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Big fat mistake 45545p

When my mom was in , she always bought bottles of milk that said lait. My mom read it /lait/, because she didn't speak French, and she thought it was 'light', i.e. non-fat milk. But no, the milk was whole milk and she gained 6 lbs. She was really shocked and angry! Lait is simply the French word for 'milk'.

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Scarlet, Belfast 2009-10-16

Ecrémé (skimmed) is very easy to find in . UHT or long life is the most common milk in supermarkets anyway.
Full-fat is LAIT ENTIER.
I think the colour coding is nationwide (everywhere the same) which is not the case in the UK where it varies from brand to brand!

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max, 2009-08-10

No! Demi-écrémé is 1/2 creamed (semi skimmed) You can only get skimmed in long life (écrémé).

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Andrea 2008-01-20

Yes, demi-écrémé is like reduced-fat milk. I haven't seen fat free milk in yet, and suppose that it wouldn't be popular there...

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Rachelle 2006-06-12

Or in Canada, you can also ask for milk by percentage of fat (ie. skimmed milk is 0%, you can also get 1% and 2% milk).

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Philip 2005-07-18

Chris, demi-crème will put pounds on you, it is half-and-half cream! Skimmed milk is lait écrémé, you were possibly thinking of lait demi-écrémé, semi-skimmed milk.

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Chris 2005-07-13

Demi-crème is the French for skimmed milk.

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