moo monday

for almost twenty years i’ve enjoyed mootopia from heb…

…it might actually be twenty, i’m not sure.

i remember first hearing about it from andy surtes, the server rep on my account team at dell. i wonder what happened to him? i swear he was on my facebook, but i haven’t heard a peep in a while. i should look into that. anywho…

…it’s like milk, but kinda not milk? although it is labeled “ultra filtered milk”.

my absolute favorite is mixing the chocolate with the vanilla in almost equal portions. i’d never actually done it, on purpose, until this week. in the past i might be running out of chocolate, and they only had vanilla, or vice versa, and so the last glass of one and the first glass of the next would get combined. but wednesday i got a wild hair and intentionally bought one of each with the intention of mixing them and, honestly, i don’t know if i can go back!

but for all the goodness you see on the label above, i noticed a small print item on the side of the carton a couple months ago that disturbed me at first: “contains bio-engineered food ingredients”. this on the same carton they brag about the cows not getting hormonal enhancement, but maybe the milk does? here’s what’s even more odd – it’s on the side of the chocolate one, but NOT the vanilla. so is just the chocolate genetically modified, but not the milk itself?

i mentioned it disturbed me “at first” because i honestly eat a lot of restaurant food and you know that shit ain’t pure these days. so while at first i felt upset, and almost betrayed, it’s probably been on that carton for at least five years and i’m just now noticing it. i drink this almost daily (i occasionally swap out for actual whole milk just for funsies) so whatever harm the genetically modified stuff was gonna do i figure has long been did.

with my physical issues and economic issues i figure a little choco-bio-hacking should be the least of my concerns!

(side note – i wanted to make sure i got the phrasing off the carton right, so after this was written, but before you read it, i went to the fridge and after verifying the verbiage i compared the ingredients and, ironically, it’s the “vanillan” in the chocolate that appears to be the bioengineered culprit, which is somehow missing from the actual vanilla flavor)