Word: moo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Flavored Milk. Denver's Universal Beverages Inc., will soon put on sale licorice, root beer and lime-flavored milk, following the test-marketing in Denver (more than 5,000 24-can cases sold since May 25) of its orange, strawberry and banana-flavored milk. Called Moo Gay, the drinks use a patented process that allows acidic flavors to be added to milk without curdling it, tastes vaguely like a liquid custard pudding. Price...
...giving cow. For as little (or as much) as one shilling ninepence, the determined pleasure seeker may numb his insides with a 'frosted chocolate snowball' (frozen soya bean flour with mock cocoa gravy), a 'Hollywood Delight' (cold soya stew with ice vegetable jam), a 'Moo-moo Special' (mixed leftovers studded with damaged grapes) or a dollop of 'Stratosphere Kisses' (soya bean sludge and near nougat). A specialty of the maison is the 'Merrie England' full cream hot milk shake (boiled soya stock with vanilla-flavored export-reject whitewash...
Last week in the dark oak solemnity of a King's Bench courtroom, Mother Moo-moo's menu became the principal evidence in a libel action brought against Norcott and the Daily Mail by the proprietors of the real-life Moo Cow Milk Bars of London. Moo Cow Director Frederick Abdela, who told the court that he himself was often known as Mr. Moo, declined to see anything humorous about Norcott's article. It was, said Abdela, "a cynical and horrible criticism of a business which could only be taken...
That, the heavy-jowled judge instructed the jury, depended on whether a reasonable person would be likely to confuse the extravagantly described Moo-moo of Norcott's imagining with any real place. "Language," said he, "can be so gross as to carry its own refutation...
Finding for Satirist Norcott, the jury decided that Mother Moo-moo's was not a Moo...