# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**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 21, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-get-chocolate-milk/789478/15 "2017-06-21T00:27:25Z")
> [@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?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=666205), started by **Ken001** , 09/21/2012. > [@What Type of Factory Makes Milk?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/50): > > > [@What Type of Factory Makes Milk?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/32): > > > > 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: > [@What Type of Factory Makes Milk?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/48): > > 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): > [@What Type of Factory Makes Milk?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/96): > > > [@What Type of Factory Makes Milk?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/95): > > > > > [@What Type of Factory Makes Milk?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/94): > > > > > > > [@What Type of Factory Makes Milk?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/91): > > > > > > > > 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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-get-chocolate-milk/789478)._