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Show Dairy Month Salute the Dairy Indus try June Dairy Month is an annual celebration of the dairy industry and its products, pro-ducts, is 45 years old in 1981. In the beginning in 1937, June was selected because be-cause it was the most pro- . ductive month of the year, since cows were eating green grass after a drab winter. That's no longer true, as May milk production usually hits a higher level. But the June event has become a pleasant habit. In 1980, 10.8 million cows owned by 250,000 dairy farmers produced 128.4 billion bil-lion pounds of milk. That's 148 billion gallons of milk. Even more remarkable, remark-able, the 10.8 million cows in 1980, outproduced the 17.5 million cows in 1960. Since 1957, the Association As-sociation has used the JDM celebration to kick off the summer season for milk products. This is especially especial-ly important when school's out and milk drinking should be kept in the daily pattern. pat-tern. Every now and then there's a food legend that smacks of whole cloth, says CRaig Claiborne of the New York Times. As an example of this he cites the ice cream sundae. A news account of some years back states that the sundae originated in the town of Milford. It seems that years ago, there was a small pharmacy that boasted a soda fountain. foun-tain. It was not well patronized pa-tronized during the weekdays week-days as it was situated directly di-rectly across the street from a flourishing bar. The br was closed on Sundays, Sun-days, so, the drinking class repaired to the drugstore' to cool their throats with ice cream sodas. One customer cus-tomer complained that he could not stomach his weekly ice cream soda as the fizzing in the carbonated carbon-ated water contributed to the pounding is his already bursting bur-sting head. He ordered his Ice cream with syrup only. In no time at all, according accord-ing to this legend, the DRY version of the ice cream soda caught on and was called call-ed the 'Sunday Special.' The story has it that the spelling was laer changed to sundae as It was helt to to sundae as it was held to be irreverent to name; a dish especially one of such dubious origins after the Sabbath. |