# "Milk from Real Cows" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 30, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-from-real-cows/319295 "2005-08-30T18:10:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-from-real-cows/319295/1 "2005-08-30T18:10:07Z")
I am taking a Mental Health Day today (P.S. it’s not working) and was strolling back from the library, and saw a [Cream-o-Land](http://www.creamoland.com/site/index.html) milk truck, emblazoned with the slogan “Milk from Real Cows.” Note that the slogan appears nowhere on their web site. Some Googling revealed that I am not the only one baffled by this idea. Though I have to admit that milk from robotic cows does have a tinny taste to it. I wonder if the Cream-o-Land Real Cows are as Contented as the Carnation Cows? ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-from-real-cows/319295/2 "2005-08-30T18:15:23Z")
Perhaps there has been a recent plague of cows that have had cosmetic surgery on their tits. 😕 Nah, I am mystified too. How goeth new job. \*\*Eve[/]? ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-from-real-cows/319295/3 "2005-08-30T18:23:38Z")
Cream-O-Land, eh? Sounds like a front to me. I’d cantact the police about some kind of mob deal going down. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-from-real-cows/319295/4 "2005-08-30T19:42:23Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Note that the slogan appears nowhere on their web site. And note that the only cow on their web site is _not a real cow_. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-from-real-cows/319295/5 "2005-08-30T19:49:20Z")
> [@Borborygmi](#): > > And note that the only cow on their web site is _not a real cow_. Yeah, it sounds like they protest too loud. "_Of course_ our milk is from real cows! Why would anyone think _otherwise?_ That whirring and clicking is, ummm, the cow chewing its cud! Those sparks are, ummm . . . _Oh, look over there, a butterfly!_ [New job doesn’t start till the 19th–I hope I won’t need any Mental Health Days after that!) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-from-real-cows/319295/6 "2005-08-30T19:56:40Z")
[Says it on the label, too.](http://photos1.flickr.com/876283_6b1573df5e_m.jpg) I think I’d leave that carton on the shelf just for the sheer faint-praisiness of it all. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-from-real-cows/319295/7 "2005-08-30T20:04:54Z")
“Milk That’s Sort of White!” “Milk That’s Liquid!” “Cream-o-Land: Now Listeria-Free!” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-from-real-cows/319295/8 "2005-08-30T20:22:47Z")
_Milk: Juice from a real animal._ ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-from-real-cows/319295/9 "2005-08-30T20:33:11Z")
A local dairy in my area used to sell a product labeled as “0% Milk.” Presumably this was milk from unreal cows. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-from-real-cows/319295/10 "2005-08-30T20:39:02Z")
Maybe “real cows” is somehow related to “real estate.” As in, the cows are big and flat and have houses and shit on 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Giant\_Spongess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@Giant\_Spongess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Spongess)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-from-real-cows/319295/11 "2005-08-30T20:43:08Z")
Maybe they’re afraid of their clientele worrying that the milk is from…foreign animals? MMmmmm, tasty tasty seal milk! Creamy! ---
**Author:** ![Mooney252](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7c8e57/32.png) [@Mooney252](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooney252)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-from-real-cows/319295/12 "2005-08-30T20:46:19Z")
Since I just bought a half-gallon of soy milk for our college kid, it makes perfect sense for me to see a dairy differentiate itself. And what about all of those little packets of fake milk they provide at restaurants to go with your coffee. There IS a lot of counterfeit milk out there (and we can’t even blame the Chinese)! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-from-real-cows/319295/13 "2005-08-30T21:51:49Z")
> [@Mooney252](#): > > There IS a lot of counterfeit milk out there (and we can’t even blame the Chinese)! Omigod, you can _milk the Chinese?_ ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-from-real-cows/319295/14 "2005-08-30T22:37:26Z")
Milk from real cows. Because milk from fake cows just isn’t good enough. ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-from-real-cows/319295/15 "2005-08-30T22:57:10Z")
Homer: [gasps] Crap on a crust! [running away] Aaah! They’re milking rats! Milking rats!! Quimby: [to Fat Tony] Rats? I’m outraged! You promised me dog or higher. – “Mayored to the Mob” ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-from-real-cows/319295/16 "2005-08-30T22:57:36Z")
> [@Mooney252](#): > > There IS a lot of counterfeit milk out there (and we can’t even blame the Chinese)! Hardly. “Milk” is a whitish, nutritional fluid obtained from mammals or plants. Soy milk or coconut milk aren’t passed off as cow milk. If someone uses soy milk rather than cow milk, it’s because, for one reason or another, soy milk is more appealing to them than cow milk. Assurances that a product is “real” cow milk isn’t going to clear up any confusion on that point. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-from-real-cows/319295/17 "2005-08-30T23:11:48Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > Hardly. “Milk” is a whitish, nutritional fluid obtained from mammals or plants. Soy milk or coconut milk aren’t passed off as cow milk. > > If someone uses soy milk rather than cow milk, it’s because, for one reason or another, soy milk is more appealing to them than cow milk. Assurances that a product is “real” cow milk isn’t going to clear up any confusion on that point. (Nitpick) The OP said the sign said\*\* “Milk from real cows”\*\* not real cow’s milk. **Eve** , I’ve _been_ to Carnation (WA) I was not content, but I’m not a cow. There may be disagreement, but, I know I’m not 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-from-real-cows/319295/18 "2005-08-31T00:34:11Z")
> [@Eleusis](#): > > Homer: [gasps] Crap on a crust! [running away] Aaah! They’re > milking rats! Milking rats!! > Quimby: [to Fat Tony] Rats? I’m outraged! You promised me dog or > higher. > – “Mayored to the Mob” “Don’t worry, son. Only bad people die before their time.” “What about Abe Lincoln?” “Um…he sold poisoned milk to schoolchildren.” ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-from-real-cows/319295/19 "2005-08-31T00:40:04Z")
as opposed to goats 😕 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-from-real-cows/319295/20 "2005-08-31T00:40:33Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Omigod, you can _milk the Chinese?_ I’m absolutely certain I can find a couple of websites whose business plan is to let you WATCH them milk Chinese women… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-from-real-cows/319295.md?page=2)