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A surprising number of Americans think chocolate milk comes from brown cows
- King-Aaron 9y agoOh America, don't ever change
- taytus 9y agoUnited States of America. Not the whole 3 continents.
- jrodthree24 9y agoWhat 3 continents?
- rukittenme 9y agoI assume he meant regions with the third region being "Central America".
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- DrScump 9y agoNorth, South, and In.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoThis is weird, not just because you forgot how many American continents there are, but because when people get bothered about calling the USA "America," it usually turns out to be because they consider America to be a single continent, north and south together, whose name the USA is usurping. If you prefer dividing it into North America and South America, then there's no confusion with plain America. In other words, you should have said "Not the whole one continent."
- BrandoElFollito 9y agoNorth America is also Canada
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoNever said it wasn't.
- BrandoElFollito 9y agoYou're right, I misread your comment (I thought that you were saying that using "North America" makes it obvious that this is the USA - which you did not). Sorry (as they say in Canada :))
- benchaney 9y agoNot in conventional usage. > United States of America /əˈmɛrɪkə/ (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
- King-Aaron 9y agoPhew, glad you cleared that up for me
- rukittenme 9y agoFor those wondering, the number is 7%. I doubt that many people actually believe what the story implies. Depending on the phrasing of the question, I think you could easily move that number higher or lower.
- froogle 9y ago7% is basically the Lizardmen's Constant [1]; wouldn't buy into this as Americans being stupid. [1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mars/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-...
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoThat's a very insightful article, and I look forward to using "the Lizardman's Constant" in conversation.
- BadCookie 9y agoI'm skeptical of the 7% number. I can easily imagine 7% of survey respondents choosing the "brown cow" answer because they thought it was funny. It was just an online survey, after all. The other claims about pickles and french fries are easier to believe.
- Animats 9y agoI wonder about that. Stores sell powder for making regular milk into chocolate milk. But maybe some people haven't noticed that. But then, Americans will buy the Coca-Cola Company's "Dasani", which is tap water with some minerals added for flavoring. That product was laughed out of the UK.
- BrandoElFollito 9y agoPeople will buy bottled water (300 times the price of tattoo water in France) while there is perfectly good water in taps (again, in France (where water is a "food", so it follows very strict regulations - and in average (you may have places where the taste of water is not extraordinary, but it will be safe))
- subculture 9y agoA surprising number of Americans think that cows just produce milk all the time and 'need' to be milked. As opposed to them being, well, mammals, who only lactate after pregnancy and are thus regularly inseminated in rape racks (industry term) to keep them lactating until they're no longer useful then killed. A surprising number of Americans think baby cows get some of that milk from their moms. As opposed to baby males being killed soon after birth as veal and baby females raised on hormone cocktails to continue the cycle of forced labor and death of their mothers.