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[–] 11 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Yet we can still buy "Milk of Magnesia" for poorly tummies.

magnesium hydroxide (wiki link)

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    The thing I find funniest about that is that milk of magnesia is rather new to the English language (1880 according to the Oxford English dictionary). Meanwhile terms like almond milk that are "too confusing" have been in the English language since Middle English.

    Fucking lobbyists...

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