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.

Hoods

I've always been baffled by the clothing of Sora from Kingdom Hearts.  Now, I can overlook the zippers and the belts and the Mickey Mouse color scheme.  What bugs me is that his short-sleeve shirt has a hood.  Why?  What weather or event would mandate that your head be covered completely, but not your arms?  He lives on a tropical island, and as a person who lives on a tropical island let me tell you there is little occasion to wear a hood.  Considering he always has it down makes me doubt its necessity.  This is actually a recurring theme in Tetsuya Nomura's character designs.  Tidus has it, and Neku doesn't have a hood, per se, but he does have a scoop-like thing on a sleeveless shirt.

What is that thing?  Oh well.  I just wrote it off as something weird Tetsuya Nomura does.  But then I discovered this:

A hoodie-vest, being worn by Kagamine Rin.  Interesting.

As it turns out, this is an actual thing in Japan.  I have seen several Japanese students at my school wearing vests with hoods or short-sleeved hoodies of some kind.  Why?  It's much the same dilemma as the sweater-vest, which by the way appeared in that same video.

It's too warm for when it's warm, it's not warm enough for when it's cold.  These articles have no logical purpose.  They are kept, of course, purely for fashion reasons.

What this says is obvious: people are attracted to people with no sense of practicality.