sell it in 2 liter bottles out of the back of their cars. Sometimes it’s great, sometimes it’s not. I never understood why. Older people drink it regularly too while the younger generation doesn’t. Thank you for helping me understand it better, I’m going to try making my own now!

[abbynall]

We stopped by Cruze Farms on our last trip through Knoxville per your last video about soft-serve: it was phenomenal.
I love these local highlight food science videos, and it looks like slowing your pace has really worked out for your channel. Keep it up!

[yuzan]

In the middle east we also LOVE drinking butter milk we call it "Laban". We drink it almost everyday with dinner or lunch or as a snack with dates.
When I first lived abroad and realized that "Laban" doesn't exist in other countries, I was so frustrated because I was so used to drinking it and I miss it a lot. From the name, I never ever expected "butter milk" to be the same as "Laban" and you can imagine how happy I was when I discovered it.

[Tyler-Armstrong]

this last run of content with cruze farms has been really awesome, love the work you do adam

[kevinwichlin]

Love these Cruze farm folks and all your videos with them! Would love to see more of this. I know you don’t want to endanger your viewers by educating us on the subject but some Tennessee moonshiners would be cool.

[prateekraisinghani]

We also have spiced Lassi here in India - just add some salt, cumin powder and black pepper to the buttermilk that you are drinking and the sour taste melts perfectly with the aromatic spice and heat!

[lordburgendy]

As an East Tennesseean, I'm glad Adam shows a little bit of my home's history. 😊 Thanks, Adam!

[ChristianFS]

There's a Danish dessert/snack called "Koldskål, ", which is traditionally made with buttermilk. Along with the ingredients it is usually flavored with lemon and vanilla and eaten with either berries, fruits or little biscuits or cookies on top. Comes highly recommended.

[Beryllahawk]

Lovely! My Papa (2nd grandfather on my dad's side, I had a plethora of grandparents) adored buttermilk and always kept a jug in the fridge. I remember him telling me that when he served in the Korean War it was really hard to get dairy products, but he'd go to a lot of effort to get his hands on buttermilk, because it'd keep longer and made him feel a lot better. (One of the only stories he ever told me about his military service, in fact.)
Fascinating how the "same" effect manifests in so many ways - yogurt and buttermilk aren't the same but they could be called cousins, almost, it seems! And hearing kefir explained as buttermilk makes a LOT more sense than some of the health-store jargon I keep seeing. Also fascinating that European butter is made with cultured milk!

[papalpatte]

I work at a rehab clinic in northern germany and all the old patients LOVE buttermilk (btw its also called buttermilch in german)