Chocolate Milk...

(Originally Posted April 2013)

Ok so I do not profess to be a rocket scientist, but come on, everyone knows where chocolate milk comes from...

Chocolate colored cows in Hershey Pennsylvania eating chocolate flavored grass.
Right?

Well me and my grand daughter (6 years old) got into a serious conversation.
She says that, yes she believed the "myth" that you put brown syrup into white milk, and get chocolate milk. Come on are you serious?
What is the matter with this kid....

No way! The truth is that chocolate colored cows in Hershey Pennsylvania eating chocolate flavored grass produce chocolate milk. Right?

Well in her infinite wisdom she says; "I will search on my I Pad" and types in;

"Dus cholclitmilk cum frum brawncaws

Well the only things that comes up are in German.
So it's my turn to dazzle her with brilliance.
In I go to the "home computer" and google;"where does chocolate milk come from"...
Low and behold, proof positive, yes the internet has spoken!

Not enough for her though, I am heart broken, all Rylee has to say to me is; "that's fiction, Poppy"!
(fiction Poppy, where does she get this stuff)
I plead my case, show her pictures off of the internet (all is true on the internet you know).

So again, feeling brilliant I tell her to ask Nana where chocolate comes from, Nana says; " Hershey Pennsylvania of course". HAH got her, proof positive to my case, Nana has spoken and Nana backed me up, or so I thought (yeah ok so she was really born in Hershey, but had to play the ace in the hole you know...) .
So I come back with more proof (the internet you know)

Yeah OK so she doesn't understand what all that crap is in chocolate milk from a chocolate colored cow, eating chocolate flavored grass in Hershey Pennsylvania, come on really, does she need to know???

I AM NOT GOING TO CONCEDE DEFEAT!
Into the refrigerator I go and out comes more evidence to my case, step aside Darrow, Ironsides I am on the case.

Look chocolate milk = chocolate cow, white milk = white cows  simple right? Get it? (took me 5 tries and 10 minutes to get this incredible shot!).

Then, the apple of my eye is audacious enough to ask Nana and her Mom where chocolate milk comes from....
Shot down in my prime and I was doing so well. I had her for over 20 minutes, yes 20 really.

Grand kids, the reason you had children...

William