The Sublime Profanity of Chocolate Milk

Why the school-lunch staple is this Vermonter’s shameless everyday drink

Jamie McCallum
Heated
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7 min readJan 9, 2020

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Photo: Jennifer A. Smith/Getty Images

At the Christmas Eve Children’s Lovefeast at the Central Moravian Church in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where I make my once-yearly cameo at a house of worship, they serve a “non-sacramental meal” of chocolate milk and cookies. It’s not exactly the Eucharist, but it binds us…

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Jamie McCallum
Heated
Writer for

Sociologist at Middlebury College. Author of Worked Over on Basic Books (2020). Writes about labor, work, politics, and food