Some of the milk from Illinois and Wisconsin will turn blue over the next ten days

When I visited Grandma Adler’s house in Evansville, Indiana over the summer, there was one spot in her kitchen cupboard that I always checked when I got there.

Did you grow up with chocolate quik, ovaltine or carob?

I was about 8 or 9 years old when we lived in Terre Haute, Indiana, and my mother worked part-time at a health food store during her summer vacation from teaching elementary school.

She would never want Chocolate Quik in the house because of all the sugar, and even getting Ovaltine was a rare treat. When I asked for “chocolate milk,” she made it with something called carob that was sold at the health food store, and let me tell you, it tasted more like cardboard than chocolate.

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But when I visited Grandma Adler, I always knew which cupboard she kept, the Chocolate Quik and even better the Strawberry Quik. I can taste the sweet strawberry goodness of that pink milk in my mind just thinking about it.

Why does the milk in Illinois and Wisconsin turn blue starting in May?

As we get closer to May 4, you may see blue milk appearing in your grocery store.

That’s because the fourth of May is Star Wars Day and Kemps Dairy will celebrate by offering Blue Milk with Star Wars characters on various milk cartons.

Star Wars Blue Milk has a sweet, vanilla flavor and is only available for a limited time.

Walmart is selling pints of blue Star Wars milk for $2.78.