Boy, you sure have brought back some memories!! I haven't seen Bosco in years!! If this old brain of mine can remember, wasn't their mascot a little bear? I kind of remember a little ditty about Bosco and "sweet choc chocolate...." too.
Hubby and daughter are Hershey lovers, Austin doesn't drink milk, and when I do, it's just plain. However, I have been known to favour Ovaltine original!
I grew up in a tiny town in MN and our choices were Nestle Quik and Hershey. Have heard of Bosco, but never saw it in stores.
When I start jonesing for a glass of chocolate milk these days, I get fat-free, no-sugar added premix in the dairy section. Only 90 calories a glass and it tastes great! However, I usually drink about 6 glasses the first day, quickly get sick of it and don't think about chocolate milk again for the remainder of the year, LOL.
When we had chocolate milk as kids, it was always Bosco with the pump on the lid. Am I the only one who remembers that it wasn't mere chocolate syrup but a "milk amplifier"?
I think we had Clanky once or twice, too--chocolate syrup in a plastic bottle shaped like a spaceman.
it was Nestle's Quik here, rarely Hershey's syrup ("because that can is SO messy") and once in a while Ovaltine, which I didn't like then, but like now.
We had heard of Bosco, but for some reason, it never appeared in our kitchen.
My current obsession is the Hershey Dulce De Leche, however.
My mother bought PDQ. It was chocolate granules, came a glassjar, and I think there was a pink rabbit on the lable. Wasn't as good as Herseys, but was much faster to mix up. I can recall sprinkling PDQ on my vanilla ice cream too.
You must have been watching the History channel special yesterday on Chocolate! I saw that show too. Never knew it was so challenging to make, and that chocolate/candy manufacturing had such an interesting history.
...I still remember the
"Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't"