Dateline: Left Field

[brooksmoses]

I submit this product for your pondering:

First off, it's milk. It's got orange flavor in. (Or, if you prefer, bubble gum.) It fizzes.

Second off, what's with the name? (Whatever happened to "e-" meaning "electronic"?)

They call it e-Moo.

The future is not only stranger than we imagined, it is stranger than we could have imagined.

Comments

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see they've been letting the inept "I've just found the next new fad!" marketing toads out of their holes.

[nolly.livejournal.com]

That sounds absolutely disgusting.

[brooksmoses]

Given that I absolutely cannot stand either carbonation or bubble-gum flavor, I would have to say that I definitely agree with you. I can imagine someone liking it, though, if I think about the orange-flavored one instead. Or possibly the chocolate-flavored one; it does come in chocolate as well. But I sure wouldn't touch it.

- Brooks

[nolly.livejournal.com]

Orange and plain milk don't seem to go together in my head. (Though I like creamsicles.) Bubblegum is inherently gross, and also seems wrong with milk, and chocolate and fizzy seems off.

Two words

[cheshyre]

chocolate and fizzy seems off

Two words for you: Egg Cream

That's chocolate fizzy milk right there.

[oneironaut.livejournal.com]

There is a phenomenon called French soda I've encountered at Borders and which probably exists elsewhere too, but I don't go to cafes: carbonated water, some syrup, and a small quantity of cream (actually, it may be light cream, I can't recall). The very notion of mixing water and dairy is sufficient to make me queasy, little say fizzy water, but I first had this stuff before I knew what was in it, so my bigotry didn't have the opportunity to get in the way.

E-Moo, on the other hand ... bubblegum flavor is bad enough, but the thought of watching bubbles surface in a liquid the consistency of milk is going to keep me awake at night for weeks.

[kiya]

I like Italian soda. (Fizzy water and syrup. gwynyth gave me a bottle of syrup for this once; I still have most of it.)

I was going to protest about the really truly orgasmically good soup that wiredferret gave me the recipe for that I've been muttering and moaning over for the past week, but that's evaporated milk added to broth, not water to dairy. ;) I think at least one of those counts.

Look, ma, no content!

[oneironaut.livejournal.com]

I make exceptions for most products of actual cooking, and for steeped beverages. This is completely arbitrary and subjective, but so is the original tin can, so at least I'm consistently arbitrary and subjective.

[redbird]

The flavor might work--although I can't see why you'd bother carbonating a morir soñando. But the name. I know what an emu is. Some emu feathers fell out of my shoulder bag earlier this evening.