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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Anne Marie Chaker, Move Over, Cow: Almond Milk Sparks Fight in Dairy Case;
the Cookie Dunk-Off. Wall Street Journal, Jan 12, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142
4052748703791904576075790255426176.html
My comment:
(1) Please go to the bottom of the report first and read Who's the Milkiest
of Them All? Which is a play on "Mirror, mirror on the wall / Who in the
land is fairest of all?"--in Snow White.
(a) almond milk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almond_milk
(Almond milk is a milky drink made from ground almonds; section 2 History)
(b) soy milk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soy_milk
(A stable emulsion of oil, water, and protein, it is produced by soaking dry
soybeans and grinding them with water)
Section 1 Origins states, "It also appeared in a chapter called Four Taboos
(Szu-Hui) in the A.D. 82 book called Lunheng by Wang Chong, possibly the
first written record of soy milk."
They are 四諱 and 論衡, respectively. The text is "世諱作豆醬惡聞雷." 四諱第
六十八.
(c) rice milk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_milk
(a kind of grain milk processed from rice. It is mostly made from brown rice
and commonly unsweetened)
No wonder it is brown.
(d) coconut milk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_milk
(a sweet, milky white cooking base derived from the meat of a mature coconut
. The colour and rich taste of the milk can be attributed to the high oil
content and sugars)
(2) Blue Diamond Growers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Diamond_Growers
(founded iin 1910 and headquartered in Sacramento, California; a
agricultural cooperative and marketing organization; claims to be the world'
s largest "tree nut processing and marketing company". It serves 3500 almond
growers, and helps make the almond crop (valued at over $1 billion)
California's largest food export)
(3) almond butter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almond_butter
(Almond milk is made when roasted almonds are crushed to make almond butter,
then mixed with water plus vitamins, stabilizers and, in some cases, a
sweetener)
(4) gangbusters (adj; First Known Use 1971): "outstandingly excellent or
successful "
Compare--the noun with "s"
gangbuster (n): "one engaged in the aggressive breakup of organized criminal
gangs"
Both definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(5) The report concludes by saying, "Last spring, the Arlington, Va.-based
National Milk Producers Federation, which lobbies for dairy farmers, wrote a
letter to the Food and Drug Administration asking for a crackdown on use of
the word 'milk' on dairy alternatives. |
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