Posted on 06/20/2017 8:37:48 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Generations of us who learned that rhyme never dreamed that brown bovines had a direct connection to chocolate milk. "Seven percent of all American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, according to a nationally representative online survey commissioned by the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy," Caitlin Dewey reported in The Washington Post. "If you do the math, that works out to 16.4 million misinformed, milk-drinking people."
"The equivalent of the population of Pennsylvania (and then some!) does not know that chocolate milk is milk, cocoa and sugar." Could the confusion stem from their education? Dewey offers this tantalizing tidbit. "When one team of researchers interviewed fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders at an urban California high school, they found that more than half of them didn't know pickles were cucumbers, or that onions and lettuce were plants," she writes. "Four in 10 didn't know that hamburgers came from cows."
"And 3 in 10 didn't know that cheese is made from milk." Let's hope they figure it out before they get their college degrees. If they don't get a handle on it, they could always major in gender studies. Perhaps we'll meet some of them at the Modern Language Association.
I’ve never seen a purple cow,
and never hope to see one.
How do CALIFORNIA idiots compare to the rest of the country?.................
> chocolate milk comes from brown cows <
And skim milk comes from skinny cows.
Four in 10 didn’t know that hamburgers came from cows
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But 10 in 10 know that carbon is bad, bad, bad.
But they all know that its all whitey’s fault.
Since when do fourth, fifth and sixth graders go to high school? They must be super smart, or CA urban high schools are really easy!
When I was in second grade--back when California had two Republican Senators and a Republican governor whilc a Republican sat in the White House--I got a thorough education on the dairy industry. At my school, in eastern Los Angeles County, where dairy products were a major industry, we learned all of the major breeds of dairy cattle and how milk, cheese, butter and ice cream were made. We even took field trips to a local dairy farm and a creamery.
Some things are on a need to know basis.
You’re going to camp out on this thread until one of us can’t stand it anymore and posts the rest of that, aren’t you?
Those days are long gone and ain’t coming back any time soon, for California.........................
They're the same 16.4 million who believe cow farts are destroying the climate. Brown cow farts are probably the most destructive...
I saw some idiot scream on tv that she couldn’t eat eggs because they were aborted chickens.
I knew a vegetarian who would order pepperoni pizza and throw the pepperonis in the trash. Sure, as if the pepperoni fat hadn’t leaked into the pizza. The poor pig gave its life to just be thrown in the trash. She was also clueless about the little white chunks in pork ‘n beans. Like, duuuh, right there in the name.
“Since when do fourth, fifth and sixth graders go to high school? “
Maybe it was a school high up on a mountaintop? :-)
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But from the milk we’re getting now,
I’m sure that there must be one.
Say, didn't Nestle have a strawberry milk powder? Are there strawberry cows?
Ah, yes, I wrote the "Purple Cow"—
I'm sorry, now, I wrote it;
But I can tell you, anyhow.
I'll kill you if you quote it!
It was deer season and some morons from the city decided to go hunting. They got their prize and drove into town to show it off. They were all excited calling everyone over to see the albino buffalo they'd bagged. Turns out they'd shot across and trespassed into another rancher's property and killed his prize Charolais bull.
FYI, those don't ever give milk.
Yes, and exactly how they process such cows to get the powder is truly a tragedy, and certainly not table talk!
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