well now you have to talk about reid + ice cream.
------it's a simple but torrid love affair with the good doctor.
unfortunately he's lactose intolerant, however from a very young age he's held a great affection for dairy products. ice cream is the champion above all, but he's partial to cheap cheese products as well ( string cheese, babybel ). he also likes cereal, though his tastes in that flip violently between the responsible adult choices or the fun choices. you're just as likely to find a high fiber cereal in his cupboard than you are cocoa pebbles.
the problem is the milk. he loves it, really. creamer, too. he's gotten used to drinking black coffee with maybe a sugar to taste because he can't really be bothered to take lactaid for coffee ( and let's be honest, the lactaid really curbs the stomach pain, you still get the digestive issues ). he's not fond of soy replacements ( don't get him started on soy and how every year there are more and more studies about how unhealthy it really is for you ) and while he can drink the nut milks ( oat, almond, etc ) it's just not dairy milk and it really doesn't scratch that itch.
also, to be completely fair, the wateriness of nut milks kind of skeeve him out with cereal, so he has to not look at the cereal when he's eating it with those.
while he usually has a bottle of lactaid in his satchel, he often forgets to replace it when it gets low or honestly just raw-dogs it into something and suffers the stomach pain + digestive trauma thereafter. ( he also eats tums like candy when his stomach is bothering him. bad spence ).
but really, ice cream is his favorite treat and he's not picky about flavors or brand. he's hurt his belly more often than not on it, and i'm pretty sure the local pharmacy near his apartment keeps a bottle of various digestive aids on hand for him. he frequents that pharmacy a lot, actually.
