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A Japanese company sold Adult Milk – for adults living in a stressful society. The milk cost ¥5000 ($47) per bottle, and was taken from cows once a week at the break of dawn, as they discharge a lot of melatonin, a stress-relieving hormone. It contained 3-4 times more melatonin than regular milk
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Before modern refrigerators, Russian and Finnish people would keep live brown frogs in their milk to keep it fresh. It was found that the secretions made by the frogs basically act as antibiotics, killing bacteria, and keeping the milk fresh and safe to drink.
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Canadians have a much different way of consuming a classic component of American cuisine.
Take a walk down a Canadian grocery store and you may wonder what’s inside that gigantic bag that weighs nearly 10 pounds. Could it be rice? Or how about flour?
Nope, that would be milk. Inside the bag are actually three bladders of milk. Most people place the bladder inside a pitcher, snip a corner and pour for consumption.
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So what’s the reason behind the prevalence of milk in bags in Quebec and other parts of Canada?
As usual, the difference can be explained by science.
Photo Credit: Pixabay
During a period where glass bottles often broke and resulted in wasted product, Canadians resorted to a different solution thanks to their use of the metric system.
Because liquids had to be sold in liters, manufacturing plants would have needed to make radical adjustments to meet the new requirements.
However, bags did not require such an extensive overhaul.
Photo Credit: Andrea Vall, Flickr // CC BY-ND 2.0
Plus, they produced less packaging waste.
By the late 1970s, four-liter packages of milk became the standard in Ontario, and customers continued to pick up on the trend.
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In fact, milk served in bags has started to make its way to other parts of the world. You can now find bagged milk in South Africa, Hungary, and China.
Even a school in Nebraska started serving kids milk packaged in Capri Sun-esque pouches.
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No matter how you consume your milk, it’s best to keep it fresh. So whether you’re a bottle loyalist or you’ve broken the mold and gone with the bag method, at least you’re following mom’s orders to keep those bones strong and healthy.
Have you ever drank milk from a bag or pouch before? Would you try it out even if you drank bottled or cartoned milk your whole life?
Weigh-in in the comments below!
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Canadians have a much different way of consuming a classic component of American cuisine.
Take a walk down a Canadian grocery store and you may wonder what’s inside that gigantic bag that weighs nearly 10 pounds. Could it be rice? Or how about flour?
Nope, that would be milk. Inside the bag are actually three bladders of milk. Most people place the bladder inside a pitcher, snip a corner and pour for consumption.
Photo Credit: fw_gadget, Flickr // CC BY-SA 2.0
So what’s the reason behind the prevalence of milk in bags in Quebec and other parts of Canada?
As usual, the difference can be explained by science.
Photo Credit: Pixabay
During a period where glass bottles often broke and resulted in wasted product, Canadians resorted to a different solution thanks to their use of the metric system.
Because liquids had to be sold in liters, manufacturing plants would have needed to make radical adjustments to meet the new requirements.
However, bags did not require such an extensive overhaul.
Photo Credit: Andrea Vall, Flickr // CC BY-ND 2.0
Plus, they produced less packaging waste.
By the late 1970s, four-liter packages of milk became the standard in Ontario, and customers continued to pick up on the trend.
Photo Credit: Pixabay
In fact, milk served in bags has started to make its way to other parts of the world. You can now find bagged milk in South Africa, Hungary, and China.
Even a school in Nebraska started serving kids milk packaged in Capri Sun-esque pouches.
Photo Credit: Pixabay
No matter how you consume your milk, it’s best to keep it fresh. So whether you’re a bottle loyalist or you’ve broken the mold and gone with the bag method, at least you’re following mom’s orders to keep those bones strong and healthy.
Have you ever drank milk from a bag or pouch before? Would you try it out even if you drank bottled or cartoned milk your whole life?
Weigh-in in the comments below!
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Two of the most recognized names in milk and dairy have recently declared bankruptcy: Dean Foods declared bankruptcy back in November, and Borden Dairy, one of the oldest milk processors in America, just recently did the same.
The rising cost of raw milk and a drop in consumer demand have been cited as reasons for both companies to take this drastic action. Borden will remain in business while it goes through its bankruptcy proceedings, which is a bit of good news for the 3,300 employees of the company that is based in Dallas, Texas.
Milk News: Borden Dairy Is Second Big Producer to Go Bankrupt – @business @BordenDairy @PNCBank #dairyfree #bankruptcy #MILK https://t.co/cN54cI5KXg
— Sociallama (@sociallama) January 7, 2020
Tony Sarsam, the CEO of Borden, said, “Despite our numerous achievements during the past 18 months, the Company continues to be impacted by the rising cost of raw milk and market challenges facing the dairy industry. These challenges have contributed to making our current level of debt unsustainable.”
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says that Americans drank 18.4% less milk from 2008 to 2018. At the same time, there has been a dramatic increase in sales in nut and plant-based milk. It may seem hard to imagine, but in 2019 alone, 2,700 dairy farms went out of business. There’s no denying that the entire American dairy industry is struggling mightily.
Borden was founded all the way back in 1857. It was the first company to use glass bottles for milk and was also the first company that developed a patent for condensing milk.
The times sure do seem to be changing, don’t they?
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I’ve never thought about the fact that people over the age of 5 might think strawberry, chocolate, and regular milks come from different color cows, but, I mean, if no one ever told you differently…I suppose it could still make sense?
Aside from the fact that you’ve never actually seen a pink cow.
Then again, I live in the middle of the country, where cows appear regularly on the side of the road. So maybe I should give coastal city folk a break?
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NAH – this is ridiculous.
It turns out that A LOT of adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows. How many, you ask?
Well, according to the Innovation Center for US Dairy’s website, around 16.4 million people across the country.
They know this because they commissioned a survey to see, which found that 7% of respondents think brown cows equal chocolate milk.
Yep, right out of the udder.
This despite the fact that their official statement (and common sense) says, “Chocolate milk – or any flavored milk for that matter – is white cow’s milk with added flavoring and sweeteners.”
And get this: 48% of respondents – which would mean over 154 million people nationally, if the survey statistics were extrapolated to the country as a whole – admitted they aren’t sure where chocolate milk comes from. As in, maybe it comes from a brown cow? Who knows??
A few more fun facts that emerged from the same survey:
37% of Americans admit to drinking milk straight out of the carton in the fridge (YIKES).
And 29% of Americans buy chocolate milk “for the kids,” but really they just want an excuse to drink it themselves.
As far as the latter, I hope by the time their kids move out they can own what they like and drink it all day like a m-fing adult (who may not know where it comes from). Because chocolate milk, brown cow or no, is delicious.
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Ahhhhh, the good old days.
Milkmen delivering the milk, cream and butter for the household early each morning was one of the more charming features of the 1950s.
Photo Credit: Max Pixel
Then, like all cool things, milkmen fell out of favor. It somehow became more convenient and less expensive to buy our dairy at the grocery store.
But here’s something else you can blame on – or credit to – millennials. They don’t want to go to the store and buy big plastic jugs of milk.
They are bringing back the milkman.
Photo Credit: Max Pixel
Millennials are always looking at ways to live with less waste and plastic, even if it costs a little more.
Companies in London, in particular, are seeing a big uptick in customers signing up each month to have fresh milk and other dairy delivered, and most new customers request glass bottles.
Glass can be reused up to 25 times, and it’s completely recyclable. Plus, cold milk belongs in glass, don’t you think?
Photo Credit: Pixabay
The London milkman are also learning more about what their customers need and want. They’re starting to deliver artisanal food items too, like bread and local honey, all before breakfast. Milkmen are iconic but they also want to be relevant to their communities and of service to the modern family.
Most of these new customers are young families with children. To them, the milkman provides the experience of delivered, fresh, cold milk in a bottle, while reducing plastic waste.
Sometimes, the old-fashioned ways really are butter…better.
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In 1994, a student at MIT bought a carton of milk but forgot to use it, and rediscovered it 10 months later. Instead of binning it he threw a ‘birthday’ for it. A cult following developed for this legendary expired dairy product. In 2015 it celebrated its 21st birthday.
Between all the squabbling that’s tearing our nation apart these days, there’s still one surefire way to bring people across all aisles of the spectrum together: PETA crossing the damn line with their weirdness.
The organization’s name stands for “People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,” which seems like a noble enough goal… until you see some of the outrageous stunts they pull (like suing a wildlife photographer on behalf of the monkey he photographed). They’re more of a radical anti-human group than they are a pro-animal rights group.
While they have occasionally done some good, they’ve wasted millions of dollars in truly bizarre, totally useless bids for publicity. The latest case in point?
Looks weird right?
It’s what you’re doing if you drink cow’s milk
Raise your hand if you know that humans shouldn’t be drinking cow’s breast milk. It was made for their babies—not you!
Art by @choicebison @freebison
pic.twitter.com/D8QcJnyfUG
— PETA (@peta) March 28, 2019
Yeah, it’s exactly what it looks like. A weird, anthropomorphized cow letting some creepy old man suckle from it.
The caption reads:
Looks weird right? It’s what you’re doing if you drink cow’s milk. Raiseyour hand if you know that humans shouldn’t be drinking cow’s breast milk. It was made for their babies—not you!
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For those of you who don’t know, a “furry” is someone who’s “an enthusiast for animal characters with human characteristics, in particular a person who dresses up in costume as such a character or uses one as an avatar online.” Thanks, Dictionary.com!
While being a furry isn’t inherently sexual, it definitely can have that component to it (and is probably most famous for that reason).
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Seriously PETA, WTF?
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People are really partial to their beverages of choice, but I don’t think I’ve seen an uproar like this since the release of Crystal Pepsi back in the ’90s.
A comedy writer from Birmingham, England named James Felton got the Twitter-verse all fired up when he posted about an interesting drink combination: milk and Coke.
Take a look at this.
Milk coke is a real thing. Brummies love it. We can all move on from this discussion now, I will be taking no further questions. pic.twitter.com/dQR8bg3UAO
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) March 1, 2019
FYI, “Brummies” are people from Birmingham. I don’t know about you, but this sounds extremely disgusting, and I don’t think I’ll be taking the plunge anytime soon.
I’m not alone in my feelings.
contacting your loved ones to stage an intervention
— Wild Geerters (@classiclib3ral) March 1, 2019
EVEN YOU DON'T LOOK LIKE YOU'RE ENJOYING IT
— Rob Cox (@CoxxyTweets) March 1, 2019
— Heather (@ukheather) March 1, 2019
STOP THIS MADNESS!
by this point i'm just disappointed in you pic.twitter.com/lY9jjF7qig
— Josh Luke Davis
(@JoshuaLukeDavis) March 1, 2019
And then this guy had to jump in and defend Mr. Felton.
It’s weird to me that #milkcoke isn’t common knowledge. My parents introduced us to Soda/milk combo when I was like 4 – so 24 years ago give or take. At the times was called “Bop” or a “Brown Cow” and yes if done correctly it was amazing.
— Bucs Fan in Japan (@johnallaire128) March 5, 2019
And finally, this guy reacted in the way that any sane, rational person would.
fuck is this shit
— fella (@mutablejoe) March 1, 2019
What do you think? Have you tried this combination? Sound off in the comments below!
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