Flavor of the Day

Lately, I've been noticing that food items are all acquiring new (and unnecessary) flavors. To wit: first we had milk, then chocolate milk (yum), and now there is vanilla milk (easy to make your own) and even strawberry milk. Can cookie dough milk and butter pecan milk be far behind?

Water is now flavored. I'll stick to a wedge of lemon (or nada) in my h20. I used to blame the yuppies for all this excess, but I actually think it's their children.

Grapeshot's recipe for vanilla milk: 8 oz milk in a glass, your choice of whole, 2 percent or 1 percent (skim is for wimps, soy is for mega-wimps). Add 1/4 teaspoon vanilla, a handful of ice cubes, and a tiny bit of sugar or equal. Stir. Drink. Enjoy on a hot day.

Coffee flavors are the worst. At work, the flavor of the day is presented. Would you believe Blueberry Cobbler and Pumpkin Pie. Folks, we are discussing coffee, not Thanksgiving desserts. Yuck. And what usually happens is that the 22 year old belle dumps in about a cup of cream and 1/4 cup sugar. This is coffee? This is atrocious. Have to bite my tongue. Yuck and double-yuck. If this is your daughter, you did something horribly wrong.

Sigh.

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