Almond Milk

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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/SB10001424052748703791904576075790255426176.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 <a gangbusters ballplayer>"

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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