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People are embarrassed to drink chocolate milk?

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Apparently I'm oblivious when it comes to all news milk. Yesterday, I came across an article by  Food & Wine  way back in June.  Fox picked it up , as did the  New York Post , and added to the content. These articles contain some absolute fireballs. Just to mention a few: "A full 7 percent of American adults think chocolate milk comes from brown cows." "48 percent of US adults aren't sure where chocolate milk comes from." "29 percent use their kids as cover to buy it for themselves." As the wise prophet Kevin Malone once said: SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH. PEOPLE! COME ON! It's one thing to be a kid and think chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Kids aren't always clued in, and  Dr. Seuss might get them confused sometimes . So it's up to their parents and teachers to show them the way. But if those parents and teachers can't figure out that chocolate milk is literally          Chocolate +  ...

Old Team Tuesday: The Buffalo Majors

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Old Team Tuesday is a weekly feature taking a look at former teams that have gone by the wayside. This week’s edition is about the first pro hockey team to call the City of Buffalo home. ********************************************** With Canada just across the border, and winters expectedly cold and snowy, Buffalo seems like an ideal hockey town. In 1970, the city’s love for the game was rewarded when the National Hockey League awarded an expansion team to the Knox brothers, who established the Sabres. But when the league was looking for its start, it opted to set up its American clubs in cities that had much larger populations than Buffalo. Because of this, Buffalo’s first representative in the world of professional hockey – the Buffalo Bisons – actually began playing across the border in Fort Erie, Ontario in 1928. Two short years later, the city got a team all for itself in the form of the Buffalo Buffaloes. --- Trials and errors --- Larry Welch, owner of the B...