Family Time
“Got Milk?”
How many times have you heard that slogan? About a million? Well, considering the “Got Milk?” campaign has been around since 1993, a million might not be too difficult to imagine. (That’s an impressive run, 17 years!) If you were alive in ‘93, you probably saw a “Got Milk?” commercial either before Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman, during Boy Meets World, or after Mighty Morphin Power Rangers . . . or, for all you sci-fi buffs, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Well, the slogan is kind of running dry (no pun intended). Lately, milk is still trying to make a presence, but “Got Milk?” is slowly on its way out. Meanwhile, new dairy dichos are popping up here and there. The problem is: those are some very big shoes to fill! For the most part, attempts have been downright tacky. Here’s a good example:
“Milk brings the family together.”
I can’t speak for any family other than mine, but we never officially gathered for the sake of milk. We certainly drank a lot of milk, though! There may have been a jug of milk on the table whenever we all sat down together for a pancake breakfast, but it’s not like we took a family portrait with milk. We never went to milk’s band concerts or got milk a Christmas sweater. You know what did bring our family together? Try Thanksgiving turkey. Or birthday cake. Heck, even pizza! But milk? Not exactly . . .
Sorry, national-milk-advocates-association-of-america (or whatever it’s called), try again.
2 comments:
Milk it does a body good!! i liked this on the best. because if you drank too much, it didn't really do your body good. I tried chugging a gallon once... bad idea, milk doesnt' taste good through your nose :-(
LOL. You probably shouldn't chug a gallon of anything all at once, much less milk. But thank you for the warning anyway.
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