Sign of the Times

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:03 am

I found myself in an unfamiliar supermarket last Saturday. Because it was unfamiliar, I was paying more attention to the aisle signs than I usually do.

One puzzled me.

It said:

"Free From
Long Life Milk"

On two lines, like that. I checked, and it said the same thing on both sides of the sign.
There actually was Long-life Milk in that aisle, despite what it said.

You can't trust anybody.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 7:03 am

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:00 pm

Long Life Milk... it extends your life... sounds like something Willy Wonka would think up!

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:09 pm

Walden wrote:Long Life Milk... it extends your life... sounds like something Willy Wonka would think up!

It would come in special flavors though.
Like banana cream pie, and root beer float.

Steamwalker · Post by **Steamwalker** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:10 pm

I am not even sure what that means.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:20 pm

Steamwalker wrote:I am not even sure what that means.

It's Free.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASihNQ-q ... L&index=72

Slan,
D.

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:54 am

Not the Nine-O'Clock News put it this way:

Eternal Life. Invented in 1967. Okay in your coffee, but not so good on cornflakes.

You might know it as UHT.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:29 am

emmline wrote:
Walden wrote:Long Life Milk... it extends your life... sounds like something Willy Wonka would think up!
It would come in special flavors though.
Like banana cream pie, and root beer float.

Ew, ew, ew....it would have to be something more chocolatey I think. Like chocolate souffle or chocolate lava cake.

Or maybe Mocha Grande flavor. Since I'm dying for one right now.

Infernaltootler · Post by **Infernaltootler** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:10 am

Aah, UHT - the taste of camping.

Celtpastor · Post by **Celtpastor** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 4:40 am

I remember back in the 80ies, I firstly entered one of those huge shopping mall supermarkets in France (INCREDIBLE choice of food, You know...). Like 50 or so different kinds of milk. I found one in a plastic-bottle, saying "Organic! 0,2% fat! 12 important vitamins and magnesia added!" I thought, the world had gone mad...

Roderick [Rod] Sprague IV · Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:02 pm

I would guess long life milk is simply milk that has been pasteurized more thoroughly for a longer shelf life, as they are want to do now. I am thinking the store is free of it as it could have a detrimental effect on taste and nutrition.

s1m0n · Post by **s1m0n** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:17 pm

Roderick [Rod] Sprague IV wrote:I would guess long life milk is simply milk that has been pasteurized more thoroughly for a longer shelf life, as they are want to do now. I am thinking the store is free of it as it could have a detrimental effect on taste and nutrition.

I was wondering about irradiation.

I do know that the capacity to package liquid milk in tetrapacks which keep indefinitely at room temperature until they're opened has been around for a couple of decades.

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