(It’s not spelling and punctuation, for starters.) Here are some good places to start: It may be the only post you’ll read today that has the tags appliances, beverages, pee, and smegma.Īlso: March 4 is National Grammar Day, an occasion for remembering what grammar is and is not. I’m marching to the beat of the Strong Language drummer, with a new post about naughty-sounding brand names with innocent meanings. That’s right: Three brands with three virtually identical names-none of them telling you what the product is, only what it’s not.Ĭontinue reading "Battle of the not-milks" » Then there are the dairy alternatives that tell you only what they aren’t: Not Milk, NotMilk, and “Shh … This Is Not MLK,” with a white droplet replacing the I in milk, to ensure that you don’t confuse it with not–Martin Luther King Jr. “Malk: Now with Vitamin R.” Via Simpsons Wiki for its whatever advertising), nuts (Texas-based MALK, whose weird all-caps name may have been inspired by that episode of The Simpsons), or peas ( Ripple, based in the Bay Area, and aren’t you glad they didn’t name it Pea Milk?). There are dairy substitutes made from soy ( Silk, introduced in 1977, is one of the oldest soy-milk brands, and still one of the most elegantly named), oats (Oatly, based in Sweden and famous in the U.S. If you’re avoiding dairy for reasons of health or principle, you have more choices than ever, and some of them even taste good.
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