Dairy

So, you know that "Got Milk?" commercial where there's that rich guy wondering how he can waste his money, and someone says, "We could try making milk from plants." and the other guy says "But milk comes from cows!" and the rich guy's like "Genius!"?  I'm sure it's on YouTube.

Well, that's not entirely accurate.  Soy milk is not milk, it's soy milk, and it's sold as such.  I have yet to see a label that plays down the "soy" part of it.  It's a compound word with a different meaning.  It's just called "soy milk" because it's similar to milk.

The problem I have, though, is the "milk comes from cows" thing.  Cow milk isn't even the most-consumed type of milk by humans, goat milk is.  Milk comes from lots of animals--it's one of the defining characteristics of the entire class Mammalia, and even then there are a few species of snake that lactate.  What they mean to say is "milk comes from females".

So I guess they're left with two real options: recognize that there are in fact multiple quality milk-like products or stick to the most denotatively-correct definition for their product.  They have taken the middle road and done neither.

On an unrelated note:

I like to imagine there's some sadistic crime warlord with a warehouse full of Klondike bars using it to extort illegal/immoral acts out of people as part of a cruel social experiment.