tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post7510954175981092970..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: Friday FourGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-56004604395729998802016-03-12T13:15:32.823-06:002016-03-12T13:15:32.823-06:00Dismuke,
I seem to remember you telling me that ...Dismuke,<br /><br /><br />I seem to remember you telling me that story ages ago. Nice to get a look at that baby. <br /><br />GusGus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-69864428258211772162016-03-12T11:37:29.359-06:002016-03-12T11:37:29.359-06:00When I was around two and three years old there wa...When I was around two and three years old there was a local brand of milk called Metzger's Milk which had a picture of a baby on the bottle. Despite how young I was I still very much remember thinking how cool the Metzger baby was - and I referred to the milk as "Metzger-baby-milk." <br /><br />I had to have learned the phrase "Metzger baby milk" from my parents as I was too young to read. My guess is that they initially called it that to coax me into drinking the stuff in the first place. At that age I had an aversion to any food that was either white or yellow in color. I still remember being in a high chair and my mother force feeding me mashed potatoes. I wouldn't touch vanilla ice cream either. And even into grade school I was suspicious of anything that had cheese in it because of its yellow color. My guess is my mother probably told me something to the effect that by drinking the milk I would make the Metzger baby happy. <br /><br />Anyhow, if telling me about the Metzger baby was a way to coax me into drinking the milk, it worked but it also backfired. My parents tell me that I absolutely refused to drink any milk that didn't come from the Metzger baby - and the problem was that Metzger's Milk was much more expensive than store brands and, for my parentsm money was tight. So they did something similar to what you are doing: they bought store brand milk and, when I wasn't looking, they poured it into an empty Metzger's Milk bottle which I happily drank. It wasn't until I was an adult that they told me about the deception.<br /><br />I found online an advertising picture of the Metzger baby: <br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/zmceuqj<br /><br />Looking at it all these years later the baby seems kinda odd: he looks almost middle aged!Dismukehttp://radiodismuke.comnoreply@blogger.com