“delicious blended food drink”!
Advertising written by the utterly deranged
Go easy on them, this was from a time before humanity had the sun.
The phone number is 4 digits. I realize we added area codes. I didn’t realize we had already done it once before that wet the other 3 digits.i wonder if they still have a xxx-xxx-3577 phone number floating around the company somewhere
Or color.
Wouldn’t this curdle? I can kind of see how it would be a distant cousin of a creamsicle or a root beer float, but I think it’s going to get chunky. Maybe the “natural lemon flavor” is refined enough that it wont, I don’t know. I don’t have either ingredient on hand to try it for science.
Apparently it doesn’t get chunky. It’s pretty popular in Pakistan: https://www.eater.com/2017/6/20/15793584/doodh-soda-doodh-7up-milk-pakistan
It’s salty fizzy yogurt, basically. Popular in Iran too, called dough/ayran.
The description of this combo being similar to lassi made it instantly 180 from vile to tasty in my mind. Now how long until I find myself buying 7up and milk at the store…
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.
Apparently this story preceded some asshole politician blocking regulation despite public outcry and working super hard to make sure nothing changes, successfully for the most part.
According to Wikipedia.
Tuomey assumed a central role in the ensuing investigations, and, with fellow Aldermen E. Harrison Reed and William Tucker, shielded the dairies and turned the hearings into one-sided exercises designed to make dairy critics and established health authorities look ridiculous, even going to the extent of arguing that swill milk was actually as good or better for children than regular milk.
Ah
warpolitics, politics never changes.
Methinks more people need to read The Jungle.
I’m happy that their food ingredients were such high quality back then. Leads me to wonder how the heck they spiraled downward into eating hot dog jello.
Wait a minute… was this back when 7-up was still lithiated?
with a decidedly different appeal…
That does not inspire confidence
Try it - it’s different!
It’s no Beef Fizz
Alright hear me out - 7-UP Milk Beef Fizz
I was a kid growing up in 80s Japan & they had this drink called “Calpis” and it was milk and orange soda. And yes, the Japanese pronounced it like “cow piss”. I hated it.
Calpis isn’t carbonated tho, at least none of the Calpico branded stuff I’ve had. Milkis is very similar and is carbonated, so it would probably be closer to this. Personally I like both Calpico and Milkis, they are definitely not my favorite but they are good to have every once in a while, owing especially to their unique taste.
I had it about 10 years ago in Japan. It wasn’t that bad and basically a yogurt morir soñando like in the Dominican Republic.
Pocari Sweat was worse. It tasted like its name.
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We also had a milk-orange jus drink in france in the 2000’s. Absolutly disgusting. Danao, launched in 1998, nerver consumed by anyone, still available today!
Of course it’s still available if no one has consumed it!
I’ve seen children whose teeth had rotten due to being bottle-fed soda and in extreme cases it leads to them getting sick and having the teeth surgically removed. As a result those children’s adult teeth almost certainly will not grow in proper alignment and it can lead to a lifetime of inconvenience at best.
I kind of want to try this…
It sounds like the end result would be similar to a French soda, which is delicious. I don’t love the flavor of 7up, so that wouldn’t be my first choice, but dairy and soda aren’t a new combination.
Pilk
I don’t think it sounds terrible either. I’d try it with a Strawberry soda first.
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Huh? I thought citric acid makes milk curdle
Is Pepsi okay? This is very gross, please send a wellness check.
Pepsi should be fine as this isn’t them
I think because Pepsi basically owns 7up
Pepsi just does international distribution of it. Keurig Dr Pepper owns it.
Snapple group iirc
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.”
As any Irish mammy will tell you, a flat, warm 7-Up is the cure for all childhood illnesses.
Here in the US it’s Ginger Ale
Especially the kind that doesn’t actually contain any ginger.
Or ale
This is actually not that bad of a combination. I drink this all the time. It really fills you up though
