• @pastaPersona
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    “delicious blended food drink”!

    Advertising written by the utterly deranged

    • pancakes
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      338 months ago

      Go easy on them, this was from a time before humanity had the sun.

      • @DanglingFury
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        The phone number is 4 digits. I realize we added area codes. I didn’t realize we had already done it once before that wet the other 3 digits.i wonder if they still have a xxx-xxx-3577 phone number floating around the company somewhere

  • @I_Fart_Glitter
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    Wouldn’t this curdle? I can kind of see how it would be a distant cousin of a creamsicle or a root beer float, but I think it’s going to get chunky. Maybe the “natural lemon flavor” is refined enough that it wont, I don’t know. I don’t have either ingredient on hand to try it for science.

    • @[email protected]
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      548 months ago

      The name “7up” would trick the milk into thinking it’s has a +7 pH, preveting it from curdling

      • Zagorath
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        308 months ago

        It’s not literally 7up mixed with milk, but Milkis is a fairly popular drink in Korea, and can regularly be found in vending machines—or at least could when I lived there in the mid '00s.

        • @RememberTheApollo_
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          Actually tried a couple of those. Must be an acquired taste. Couldn’t stand them.

          • @Purplexingg
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            48 months ago

            Same. I bought two at a local Asian grocer near me without knowing what it was, just to try. After forcing myself to finish the first couldn’t bring myself to start the second.

        • @[email protected]
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          58 months ago

          Just went to Korea last year, they still sell Milkis in all the vending machines and convenience stores and it’s divine. Yogurt soju + Milkis is a recipe for a great fucking time.

      • @ABCDE
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        78 months ago

        It’s salty fizzy yogurt, basically. Popular in Iran too, called dough/ayran.

      • @elliot_crane
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        58 months ago

        The description of this combo being similar to lassi made it instantly 180 from vile to tasty in my mind. Now how long until I find myself buying 7up and milk at the store…

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    First off, it really is tasty.

    Second, given when this add is from, it is likely that the milk consumed by many who read this ad was close to or equivalent to the best “artisan farmer” organic milk you can find today, and the 7-Up was likely still using pure cane sugar rather than high-fructose corn syrup.

    Not wholesome, but also not the toxic sludge it would be today.

      • @RememberTheApollo_
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        258 months ago

        The milk was whitened with plaster of Paris, thickened with starch and eggs, and hued with molasses.

        The fuck.

        • @Agent641
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          218 months ago

          Whenever you think government regulation of something is overbearing, there’s a story like this that preceded the regulation.

          • @Klear
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            78 months ago

            Apparently this story preceded some asshole politician blocking regulation despite public outcry and working super hard to make sure nothing changes, successfully for the most part.

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              According to Wikipedia.

              Tuomey assumed a central role in the ensuing investigations, and, with fellow Aldermen E. Harrison Reed and William Tucker, shielded the dairies and turned the hearings into one-sided exercises designed to make dairy critics and established health authorities look ridiculous, even going to the extent of arguing that swill milk was actually as good or better for children than regular milk.

              Ah war politics, politics never changes.

          • TheHarpyEagle
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            28 months ago

            Methinks more people need to read The Jungle.

    • @LemmyKnowsBest
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      28 months ago

      I’m happy that their food ingredients were such high quality back then. Leads me to wonder how the heck they spiraled downward into eating hot dog jello.

    • @[email protected]
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      Still what!?

      The product, originally named “Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda”, was launched two weeks before the Wall Street Crash of 1929. It contained lithium citrate, a mood-stabilizing drug, until 1948.

    • @lewdian69
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      128 months ago

      Try it - it’s different!

    • @Agent641
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      48 months ago

      Alright hear me out - 7-UP Milk Beef Fizz

  • @[email protected]
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    I was a kid growing up in 80s Japan & they had this drink called “Calpis” and it was milk and orange soda. And yes, the Japanese pronounced it like “cow piss”. I hated it.

    • CheezyWeezle
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      Calpis isn’t carbonated tho, at least none of the Calpico branded stuff I’ve had. Milkis is very similar and is carbonated, so it would probably be closer to this. Personally I like both Calpico and Milkis, they are definitely not my favorite but they are good to have every once in a while, owing especially to their unique taste.

    • Synapse
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      We also had a milk-orange jus drink in france in the 2000’s. Absolutly disgusting. Danao, launched in 1998, nerver consumed by anyone, still available today!

      • @slampisko
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        Of course it’s still available if no one has consumed it!

    • @ShortFuse
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      I had it about 10 years ago in Japan. It wasn’t that bad and basically a yogurt morir soñando like in the Dominican Republic.

      Pocari Sweat was worse. It tasted like its name.

    • @frickineh
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      It sounds like the end result would be similar to a French soda, which is delicious. I don’t love the flavor of 7up, so that wouldn’t be my first choice, but dairy and soda aren’t a new combination.

      • Nika
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        168 months ago

        Pilk

      • ares35
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        98 months ago

        and vanilla ice cream instead of milk. yum.

    • @[email protected]
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      My dad used to give me sugary tea in a bottle. I had to have all my teeth pulled by the time I was 2

  • @InternetCitizen2
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    138 months ago

    Is Pepsi okay? This is very gross, please send a wellness check.

  • @LemmyKnowsBest
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    108 months ago

    I wonder how many mothers back then read that and thought:

    “No I do NOT know. In fact my instincts tell me this is bullshit.”

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      Well, “mothers back then” drink alcohol and smoking while breastfeeding, so 7-up and milk is a high probability combination.

      • @LemmyKnowsBest
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        led my mind on a train of thought and I was curious how infant mortality has improved over the years so I found this graphic:

        I’m most interested in the colorful squiggly lines that show a downward trend in infant mortality over the years, I’m not interested or care about the racial disparities, and I have no idea what that black jagged line going the opposite direction is.

        But I’m most interested in the colorful squiggly lines that show a downward trend in infant mortality over the years.

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          Well, the black squiggly line in the opposite direction shows an increasing relative gap between races, which you don’t care about.

          It shows that while infant mortality has gone down for all, and even though it’s significant, that black children are dying at an increasing proportion to their white peers. But you don’t care that it fundamentally shows that they’re not getting the same access to the same improvements (either medical care, education of the mother on prenatal care, etc).

          • Carighan Maconar
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            28 months ago

            I think you misunderstand what they meant with “I don’t care about”. It sounds like they just meant that it’s not line why they’re quoting this graph, they got it for the stats on child-deaths-per-1k people.

            • @wolfpack86
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              But they also state they do not understand the black line, which I would argue understanding it is the entire point of the graph.

              Yeah, fewer infants are dying but access to the improvements is not equal. That’s a pretty important point to reflect on.

              (Obviously without any ability to determine the causation of the problem… Just that one exists and should be investigated)

              • Carighan Maconar
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                28 months ago

                Yeah but not if you were just googling for a graph that shows the development of infant mortality in the past 100 years, this came up, and you need it for those curves.

    • @Snapz
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      28 months ago

      Came here to Pilk, you beat me. But you’ll never beat Pilk, because nothing beats Polk.

    • @CRS_Customer
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      I’ve grown fond of these recently. Little bit of an acquired taste, but great with cookies.