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The kids SHOUT all their lines. And the moms who are discussing the virtues of ovaltine sound like freaky ovaltine drones. The whole radio ad freaks me out.
I've seen one on TV where this pedophile-type guy has an ovaltine cart and all the kids come running as he gives out ovaltine to all.
That creeps me out, too.
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Well, isn't a circle a form of oval (just like a square is a subset of rectangle)?
Not exactly. Circles are indeed the special case of ellipses, much as squares are the special case of rectangles. However, most ovalsare notquite ellipses.
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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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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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quote: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."
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"
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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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(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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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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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!
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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!"
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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?
quote: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
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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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.
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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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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! )
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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
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Ovaltine, children screaming, and women who have had plastic surgery appearing in commercials all three freak me out.
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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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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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