"he needs some milk" was definitely the worst accidental milk campaign. If it didn't exist, my brother wouldn't recite it in the worst voice ever 5000 times a day.
I used to be allergic to milk (not lactose intolerant, asphyxiation) and for some reason it was such a problem in elementary school. no lunch lady could wrap their heads around it and kept trying to push a milk carton onto my tray and say "now don't throw this away again" we had peanut free tables, but i kept having to argue w old ladies about milk
i fully understand that this is stupid, but did you ever just drink it and show them what can very well happen when they force you to drink milk instead of just. like. allowing you to not do so
@@HungerGamesFan88 that's asking them to gamble with their life. I have similar anaphylactic allergies. If the OP had done that, there's a chance not even an epipen could save their lives. It may not have been something the lunch ladies would've seen the OP live to regret. An epipen is a last resort that may not work. It is not a "get out of anaphylaxis free" card, as many think. An epipen raises your chances of surviving the dance with death, but it's no guarantee.
My dad forced me to drink a glass of milk every night at dinner. Wouldn’t let me leave the table if I didn’t finish it. So I chugged the whole glass and then threw up on his shoes. 🥰
@@katsdraws just pour it on the ground every time, even if he kept refilling it theres only so many times he could before there was no more milk left in the house
I had an awful experience in Kindergarten where we were forced to drink milk past its expiration date in Kindergarten. Several students, myself included, got sick. I never drank milk from the cafeteria again. They made me get milk for two years until eventually they stopped making me. Late in fifth grade, they finally let me drink water because I was always really nice and they didn't want me to go without drinking anything like I had for five years at that point.
I remember a few years ago, there was a Canadian ad for "Have you been checking your milk? You might be having *American* milk." So America was trying to sell milk here (Canada) which I found that really funny back then and now
Oh don't forget when you get half way done with making something that needs milk and you go grab it and there's nothing.....that happened to me the other day when I was making box Mac and cheese.....my sadness was unmeasurable
i actually will say that I believe the Aaron Burr milk commercial is one of the best, simply because it released a full decade before I was born, and yet I have somehow seen it and been bizarrely terrified by the concept. it sticks in my brain, at least
And then there's the people that would get pissed off and deliberately defy the ads. I remember I kept getting ads for Puffs tissues, and then one day, I went to the store for tissues, and the only brand they had that day was Puffs. I did buy them (with great annoyance) and discovered that I actually really like their brand, but I was so close to literally not buying any tissues at all, just so I didn't have to buy the brand that was advertised
My mom helps give food from the schools to the students, and it's required they get milk with it. Like, some weeks it's a gallon per child. So if you have 3 children in your house, and you go to the pickup, that's 3 gallons of milk you HAVE to take in order to get the food. It is pushed so hard lol
@@amberreed5324 yeah, but how much of that is a push for the health of the children vs the dairy industry wanting to sell more milk? Personally, I think it's the former more than the latter since the milk distributed that way wouldn't make the dairy industry much money since it would be at a discount. They would need to sell a LOT of volume to make up the difference in price. Milk is very much a kid's drink. I loved milk when I was young until I drank too much and puked it up all over the floor. Haven't had straight milk since then.
@@Karamarika Idk how much is which. The food is given for free since it's a public school, so the gov is paying for it anyway. I'm just saying it's a bit much, since (granted every kid is different but) my has always bought like 2 gallons for a family of five and we barely get through them before they go bad. It still is the schools being forced to push milk, whichever it is.
Obviously the 2 best things that the Got Milk? campaign brought were -The animated tie-in commercials(like with Mario 64 and the 2000’s revival of Dexter’s Laboratory) -The Facebook algorithm’s “parody” mugs(notably “Got Cholera?”)
I know milk propaganda sounds crazy but the dairy industry really does work hard to pay politicians to advocate for factory farming. It’s a huge problem here in the US.
It's not really a problem at all, milk is a great product to keep a population healthy. What's a problem is a population that eats far too much sugar and oil, and is getting more and more obese. Keeping the population nutritious is the opposite of a problem.
@@Proletariat12 while that is definitely a problem, cow milk is far from a healthy product. It contains too much fat for the human stomach to process correctly and can in fact lead to calcium problems if the habit is too strong. Overall if you're moderate it shouldn't do you any harm but it's not really contributing either. If anything, goat or donkey milk is much healthier, and the less processed the better.
@@RoughlyArtistic claiming it's not a healthy product shows a lack of understanding basic biology. What's next, you going to claim meat rots in your gut therefore it's a poison?
@@Proletariat12 As I said it's not terribly bad unless you go nuts, but the fact that lactose intolerance is a thing, and that it can be developed by non-lactose intolerant people, shows that it's not an objectively good thing for everyone. Fact is, milk cow is made for cow stomachs, which are vastly different. Goat and donkey milk are actually more similar in composition to human milk and are thus more digestible. Also there's the fact that supermarket milk is processed and pasteurized to oblivion and is wayy different from natural, farm cow milk. Again, nothing personal against milk, I like it a lot actually but it's just a matter of taste rather than health lol
I realized it because I absolutely despised milk after my dad bought into the stuff and just forced me to drink two ginormous glasses a day. Which honestly made me feel sick. Idk about you, but the thing he said about not even having water as an option at lunch was true at my school too, and it just made me hate milk even more.
I haven't drank milk in months and I've been facing problems constantly, like my arms falling off and my peanut butter preventing me from winning moneys
So, these advertisements may not have worked (Because everyone is _fully_ aware of milk’s existence already. It’s not some hot new product, for Christ’s sake.) but some of those older, early 90s commercials are freaking _incredible._ I was _hella_ amused!
That’s because no matter what brand of milk you buy, it’s all produced by the same conglomerate of dairy farmers. And these ads came straight from the dairy farmers.
Next they're gonna have santa fall off his sleigh and die because he didnt feed his reindeer any milk r he dies because people didnt put out milk with the cookies and he dies from dehydration. That would be great for christmas, an old man dying in the snow
@@leila-mi3gb it's more of a legal requirement. They don't get to be funded by the government if they're not even serving the food they were granted, and the government is mandated to provide schools HEALTHY options. They HAVE to give it to you even if they know you won't eat it, or they won't get the funding to give you ANYTHING.
They’re really salty about alternatives. Big dairy is lobbying EU so that plant-based drink companies cannot sell their products in cartons, as it is “misleading”.
I hadn't thought about how weird it was that schools literally did not offer water. My first couple of years of elementary school they had lemonade but after that it was plain milk, chocolate milk, or very occasionally strawberry milk. Plus, my school didn't allow us to bring water bottles. They really had a bunch of kids drinking milk with their hamburger with no other option
Tbh honestly the same. Wasn't another option untill high school but it was an extra fee. At that point there was also a juice option. But again not until HighSchool. They discouraged us bringing outside bevarages and we weren't allowed to leave to the water fountain during eating period. As someone with lactose intolerance I rejoiced when the tiny container of juice arrived for no extra fee.
I've seen some American youtuber stating that they were surprised that people from other countries would drink only water while eating. Apparently in the USA it's costumary to drink soda instead of water. I wonder if it has something to do with these weird "no-water rules" you're talking about (and if that's the case, I wonder if it's possible to estimate just how much extra sugar the average person has swallowed because of this bad habit)
@@MaterialMenteNo not all of us drink sodas with our meals, but you made a good point! I guess the people who got school lunches were more accustomed to having a flavor to their drinks. I honestly never thought about the extra sugars we got from only drinking milk…
@@Bruh-ob9mi"Sentence - a set of words that is complete in itself, typically containing a subject and predicate, conveying a statement, question, exclamation, or command, and consisting of a main clause and sometimes one or more subordinate clauses." From the Oxford dictionary
The only impact the got milk campaign had in me when I was a kid was an entire bedroom wall covered floor to ceiling with got milk ads that I cut out of magazines lol
Honestly, the only milk "content" I've seen besides this video was from Contrapoints . . . the only thing better than skeleton memes I think is watching a trans woman pour milk over a cardboard cutout of Jordan Peterson. Milk industry, take note: The weirder it is, the better it'll sell.
That Michael Bay ad is like a nightmare. You get to answer something you’ve trained your entire life for, only to realize you can’t speak, end up missing out and everyone thinks you’re an idiot.
It costs more to get water than milk at my school. Milk comes with the meal, but water doesn't. Water costs $1. Milk (by itself) costs 50¢ Due to COVID people can have water bottles without an excuse and they put in water bottle filling stations. It's more possible to attempt to consume water, but still way too difficult. ETA: And the water they sell is mini bottles
I did since I was allergic to milk and the lunch ladies would hassle me about a doctor’s note every damn day. And I would bring one, as requested. And then they would ask for one again, and wouldn’t let me have anything else without one, even though I’d already showed them. Eventually I gave up 😭
my school literally made it so you'd pay extra if you *didn't* get milk. There were some kids who would get milk and then immediately throw it out because they didn't want it but didn't want to have to spend more on lunch
I remember once in elementary school at lunch a kid told the lunch lady he was lactose intolerant and she said, "oh, well here you go baby you can have this instead" and handed him a 2% milk. LoL
imagine being a child while these are aired and you develop a fear of cats because they murdered an old lady and then you watch a family cook the Pillsbury doughboy while he screams in agony like that'll mess you up for a while
Next they're gonna have santa fall off his sleigh and die because he didnt feed his reindeer any milk r he dies because people didnt put out milk with the cookies and he dies from dehydration. That would be great for christmas, an old man dying in the snow
I was obsessed with cats as a child so I was just angry they implied you can give cats milk. Please don’t give your cats milk, most cats are lactose intolerant.
being in public school in the early 2000s was like “you have to pay extra for water but youll get this frozen puck of juice or box of milk with your lunch! why are you so dehydrated?”
Bro same man. I never realized how weird it was until now... probs why I didn't drink much water as a kid up until recently when I realized "oh that's important to not feel like crap" XDXD
What happens with overconsumption of milk? Just curious. Was it just purely dehydration from lack of water? Or something resulting from the milk itself?
As soon as I saw your mouth full of peanut butter my subconscious was screaming AARON BURR! AARON BURR! Damn that commercial has burned itself into my psyche 😂
in elementary school they had HUGE posters with disney actors like dylan and cole sprouse (and a bunch of others of the same caliber) with the stupid milk mustaches. they were all over the cafeteria. now that i think back... that was so strange
My middle school cafeteria had one with Dwayne Johnson. It was quite strange walking into the cafeteria one day and seeing the Rock with a milk mustache.
In elementary school a few friends and I did a parody song of “We Will Rock You” in front of our whole school. It was called “We Will Milk You” and it went exactly how you’d imagine it would. I don’t know how the school approved that performance given the clear (but unintended) innuendo.
Fond memories of everyone in my private school being forced to take a picture for the Got Milk campaign with milk mustaches but I, at the age of 8, already knew those were dumb so I pretended to be sick to get out of it. Good job, kid me. You nailed it. God, do I wish I'd had water in my school, though... that would've been lit.
i remember my elementary had a "got milk?" poster with eminem in the cafeteria, and looking back that will never not be confusing to me. like i get he was popular with kids but like, we weren't supposed to admit it.
Yeah I literally did an analysis for a college class on a government bill called "The Defense of Dairy Act" and they legit lie on the official government bill. It's crazy
@@chosjokolate9014 I took intro to nutrition in college and my prof was so adamant about pushing milk and beef to our class when literally 5 of us would raise our hands and say, "dairy isn't actually good for you... there's new studies-" She'd cut us off and say, "I am a professor of over 10 years in this field, so I have a right to teach you what I have learned through experience." So, one time she handed out pamphlets of big beef, and it was comparing how superior it was to beans and soy and other plant-based sources of protein..... all the way at the bottom.... from the National Beef Council. We brought it up to her that its literally propaganda- she said our university tells her to hand it out per the curriculum.
Also the dairy industry has successfully made it illegal to film or expose animal cruelty at factory farms. To keep their horrible treatment of the cows a secret, like literally you can be thrown in prison for taking a picture of a suffering cow. It’s so fucked up.
they're so powerful. and to think, if the government didn't subsidise milk it would be SO EXPENSIVE and literally nobody would drink it. it would be more expensive than dairy alternatives since it uses far more resources. plus casein in cows milk is so addictive, it triggers your brain's opioid receptors!! so they literally push their predatory marketing to kids to get them addicted, justifying the subsidisation of milk.
I remember the got milk ads. In elementary, you either got milk or juice and bottles of water were more expensive. I entered middle school, and getting milk was optional, no longer required. Entering high school and those posters were gone
In my school I remember there was 2 fridges. One was a little fridge with juice boxes in it, and they were only for the dairy defecent students because they only kept like 10 at a time (and they only kept apple juice) and then a second normal sized fridge cooler FILLED with milk. And they always ran outta chocolate so you had to line up early if you wanted the good stuff. Strawberry was one I didn't like but also a rarity in my school, usually only saw it before a holiday or durring testing weeks. I will say when I was in high school (the middle and high school were connected) they got a way better lunch program and the food became a lot better and more juice and even Gatorade was provided, as well as vending machines filled with sports drinks were added. So early 2000 when they decided to stop forcing milk on students 🤣
@@lunamayes291 nah I went to elementary school in during 2005 - 2011 and they still forced us to drink milk, our lunch ladies wouldn't let us leave the cafeteria unless we drank at least a carton of milk. My little brother is in elementary now and it's still that way, then again it was a small school so there was no way that we were gonna be able to afford vending machines
Mine only has milk and chocolate milk no strawberry. But there’s always more chocolate milk. They even have milk in vending machines, along with vita ice and Powerade and stuff.
Fun fact: When I was a junior in high school, I was part of a program at an elementary school that had us mentor kids. I was watching two kindergartners on the playground and I slipped and broke my wrist. When I walked to the nurses' office and got the kids back to their classes (while holding my broken wrist!) one of the kids said, "your wrist probably broke because you didn't drink milk this morning,". The Got Milk? campaign really roasted me through the voice of a kindergartner.
I remember all the milk propaganda back in my school. They threw maybe five dollars in quarters into a small sand pit, then they made us dig up the quarters and in the end we were only allowed to spend the quarters on milk.
In middle school I remember we literally HAD to take a milk with lunch. I was like, what if you don’t want a milk? I’m lactose intolerant? And they told me that I still had to take it and if I didn’t want it I could just throw it away. Wtf?? Lol
That sucks, animals are abused and killed to make milk.........just to be wasted. :( Most people are lactose intolerant because we were not meant to drink cows milk. FACTS....look into it.
@@deannawheeler4362 it’s really so sad. Eventually they put out a milk crate that you could put unwanted milks into if you didn’t want to drink one. I think maybe the school got assistance for funding for the lunch program or something and that’s why they made you take one? I know with things like that certain things have to be offered to the children and it’s recorded to receive the funding. But still weird that you have to take a milk
@@ktqt8544 I was so sad when I had to throw away the milk even though I didn’t like it, because I was taught never to waste food. Coming in to third grade from homeschool was such a huge culture shock just because of all the dumb rules and things they made you do that just made absolutely no sense to a child. And really outside of the reason of “we need ALL the kids to take it so we can claim it for funding” doesn’t really make any sense at all.
They made me drink everything but milk. I actually (no joke) have an aversion to just drinking the stuff straight up, and I’m not even lactose intolerant. If you force some kid to drink milk everyday for lunch and not give them water... literally what do you expect? The stuff ain’t that great. Eventually I started to like almond milk, and I distinctly remember seeing ad campaigns against almond milk by “big” milk. But the only point they could come up with to not drink almond milk was that it had one ingredient you couldn’t pronounce. Meanwhile, milk often has a shit ton more sugar poured in, which can’t be good for you. Anyways, I still don’t drink milk. Or buy it. At all.
@@xdlr22 I freaking looooove almond milk. Especially the vanilla one. I no joke used to think almond milk drinkers were pretentious (the ones that were not lactose intolerant. lol don't know why. But after drinking it, yeah i aint going back to regular milk😂
I think the TikTok campaign is the funniest. Gen Z hates milk, everyone drinks oat or nut milk. And it's better for you. They are also raised with awareness of lactose intolerance which my generation was not. Wrong target audience.
Over time adults become lactose intolerant. The truth is that we honestly shouldn't be drinking cow milk but god I love cheese and ice cream (but my stomach doesn't)
When I was a kid the cafeteria was just covered in these posters just like the library was with the “Read” campaign. In high school they would charge you extra if you DIDNT get milk. So we’d all grad it and toss it
I don't know if it was the commercials or not, but I LOVED milk as a kid. I would drink a gallon every 2-3 days. I vividly remember my Dad being annoyed at how fast I went through milk. Still broke my arm when I was 10...
It was weird that the only option for drinks at lunch in elementary was milk or chocolate milk. I’m glad I went to private school in middle school (there were more drink options there) because I’ve been vegan since sixth grade
