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...older sibling, who is often just steps ahead of the younger ones. At 19, with both parents deceased, Kathy Borkowski, now living in Madison, Wis., took charge of her three younger siblings, ages 9 to 14. John, the youngest, was on dinner duty one night, when there was no milk for the mashed potatoes. He quickly solved the problem by melting a cup of vanilla ice cream. "I figured they were both dairy and the right color!" he explains...
...anyone anymore. But French does it, over and over again. The first story, "Mrs. O'Reilly's Class," sets the tone in the first panel. A grade-school girl, with gaping holes where her front baby-teeth were, whispers to her friend, "Ew, Calvin puts graham crackers in his milk and then he drinks it." Panel two: an alien-looking Calvin with sludge all over his mouth says...
...Does the idea of drinking graham cracker milk gruel make you laugh or feel ill or both? What about accidentally crushing a mole's skull under your heel and hearing it crack and then putting its severed paw into water, like an avocado pit? Or watching someone shoot staples into their eyeballs for beauty? Or eviscerating a small-horse-like thing and discovering embryos? Your answers will go a long way in determining how you will take to this book...
...last time you had chocolate milk, it may have been pizza-square day in your grade school cafeteria. But this beverage of youth is growing up. Sales of flavored milks, more than 90% of them chocolate, rose 18% last year. And much of the growth, milk producers say, is coming from people more apt to wear their milk mustaches at corporate cafeterias than school ones. In February, Hershey Foods completed a national rollout of its fat-free chocolate milk, a product with appeal for calorie-counting adults. National brands like Nestle-owned Nesquik, along with regional dairies like Dean Foods...
...appeal? Partly, it's a growing awareness of the importance of calcium for women. And for dieters, chocolate milk is more filling than a soft drink with about the same calories. "A cold glass of chocolate milk tastes better than a soda any day," says Ronald Osofsky of Ronnybrook Farms, an Ancramdale, N.Y., dairy that offers single-serve bottles. "And you can actually feel good about drinking it." Or at least feel younger...