March 02, 2006

Chocolate milk. The new sports drink. I told ya!
posted by kitfisto 18 years ago
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  • European descended humans have been drinking bovine and other ruminant milks for over 8 thousand years. Chocolate has been in human use for less time, but it still has millennia of human use. Don't fix it if it aint broke, I reckon. But don't give milk to sub-Saharan African people, Eastern Eurasians and Polynesians. They don't have the mutant chromosome that allows lactose digestion thru adulthood. This is what I found so fucking STUPID about LiveAid sending fucking powdered milk to starving Ethiopians: it probably gave them the liquishits and dehydration, killing more than it saved.
  • Really? I thought the Masai lived largely on the milk and blood of their cattle. Perhaps that's a myth.
  • Mainly, Pleg, but without the millet (which they refuse to talk about), they'd be fucked.
  • The Masai are one of the exceptions. There's argument about whether their adaption to lactose took place independantly of the Europeans or in some other manner. I (grossly ignorant of genetic research or any other relevant topic, mind you) would argue it took place independantly due to environmental pressures (natural selection) later than the mutation in our ancestors' genes.
  • fulani/tutsi are other exceptions. possibly were pastoral north african populations who migrated south.
  • Yeah, but choccy milk guys!
  • I guess these guys never heard of the Sport Shake It's a staple in Wisconsin gas stations. It's like drinking chocolate flavored heavy cream. Each can has about 500 calories in it. I used to drink the stuff all the time because it was so tasty. Except that I mostly sat on my ass before, after, eh, pretty much all the time. I still crave them from time to time when I see them in the cooler...
  • God...what is up with that picture...I love choco milk, but that thing that they have in the glass looks like what the vet uses when they need to get a stool sample from my dog. On a side note.....I have been drinking a big thing of choco milk after biking for years and it seems to work great.
  • Why'd you post this, kit? Now EVERYONE will want some...
  • You've got enough to go round, haven't you? Haven't you...?
  • Enough for me and you. But definitely NOT petebest.
  • *trips the light fantastic*
  • Ahhh you kidders! C'mon gimmie that frosty cold . . chocolate milk?!? Um . . dudes I dunno how to tell you but - that ain't beer. That isn't even a mixer!
  • Mmh, well, a mocha machiatto has some *choco* and milk in it, doesn't it? And I go all the way and *walk* four blocks and back to get it! *thinks of coffee, extrudes self from chair, puffs from exertion, slumps back*
  • What about the phlem afterwards? Not very sporty, methinks. Oh, and I see a Hershey's plug.
  • Hershey's Phlegm?
  • Petebest, are you trying to tell me you cant imagine creative ways to add alcohol to yr choccy, as you people like to call it. Kahlua, Baileys, Frangelico etc., I am sure you get the idea.... you could make a great smoothie: Chocolate milk, chocolate ice cream or sorbet, a banana and a healthy dollop of kahlua....mmmm, I just made that up. now I want one. fer breakfast!
  • Well . . if it's for breakfast, then okay.
  • Does he brush their teeth for them afterwards?
  • And what part of the chocolate Easter bunnies do cows eat first?