Welcome to another edition of Time Suck Short Sucks.

I'm Dan Cummins, and today I will be sharing the story of The Milk Wars.

That's right, people literally fighting and dying over milk.

Well, it seems like the most innocent beverage on earth, right?

It's basically cow juice.

It's a thing that you pour on cereal to start your day with.

And sometimes delightfully end it with as well after the edible kicks in. It's what you buy when you're pretending you're cereal to start your day with, and sometimes delightfully end it with as well

after the edible kicks in. It's what you buy when you're pretending you're going to start

making protein smoothies as part of some New Year's resolution. It's also kind of like the

beverage equivalent of beige wallpaper. Seems so benign. Don't cry over spilt milk, and yet

people have killed over it.

In Chicago and elsewhere in the Midwest or in the Great Depression, milk sparked a decade of violence that included strikes, riots, truck hijackings, mass milk dumpings, bombings, and arsons.

People getting beaten and shot at.

Even the Chicago mob led by Al Capone was trying to

hijack the dairy industry like it was a bootlegging operation, all because milk is also money, big money.

And back then, more than now, it was a daily staple for almost everyone, so essential that

if you controlled it, you controlled a considerable

amount of cash flow. You controlled a considerable amount of cringy dad joke incoming, Mullah.

Words and ideas can change the world. I hated her, but I wanted to love my mother.

I have a dream. I'll plead not guilty right now. Your only chance is to leave with us.

Today, milk is not nearly as in demand as it once was.

I mean, I think we can all agree that it's pretty common these days to overhear people saying stuff like fuck milk.

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