Curious how certain images from years past linger in the mind? Proust had his “petite madeleines,” those plump, tea-dipped cakes that triggered his childhood flashbacks. For me, you can stick the words ”milk” and “school” in the same sentence and I conjure up the following tableau: rows of pint bottles of milk on card tables outside a school gymnasium; you can practically watch the layer of cream on top curdle in the scorching sun.
We school kids were ordered to take a mid-morning milk break — tepid, cream-clotted milk with cellophane-wrapped saltine crackers. The idea of chocolate or strawberry-flavored milk with 25 to 30 percent less sugar than “the leading brand” would be about as realistic then as the comic book exploits of Captain Marvel we smuggled inside the cover of our geometry book of theorems.
Leave it to Guida’s Dairy to wave the flag of nutritional standards while marching in the national battle against obesity. The New Britain-based dairy company feels its low-fat “Healthy Moo” will eventually penetrate the retail market and become the flavored milk of choice.
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