Where Milk Comes From

At dinner last night, our friends' 4 year old piped up, appropos of nothing, "Milk comes from cow boobies!"

After frantic attempts to turn hillarious laughter into coughs without doing something ridiculous like snarfing my diet coke, I nodded sagely along with her parents who were torn between looking embarassed, laughing themselves silly, and telling her that yes, that's where milk does come from.

After an inqurining look, they explained that she had informed them the other day that milk was cow pee. Clearly they couldn't let that little myth continue, so her dad launched into a tale that drew on experiences of having seen baby animals nursing at petting zoos and so forth and explained the whole thing. The concept of an udder, however, was apparently too much for her to handle. And thus we have cow boobies.

Yet one more reason I don't drink milk.