as much as i loved chocolate and milk as a child, i was not a chocolate milk fanatic, in fact, i rarely had it. in the past few weeks, ive had a little chocolate milk flare-up. and today in a moment of weakness, i reached out in the aisle for the hersheys syrup. got me wondering what other people drank while growing up. we usually had quik for hot chocolate, or occasionally swiss miss. my cousins had bosco which was always the best part of those visits. any ovalteeners out there? what if they had called it roundteen? would it have tasted as good?
Growing up, we used Nestle's powder, which came in a can, to make chocolate milk. Ovaltine was in the cabinet but infrequently used. For some reason I went through an Ovaltine phase, I think in my 20s, probably thinking it was good for me. If I drink flavored milk at all now, it's those Tropicana smoothie things, which are really more fruit juice and yogurt. In any case, my spooning and swirling days seem to be pretty much over.
we were a bosco family. occasionally we got (liquid) hershys in a can (messier than bosco w/ kids). a neighbor had virginia dare brand choc syrup in a bottle for choc milk. I also went through a faze of carnation instant breakfast drink in highschool, a powder which came in packets.
never heard of the virginia dare brand before.
Mix? We just bought chocolate milk in cartons, usually Borden’s, with the familiar face of Elsie the Cow. They say she was the most beloved corporate mascot of the time, but that thing on her head always bothered me. I could never tell if it was a curl, or maybe a spigot derived from the look of those old milk bottles? Seemed to suggest an udder somehow, but on her head? Looks like they’ve changed it into some tufts in the modern version. The “real” Elsie is buried in NJ. I loved milk, chocolate or otherwise, but completely lost the taste for it once I grew up.
That thing on her forehead was a growth from too many bovine hormoones (I swear I typed that inadvertently). I never heard of Virginia Dare either--hopefully her branding got a little more up to date from what's on that web page. And I'd forgotten about "Instant Breakfast"--that was in the cabinet in case we were too rushed to have cereal (just like in the ads).
I still have Nestle's chocolate powder in the cupboard. I never make chocolate milk anymore but sometimes (like once a year) I'll make hot chocolate. The powder doesn't ever seem to go bad.
right alex, it came that way. I think I remember getting both whole and chocolate milk delivered by the milkman (truck not wagon) in glass milkbottles with cardboard stoppers with paper/foil covers.
its a cowlick. elsie's evolution via debbies milkbottle page. note the white styro pellets to make the labels pop.
nice. i was searching for a good cowlick link but gave up. now, can you come over and mop my floor faster than me, too?
how bout horlicks? any anglophiles in and amongst?
spilled milk?
We drank Horlicks mixed with hot or cold milk. For some reason the taste of malt is popular with my family, my great-grandmother survived her 92nd and 93rd years solely on carnation malted milk powder mixed in water. I still love malt and have found twinings assam tea (the british stuff, not what they export to U.S.) to be a great replacement. Milk, no sugar.
interesting that it was invented in the us but is popular in the uk and india while essentially unknown here. ive never had it but had heard of it.
Bloody hell. Meaning no, I haven't heard of it. I have suffered from night starvation, though.
Of course we all know which European explorer first "discovered" chocolate.
Bosco de Gama
What a coincidence...just the last few days I've begun drinking rootbeer over ice with a large squeeze of chocolate syrup over the top. As many as six rootbeers a day glug down my gullet...ou sont les floats d'antan seems to be the nostalgia engine beneath my newest craze. Is this a problem for anyone else?
It was a dark & stormy night &, well, as I was about to down a frosty vessel of rootbeer my hand, as if guided by ghostly forces, grabbed the chocolate syrup & squoze. Yum, I gasped in a fit of eloquence. & yes, I'm about as pregnant as a 44 years old skinny white boy sitting in his greying longjohns could ever be. Anyway, thanks for asking & while we're on the subject I'll have you know I've been building a prosthetic brain for your Newe Boyefrend. Seriously, I think about my friends & the next thing you know I'm missing them. Thou still unravished guava popsicle...
Does anybody remember a chocolate milk drink that came in a soda can called FROSTED or FROSTY? I seem to remember that it was a Borden product, and was really thick and bubbly. It seems to have fell off the face of the earth. If anyone could e-mail at don@BlackAndWhiteBand.com with any info, I'd appreciate it greatly!
Have you considered a 12 step program Alex?
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- dave 2-21-2004 4:33 am
Growing up, we used Nestle's powder, which came in a can, to make chocolate milk. Ovaltine was in the cabinet but infrequently used. For some reason I went through an Ovaltine phase, I think in my 20s, probably thinking it was good for me. If I drink flavored milk at all now, it's those Tropicana smoothie things, which are really more fruit juice and yogurt. In any case, my spooning and swirling days seem to be pretty much over.
- tom moody 2-21-2004 12:29 pm [add a comment]
we were a bosco family. occasionally we got (liquid) hershys in a can (messier than bosco w/ kids). a neighbor had virginia dare brand choc syrup in a bottle for choc milk. I also went through a faze of carnation instant breakfast drink in highschool, a powder which came in packets.
- bill 2-21-2004 4:44 pm [add a comment]
never heard of the virginia dare brand before.
- dave 2-21-2004 5:16 pm [add a comment]
I remember a Virginia Dare Cherry syrup. It was in a sort of hour glass bottlle and you could make the best cherry soda with it. I am still looking for it. Any know where I can get it?
- jeni (guest) 7-04-2004 10:35 pm [add a comment] [edit]
Mix? We just bought chocolate milk in cartons, usually Borden’s, with the familiar face of Elsie the Cow. They say she was the most beloved corporate mascot of the time, but that thing on her head always bothered me. I could never tell if it was a curl, or maybe a spigot derived from the look of those old milk bottles? Seemed to suggest an udder somehow, but on her head? Looks like they’ve changed it into some tufts in the modern version. The “real” Elsie is buried in NJ. I loved milk, chocolate or otherwise, but completely lost the taste for it once I grew up.
- alex 2-21-2004 6:34 pm [add a comment]
That thing on her forehead was a growth from too many bovine hormoones (I swear I typed that inadvertently). I never heard of Virginia Dare either--hopefully her branding got a little more up to date from what's on that web page. And I'd forgotten about "Instant Breakfast"--that was in the cabinet in case we were too rushed to have cereal (just like in the ads).
- tom moody 2-21-2004 6:49 pm [add a comment]
I still have Nestle's chocolate powder in the cupboard. I never make chocolate milk anymore but sometimes (like once a year) I'll make hot chocolate. The powder doesn't ever seem to go bad.
- sally mckay 2-21-2004 6:55 pm [add a comment]
right alex, it came that way. I think I remember getting both whole and chocolate milk delivered by the milkman (truck not wagon) in glass milkbottles with cardboard stoppers with paper/foil covers.
- bill 2-21-2004 7:37 pm [add a comment]
its a cowlick. elsie's evolution via debbies milkbottle page. note the white styro pellets to make the labels pop.
- bill 2-21-2004 7:43 pm [add a comment]
nice. i was searching for a good cowlick link but gave up. now, can you come over and mop my floor faster than me, too?
how bout horlicks? any anglophiles in and amongst?
- dave 2-21-2004 8:03 pm [add a comment]
spilled milk?
- bill 2-21-2004 9:06 pm [add a comment]
We drank Horlicks mixed with hot or cold milk. For some reason the taste of malt is popular with my family, my great-grandmother survived her 92nd and 93rd years solely on carnation malted milk powder mixed in water. I still love malt and have found twinings assam tea (the british stuff, not what they export to U.S.) to be a great replacement. Milk, no sugar.
- steve 2-22-2004 7:14 pm [add a comment]
interesting that it was invented in the us but is popular in the uk and india while essentially unknown here. ive never had it but had heard of it.
- dave 2-21-2004 8:33 pm [add a comment]
Bloody hell. Meaning no, I haven't heard of it. I have suffered from night starvation, though.
- tom moody 2-21-2004 8:08 pm [add a comment]
Of course we all know which European explorer first "discovered" chocolate.
Bosco de Gama
- mark 2-24-2004 2:58 am [add a comment]
What a coincidence...just the last few days I've begun drinking rootbeer over ice with a large squeeze of chocolate syrup over the top. As many as six rootbeers a day glug down my gullet...ou sont les floats d'antan seems to be the nostalgia engine beneath my newest craze. Is this a problem for anyone else?
- Lowly (guest) 2-24-2004 9:25 pm [add a comment]
How did you come up with the concoction? Do you think you might be pregnant?
- sarah 2-26-2004 10:36 pm [add a comment]
It was a dark & stormy night &, well, as I was about to down a frosty vessel of rootbeer my hand, as if guided by ghostly forces, grabbed the chocolate syrup & squoze. Yum, I gasped in a fit of eloquence. & yes, I'm about as pregnant as a 44 years old skinny white boy sitting in his greying longjohns could ever be. Anyway, thanks for asking & while we're on the subject I'll have you know I've been building a prosthetic brain for your Newe Boyefrend. Seriously, I think about my friends & the next thing you know I'm missing them. Thou still unravished guava popsicle...
- Fr*nk (guest) 2-29-2004 7:04 pm [add a comment]
Does anybody remember a chocolate milk drink that came in a soda can called FROSTED or FROSTY? I seem to remember that it was a Borden product, and was really thick and bubbly. It seems to have fell off the face of the earth. If anyone could e-mail at don@BlackAndWhiteBand.com with any info, I'd appreciate it greatly!
- Donnnie (guest) 5-02-2004 7:25 am [add a comment]
I think it was Frosted, I remember it.
- steve 6-05-2004 6:52 am [add a comment]
Yes it was DEFINITELY calle FROSTED. I loved it!! One unique thing I remember was the way the can opened - it was a traditional 1970's "pop top" but with a twist - the "pull tab" was made of a thin foil-like material. I've never seen the same before or since.
- greg in NY (guest) 11-13-2005 5:35 pm [add a comment] [edit]
Have you considered a 12 step program Alex?
- steve 1-13-2005 5:23 pm [add a comment]