Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz

Why does this happen? For some reason, perhaps the oddity of ordering milk from an online bookseller, has attracted a large number of spoof reviews — Lovecraft, Coleridge, romances, haiku. Here’s a bit of Tuscan Whole Milk flash fiction:

This milk was so good, I passed out. When I woke up 3 weeks later, apes ruled the earth. It was crazy. DRINK THIS MILK!

Via BoingBoing, which credits ytmnd.com for the meme.

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  • Thanks for the note, Christopher! I had to stop reading because my eyes were filling with tears, I was laughing so hard.

  • Oh, that's a shame! Thanks for the update. I wonder how long it will take the million monkeys to restore that page to its former glory?

  • Fantastic writing in reviews of milk on amazon

    Via Dennis Jerz via Boing Boing, word of hundreds of fake reviews for a real product on Amazon, a gallon of Tuscan whole milk. Jerz imagines quite rightly that the novelty of ordering milk from an online bookstore is the...

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