Posted on 11/12/2019 10:18:52 AM PST by Red Badger
Dean Foods, America's biggest milk processor, filed for bankruptcy Tuesday amid a steep, decades-long drop-off in U.S. milk consumption blamed on soda, juices and, more recently, nondairy substitutes.
The Dallas company said it may sell itself to the Dairy Farmers of America, a marketing cooperative owned by thousands of farmers.
"Despite our best efforts to make our business more agile and cost-efficient, we continue to be impacted by a challenging operating environment marked by continuing declines in consumer milk consumption," CEO Eric Berigause said in a statement.
Since 1975, the amount of milk consumed per capita in America has tumbled more than 40%, a slide attributed to a number of reasons but mostly the rise of so many other choices, including teas, sodas, juices and almond and soy milk.
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Wonder how many children on his route “look just like him”?
I also fondly remember those Divco Trucks in WVa, PA, NY, and the clinking of milk bottle, and our Borden’s milkbox on the back porches.
At 70, I’m still a whole milk, half & half, egg nog and yogurt user. 5 heart stents be damned!
Old joke: A kid got upset with his dad, wished real hard that his father would just die. Next day, he found his mom crying terribly because the milkman died the night before.
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Almond Milk....odd I don’t recall ever seeing teats on an almond.
A gallon of milk in my part of NW Florida is around $5.
Here in Ft. Walton it’s $3.65 at Big Lots....................
If you can get milk in glass bottles, or transfer to a glass bottle it gets really cold, way colder that plastic or waxed cartons.
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Now -— that’s the way milk should be drunk -— with chocolate in it!!!
Today, it’s pizza delivery drivers ...
The scary part, most fruit juices have more sugar content than coke.
Here in northern Oklahoma, it’s usually a little under $4 a gallon. (It’s cheaper at Aldi; and the DG in our town). This isn’t exactly dairy country. (You’d think it would be, being cattle country, but I guess when calves are weaned, they just breed the cow over and over, til it’s worn out).But then, neither is Texas, where it’s about $2. Oklahoma has very few grocery store options, though. Homeland and United, and Harps are owned by the same outfit, and specialize in small towns (and high prices). Pyramid Foods and Country Mart (owned by the same concern as Save Alot and Price Cutters, only much more expensive), and an Oklahoma only group, Reasors, also very expensive. We do have a few Aldi’s, the closest one from us being 20 miles away. We drink a lot of milk, so DG is the place I go for it, for $2.50 a gallon, “on sale”, now, in our town only, for the past couple of years.
I grew up next to a cucumber farm. Every evening I’d walk across the field with an empty bucket and come back with a bucket of fresh cucumbers................until the farmer saw me........
As a kid, I drank a lot of whole milk.
Since my 30s, I drink a gallon of FatFree each week...and at Meijer (Beavercreek/Dayton, Ohio) it’s only 99 cents/gallon vs $2.39 at Krogers.
Personally, even 1% tastes thick and syrupy - only FF for me.
And, that fact alone has prompted me to not buy milk at Walmart. It tastes weak. It's not the same stuff as before.
And other retailers are following their lead. I would gladly pay a little more for the old stuff. There's no comparison.
The government should revoke the prohibition of using milk for casein production. All casein, a milk product used for artificial cheese, paints, and emulsifiers, is imported. This would open a new market for domestic dairy.
Wow! Does that include the Dominos guaranteed delivery in 15 minutes?
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