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1y ago

Mothers know that this is a wholesome combination.

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“delicious blended food drink”!
Advertising written by the utterly deranged
- Go easy on them, this was from a time before humanity had the sun.
  
  Or color.
  
  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

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.
- The name “7up” would trick the milk into thinking it’s has a +7 pH, preveting it from curdling
  
  Made my day with that joke
- 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 not literally 7up mixed with milk, but Milkis is a fairly popular drink in Korea, and can regularly be found in vending machines—or at least could when I lived there in the mid '00s.
  
  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.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swill_milk_scandal
  
  The milk was whitened with plaster of Paris, thickened with starch and eggs, and hued with molasses.
  The fuck.
- 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?
- Gotta keep the kids medicated
- Still what!?
  The product, originally named "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda", was launched two weeks before the Wall Street Crash of 1929. It contained lithium citrate, a mood-stabilizing drug, until 1948.
  Wikipedia

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.
- 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 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.

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.
  
  and vanilla ice cream instead of milk. yum.

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.
- My dad used to give me sugary tea in a bottle. I had to have all my teeth pulled by the time I was 2

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
- Good old Pilk.

🤢 "wHoLeSoMe" 🤢

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."
- Well, "mothers back then" drink alcohol and smoking while breastfeeding, so 7-up and milk is a high probability combination.
  
  led my mind on a train of thought and I was curious how infant mortality has improved over the years so I found this graphic:
  I'm most interested in the colorful squiggly lines that show a downward trend in infant mortality over the years, I'm not interested or care about the racial disparities, and I have no idea what that black jagged line going the opposite direction is.
  But I'm most interested in the colorful squiggly lines that show a downward trend in infant mortality over the years.

Huh? I thought citric acid makes milk curdle
- That's why you don't stir

Why are people out here attacking my pilk? (Pepsi + milk)
- Came here to Pilk, you beat me. But you'll never beat Pilk, because nothing beats Polk.

It's not that different from a New York Egg Cream, which is chocolate syrup and club soda mixed with milk
- I've grown fond of these recently. Little bit of an acquired taste, but great with cookies.

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.

It likes me

This is actually not that bad of a combination. I drink this all the time. It really fills you up though

It sounds awful. But I once took a half-empty can of diet Squirt and added it to a half glass of orange juice, and it was AMAZING. Very citrusy and actually very delicious. So - ya never know what might work.
- Pakistan clearly thinks it works: https://www.eater.com/2017/6/20/15793584/doodh-soda-doodh-7up-milk-pakistan
  
  The writer makes it sound delightful, now I want to try it.
  
  I had some friends from the middle east that loved any drink that had citrus flavoring, like 7-up or Sprite. It's a taste they prefer to cola and other kinds of soda.
- Diet...Squirt
  
  Yeah i don't know if they even make "Squirt" anymore but it was a citrusy soda that came in regular and diet flavors. Mind you I didn't buy the diet, someone else did and left a half a can in my fridge.
  But if you get a chance to try it with orange juice, it's really good.

Which is it, for kids that don't like milk or for kids that like milk and want it with their 7-Up?

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