On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 22:15:50 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 1/29/2018 10:10 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>> On Monday, January 29, 2018 at 11:36:00 AM UTC-10, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>>>
>>> Actually, If you are lucky, you can still get buttermilk as a
>>> by-product of churning butter. Otherwise, as you say, it is a
>>> cultured product.
>>> Janet US
>>
>> It makes perfect sense to call the liquid left after making butter "buttermilk." I've never had it nor have I seen such a thing in stores. My guess is that butter producers would have tons of that stuff on hand. What the heck do they do with it?
>
>They sell it to people that want to make pancakes.
>
>Good for soaking chicken parts in for fried chicken. Some people drink
>it but I never could.

On a hot summer day I enjoy chug-a-lugging a quart of ice cold
buttermilk. They must package it just for me because I never see
buttermilk sold in other than quart containers.