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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. http://archive.is/QzSbJ#selection-307.80-307.415
Sometimes I think these surveys only survey people between the age of 7-13. I know I'm probably ignorant
about something but some of these surveys makes me have to wonder how was the question frazed and who was asked.
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 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...
Agreed, I once had a 5 minute argument with an adult that it was biologically impossible for my twin sister and I to be identical. Not surprisingly I realized there was no point and just started shaking my head and nodding. I am also reminded.
I was in a conversation with an acquaintance once about raising backyard chickens for eggs. A friend of the acquaintance turned to me with a look of snobbish shock on her face (obviously think I was an idiot) and asked, "What the hell do chickens have to do with eggs?"
I just stared back, flabbergasted, and her friend got red in the face and tried to explain things to her while I walked away.
I was in a conversation with an acquaintance once about raising backyard chickens for eggs. A friend of the acquaintance turned to me with a look of snobbish shock on her face (obviously think I was an idiot) and asked, "What the hell do chickens have to do with eggs?"
I just stared back, flabbergasted, and her friend got red in the face and tried to explain things to her while I walked away.
You should have asked her, "Just where do you think eggs come from?" I would love to have heard her answer.
The bad part about ignorance is that it tends to be passed on to children, who have no defense against it.
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