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    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.

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    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.

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          Whenever you think government regulation of something is overbearing, there’s a story like this that preceded the regulation.

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            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.

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              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 war politics, politics never changes.

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      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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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      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!

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      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.

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      I don’t think it sounds terrible either. I’d try it with a Strawberry soda first.

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    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.

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      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

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    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.”

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      Well, “mothers back then” drink alcohol and smoking while breastfeeding, so 7-up and milk is a high probability combination.

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        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.

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          Well, the black squiggly line in the opposite direction shows an increasing relative gap between races, which you don’t care about.

          It shows that while infant mortality has gone down for all, and even though it’s significant, that black children are dying at an increasing proportion to their white peers. But you don’t care that it fundamentally shows that they’re not getting the same access to the same improvements (either medical care, education of the mother on prenatal care, etc).

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            I think you misunderstand what they meant with “I don’t care about”. It sounds like they just meant that it’s not line why they’re quoting this graph, they got it for the stats on child-deaths-per-1k people.

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              But they also state they do not understand the black line, which I would argue understanding it is the entire point of the graph.

              Yeah, fewer infants are dying but access to the improvements is not equal. That’s a pretty important point to reflect on.

              (Obviously without any ability to determine the causation of the problem… Just that one exists and should be investigated)

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                Yeah but not if you were just googling for a graph that shows the development of infant mortality in the past 100 years, this came up, and you need it for those curves.

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      Came here to Pilk, you beat me. But you’ll never beat Pilk, because nothing beats Polk.