Poll: Ovaltine or Nestle Quik? **updated bosco and hershey's added**

Wangel

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You left out Hershey and Bosco! As for myself, I don't like powdered mixes. They often clump and don't mix well. Good old fashion Hershey Syrup for me!

I remember as a kid I had a dollar to go buy some candy. I decided to purchase a can of Hershey syrup (10 or so ounces). The first swallow was great. The second was fair, and the third was so terrible I was ready to puke! I learned my lesson. You have to cut it with milk!
 

yakko

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I had to vote for Quick because I have never had Ovaltine. The best was Hershey's chocolate milk mix. I don't mean the syrup either. For a while they used to make a powder mix and it was the best.
 

~zonker~

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Jan 23, 2000
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I like that Ovaltine, it is actually healthy for you and I don't feel too guilty about drinking it. The merely chocolate stuff is just too much for me, I enjoy the malt flavor in the Ovaltine.
 

mr_cheesy

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bosco! bosco!
between ovaltine and nestle--- hrmm i think i'd have to say ovaltine actually..
 

Locutus of Board

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Why the heck did they name it ovaltine?

The canisters round, the lid is round.

Why don't they call it roundtine?
 

~zonker~

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Why is Ovaltine called Ovaltine?


Captain Midnight Was Right

Now, one more last paradox. One of the most nutritionally dense, lowest-calorie drinks on the market is neither touted as a nutrition drink for the older population nor as a food substitute for slimming down. Its only claim is "Tastes Great & Great For You" and its target is ... kids!

The magic potion? Ovaltine. (If you're old enough for Ensure, you ought to remember when you could get a Captain Midnight Secret Decoder Ring for 10 cents and an Ovaltine label.)

In nutrition per ounce, Ovaltine equals or surpasses both Ensure and Slim-Fast strawberry for calcium, iron, and vitamins C and E. It carries no less than 20 percent of each of the other nutritional elements.

 

Namuna

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HEY! Add Nestle's 'Milo' to the list man! It's Nutricious!

Bosco is chocolate syrup in a bottle, similar to Hersheys Syrup.

 

Spoooon

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Ovaltine for me.

Any of you watch Seinfeld? Remember the episode where George wouldn't tell anyone his secret password for his ATM card? He told Elaine's boss'(can't remember his name) mom. Her dying words were "Bosco!"
 

Yeeny

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My mother used to sing this to me all the time when I was little:

I love Bosco, it's rich and chocalatey(sp?). Mommy puts it in my milk to try to poison me, but I fooled mommy, I put it in her tea, and now I have no mommy to try to poison me. And you people wonder why I am weird? ;)

Oh, and I picked Ovaltine, its good for you.
 

kru

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well, grew up drinking Milo...

but of the choices offered i'd have to go with Quik. especially with enough Quik that you're drinking syrup... :D