# What Type of Factory Makes Milk? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 21, 2012, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373 "2012-09-21T10:22:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/41 "2012-09-21T15:39:50Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > You know what I like? Those little baby hot dogs. Do they small down the regular ones, or do they make 'em different? They take full-size hot dogs and turn 'em down on a lathe. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/42 "2012-09-21T15:46:08Z")
The idea that milk comes from farms is bullshit. I’ve been to a farm. I never once saw any milk carton plants. ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/43 "2012-09-21T16:33:00Z")
How is babby cow formed?? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/44 "2012-09-21T16:41:14Z")
\*I never saw a purple cow. I never hope to see one. But from the milk we’re getting now, I’m certain there must be one. \* ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/45 "2012-09-21T16:50:02Z")
> [@Huvudtvatt](#): > > Is this a Whoosh? > > The milk comes from animals called “cows”. They live at places called “Farms”. The owner of the farm (“Farmer”) sells the milk to a “Dairy” or “Milk processing plant” where it is processed and packaged. (Sometimes these plants are owned by farmers’ collectives). The plastic-coated paper boxes was an invention by the company Tetra-pak. Do you have a cite for Tetra inventing the milk carton. I see competing things on the internet saying the US style milk carton being invented by in the US in 1906 by G. W, Maxwell or in 1915 by John Van Wormer. The US style Milk carton looks different from the four sided carton that I think of as a tetra-pak. Wiki seems to think that the four sided tetra pak was invented around 1950. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/46 "2012-09-21T16:53:13Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > The idea that milk comes from farms is bullshit. I’ve been to a farm. I never once saw any milk carton plants. Well, they don’t grow on trees. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/47 "2012-09-21T16:58:58Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > Well, they don’t grow on trees. Neither do pineapples, but you never see anyone pulling on a cow’s teet and getting a pineapple. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/48 "2012-09-21T17:12:47Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Neither do pineapples, but you never see anyone pulling on a cow’s teet and getting a pineapple. They don’t? I thought pineapples grew on pine trees. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/49 "2012-09-21T17:14:18Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > They don’t? I thought pineapples grew on pine trees. No, that’s where we get Pine-sol. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/50 "2012-09-21T17:37:54Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/51 "2012-09-21T17:40:17Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > I’m old enough to remember when Saddam said the US bombed a baby milk factory in the first Gulf War. Kinda odd to draw attention to a place where infants were milked, I thought. Don’t even ask about baby oil. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/52 "2012-09-21T17:40:36Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > They don’t? I thought pineapples grew on pine trees. When the mommy pine tree and the daddy apple tree are very drunk… ---
**Author:** ![Ken001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@Ken001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ken001)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/53 "2012-09-21T17:56:04Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > I dunno about them “cows” and “milk” stuff, …but, man, what I wanna know is where they make chickens. > There’s something wrong with the factory where they make the whole chickens—The individual parts are pretty nicely packaged and well manufactured. But if you buy a new, complete unit it comes with all kinds of extra , yukky stuff inside. > I don’t get it—it must cost the factory more to make all that stuff, and then somehow insert it inside the chicken . Why bother? You are a bad bad man! 😃 😃 Whooaa - how did this thread ever get this far? Nice work everybody. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/54 "2012-09-21T18:09:00Z")
> [@Ken001](#): > > Whooaa - how did this thread ever get this far? Nice work everybody. Some kudos are due your way too, Mr. OP… I had my doubts as to whether or not you’d ever return to this thread you started 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/55 "2012-09-21T18:13:14Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Don’t even ask about baby oil. Or J&J’s so-called Baby Powder. They are run by Satanists, after all. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/56 "2012-09-21T18:17:29Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > Or J&J’s so-called Baby Powder. They are run by Satanists, after all. Have you ever been to a baby shower? It’s bad when it rains cats and and dogs, but… ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/57 "2012-09-21T19:39:04Z")
> [@PatriotGrrrl](#): > > So almonds, coconuts, and soys have nipples? Who knew! Not entirely: > [@Lewis Black](#): > > It’s _soy juice_. It can’t be _soy milk_, because there’s no soy titty, now, is there? ---
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/58 "2012-09-21T23:45:59Z")
> [@Ken001](#): > > You are a bad bad man! 😃 😃 > Whooaa - how did this thread ever get this far? Nice work everybody. We have seriously fought ignorance! That’s what we are here for. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/59 "2012-09-22T00:01:23Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > Mmm, tell me more about these “cows”. They are very active in both Track And Field, **and** the Space Program, often at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/60 "2012-09-22T00:27:18Z")
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