Bob drank a bottle of chocolate milk in our team meeting today. It was one of those dairy company type chocolate milks - the real stuff. Not nonfat or soy, or Nestle's Quik, which tastes more like water with vegetable oil in it. It was honest to God actual chocolate milk, like 2% milk.
I've always thought it was kind of a trick, that 2% milk sounds so much healthier than whole milk. But isn't whole milk something like 3%?
All of this discussion in the room about the chocolate milk led to someone mentioning YooHoo.
I drank some YooHoo back in childhood days. But I stopped abruptly when I decided it smelled like mother spit.
My mother used to take me out to the bus stop, and once we got out there, she'd realize I had something on my face - breakfast usually. She'd dab her tongue with a tissue, to wet it a little, then rub it on my face. I'd walk around the rest of the day smelling like mother spit. One day I realized that the smell of my mom's spit on my face those mornings was very similar to YooHoo. I think it was because she had just finished a cup of coffee before rubbing spit all over my face. Once I made the connection, it was difficult to drink a YooHoo without thinking "Mother spit - you are drinking mother spit".
It should be noted - mother spit is not necessarily more distasteful than the spit of any other family member or person. It was just my first encounter with foreign spit. I would go on to have more casual encounters with other people's spit later in life, but never would it be rubbed (intentionally) in my face, or served to me in a yellow can.
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