Milk & Funny
I should be packing, getting ready to head to Dallas, but we're not rushing and well, I couldn't resist posting one last thing before I pack up my computer.
First off, did you see "Dear Abby" today?
Here is one of the queries:
Dear Abby:
I have been dating "Leon" for a few months. He is smart, cute, ambitious, caring, a great kisser and has a fantastic sense of humor. The problem? He gives new meaning to the phrase "Got milk?"
Leon still has the remains of the first gallon of milk he ever purchased when he moved into his apartment. (He had overestimated the amount of milk he would consume and before he knew it had a gallon in his fridge that was three weeks past its expiration date.) Time passed, and still it remained there. Soon it was 6 months old and a novelty.
Abby, Leon has kept this container of milk through two roommates, three girlfriends, seven jobs and two refrigerators. It will soon be five years. He seems to have formed some sort of sentimental attachment to it. Can it still be classified as milk? Leon is entertained by the reaction he gets when people hear about it and even has a blog about it with a picture.
If our relationship is to get serious, I see a "me or the milk" ultimatum in our future. Is it asking too much for him to leave his life of keeping expired dairy, or should I cut my losses and seek a dairy-free bachelor? Or should I just accept it as a souvenir or a pet?
LACTOSE INTOLERANT in Oregon
Seriously! Her response was cheesy, and you can hunt it down for yourself if you're really interested, but essentially Abby said the guy had to choose between his love of stale dairy products and his girlfriend. I'm amazed he's had ANY girlfriends, but that's besides the point.
I really wanted to track down his blog, but that would be even more of a waste of time. However it did seem ironic this morning, after reading that column, I was at Starbucks ordering some badly needed quad lattes for Amy and myself and I asked that mine be made with soy milk.
The "Batrista's" response?
"Sorry, we're out of soy milk. We do have organic milk though, would you like to try that?"
I'm sorry...but I burst out laughing.
Yes, I am aware that they sell non-pasteurized milk for folks whom I guess want to die like thousands of their ancestors, however I sort of thought ALL milk was "organic."
Well, it struck me as funny...and I figured I'd milk it for all it's worth.
3 Comments:
I laughed just as hard when I saw a bottle of organic water. I had to say that having organisms in my water was what I wanted to AVOID thank you very much.
Not long later I heard that a code of practice was coming into place as to what you can call organic - and water was not one of them...
Janet
We buy organic milk because we want to minimize our daughters' exposure to artificial growth hormone.
Girls are becoming sexually mature years ahead of when they did two generations ago. We can't do much about other possible environmental causes for this change, but buying healthier milk is pretty simple.
For more on both sides of the issue, you might want to see this NY Times piece from two years ago:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/09/dining/09milk.html
Harlan
Actually, although the "Barista" explained organic milk to me as "non-pasteurized" I later found out she was mistaken. At least according to a Barista at a Starbucks in Dallas whom I shared the same story with...he explained that it was milk from cows raised without hormones, antibiotics, etc..
Which I can see making a great deal more sense.
Reading the piece Harlan mentions it appears a lot of "organic" milk is "ultrapasteurized" - now I wonder if it says that on the label... "Organic Ultra Pasteurized" or would that be deemed something of a stigma among the organic food set?
In any case my intent was not to mock folks who choose organic foods, free range chickens, vegans or flexitarians (you'll have to look that one up)...it just struck me as funny that when I asked for "Soy" I was offered "organic" which seemingly would have no relation whatsoever except that Starbucks likely charges extra for each :)
MM
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