25.6.21

Drink (blue) milk!

Luke unfastened a bottle from his pack and bent over a sow’s belly, squeezing green milk from her swollen udder. He looked up from his work, a green streak on his upper lip. Rey kept watching, though that last moment had left her a little ill. The sow regarded her lazily.
"Is this like a thing where you're pretending to ignore me but secretly teaching me lessons?" Rey asked.
"It is not," Luke replied.
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Waiting for my Batuu experience, just less than a month away, every time I make my blue milk at home, I use butterfly peas dried flowers (you can kind of see them in the photo).

The clitoria ternatea tea is generally blue, but while is brewing can be blue-green. Since the color changes with the pH, my tea is normally green-ish while brewing, it tends to blue if I add milk, or it can be shiny purple if I add lemon.
It's a kind of magic, really.
[Or basic chemistry, if you want]

The taste is very bean-y like, in my opinion, way different (read: worse) than soy milk or oat milk. But I'm an avid soy milk drinker, so I'm probably biased. However, the taste is not too strong, so you can add it basically to everything, partially masking the flavor and keeping the natural color.

And, if you are wondering, the **clitoria** ternatea is called in this way because the not dried flower is basically... THAT.
Many vernacular names of these flowers in different languages are similarly based on references to the clitoris. Controversies existed in the past among botanists regarding the "good taste" of the naming of the genus. Some less explicit alternatives were proposed, but they failed to prosper, and the name "clitoria" has survived to this day.
[Source: wiki]

For the Star Wars scenes, Mark Hamill stated that the blue milk was "life-long milk" with "additives – they put blue food coloring in it – and it was really ghastly." He also revealed that the green milk was instead coconut milk that was color graded in post-production.
[Source: Wookieepedia]

[In the photo here, a very cute blue and green milk pin by @punchitchewiepress, celebrating the Batuu stand]

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