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Milk That Tastes Like the Bottom of Your Cereal Bowl

Randy McCoy — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:19:29 +0000

Milk that tastes like the bottom of your cereal bowl has made it to the market. When the cereal is all gone and all that’s left is the milk, the milk has the flavor of the cereal you just ate, that’s the premise behind a company called ‘Cow-Wow’, they are bring to the grocery store [...]

Milk in a Bottle for the First Time in 1879

Randy McCoy — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:33:55 +0000

It’s amazing to think that milk first appeared in glass bottles for the first time in the United States 1879 and was a big improvement in hygiene and convenience. Before milk came in a bottle, people would buy it as a bulk item usually from a keg or bucket and put it in any type of container they had. The new method of delivery caught on fast with some states requiring milk to be sold in a bottle by the first decade of the 20th century.

Milk Consumption Down in the U.S.

Randy McCoy — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:15:06 +0000

Milk consumption in the United States has been going down for several years, as far back as 1984 and it’s blamed on the popularity of bottled water. Milk as a beverage has fallen to its lowest level in nearly 30 years. Whole milk sales in 2011 were less than half their level since the 1980s, and milk sales in general show half of American adults do not consume milk.