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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 +  ...

I have a plan to bring back Pepsi Blue

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Remember 2002? Prince Michael II, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Kmart, Justin and Britney, No Child Left Behind. In some ways, the world has changed a great deal (i.e. Kelly Clarkson ). In other ways, it hasn’t ( R.Kelly ). Some things that got their start that year – like the New England Patriots’ dynasty – are still going strong. Others – like Pepsi Blue – are but distant memories. Although I would have preferred the Patriots’ Super Bowl win to be the blip in history, unfortunately it was Pepsi Blue that got the hook after just two years. But I have an idea, a grand vision to revive it just in time for the holiday season. Coca-Cola controls the soft drink market during Christmas. Historians even argue that their advertisements in the 1920s and 1930s helped shape Santa Claus into the chunky, red, jiggly jingler we know today. Their red cans and polar bears have further entrenched them as the unofficial pop of Christmas. You may be skeptical as to why a berry-flavor...