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I was once discussing with an adult how there is one particular type of corn kernel that is used to make popcorn. They started arguing with me about how "there are many, many different types of popcorn kernels, including kettle corn, cheddar corn, caramel corn, butter corn..."
This chocolate cow story reminds me of that popcorn argument I had...
I will admit to not knowing, until just a few years ago, that POPCORN was in fact a special breed of corn and that plain old regular corn-on-the-cob type corn does not POP.
AS TO THE OP ... methinks 7 percent of American adults knew they were being surveyed and lied about their knowledge of chocolate milk just to mess with the surveyors!
Used to raise and sell eggs. Same thing, people thought the brown chickens laid brown eggs and white chickens laid white eggs !
We did foster care for awhile. Had a youngster who was excited to see chickens. We went to barn and I started pointing which were hens and which were roosters. He turns to me and asks: "Where are the chickens?"
Oh, and we also raised ducks and sold duck eggs. Got more than a couple 'yucks.' How can you eat those? It's unborn ducklings! (Do you know what a chicken egg is?)
Seven percent of all American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, according to a nationally representative online survey commissioned by the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy.
If you do the math, that works out to 16.4 million misinformed, milk-drinking people. The equivalent of the population of Pennsylvania (and then some!) does not know that chocolate milk is milk, cocoa and sugar.
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When one team of researchers interviewed fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders at an urban California high school, they found that more than half of them didn't know pickles were cucumbers, or that onions and lettuce were plants. Four in 10 didn't know that hamburgers came from cows. And 3 in 10 didn't know that cheese is made from milk.
Seven percent?
Frankly, I'm astonished that it's so low.
Seriously. Considering the far higher percentages of people who believe that the world is 6000 years old, and a whole suite of utterly idiotic conspiracy theories - vaccines cause autism, global warming is either false or natural, ghosts are real, etc. - a mere seven percent looks to me like a monumental triumph of education in comparison.
I have a difficult time believing that anyone, anywhere, no matter their age, would believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Nope. It's merely proof that polls are #@$%!
Lol, that may be just the point behind this thread. That polls and statistics are total BS. Any and every poll or "study" can and will be skewed to get the results those conducting it want to see. Completely agenda driven.
Wow, I guess I really did get a good education (or have good parents). I always knew that chickens lay eggs and understood that chocolate milk was originally white milk that had chocolate added to it at a factory.
My weakness on the other hand, is developing any sort of faith in people who are so stupid that they think brown cows produce chocolate milk.
Yeah, or didn't the parents of these idiots ever make them chocolate milk at home? We even used to make strawberry milk. Hershey's chocolate and strawberry syrups. I used to love to pour and mix it myself (with supervision to ensure I didn't pour the whole bottle haha). I just think these people had sad childhoods.
While I agree there are plenty of stupid people, I'm curious about the context of this poll. Would anyone else check the chocolate milk comes from brown cows box just for the heck of it? Ask a stupid question and you will get a stupid answer.
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I guess I really did get a good education (or have good parents). I always knew that chickens lay eggs and understood that chocolate milk was originally white milk that had chocolate added to it at a factory.
