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[-] piggy@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago

"State Beverage" is midcentury marketing brain worms for large agribusinesses. It might be quaint but they sold a shit ton through idiotic reflexive reactionary nationalism.

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

It's such a parasitic version of state flowers/trees. The blue columbine being our state flower means it's illegal to pick one. Our public lands can be unimaginably beautiful because the columbine fields are so thick that they perfume the air. Dairies poison my water as much as their product poisons me.

[-] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Yeah I saw tomato juice for Ohio and just immediately assumed it was a lobbying campaign from the 60s, they only produce about 1% of California's yield though.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

My quick google searches say that Ohio made it tomato juice to coincide with a regional state fair that centered around tomatoes. Apparently Ohio was the largest producer of tomatoes in the US in 1965.

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[-] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago
[-] Ishmael@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I love a good michelada, but I never had one when I lived in Ohio....

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[-] miz@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago
[-] GiorgioBoymoder@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

hyperflush

EDIT: I've seen this before, but can someone remind me what this is from? thats-disgusting-where I promise this is curiousity posting not horny posting.

[-] schlongjohnson@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

milk is the most fascist beverage

[-] LupineTroubles@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

I agree instinctively, is there a reason why this is the case?

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Treatment of cattle is not that different to how fascists view and treat humans.

[-] tocopherol@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

One of the few drinks directly extracted from the body of an exploited being.

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago

possibly because it's inextricably linked with animal agriculture, specifically one of an industrial scale

[-] Ishmael@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Insert Homelander clip

[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

grossshuddering at the thought of mixing milk and Fanta

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I was doing a bit at work recently where it's the opening scene of Inglorious Basterds but Hanz Landa has never heard of milk before or seen a cow. Once he finds out what they've been doing to cows he figures there is no way those freaks would be harboring jews

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[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

doggirl-smug heh. State beverage. So dumb. I wonder what my dumb state made theirs.

doggirl-tears We don't even have one?? What kind of bullshit is this?

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

That means your state beverage is water, right?

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

That means people in his state are cautioned aginst getting addicted to water bakunin-immortan

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[-] picklemeister@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

burgerpain It's actually Coke if you're in a red state and Pepsi if you're in a blue state.

[-] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

My state doesn't have an official beverage, probably because it would be ranch dressing.

[-] someone@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Being able to process cow's milk is a whole insane thing in white-supremacist circles.

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[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

This is probably part of post-war US dairy industry lobbying.

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[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

To be fair there only used to be about 3 different kinds of drinks when the USA settled the frontier: milk, whiskey, and laudenum

[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

don't forget (hard) cider and (slavery) rum

[-] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

The dairy lobby is no joke

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago
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[-] Dotcom@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Arizona’s not being Tea is a travesty.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

AriZona iced tea is manufactured in new jersey

[-] buh@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Broke: Jews run the country

Woke: Italians run the country

[-] axont@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

The Pastalluminati. The marinara tide. The veiled paisanos.

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[-] axont@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

This has got to be connected to how the dairy lobby got huge after WW2. Like this is probably connected to when the agribusiness lobbyists convinced the FDA or whoever to put a dairy category on the food pyramid.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A buncha mammons thurston I tell ye hwat

[-] regul@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Imagining being a dairy farmer who started clapping his hands like a seal when this law was enacted in my state, thinking about all the future milk customers I'd get because of it.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Please stand up to salute the flag and sip the state soft drink

[-] Ishmael@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Time for Illinois to make theirs malort

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

21 of them accepted milk lobby money, you mean lmao

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

lmao, Maine's is whatever this is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie

and while Nebraska's official state beverage is Milk, they list the state soft drink as Kool Aid. which is fucking hilarious and instructive about Nebraska.

my guess is the Official "TV Show" of Nebraska is whatever VHS tape of a high school homecoming game from 1989 happened to be on the only TV in the state house when the law was passed in 1997.

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