A to Z Monday
....the edible edition

Brought to you this week by the letter M for Milk.

Do you remember the commercial catch phrase....Make Mine Milk?


Let's take a walk down the memory lane of Milk...in no particular order......

 

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Here's good ol' Elsie, the Borden cow. She tried her darnest to convince Rita that I'd love that powdered  stuff.  

Then, Elsie got a hair up her arse all clever and decided Hemo was way better than plain old milk. Kind of like the cat's pajamas.   What  the heck is Hemo?

So, while Borden's  had Elsie pushing  powdered milk or Hemo, the hired her husband Elmer to sell......

Glue!  Ok, so Grandma J is getting out in left field and totally off subject.....let's get back to the milk thing.

In the thirties and forties, evaporated milk was the rave.   You could store these cans in your pantry and never worry about them going bad until you opened them.  

Grandma J misses Fibber McGee and Molly....and please take note that Johnny Carson was known as Jack!

Now good old Elsie was pushing a trifecta, which now included bottled milk.  Homogenized or pasturized...who knew!

Then one day in the 1950s, the world was introduced to the Pure-Pak!  That's right, the cardboard box milk container.   The one that fifty years later would be considered un-green.

Of course the  milkman latched on to the Pure-Pak container and mothers all across the country had no problem letting their toddlers open the door for this guy. 

Meanwhile, our neighbors to the north, in the Canadian Rockies, had a much better take on the whole milk thing.

And where did they find kids with this demonic look for ads back in the 50's?   And I thought only Rita cut her daughters' bangs into little stubs like that.

Now, a question for you.......

 Have you ever seen a refrigerator/freezer like this before?   Grandma J wouldn't mind having this...even if it was turquoise.

Now mosey on over to A to Z Mondays, hosted by Jen at unglazed to see a plethora of other M foods.

IT DOES A BODY GOOD, WITH HOT FUDGE

I'm an ice cream lover like none other. There was a time when I could down a pint a night watching TV and never gain an ounce....but then something happened...the earth started turning on its axles or antler, and all of a sudden a pint of ice cream would miraculously morf into three pounds of hip or thigh. Am I crazy? Does the math even make sense? 16 oz = 3 lbs squared.

I quit buying the stuff. Once in a blue moon I'll get a Wendy's Frosty, or maybe I'll raid someone else's freezer for an ice cream drumstick, but it's not daily.

Yesterday I read something that might ruin my appetite for ice cream for good.
Yep, PETA sent a letter to Ben & Jerry's asking them to switch from cows milk to human milk in their ice cream. They claim the cows are forced to get pregnant every gestation cycle so they continually produce milk.

They claim cows milk is bad for humans and is linked to all these illnesses:

allergies, heart disease, colic, flatulence, breast cancer, autism, diabetes, sick children, obesity, constipation, osteoporosis, acne, ear infections, prostate cancer, mucus, Crohn's Disease, beer, lactose intolerance.

They claim the cows aren't happy. Are they half crazy? I personally know that dairy cows are the happiest cows around.

What about Janice here...she's one of the California Happy Cows....named after me. Shes seems pleased that she's not top sirloin.

Then there is Diane....she's a Happy Cow too....and Dianne is my middle name. Who named these cows?

So friends, I think I will be keeping a close eye on the ice cream industry. I will definitely start reading labels for content. I'm just a bit too old for breast milk, from any one's mother.

Here's the real clincher...PETA has it in for M & M's. No one messes with my M & M's!

All opinions are mine. None were intentionally meant to hurt the feelings of any human, cow, or candy lover. Amen.

MY APOLOGIES FOR THE OVERSIGHT

To Be Specific......I'M SORRY, MAREY AND CORTNEY

The one thing I love about Blogger, is the ability to put polls on this site. It's a tool I use to find out stuff about the people who read my ramblings. Not everyone takes the poll, and now I know why.


I currently have a poll on this blog...yeah, check it out, over there on the right.....and it's flawed. While I try to be all inclusive, I've come to realize not all people are normal roll the same way. In my broadmindedness...I did remember to add an alcoholic beverage, because I don't expect everyone to start the day sober the same way.


I was reading the comment section this morning and I found that I omitted a couple of obvious options. Not only that, but the couple of options were favorite morning beverages of my only two two most favorite readers.


I quickly moved to remedy this oversight. That's right.....I hired these two guys to paint a billboard for me.......
And this is what it said........ That's right, Cortney drinks Coke first thing in the morning. And this is what her breakfast table looks like.

My other good friend, Marey is a wife, mother, teacher and health nut. She is wayyyy smarter than you or me. She loves milk in the morning. And really? Why not? Her milk comes from the Happy California Cows. That's right, they graze along the coast so they can go surfing after they give Marey their milk.

If you show up at Marey's house, this is probably how her breakfast table looks.

And when Marey sleeps in late she just does this! Yes, she does.

So Marey, Cortney, please accept my apology. Milk and Coke are legitimate options, and should have been included.

If anyone else has a favorite beverage to start the day, please let me know. I want to be fair.....because I'm nothing if not fair.