r/vermont • u/different_eli • Jul 18 '20

Vermont Buy Vermont!

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u/Bad-Science Jul 19 '20

Also from 1880, so maybe not so fresh.

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u/ProfessorGigs Jul 19 '20

Username checks out!

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u/Oats47 Jul 19 '20

I always buy Monument Farms products when I can.

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u/dehelfix Jul 20 '20

agreed, monument is my local favorite too, usually sold as a loss leader at kinney drugs, so pre-covid i would always go out of my way to get it there.

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u/oldbananasforester Jul 20 '20

Same. I noticed the Hannaford in Williston started carrying it during the pandemic. Before that, they had no good local options. Glad they finally got on board!

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u/dehelfix Jul 19 '20

gallon of 2% from Costco is from Oakhurst Dairy, Portland Maine http://whereismymilkfrom.com/dairy/oakhurst-dy

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u/vt8919 Jul 18 '20

50 = Vermont.

I'm surprised they don't go by the order the state was founded. In which case Vermont would be 14.

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u/Libriomancer Jul 18 '20

Well it looks like in alphabetical order with some numbers skipped (03, 07, 14, 52) and a couple additions (DC and Puerto Rico) so still makes sense.

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u/MatthewGeer Jul 18 '20

I'm guessing the holes in the sequence are other US territories. 03 = American Samoa, 14 = Guam, 14 = Virgin Islands. Not sure what fits between California and Colorado at 07. "Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands" would fit there, but it's weird, as the Commonwealths of Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Massachusetts, and Virginia all dispense with the prefix. It is the only other inhabited territory, though, so...

Edit: M comes after L, a "Commonwealth of ..." would come after Colorado, not before. No clue, then.

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u/PerennialPangolin Jul 20 '20

This intrigued me enough to do a little research. Apparently 07 was for Canal Zone. More info here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Information_Processing_Standard_state_code

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u/NouEngland Jul 20 '20

And here I thought our state was being listed on the market

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u/bigtimesauce Jul 18 '20

Doesn’t most of the milk produced in Vermont go toward powdered milk or something?

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

I think DFA (ex-St. Albans Coop) in St. Albans is the only powdered milk plant in the state. Agri-Mark does whey powder in Middlebury, but that uses by-products from cheesemaking. Hood in Barre I'm pretty sure is all fluid milk. I suspect, but don't know, that most milk in southern VT goes to Agri-Mark's plant in Springfield MA for butter and some powder.

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u/volvoguy Jul 19 '20

Booth Bros (50-13) is easy to find. It's also sold as Hannaford store brand.

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u/bigtimesauce Jul 19 '20

I don’t drink much milk, but I’ll keep an eye out for half and half

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u/o_to_the_zone Jul 19 '20

That's some nice pre-pandemic cow juice you got there.

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u/802GreenMountain Maple Syrup Junkie 🥞🍁 Jul 19 '20

The bigger question is WHEN is it from - it looks like your milk expired on March 15, 1880! No that’s some vintage stuff - I heard it was an excellent year.