Mothers know that this is a wholesome combination.

“delicious blended food drink”!

Advertising written by the utterly deranged

Go easy on them, this was from a time before humanity had the sun.
- Or color.
- The phone number is 4 digits. I realize we added area codes. I didn't realize we had already done it once before that wet the other 3 digits.i wonder if they still have a xxx-xxx-3577 phone number floating around the company somewhere

First off, it really is tasty.

Second, given when this add is from, it is likely that the milk consumed by many who read this ad was close to or equivalent to the best "artisan farmer" organic milk you can find today, and the 7-Up was likely still using pure cane sugar rather than high-fructose corn syrup.

Not wholesome, but also not the toxic sludge it would be today.

The swill milk scandal was a major adulterated food scandal in the state of New York in the 1850s. The New York Times reported an estimate that in one year 8,000 infants died from swill milk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swill_milk_scandal
- The milk was whitened with plaster of Paris, thickened with starch and eggs, and hued with molasses.
  The fuck.
I'm happy that their food ingredients were such high quality back then. Leads me to wonder how the heck they spiraled downward into eating hot dog jello.

Wouldn't this curdle? I can kind of see how it would be a distant cousin of a creamsicle or a root beer float, but I think it's going to get chunky. Maybe the "natural lemon flavor" is refined enough that it wont, I don't know. I don't have either ingredient on hand to try it for science.

The name “7up” would trick the milk into thinking it’s has a +7 pH, preveting it from curdling
- Made my day with that joke
Apparently it doesn't get chunky. It's pretty popular in Pakistan: https://www.eater.com/2017/6/20/15793584/doodh-soda-doodh-7up-milk-pakistan
- It's not literally 7up mixed with milk, but Milkis is a fairly popular drink in Korea, and can regularly be found in vending machines—or at least could when I lived there in the mid '00s.
- It's salty fizzy yogurt, basically. Popular in Iran too, called dough/ayran.
- The description of this combo being similar to lassi made it instantly 180 from vile to tasty in my mind. Now how long until I find myself buying 7up and milk at the store..

Wait a minute... was this back when 7-up was still lithiated?

Gotta keep the kids medicated

with a decidedly different appeal…

That does not inspire confidence

Try it - it's different!

It’s no Beef Fizz

Alright hear me out - 7-UP Milk Beef Fizz

I kind of want to try this...

It sounds like the end result would be similar to a French soda, which is delicious. I don't love the flavor of 7up, so that wouldn't be my first choice, but dairy and soda aren't a new combination.
- Pilk
I don't think it sounds terrible either. I'd try it with a Strawberry soda first.
- and vanilla ice cream instead of milk. yum.

Is Pepsi okay? This is very gross, please send a wellness check.

Pepsi should be fine as this isn’t them
- I think because Pepsi basically owns 7up
Good old Pilk.

My dad used to give me sugary tea in a bottle. I had to have all my teeth pulled by the time I was 2

🤢 "wHoLeSoMe" 🤢

I wonder how many mothers back then read that and thought:

"No I do NOT know. In fact my instincts tell me this is bullshit."

Well, "mothers back then" drink alcohol and smoking while breastfeeding, so 7-up and milk is a high probability combination.
- led my mind on a train of thought and I was curious how infant mortality has improved over the years so I found this graphic:
  I'm most interested in the colorful squiggly lines that show a downward trend in infant mortality over the years, I'm not interested or care about the racial disparities, and I have no idea what that black jagged line going the opposite direction is.
  But I'm most interested in the colorful squiggly lines that show a downward trend in infant mortality over the years.

Huh? I thought citric acid makes milk curdle

That's why you don't stir

Why are people out here attacking my pilk? (Pepsi + milk)

Came here to Pilk, you beat me. But you'll never beat Pilk, because nothing beats Polk.

It's not that different from a New York Egg Cream, which is chocolate syrup and club soda mixed with milk

I've grown fond of these recently. Little bit of an acquired taste, but great with cookies.

As any Irish mammy will tell you, a flat, warm 7-Up is the cure for all childhood illnesses.

Here in the US it's Ginger Ale
- Especially the kind that doesn't actually contain any ginger.

It likes me

Which is it, for kids that don't like milk or for kids that like milk and want it with their 7-Up?

This is actually not that bad of a combination. I drink this all the time. It really fills you up though