# How do we get chocolate milk? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 20, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-get-chocolate-milk/789478 "2017-06-20T20:34:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2017, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-get-chocolate-milk/789478/41 "2017-06-24T02:15:27Z")
When my daughter was about two and a half, she loved to talk on the phone. My wife and I used to amuse ourselves by handing the phone to her when a telemarketer or survey taker called. if this had been a phone survey, enough parents like us would definitely have skewed the survey in favor of chocolate milk coming from brown cows. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2017, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-get-chocolate-milk/789478/42 "2017-06-24T17:50:10Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Some chocolate milk probably comes from brown cows. How now? ---
**Author:** ![davida03801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@davida03801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davida03801)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-get-chocolate-milk/789478/43 "2017-06-25T15:08:17Z")
Yes it is Black Angus milk somewhat diluted. I thought every one knew that… ---
**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-get-chocolate-milk/789478/44 "2017-06-25T22:19:48Z")
> [@Trancephalic](#): > > Do they think brown _women_ lactate chocolate milk I am willing to volunteer for a study doing taste testing. Only if I get it fresh “from the tap” so to speak. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-get-chocolate-milk/789478/45 "2017-06-25T22:38:06Z")
> [@PoppaSan](#): > > I am willing to volunteer for a study doing taste testing. Only if I get it fresh “from the tap” so to speak. I know you think you’re just being funny, but this is frowned upon here at the SDMB. Don’t make sexual comments in threads not related to sex at all again, please. ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-get-chocolate-milk/789478/46 "2017-06-25T22:50:15Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > How now? And in the winter when those cows are cold you get ice cream! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-get-chocolate-milk/789478/47 "2017-06-26T17:11:33Z")
At least they knew that milk came from cows. Do they know where eggs come from and where from the boiled ones? :p:p ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-get-chocolate-milk/789478/48 "2017-06-27T00:58:52Z")
> [@WildBlueYonder](#): > > At least they knew that milk came from cows. Do they know where eggs come from and where from the boiled ones? :p:p Well, I get that poached eggs come from poached chickens. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-get-chocolate-milk/789478/49 "2017-06-27T02:26:26Z")
> [@WildBlueYonder](#): > > At least they knew that milk came from cows. Do they know where eggs come from and where from the boiled ones? :p:p If cadbury taught me anything, it’s chocolate-cream eggs come from clucking bunnies.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-get-chocolate-milk/789478/50 "2017-06-27T03:16:23Z")
> [@Trancephalic](#): > > If cadbury taught me anything, it’s chocolate-cream eggs come from clucking bunnies.🆒 Maybe so, but I’m not gonna argue with that lion-wearing-the-bunny-ears that auditions every year. ---
**Author:** ![pjacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@pjacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjacks)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2017, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-get-chocolate-milk/789478/51 "2017-06-27T03:36:48Z")
N Sent from my R1 HD using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-get-chocolate-milk/789478/52 "2017-06-29T05:11:55Z")
> [@pjacks](#): > > N > > Sent from my R1 HD using Tapatalk I see. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-get-chocolate-milk/789478.md?page=2)