chanting of mantras.

Usually offerings such as milk, yogurt , ghee, honey may be poured among other
offerings depending on the type of abhishekam being performed.
A milksop is an "effeminate spiritless man," an expression which is attested to in the late 14th century.
[13] Milk toast is a dish consisting of milk and toast. Its soft blandness served as inspiration for the name
of the timid and ineffectual comic strip character Caspar Milquetoast, drawn by H. T. Webster from 1924
to 1952. [185] Thus, the term "milquetoast" entered the language as the label for a timid, shrinking,
apologetic person. Milk toast also appeared in Disney's Follow Me Boys as an undesirable breakfast for
the aging main character Lem Siddons.
To "milk" someone, in the vernacular of many English-speaking countries, is to take advantage of the
person, by analogy to the way a farmer "milks" a cow and takes its milk. The word "milk" has had many
slang meanings over time. In the 19th century, milk was used to describe a cheap and very poisonous
alcoholic drink made from methylated spirits (methanol) mixed with water. The word was also used to
mean defraud, to be idle, to intercept telegrams addressed to someone else, and a weakling or "milksop."
In the mid-1930s, the word was used in Australia to refer to siphoning gas from a car. [186]
Non-culinary uses
Besides serving as a beverage or nvironmental concerns . They may object to features of dairy farming
including the necessity of keeping dairy cows pregnant, the killing of almost all the male offsprrticularly
through school food-programs, motivates the (daily) consumption of milk and, especially growing since
the 1970s, cheese. According to Daniel Imhoff and Christina Badracco (2019), since the 1970s the
"subsidy programs have steadily supported an oversupply of milk. Although milk consumption has
decreased over the same time span [...] Cheese is now

Argentina
Commonly sold in 1 liter bags and cardboard boxes. The bag is then placed in a plastic jug and the corner
cut off before the milk is poured.
Australia and New Zealand
Distributed in a variety of sizes, most commonly in aseptic cartons for up to 1.5 liters, and plastic screw-
top bottles beyond that with the following volumes; 1.1 L, 2 L, and 3 L. 1 liter milk bags are starting to
appear in supermarkets, but have not yet proved popular. Most UHT-milk is packed in 1 or 2 liter paper
containers with a sealed plastic spout.[170]
Brazil
Used to be sold in cooled 1 liter bags, just like in South Africa. Today the most common form is 1 liter
aseptic cartons containing UHT skimmed, semi-skimmed or whole milk, although the plastic bags are still
in use for pasteurized milk. Higher grades of pasteurized milk can be found in cartons or plastic bottles.
Sizes other than 1 liter are rare.
Canada

1.33 liter plastic bags (sold as 4 liters in 3 bags) are widely available in some areas (especially the
Maritimes , Ontario and Quebec ), although the 4 liter plastic jug has supplanted them in western Canada.
Other common packaging sizes are 2 liter, 1 liter, 500 mL, and 250 mL cartons, as well as 4 liter, 1 liter,
250 mL aseptic cartons and 500 mL plastic jugs.
Chile
Distributed most commonly in aseptic cartons for up to 1 liter, but smaller, snack-sized cartons are also
popular. The most common flavors, besides the natural presentation, are chocolate, strawberry and va