On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 18:17:57 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2018-01-30 5:48 PM, Broce wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:40:33 -0500, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 2018-01-30 4:58 PM, Broce wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:54:41 -0500, Dave Smith
>
>>> Yes, but when you buy buttermilk in the grocery store that is not what
>>> you get.
>>
>> I wonder if that 'cultured buttermilk' is a North American thing or
>> also European. My mother hated buttermilk and I copied that without
>> ever trying it, so I don't know much about it.
>
>
>You live there so you can check. FWIW, my father loved buttermilk. It
>always grossed me out to watch him do that, but I was not much less
>repulsed to watch my brothers drink milk.
>
when I was growing up we had real buttermilk. It had little specks of
butter in it and was thick and creamy. It tasted different too.
Janet US