How do we get chocolate milk?

[Senegoid]

@TriPolar

Can’t see the article with the ad blocker but if I was asked to answer a poll about where chocolate milk came from and one of the choices was Brown Cows I’d pick that one. If they used a poll I’m surprised only 7% of the people answered that way.

We had this discussion, about where various kinds of milk come from, some years ago. Even then, TriPolar was assuring us that chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Little Nemo gives a plausible account of how a segment of the population has come to believe that.

What Type of Factory Makes Milk?, started by Ken001, 09/21/2012.

@Little_Nemo

@TriPolar

Chocolate milk comes from brown cows.

I recently read about a grandfather who had a dairy farm and convinced his visiting grandchildren this was true. He secretly added some chocolate powder to the bottom of a pail and then let the children watch him milk a brown cow into the pail. And sure enough, the pail filled up with chocolate milk, which the kids got to drink.

The letter I read was from one of the now-adult grandchildren, who admits he believed for years afterwards that it was possible to get chocolate milk from a cow - he had, after all, personally witnessed it happen.

That was the same thread in which we examined whether pineapples grow on trees:

@TriPolar

They don’t? I thought pineapples grew on pine trees.

It took a post from yours truly, and several following, to set that urban legend straight (emphasis added):

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

@chappachula

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

@Senegoid

Also, cinnamon comes from pine trees! I just discovered that a few years ago. Around December (I guess that’s when pine cones are in season), all the supermarkets around here sell cinnamon pine cones. Maybe they’ve always had them, but I just recently noticed. Who knew that cinnamon comes from pine cones?

(And I think, if you cross a cow with a chicken and feed the babies cinnamon pine cones, they will produce egg-nog.)

I hate to break it to you because you seem really excited about this, but… cinnamon pine cones are just cinnamon scented pine cones. Cinnamon comes from the bark of a type of laurel tree called (imaginatively enough) cinnamomum.

umm…I hate to break it to you, but I think you’ve just been wooshed.
(hint: read the next sentence in the same post, wherein he disscusses the origin of egg nog…)

:smack:

ETA: And Concord grape juice comes from purple cows.