This just sounds disgusting

[Flock of Moosen]

Apparantly someone out there decided in order to make kids more healthy, they figured they would play around with milk to make it "more fun" for them.

While this is a good idea, what they came up with seems both strange and disgusting to me. I'm not sure if I would drink it if I were a kid.

Bubbly Milk

The worst part are the three flavors it comes in: Vanilla Cappuccino, Brazilian Chocolate, & Chocolate Raspberry.
Who are these flavors catering to, kids or Yuppies? What's wrong with basic Chocolate, Vanilla, and Strawberry?

What do you think of the idea and would you even try it out to see how it is? I'm not sure I would. The thought alone makes me want to :barf: .

[HydratedPeach]

Great, as if squirting milk out of your nose when you laugh doesn't hurt enough already...

[Tenbatsuzen]

Isn't an egg cream the same concept?

[sweet angel]

Isn't Yoohoo carbonated?

I don't understand why we need to make food "fun" for kids. The idea of green and purple ketchup makes me want to puke. My son brought home green Hershey's syrup from grandma's. It's disgusting.

I see ads for paper plates that are in "fun animal shapes". What's the point of all this?

When we were kids, we had red (imagine that!) ketchup. We had white paper plates. Chocolate syrup was brown.

Why is there, all of a sudden, a need to make eating fun? There's a bazillion overweight kids. Do they really need to make eating more fun for them? How about monitoring what they eat? Eating more fruit and veggies? Less chips and cookies? That's a crazy idea.

All they need to do to get kids to eat healthier in school is stop serving soda. Only offer milk or juice. Why is that difficult?

[BITENY]

Originally posted by sweet angel
Isn't Yoohoo carbonated?

I don't understand why we need to make food \"fun\" for kids. The idea of green and purple ketchup makes me want to puke. My son brought home green Hershey's syrup from grandma's. It's disgusting.

I see ads for paper plates that are in \"fun animal shapes\". What's the point of all this?

When we were kids, we had red (imagine that!) ketchup. We had white paper plates. Chocolate syrup was brown.

Why is there, all of a sudden, a need to make eating fun? There's a bazillion overweight kids. Do they really need to make eating more fun for them? How about monitoring what they eat? Eating more fruit and veggies? Less chips and cookies? That's a crazy idea.

All they need to do to get kids to eat healthier in school is stop serving soda. Only offer milk or juice. Why is that difficult?

You make an excellent point, angel.
I would really love to know why this is happening. I mean, is society really bored that they need to create stupid shit like carbonated milk?:barf:

[GreasyItalianPrincess]

as a FYI yoohoo isn't carbonated/

[sweet angel]

You're absolutely right. Here's what Dr. Yoohoo had to say about it...

Q. Is Yoohoo drink considered a soft drink? —

A. Nope! Not pop.
The technical answer is; No, it's not a soft drink. By definition, a soft drink is a nonalcoholic, carbonated beverage. Yoo-Hoo is not carbonated so it doesn't fit the definition. However, Yoo-Hoo is sold and marketed as if it were a soft drink using traditional soft drink cans and bottles.
— Dr. Yoo-hoo

[FollowThisLogic]

Yeah, Hershey and Heinz are as interested in healthy diets for kids as Philip Morris is in smoking-related cancer.

It's just marketing. They're exploiting the fact that kids love bright colors, and that kids will think that something that tastes the same as the regular stuff but is a different color, is cool.

If you want to make fruit cool, it's already got the funky color, but you need to make it taste like chocolate. :grin2:

[Ladbag]

I'm going to paint my mule green and purple and head to the playground.

[Flock of Moosen]

Originally posted by sweet angel
I don't understand why we need to make food \"fun\" for kids. The idea of green and purple ketchup makes me want to puke.

I thought the same exact thing when they first released the green ketchup. I know it's probably only food coloring, but the idea of it makes me sick.
As for the purple ketchup, I can say I never even heard about that one until now and am glad for that.