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Chocolate milk was also originally sold as a way to sell milk that was an inferior grade.
by skookumchuck 9y ago
Chocolate milk was also originally sold as a way to sell milk that was an inferior grade.
- agumonkey 9y agoI wonder what % of all products started this way. Also related, milk producers that are being milked (sic) by distribution giants are now pivoting to icecream because 1) they can sell at much much higher profit 2) traditionally made ice cream was forgotten and people realize how better the flavour is
- Waterluvian 9y ago"Frozen Dessert" is awful tasting. Bring on the four ingredient ice cream!
- mhb 9y agoWhat is this traditional method that is superior? There seem to already be plenty of excellent commercial brands as well as purveyors using various liquid gases for rapid freezing with minimal crystal growth.
- khedoros1 9y agoThe ingredients are usually something like egg yolks, heavy cream, sugar, and vanilla (or other flavorings). It's put into a freezing container, where the edges are constantly scraped by paddles. There may be excellent commercial brands, but most of what's out there is crap.
- Drakim 9y ago> where the edges are constantly scraped by paddles. I bought an ice cream machine that does exactly this, but to be honest the ice cream I can make at home tastes roughly the same as the ice cream I can buy in the store (not frozen dessert!). But as a bonus I get to pick the flavor myself. Yay for coffee flavored ice cream.
- mhb 9y agoYeah I've done that. Ben and Jerry's does it better. I don't think there's any Great Ice Cream Awakening - I see more and more premium brands on the shelf. They all exceed my criteria for being excellent. People who are happy with crap will still buy crap.
- ars 9y agoI believe Velveeta cheese started as a way of using up small shreds and pieces of cheese that could not be sold as blocks. (I think today they purpose-make it, and small blocks are just sold as shredded cheese.) Sausage was invented (who knows how long ago) as a way of using up the parts of the animal that were otherwise not edible. I don't think of these things as "inferior", but rather simply as a way of avoiding waste.
- pjc50 9y agoTomato ketchup.
- skookumchuck 9y agoOrange juice is made from cosmetically unattractive oranges.
- tudorw 9y agoPro-Tip, buy unsalted butter and add your own salt, salt is added to butter to hide the low grade stuff :)
- Finnucane 9y agoActually, salt was added to butter originally in the days when there wasn't so much refrigeration. What sold in the stores now as salted and unsalted butter is identical except for the salt content. It is true that if you keep your butter in the fridge and use it mainly for baking, it is better to get unsalted. If you're going to keep it in a butter bell, you need salted.
- tudorw 9y agoActually, as in additionally :P What sold in the stores ? Not around here, I buy my butter from a farm! You don't need to store butter in a bell, salted or otherwise... you want a butter crock for that, as the sunlight affects the shelf life too :) http://www.webexhibits.org/butter/off.html http://www.webexhibits.org/butter/off.html