Pigs. You’re drinking pig’s milk.
Brown cows! How stupid!
You get chocolate milk from chocolate cows.
Speaking as a market research professional: it may well be a reasonably accurate, professionally-done research study.
But, within any study, you’re going to have:
- A certain small percentage of respondents who are intentionally mis-answering the questions, because they think it’s amusing (particularly on a silly question like this one)
- Another small percentage who are reading (and replying to) the questions quickly, and select the wrong answer sometimes
So, out of that 7%, I’d assume a fair number of those respondents are in each of those two groups. But, yes, there probably are a few actual stupid people in there, too.
Two years later, Frank Gellett Burgess came to resent the popularity of the poem (he’d be a lot angrier if he realized it was what he would be most famous for, over a century later), and wrote a response:
Confession: and a Portrait Too, Upon a Background that I Rue
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!
Besides the question of chocolate milk, there’s this:
Do you have any idea how many Sheas you have to milk to get enough Shea Butter to make a container of sun lotion? It’s alarming!
False dichotomy. 
I really want to know how the question was worried and if there were multiple choice answers. But we’ll never know because the story is better than the facts.
According to this story:
. . . so it sounds like a multiple choice question, that actually gives people the option of “brown cow”.
This is not an analysis of what people really think, but in fact a survey that provides takers with leading and/or intentionally silly options. It should come as no surprise that some people will tick the “brown cow” box, and it should also be no surprise that 0% of those people probably actually believe that to be the correct answer.
The host goes on to say:
. . . which it absolutely does not. It shows that people will fill out dumb surveys with joke answers, particularly if you feed them those answers.
But hey, kudos to the marketing people on the Dairy Council, who came up with a way to generate all this buzz about a planted story, and here’s to the media, who can’t be bothered to roll their eyes at and ignore this little story because it’s popular and attracts eyeballs/ears.
When he was three, my cousin, after watching my aunt breast feeding, thought that one breast was regular white milk, one was chocolate.
(And fuck, I still drink chocolate milk – and it’s great in coffee)
Pink elephants.
Ginger cows.
Upon reflection, I am never drinking ginger ale ever again.
I drink Gatorade. How can Gatorade come from gators? They aren’t even mammals!
I think Gatorade is just high-reprocessed milk from cows of a variety of ethnic skin-and-fur tones.
We get Lemonade from Lemons, and they’re not mammals. And we Limeade from Limes, which aren’t mammals, either. They’re both citrus fruits, and we make them from their juice.
But Gators aren’t citrus fruits, and have no juice.
I’m going to have a Kool Aid and think this over. Or maybe a Flav-r-ade.
Do they think brown women lactate chocolate milk
Obviously, you can’t milk a gator. However, they do produce another liquid that is suitable for bottling as Gatorade.
You’ve got it wrong. Gatorade was a modified spelling. It was originally Gator-aid, and it means that it was a liquid used to help gators. What’s unclear is whether it helps them stay hydrated since they don’t absorb water through their skin, or whether it’s a lure for unsuspecting humans.
Would an answer of “black and white cows” actually have been any more correct?
(well, OK, the most common milk breed is black and white, but you get basically the same milk from them as from the brown cows)
thank you 