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[kontako]

While on the wiki page for Dwarven milk I read the phrase "If cow cheese is made from cow's milk, what is dwarven cheese made of?". Of course you may know that Dwarven milk comes from purring maggots, but why is it called Dwarven milk and not maggots milk?

I believe I have an answer

The dwarves originated when Borr's sons formed maggots out of Ymir's blood, which they eventually decided to give a humanoid form. It is my belief that the purring maggots are primordial dwarves, which means they produce a very literal 'Dwarven milk'.

Sorry if this connection has been brought up before, I searched the forum for relevant wording but didn't find anything.

[King Kitteh]

Or maybe it's because Maggot Milk sounds absolutely disgusting...



Edit: Although I would now like your explanation for the naming of Dwarven Wine, Beer, Ale and Rum.

[kontako]

Well that's easy, It's made by dwarves!

I wasn't putting it forward as a serious explanation, just an interesting comparison. 

[DG]

Dwarven wine: because plump helmets are always complaining.

[NW_Kohaku]

Silk comes form a worm's ass.  Honey is bee vomit.  Red food dye in the modern world is often made of crushed insects boiled in fermented piss.

Purring maggots are just some creature that has a sack of milk-like substance that dwarves can wring out of them.

[Urlance Woolsbane]

Nice!

Of course, when the myth-generator comes, we might start seeing this sort of thing in-game.

[kontako]

Silk comes form a worm's ass.  Honey is bee vomit.  Red food dye in the modern world is often made of crushed insects boiled in fermented piss.

Purring maggots are just some creature that has a sack of milk-like substance that dwarves can wring out of them.

But they don't call it 'Man bum string', or 'Sweet man vomit' or even 'Human red dye'. If you get where I'm going. They could've called it something like 'Sweet ichor', but Dwarven milk is where the decided to go.

Nice!

Of course, when the myth-generator comes, we might start seeing this sort of thing in-game.

Yeah! That's the mindset I had when I saw the connection

[Shonai_Dweller]

Silk comes form a worm's ass.  Honey is bee vomit.  Red food dye in the modern world is often made of crushed insects boiled in fermented piss.

Purring maggots are just some creature that has a sack of milk-like substance that dwarves can wring out of them.

But they don't call it 'Man bum string', or 'Sweet man vomit' or even 'Human red dye'. If you get where I'm going. They could've called it something like 'Sweet ichor', but Dwarven milk is where the decided to go.

Dwarvern milk. Meaning 'from the nation of dwarves' (not strictly speaking correct as there are many nations of dwarves, but it was probably named by ignorant humans). Greek yoghurt's not made from Greeks, you know.

[kontako]

Silk comes form a worm's ass.  Honey is bee vomit.  Red food dye in the modern world is often made of crushed insects boiled in fermented piss.

Purring maggots are just some creature that has a sack of milk-like substance that dwarves can wring out of them.

But they don't call it 'Man bum string', or 'Sweet man vomit' or even 'Human red dye'. If you get where I'm going. They could've called it something like 'Sweet ichor', but Dwarven milk is where the decided to go.

Dwarvern milk. Meaning 'from the nation of dwarves' (not strictly speaking correct as there are many nations of dwarves, but it was probably named by ignorant humans). Greek yoghurt's not made from Greeks, you know.

I never thought of it that way, yeah that sounds a lot more likely now. Hahaha. I guess I became accustomed to seeing the world through the dwarves, thinking "Why would dwarves call it dwarven milk?". Although if Greek yoghurt was made from Greeks, I'd bet it'd be called Soylent Greek. 

Edit: I guess the confusion comes from Greece being a nation and Dwarves being a species, again they don't call Human yoghurt, but I think I'm just splitting hairs here. Although on the stage where there are multiple species I guess it makes sense.

[Shonai_Dweller]

I never thought of it that way, yeah that sounds a lot more likely now. Hahaha. I guess I became accustomed to seeing the world through the dwarves, thinking "Why would dwarves call it dwarven milk?". Although if Greek yoghurt was made from Greeks, I'd bet it'd be called Soylent Greek. 

Edit: I guess the confusion comes from Greece being a nation and Dwarves being a species, again they don't call Human yoghurt, but I think I'm just splitting hairs here. Although on the stage where there are multiple species I guess it makes sense.

Yeah, I'm sure there must be some examples out there where someone's named a product after the people most well-known for producing it. Right now the only ones that spring to mind have peoples named after their countries though.
There's probably something that was once named after an ethnic group but has been renamed in recent years. Hmmm. Was 'eskimo roll' a thing, or did I dream it?

[draeath]

Vermont Cheddar isn't made out of Vermont

We can find many examples of this type of naming in both food and drink.

[NW_Kohaku]

They have to name it after the dwarves, rather than the place the dwarves occupy because then it would be "Oaken Pullies Milk" in one game, and "Drowned Hammer Milk" in another.

[Egan_BW]

...Which would be awesome.

[kontako]

Vermont Cheddar isn't made out of Vermont

We can find many examples of this type of naming in both food and drink.

But it's a product of Vermont. Vermont cheese - produced in Vermont, from cow milk. They don't call it Human cheese.
Cow cheese (Doesn't signify location or culture where it is known to be produced, names species) - made from cow's milk, product of cows.
Dwarf cheese (Doesn't signify location or culture where it is known to be produced, names species) - product of dwarves, from dwarf milk, which happens to be produced by maggots, not dwarves.
It's the difference between naming the location it's made, and naming the species which the cheese is produced from. Dwarf names the species. That's where I pulled the connection from.
The cultures of the dwarves would be, as Kohaku said, "Oaken Pulleys" or "Drowned Hammer"; but as Shonai Dweller said, it's a generalisation made by humans that sweep all dwarf civs into the "Dwarven culture" which produces "Dwarven cheese"

I accept that it's just a name for consistency's sake. It's just a play on words which happened to parallel something else.

[Atian the Elephantman God]

Are you sure it doesn't have anything to do with the elves?