What’s the deal with androids and milk?

I had read somewhere that it may have represented semen back in the Alien days. There is a lot to it but that's the quick down and dirty.

I always thought it had to do with movie ratings and the amount of blood they could show.

Knowing it was a genuine idea to make things creepier...i like that!

I think the white blood from Ash was representing semen- sexually suggestive as was his trying to basically rape Ripley with a rolled magazine- imitating the face hugger that also represented a form of rape. It tied in with the sexually suggestive works of Giger. I cannot find the source, but am sure it was a reason given by a reputable source- many people are saying it!

Roger G

There's that, yes, but as Freud said;

'Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar'.

I think they were just going for something 'jarringly-foreshadowing' of Ash's true nature that gets revealed when Parker takes his head off.

A 'wtf?' thing to get the audience's attention and get them wondering what's up with Ash.

Well, RS at least partially backs up the clame less than 2 minutes in. Just so you don't think I'm a sick bastard lol!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN2hAOkOjL8

Did you say milk and androids???? 

It is for the COOKIES!!!!

I'll go with BlackAnt on this one. :D

@DK

Indeed Sexually Frustrated ... a CHIP of the OLD BLOCK would you not say ;) (in David that is).

I think Basically it comes down to Aesthetically to make them APPEAR to NOT be Human, so its always that PLOT DEVICE to know your NOT seeing a Human but a Android.

If Bishop had RED BLOOD then Ripley would maybe have NOT Discovered for some Time that he was a Fricken Robot ;)

So Indeed without that then a Human and Android would be HARD to Distinguish Apart and so WHILE they look like us on the Outside they are Different Internally and i think having WHITE BLOOD plays the Part and Looks the Part.

WHY would a ANDROID need BLOOD?

Now thats a another Question, to a Degree.. we can only Speculate that its NOT just for Aesthetics, but is maybe something that the Androids require to Operate Efficiently, like a Android Oil/Lubrication. 

David must have LOST a Lot of this Fluid in Prometheus and maybe this is WHY he went a BIT BONKERS LOL

Maybe Walter could have been so KIND as to TOP HIM UP?