First off, it really is tasty.
Second, given when this add is from, it is likely that the milk consumed by many who read this ad was close to or equivalent to the best “artisan farmer” organic milk you can find today, and the 7-Up was likely still using pure cane sugar rather than high-fructose corn syrup.
Not wholesome, but also not the toxic sludge it would be today.
The swill milk scandal was a major adulterated food scandal in the state of New York in the 1850s. The New York Times reported an estimate that in one year 8,000 infants died from swill milk.
The milk was whitened with plaster of Paris, thickened with starch and eggs, and hued with molasses.
The fuck.
Whenever you think government regulation of something is overbearing, there’s a story like this that preceded the regulation.
Which is it, for kids that don’t like milk or for kids that like milk and want it with their 7-Up?
Is Pepsi okay? This is very gross, please send a wellness check.
Pepsi just does international distribution of it. Keurig Dr Pepper owns it.
Why are people out here attacking my pilk? (Pepsi + milk)
I wonder how many mothers back then read that and thought:
“No I do NOT know. In fact my instincts tell me this is bullshit.”
Well, “mothers back then” drink alcohol and smoking while breastfeeding, so 7-up and milk is a high probability combination.
led my mind on a train of thought and I was curious how infant mortality has improved over the years so I found this graphic:
I’m most interested in the colorful squiggly lines that show a downward trend in infant mortality over the years, I’m not interested or care about the racial disparities, and I have no idea what that black jagged line going the opposite direction is.
But I’m most interested in the colorful squiggly lines that show a downward trend in infant mortality over the years.
Well, the black squiggly line in the opposite direction shows an increasing relative gap between races, which you don’t care about.
It shows that while infant mortality has gone down for all, and even though it’s significant, that black children are dying at an increasing proportion to their white peers. But you don’t care that it fundamentally shows that they’re not getting the same access to the same improvements (either medical care, education of the mother on prenatal care, etc).
