Well crap - go ahead and make my day will you...

Grrrrrr... I had to go into town this afternoon to take my Dad to the eye doctor. It's always a fun visit since my Dad is a retired Physicist and the Eye Doc's husband teaches Physics at the local university. I was in a grocery store in town picking up a roast chicken for tonight's dinner (a deli and fresh (not frozen) meats are the only services that we do not offer at our store). Since it was late and since I hadn't eaten a big lunch (a Costco hot-dog) I wanted to get a pint of Chocolate Milk to cover me until I got home. The brand I always shop for is Wilcox -- they are local, organic and do a great product. Went into the store today and there was no Wilcox. No tags on the shelf for them either. All of the flavored milks were Darigold. I talked to the Dairy manager and it turns out that Darigold has purchased Wilcox and is phasing out a lot of the competing brands. They are just keeping the Organic milk and Eggs. To illustrate just why I was so pissed at this, here is the list of ingredients for the Wilcox Chocolate Milk:

Ingredients: Grade A Milk, Cream, Sugar, Cocoa

And here is the list of ingredients for the Darigold Chocolate Milk:

Nonfat Milk, Milk, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Nonfat Milk Solids, Cocoa Processed w/ Alkali, Salt, Carrageenan, Vanillin, Vit. A palmitate, Vit. D3.

Needless to say, I walked out of the store with the roti chicken, some waldorf salad and a small thing of Orange Juice. Like I said: Grrrrrr...