# Got Milk?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-milk/249055>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 7, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-milk/249055 "2004-06-07T04:16:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-milk/249055/21 "2004-06-07T17:31:43Z")

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> [@anson2995](#):
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> …milk is relatively inexpensive in most parts of the country.

Not here it’s not. $3.99 /gal.

There was a thread a few weeks back wondering if cows had joined OPEC. Funniest thread title I’d seen in a long time.

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-milk/249055/22 "2004-06-07T18:24:12Z")

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> [@Exapno Mapcase](#):
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> Not true. As already noted above, these advertising campaigns are entirely run by industry groups.
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> The “Got Milk?” campaign is a creature of the California Milk Processor Board, which earlier did the famous Milk Is for Every Body campaign. There’s also another group called MilkPEP, which does the milk mustache commercials.
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> The beef campaign can be found at: [http://www.beefitswhatsfordinner.com/](http://www.beefitswhatsfordinner.com/)
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> It’s copyright by the Cattlemen’s Beef Board and funded by America’s Beef Producers.

In fact, there was a minor dustup a few months back in one of these groups - I want to say the milk group, but I’m not sure - where some of the members were suing the association because they didn’t like the ads, and they didn’t like having to pay for them. Something along those lines.

Anyway, a company I used to work for did a lot of work with several of these groups, along with similar groups that promote plastic and steel, and I can definitely say that they’re not governmental groups. They’re associations consisting of major producers in the industry.

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**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-milk/249055/23 "2004-06-07T18:32:48Z")

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> [@tdn](#):
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> A few years back there was a vampire movie starring Leslie Neilson. One ad campaign had a picture of him with a red liquid moustache, and the caption “Got Blood?”

I was given a T-shirt with the slogan “got blood?” after donating at my town’s Red Cross drive. Kinda oogy IMHO…

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**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-milk/249055/24 "2004-06-07T23:51:49Z")

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> [@Ace309](#):
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> In one of them, a guy gets a radio-trivia phone call for a subject he’s obsessed with, but can’t answer the question because he’s just taken a big bite of a peanut butter sandwich.
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> > [@BrotherCadfael](#):
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> > “Awon Buww!”

Ooh, this one’s my favorite! But I always feel sorry for the poor sap in the end. 😃

(IIRC, the trivia question is ["Who shot Alexander Hamilton?](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/duel/peopleevents/pande17.html) The camera pans so that you can see the guy is surrounded by artifacts relating to Aaron Burr, and then the guy’s immense frustration that he can’t be understood because he has no milk to wash away the peanut butter…)

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