Milk in a Box

For those who have traveled outside of the mainland US this won't be anything new. For those who haven't, I won't bore you with the specifics of ultra-pasturized milk. You can check out this website for that: http://itotd.com/articles/220/milk-in-a-box/. The fact of the matter is, dairy products are expensive on Guam. Beer is cheap, milk & ice cream expensive - $7.99 for a half gallon of Dreyers. I know where all our petty cash is going.

I don't think there are any cows on Guam. I haven't seen any. There are carabao, which are like ninja cows. Cows are goofy looking, some have spots, they have names like Bessie or Ferdinand. Carabao have giant horns like the devil in that Tom Cruise movie Legend and are charcoal grey in color. These guys have the corner office (see picture). If they're giving milk they're not selling it at the local Cost-U-Less. Japanese tourists are throwing back $50 shots of it in the underground izakaya bars.

So we're sticking with boxed milk. It isn't nearly as bad as I remember back in the PI where I demanded it be microwaved to vaporize the manky aftertaste - like someone threw in a couple ground up Tums tablets. Apparently there have been developments in pasturization science and truth be told in coffee or over cereal I can't tell the difference. And I'll have you know, before I became intolerant, I sampled many full glassess of fresh squeezed goodness. Cheers to you milk in a box.