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Shouldn't they call it Roundtine...

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Well, isn't a circle a form of oval (just like a square is a subset of rectangle)?
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
*sigh*

Poor Americans with their mediocre Ovaltine. They don't know the wonders of Kresto.


 

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Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
 
I hear some people worship Kresto
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Mmmmmmm . . . . Krrrrrrrrreeeeeeeesssssssstooooo . . .


 

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Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
 
Ovaltine, the official beverage of Stepford Wives everywhere.
 

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Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
 
Kresto?
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
er, no.
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Kresto
 

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Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
 
Oh. Cuz, you know, I was thinking you were some kind of supra-tuff, drinking that.

And apparently liking it.

EDIT: Just the label on your Kresto makes my teeth dissolve, Icarus.
 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 
I love chocolate Ovaltine.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 

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Originally posted by KarlEd:

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Shouldn't they call it Roundtine...

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Well, isn't a circle a form of oval (just like a square is a subset of rectangle)?

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Not exactly. Circles are indeed the special case of ellipses, much as squares are the special case of rectangles. However, most ovals are not quite ellipses.

OTOH, they are most certainly round.
 

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Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
 

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*sigh*

Poor Americans with their mediocre Ovaltine. They don't know the wonders of Kresto.

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All right thinking Americans drink Nestle's Quick and keep their kids off the hard stuff.

"Let's go sell our bodies for some rich, chocolatey Ovaltine!"

"Yeah!"
 

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Posted by Amanecer (Member # 4068) on :
 
Ovaltine comes in chocolate?!?! I've only ever had malt. *adds to grocery list*
 

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Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
 
I love my Ovaltine.
 

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Posted by Rico (Member # 7533) on :
 
Chocolate Ovaltine rocks!

I'm not sure what you call it here, but I used to drink malt all the time (the soft drink kind, not ovaltine). Is there a special way of making a distinction between different kinds of malt beverages or do you just go by brand name?

The malt I'm talking about is the foamy "root-beerish" kind you buy in bottles, like a soda.
 

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Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 
Malta Goya!
 

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
My mom always fed us Carnation Instant Breakfast.
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Malta is not carbonated like soda is. And, in my opinion, it tastes nothing like root beer. I am told that it actually is the exact same stuff that a real malt shop would put in a chocolate shake to make a chocolate malted. I don't know if this is true, though.

I don't like malta, so take this with a grain of salt, but I am told that, among maltas, Malta Goya is the absolute most disgusting brand. Most who live in the US don't realize it, but Goya is actually a pretty off-brand. It's just that if you live in the US away from a major latin center, it's the only brand available.

I'm trying to think of an American equivalent, some brand name that is basically crap, but available everywhere. It's not quite the same, but imagine you lived overseas, and the only American products you could get were all "Sam's Club."
 

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
Yeah, but Goya has darned cheap canned garbanzos.
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
*nod*

Dr. Thunder is pretty cheap too.
 

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Posted by Rico (Member # 7533) on :
 

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Originally posted by Icarus:
Malta is not carbonated like soda is. And, in my opinion, it tastes nothing like root beer. I am told that it actually is the exact same stuff that a real malt shop would put in a chocolate shake to make a chocolate malted. I don't know if this is true, though.

I don't like malta, so take this with a grain of salt, but I am told that, among maltas, Malta Goya is the absolute most disgusting brand. Most who live in the US don't realize it, but Goya is actually a pretty off-brand. It's just that if you live in the US away from a major latin center, it's the only brand available.

I'm trying to think of an American equivalent, some brand name that is basically crap, but available everywhere. It's not quite the same, but imagine you lived overseas, and the only American products you could get were all "Sam's Club."

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Well Icarus, I am very aware of what Malta tastes like because I actually grew up drinking it in a Latin American country. I was merely trying to compare it so something so that people could tell me if there was a name for it here, which I guess worked, because people knew what I was talking about. Notice I was refering to how foamy it was when I compared it to root beer, not the taste.

As for brands, if any malt lovers ever get access to a Venezuelan restaurant or any other place where you might be able to get Venezuelan products, get "Malta Caracas" or "Maltin Polar"

Best I have ever tasted, they're among my favorite drinks when I can get them
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Chill, dude. I wasn't saying you were wrong, I was trying to give what I thought was a more thorough description for Americans who might be curious. (And trying to keep people from making their judgments based on Goya brands.)

(If it came across as critical, that might be because my first paragraph was originally my second, but then I realized that my first and third needed to be together, because they were both about the name brand thing. So maybe it came across as critical because there was no real introduction to the post. In any case, no offense intended.)


 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
(There seems to be a tendency among latinos on Hatrack to try to "out-latino" each other. I'm not trying to do that. Promise.)
 

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Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :
 
I love those commercials. Really, I do. It's always good to have a bunch of high kids and moms to laugh at.
 

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Posted by Rico (Member # 7533) on :
 
I'm sorry but there seems to be room for only one Latino on this board and I'm sure you can understand it can only be me. I mean come on, my name is Rico.

I challenge you to a duel sir, pistols at dawn!

(My apologies if I sounded harsh in my last post, I just wanted to make sure I was understood so I was a bit too blunt )
 

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Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 
In high school, I had a Latina friend, and we would watch "I Love Lucy" together. I was incredibly disappointed and disillusioned to find that Ricky wasn't really using the incredibly foul language that I had supposed when he yelled at Lucy in Spanish. I always had figured that what he was saying was too dirty to be said in English. It turns out he was just saying something like "Of all the stupid things...how could you do something like that!"

Sigh.
 

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Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
 
Oh, no. More hispanics.
 

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Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
 
I'm actually all about the Chocolate Malt Ovaltine in the orange jar.
 

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Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
 
That's good. Admitting you have a problem is the first step.
 

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Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
 
I've never actually had Ovaltine. What's so great about it? For some reason, I always had the impression that it was something old people drank (Ovaltine just sounded like it was made up by the same people who made Metamusil).

I'm guessing, from the contents of this thread, that it is some sort of chocolatey drink with vitamins, thus making it a healthy chocolatey drink. If so, how does it compare to Carnation Instant Breakfast?

--Mel
 

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Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
 

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Originally posted by theCrowsWife:

I'm guessing, from the contents of this thread, that it is some sort of chocolatey drink with vitamins, thus making it a healthy chocolatey drink. If so, how does it compare to Carnation Instant Breakfast?

--Mel

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Well, for one thing, it's just a chocolate drink, not a substitute for breakfast.

I grew up on Ovaltine. My mom was the original healthfood freak and refused to buy Bosco chocolate syrup, which all my friends had when their moms made chocolate milk. She bought Ovaltine - yes - because it has vitamins!

Since I had it as a kid, I have never thought of it as an old people's drink at all, but as another type of chocolate flavoring for kids to put in milk.
 

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Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
 
Crows Wife: Just for the record, I told my husband about this thread and that "someone here" had the impression that Ovaltine was something that old people drink. He said he also drank it as a kid, and remembers it always being marketed to kids, not old people.

Just saying.
 

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
My mom still sings the Bosco song...
 

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Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
 
I wonder whether Ovaltine had a limited distribution in the past, because I never knew it was a real product until relatively recently. The only time I'd ever heard of it was in a Dr. Demento song called Who put the benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine?

I thought ovaltine must have been something old people drank, but I had no idea what it really was.
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Well, I always thought it was a drink for kids . . . from a long, long, long, long time ago.

That being said, when I was a kid, we used to use Bosco syrup. I found some recently, and I don't know if they've changed their formula or what, but it simply does not make good chocolate milk. Hershey's syrup is much better. The only thing Bosco is good for is pouring on ice cream. On ice cream, I find its taste closer to that of fudge than Hershey's, which I find overly sweet on ice cream.

(However, Kresto powder is actually pretty fantastic as an ice cream topping! )

I also used to like U-Bet! syrup, but I can't find it around here.
 

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Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
 
I think I was getting it mixed up with Metamusil. I've never had it, and I don't think I've ever seen a commercial for it. All I knew was that it was some kind of drink

--Mel
 

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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 
Ovaltine, children screaming, and women who have had plastic surgery appearing in commercials all three freak me out.
 

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Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
 
I've never seen Bosco syrup either, and never heard of it until I recently saw a Seinfeld episode with a reference to it. It must be a regional thing too.

I never saw Seinfeld until a couple of years ago either. But I've always been a little out of it.
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Bosco is a fairly antiquated brand. I think it was mostly popular in the fifties and sixties. I remember drinking it in the seventies, but I think it was already not as popular as Hersheys. Much as Ovaltine has been edged out of the market by Quik, Bosco has been pushed out by Hersheys. The only reason I can get it at all is that Bosco has a thriving Latin American niche, and so many of the latinos here are familiar with it and will buy it if they see it in stores. In fact, while Bosco is an American brand, the bottle in my fridge has Spanish writing all over it. (And the only reason I bought it at all was nostalgia.)
 

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Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
 

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Originally posted by ketchupqueen:
My mom still sings the Bosco song...

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I don't even remember the Bosco song.

And I had no idea it was still around, I haven't actually seen the stuff in years and years.

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Originally posted by Icarus:

I also used to like U-Bet! syrup, but I can't find it around here.

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Fox's U-Bet is good stuff. It's the best chocolate syrup for making egg creams.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
BLEH! to egg creams. *shudder*

But for them's as is craving: an online store that carries both Bosco and Fox's U-Bet syrups.





*annoyed* Their shipping rates are obscene, though.
 

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Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
 
I wouldn't expect you to like egg creams, rivka. You're not from NY.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
I lived the first 7 years of my life in NJ. And my dad, born and raised in Brooklyn, agrees with my assessment.
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Yes. His schlemalke is completely bamrat.


 

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Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 
Egg creams rock.

That is all.
 

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