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Seven percent of all American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, according to a nationally representative online survey commissioned by the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy.
If you do the math, that works out to 16.4 million misinformed, milk-drinking people. The equivalent of the population of Pennsylvania (and then some!) does not know that chocolate milk is milk, cocoa and sugar.
[...] For decades, observers in agriculture, nutrition and education have griped that many Americans are basically agriculturally illiterate. They don't know where food is grown, how it gets to stores — or even, in the case of chocolate milk, what's in it.
[...] Upton and other educators are quick to caution that these conclusions don't apply across the board. Studies have shown that people who live in agricultural communities tend to know a bit more about where their food comes from, as do people with higher education levels and household incomes.
[...] In some ways, this ignorance is perfectly logical. The writer and historian Ann Vileisis has argued that it developed in lockstep with the industrial food system.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Saturday June 17 2017, @08:31AM (2 children)
To all those folks who think chocolate milk comes from brown cows: I have a cousin who'd like to sell you all a nice dish of mountain oysters, with a big loaf of sweetbread to serve it on.
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Saturday June 17 2017, @12:37PM
Is sweetbread a product of the Sugarloaf region?
Enquiring minds want to know.
Please provide a reference to an organ of the state.
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Saturday June 17 2017, @01:22PM
To be fair, "sweetbread" is ambiguous. Generally two words or hyphenated, "sweet bread" can refer to stuff like "pan dulce" and other sweetened breads from the around the word.
If you're referring to the glands, it's almost always "sweetbreads" with a final "s." No one would ever say "a big loaf of sweetbread" and be referring to the glands.