The beauty of being a blogger is that I have a platform to share whatever noteworthy topic that pops into my head. Sometimes, the crazy stories I come across on the inter-web or the random thoughts that pop into my mind aren’t really noteworthy at all {on their own}. They usually make me pause, laugh, or just plain roll my eyes and I go on about my day.
Oh gosh, you guys. Sometimes I read things and I am seriously worried about humanity. Do you think you can start evolving backwards? 16.4 million American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Yep. Brown cows. Not milk, cocoa and sugar, but a colored cow. Wow. The belief is that it stems from a lack of agricultural awareness. “One Department of Agriculture study, commissioned in the early ’90s, found that nearly 1 in 5 adults did not know that hamburgers are made from beef.
Many more lacked familiarity with basic farming facts, like how big U.S. farms typically are and what food animals eat.” So basically people no longer know where their food comes from or how it gets to their table. While that does make me sad, I have to admit it’s a little silly to think of an otherwise educated adult that thinks you can milk a cow an then down a nice glass of chocolate milk!
Boutique Baby-food Delivery Services Are a Thing,
For the low cost of around $80+/week, someone else will puree food for your baby and deliver it right to you. Yep. No more tossing those cooked carrots into a food processor and pulsing for a few seconds, someone else will handle all of that for you. Baby food delivery companies are popping up all across the country and they just seem so very ridiculous to me. It’s not like you’re making a gourmet meal for your baby.
When they first start eating solids and surpass the rice stage, you can either buy those little jars in the store or easily puree all sorts of healthy treats for your baby. It’s not rocket science, but someone decided to monopolize on a new mother’s fatigue and decided to press puree for you. There’s even a company that will provide pre-washed and chopped veggie packets you still have to steam and purée. They just do the chopping for you. I’m all for convenience, but anyone else thing that’s taking it way too far?!
Plant Trees, Not Tombstones
If a casket is not your thing and you are wanting to be buried, I have just the thing for you: the Capsula Mundi Urn! It’s designed to hold cremation ashes, and then be buried next to an existing tree, or in a hole where a new tree will be planted. The Urn is made from a biodegradable polymer that will essentially be turned into soil and nutrients for the tree. So in your death, you give a tree life. I think its a pretty cool concept if you don’t want a typical plot and grave.
No More Fighting For Elbow Space
Attention all frequent travelers! Dream of having an armrest that’s all yours during your flight? Well now you can! The Soarigami Airplane Portable Armrest Extender/Divider will make that so! It simply clamps onto the existing armrest to provide you and your neighbor with your own space and even a divider in between. They’re fully adjustable and fold flat so they’re easy to store, plus they have tapered wings that do not cut into your side. That all sounds fine and good and I’m sure they’re lovely, but this invention just made me laugh!!
And that concludes this installment of Random Goodness from Around the Web. Please make sure to leave your random responses in the comment section.
~Mavis
Tammy says
So I just asked my 8 year old daughter where chocolate milk comes from. I admit, I asked her in a way that led to her answering: from brown cows! And then she had a grin on her face as she said that it was milk from brown cows that was “processed”. So I asked her if we could make chocolate milk and she said yes, just add cocoa powder to white milk….and then I asked her if brown cows *really* make chocolate milk and she grinned and said “no”. Whew.
And then I asked her what hamburgers are, and she said (with a “duh” sort of tone), “cow meat!”
At least I’m doing something right. 😉
Side note: when I was a teenager, we were over at some friend’s house. My sisters had a wheat intolerance, but the family had made spaghetti so everyone just ate it. After the meal, one of my sisters was swiping bread from the table, and my dad mentioned that the girls usually didn’t get bread because of being intolerant to wheat. The father didn’t know why bread would be a problem, which led my dad to ask, “Well, what is bread made of?” and the guy said, “Dough???”
andrea d says
$80 a week for baby food?! That’s crazy! I have 5 kids. With the first, I went by the book- started with the rice cereal around 4 months, slowly added new pureed foods. Second baby, realized that the cereal wasn’t necessary- just empty carbs so started on pureed veggies and fruits around 5-6 months. By the 3rd, breastfed/bottle-fed only until around 9 months when they were able to start on soft finger foods and feed themselves; my last three were never spoon fed. Baby food is not a necessity and with older kids to tend to, pureeing food just took too much time.
Lisa says
If my neighborhood was more affluent I would start my own baby food delivery service! WOW! $80 per week at 20 babies? Nice side job if you can get it!
Jfred says
That armrest thingy is pure genius! I’m guessing you’ve not sat next to a male stranger for 8hrs, who decided he needed the armrest for the entire flight. Women don’t take up the armrests…we’re aware of our little bubbles of space. But the men….sigh. 10 trips across the atlantic….and always the men crowding that durn armrest.
Judy says
The entitled gender? I have noticed it too and just cozy up to them as if to share and they usually do.
Lace Faerie says
And it not just arms and elbows! Ever had to fly next to a guy who could not seem to keep his knees together!?! Legs spread and forever leaning against you? Or the guys who seems to think the space between your seat back tray and your knee was for his foot, sitting with his foot across his knee!?!
As I was thinking how handy hat pins of our great-grandmothers were, it dawned on me…I always have some sort of needlework, embroidery and hand sewing with me. A few wide swoops pulling the threaded needle out wide usually puts the fear of god into them!
suzy anderson says
I teach a program for the farm bureau called Ag in the Classroom. Our goal is to inform school age kids where their food comes from. Many think chocolate milk comes from brown cows. So, I know what I do is important. Every state has this program and if you want it to come to your child’s school just contact your county’s farm bureau. It’s free!
Gwenn says
When my mom passed and was cremated we found that there are many “natural” options for her ashes including:
Being part of a natural reef just off the coast of Florida.
Ashes being put in a biodegradable ring to put around a newly planted tree.
Ashes placed in a biodegradable disc tho be placed in water off a boat.
This last optin is what my mom wanted so we had a send off for her complete with a pirate flag, Jimmy Buffett music, cocktails on a beautiful sailboat just off shore from where she used to live.
There are a lot of other options out there I never knew about before.
I want to become part of a tree when it’s my time.
Julia says
We are part of 4-H, a non-profit that teaches leadership, citizenship, and life skills through hands on learning mostly with agriculture and animals, among other things. Our club participates in a local Halloween parade with our animals. You would be surprised how many folks, adults included, cannot identify a goat. “Look honey, a cute baby pony!” Is that a camel? A pig? Seriously this happens. We do several outreaches a year, going to schools, nursing homes, and day camps to help kids and adults connect with farm animals and provide education about them. You don’t have to live on a farm to be part of 4-H. We live in a small city and my son is very active in 4-H, raising Netherland Dwarf rabbits. If anyone has kids you should check out your local 4-H, they have so many project opportunities: baking, sewing, woodworking, photography, electricity, large animals, small animals, tons of fun and educational oppertuniturs, and not a single chocolate cow!!!!