Place: Bonanza
Lunch: Lunch buffet, Pepsi
Bonanzas and Ponderosas (same chain, really) are hit and miss. But this one's not too bad. I used to know a guy who managed one. I recall us having this conversation:
(Me): Why'd you replace the black olives with crappy ones?
(Phil): Because they're cheaper.
(Me): But they're crappy.
(Phil): But they're cheaper.
(Me:) But they're crappy.
(Phil): Then go buy your own expensive ones. These are cheaper.
Phil was awesome, if not cheap.
So I was browsing a shiny new Price Chopper supermarket in Kansas City, because this is how I have fun...browsing supermarkets...when I see something new. It's a new flavor milk! Can you guess what it is? Can you? CAN YOU?
Uh...root beer?
No it's...YES! It IS root beer! How did you know?
Uh...the blog title?
CRAP. Well...
Milk has taken many flavors over the years. Chocolate, of course. Strawberry too. Orange cream. Banana has been a popular flavor as of late. Even vanilla. Because plain milk isn't vanilla. Plain Dairy Queen isn't vanilla either, but don't try to tell the teen behind the counter that. Then there's Ovaltine. I'm not sure what flavor Ovaltine is supposed to be...they call one chocolate and one malt...but that's okay. I like the malt one, even if the taste has nothing to do with malt.
This little dairy oddity comes from Shatto. They sell milk with no growth hormones in glass bottles. I guess that's better for you. Nobody knows why, including the FDA according to the bottle. Anyway, their products page shows they have a whole milk chocolate. I am ALL over that. You know what the fat ratio is in whole milk? 3.25 percent. WHY are you bothering with two percent?!?
(Then there's the people shouting that we shouldn't be drinking milk in the first place, proving once and for all that nothing on Earth is good for you, and that humans should starve themselves to death immediately upon birth in the name of the greater good.)
I suppose the idea with root beer was to taste something like root beer float. And it does...but something's missing. It's kind of weird. Like diet root beer float maybe.
Somebody should try raspberry or blackberry milk. Those berries are classics with cream. They do yogurts that way all the time.
Speaking of which, why doesn't anybody make chocolate yogurt? TCBY makes chocolate frozen yogurt, and apparently Yoplait makes some chocolate flavors (yes, I actually Googled before asking to see if a logical answer existed, and the best answer I got was "ugh"), but I've personally never seen a chocolate flavor in stock anywhere.
Anyway, you can find Shatto products in Price Chopper, Hy-Vee, Whole Foods, or a few other grocers around the Kansas City area.
