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[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by The Colonel

I would be amazed if being born lactose intolerant is that common anywhere

It does seem to be a fairly extraordinary claim. I suspect it's more likely that Bill misread Flyndaran's post...

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Modern pediactric medicine has supplements that infants who can't digest milk can consume instead. This makes me quite surprised by Bill's statement that it's more common in other parts of the world; in the third world it's often still lethal.

I assumed we were talking about adult onset lactose intolerance.

Bill Stoddard

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Modern pediactric medicine has supplements that infants who can't digest milk can consume instead. This makes me quite surprised by Bill's statement that it's more common in other parts of the world; in the third world it's often still lethal.

Non dairy formula was a godsend.

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by johndallman

Liver is still popular enough that liver, onions and bacon is available as a ready-meal in many supermarkets, but a lot of liver goes into pate. Is that popular in the US?

No, it's a specialty item (in with the expensive cheeses) if you can get it at all. The American equivalent will be labeled liverwurst or braunschweiger, it's similar but not usually as spreadable - less fat I guess. I wouldn't call that popular exactly, but pretty much every grocery will have one or two brands in the lunchmeat case.