7% of American adults think chocolate milk comes from brown cows...

Dis86 · 22 Jun 2017 at 16:21

doodah said:
I thought, meh 7% can't be that many people. ~22m people think that! Surely not?

Edit - hang on. They think 7% is 16.4 million with a population of 321 million. Interesting maths.

Adults. Not kids.

h4rm0ny · 22 Jun 2017 at 16:21

Freakbro said:
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-an...s-think-chocolate-milk-comes-from-brown-cows/

And no, there's no punchline to that headline

After the most frequently asked question on the Innovation Center for US Dairy's website was "Does chocolate milk come from brown cows?" they decided to commission a survey.

From that survey, 7% of adults thought it did come from brown cows and a staggering 48% admitted they weren't sure where chocolate milk comes from...

It beggars belief really doesn't it, I know the US aren't renowned for having the best education system - oddly though as they have some of the best Universities in the world - but the general state education system must be appalling!

Also the above article mentions a study from the 1990's that showed 20% of Americans didn't know hamburgers we're made from the meat of cows...

7% of adults don't think at all - they just randomly guess at possible answers. Yes, No... They'll just pick one in a panic of how to please the survey taker. I'm honestly surprised it's as high as 48% admitting to not knowing something. Usually the less someone knows about something the more they think they're an expert on it, in my experience!

doodah · 22 Jun 2017 at 16:23

Dis86 said:
Adults. Not kids.

Lol, my head scratching can stop

h4rm0ny · 22 Jun 2017 at 16:23

Diddums said:
"First world country"

Yeah, ok mate

Oh and:

To make it fair, though, Diddums should also be made to model a dress for balance and see how well they do at that!

Diddums · 22 Jun 2017 at 16:24

h4rm0ny said:
To make it fair, though, Diddums should also be made to model a dress for balance and see how well they do at that!

You wouldn't be able to handle the sass, dahling.

aardvark · 22 Jun 2017 at 16:25

quite a lot of people are idiots - i don't know why this is surprising to you, haven't you been outside?

Steeps · 22 Jun 2017 at 16:31

If we ran the same poll here, how many would select chocolate milk from brown cows because it would be funny?

h4rm0ny · 22 Jun 2017 at 16:31

Amp34 said:
I was about 15 before I realised hamburgers were made from beef.

I was nineteen and didn't realise until I went to America and someone told me. In my defence, I'm vegetarian so I'm not required to know!

Amp34 · 22 Jun 2017 at 16:36

StriderX said:
Americans are heavily German.

So yeah, poor grasp of English.

h4rm0ny said:
I was nineteen and didn't realise until I went to America and someone told me. In my defence, I'm vegetarian so I'm not required to know!

I'd only ever seen hamburgers in Macdonalds and always bought cheeseburgers up until that point.

V F · 22 Jun 2017 at 16:46

British people slagging Americans about their education? Isn't that a bit rich considering the state of ours...

Mynight · 22 Jun 2017 at 16:47

Amp34 said:
I'd only ever seen hamburgers in Macdonalds and always bought cheeseburgers up until that point.

To be fair I'm a vegetarian and always order the cheeseburger. It's good that mcdonalds support other eating choices.

Amp34 · 22 Jun 2017 at 16:59

Exactly, it was a burger with cheese. So why Is a hamburger not a burger with ham?

MissChief · 22 Jun 2017 at 17:03

Mynight said:
To be fair I'm a vegetarian and always order the cheeseburger. It's good that mcdonalds support other eating choices.

Amp34 said:
Exactly, it was a burger with cheese. So why Is a hamburger not a burger with ham?

Apparently, 'The name “hamburger" actually came from Hamburg, the second largest city in Germany. In the late 1700s, sailors who traveled between Hamburg and New York City often ate hard slabs of salted minced beef, which they called “Hamburg steak."'

Mynight · 22 Jun 2017 at 17:05

MissChief said:
Apparently, 'The name “hamburger" actually came from Hamburg, the second largest city in Germany. In the late 1700s, sailors who traveled between Hamburg and New York City often ate hard slabs of salted minced beef, which they called “Hamburg steak."'

Good to know

. Thanks!

I only really knew them as beefburgers never really came across hamburgers.

Haze · 22 Jun 2017 at 17:07

Taking into account how stupid Americans are 7% is quite low

Em3bbs · 22 Jun 2017 at 17:12

MissChief said:
Apparently, 'The name “hamburger" actually came from Hamburg, the second largest city in Germany. In the late 1700s, sailors who traveled between Hamburg and New York City often ate hard slabs of salted minced beef, which they called “Hamburg steak."'

There are a ton of different theories as to where the name came from but it's clear it was made popular in America not Hamburg:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger#Claims_of_invention

h4rm0ny · 22 Jun 2017 at 17:14

V F said:
British people slagging Americans about their education? Isn't that a bit rich considering the state of ours...

Hey, with a British education, there aren't that many nations we can choose from.

G-MAN2004 · 22 Jun 2017 at 17:23

Survey of 1000 people. I can never take these things too seriously with a such a small sample size.

StriderX · 22 Jun 2017 at 17:53

Bacon hamburger is especially amusing.

timmeh · 22 Jun 2017 at 17:54

MooMoo444 said:
If chocolate milk comes from brown cows...where does strawberry milk come from?

yer mum LOLOL #rekt

With a name like MooMoo I think it's far more likely that it comes from your mum.