See, I've tried it a few times and every time had a different reaction.... 1st time I strongly remember about wanting to lose my lunch... next time I thought it tasted great, next time kinda apathetic toward it, and so on....
In my opinion it doesn't taste at all the same as cow milk (not even close), but I can understand how some people enjoy and even prefer it. Really, it's something you need to get used to.
But then, even regular milk can be that way--I grew up on Guam (little island in the Pacific), where for a long time we only had horrible, re-constituted stuff... Then eventually they finally started doing the whole "ultra-pasteurized", etc. thing to make real milk last longer, and I got to where I thought that was great... in hindsight, it was a little sweeter than fresh milk. So when I moved to the states for college, it took me
months to accept that all stateside milk
isn't actually rotten.... it's just more fresh, but I insistently believed it smelled/tasted sour. I still can't tell the difference between good and 'getting bad' milk.... I only know it's bad once it's
really bad (approaching chunky.... ewww....) hahaha ah, childhood....
back on topic, another option is Rice milk. A friend gave it to me recently, and it actually was pretty good. Personally, I liked it MUCH better than soy milk. Also, for her it was about identical in cost to regular milk. As Broken Arrow mentioned, soy is
normally more expensive (ounce for ounce), so the rice milk being the same was great for them. Also, shelf life for that stuff is pretty much "until the next nuclear winter".
