Glamorous? Gratuitous? Just plain gluttonous? You be the judge-- a typical day on the chocolate milk grind in eastern PA, and the first day of a whirlwind week-long sweep through the state. Baily's Dairy, Tanner Bros. Dairy, Merrymead Farm, Crystal Spring Farm, and Hillside Farms-- something for everybody.
There's so much chocolate milk in PA, that you just have to start somewhere! In this case, a brief visit to Pittsburgh yielded chocolate milk from Turner's Dairy, Schneider's Dairy, Brunton Dairy, Pot O Gold Dairy, and Giant Eagle (not in the video). I later return to PA for a legitimate week-long pilgrimage to get all I can find, which was no simple task. Stay tuned..
Aside from being a cool place to visit (in underratedly-beautiful Northeast Iowa), WW Homestead Dairy is home to the only non-homogenous skim chocolate milk of which I'm currently aware!
Any reasonable person's quest for chocolate milk will take them through Iowa, and particularly, Ely-- home of Dan and Debbie's Creamery, where you'll find top-notch people, ice cream, cheese curds, and of course, chocolate milk. Also, a rare(?) find at a store lovingly dubbed 'The Pig.'
What do kangaroos, racquetball, and delicious chocolate milk all have in common? Hansen's Dairy in Hudson, Iowa is the only possible answer to that question.
The prestigious "World's Best Chocolate Milk" is awarded each year as part of the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin. I attended the show to assess the chocolate milk situation, as one would expect the World Dairy Expo to exhibit some the world's finest chocolate milk (duh). Frustration ensued, followed by unsolicited (but hopefully constructive) criticism-- all, of course from a chocolate milk-centered vantage point.
A quick stop into Peterborough's Roy's Market yields a bottle of local, grass-fed chocolate milk from Manning Hill Farm (Winchester, NH). How did it taste, and how does it rate on the newly-unveiled Continuum of Wildness?
An aggressive 570-mile day trip loop from Kansas City (KS) to Springfield (MO), Branson, Fayetteville (AR), Miami (OK), and back yields some outstanding local chocolate milk well worth your consideration!
Just a mere 500 chocolate milks ago, I was wandering about a cold, misty Tallinn, Estonia in desperate search of anything remotely resembling the sweet brown elixir that has come to occupy my thoughts, fuel my dreams, and assuage my deepest fears. The cliché is true: it feels like yesterday, though so much has happened since.
A quick stop in Fairbury, Illinois to visit Kilgus Farmstead and try their locally legendary chocolate milk! It took lots of meandering through cornfields to get there, but was well worth the effort.
