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Milk is, without doubt, a major food staple in many American homes and like all goods lately, the prices for the item have shot up exponentially due to inflation and other factors. A recent report revealed that a white mother who says the higher prices of milk has impacted her wallet but Twitter is trying to understand how one family can consume 12 gallons of moo juice per week.
On Thursday (November 4), CNN’s New Day program with host Brianna Keilar aired a segment with the Stotlers, a white family of what appears to be seven in total based on the video who all reside in Texas. They essentially explained that inflation has hiked up milk prices and has put a dent in their pockets.
“A gallon of milk was $1.99. Now it’s $2.79. When you buy 12 gallons a week times four weeks, that’s a lot of money,” Mrs. Stotler said.
Pause for a moment to recognize that the Stotler family is barrelling through 48 gallons of milk per month. If anything, their tolerance of lactose should be admired but the story definitely raised more than a few eyebrows.
It is the type of story designed to stoke empathy and perhaps anger at the current economic situation ravaging much of the working-class families across the nation. Some could argue that it’s another dig at President Joe Biden’s first-year performance and how his administration has performed, or underperformed, under the pressure. By no means should the hardships of supplying food be looked at as a trivial thing, but it seems somewhat odd that the Stotlers food bill is way out of line with the national and historical averages.
Twitter took notice of the plight of the Stotler family and their dairy haul, flabbergasted that they’re drinking that much milk in a month. The reactions were, as expected, calling out the jig and we’ve got some of the responses listed out below.
"A gallon of milk was $1.99. Now it's $2.79. When you buy 12 gallons a week times four weeks, that's a lot of money."@EvanMcS goes grocery shopping with the Stotlers and shows us how badly inflation is hitting the middle class. pic.twitter.com/39hPPRHLja
— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) November 4, 2021
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The whole milk retail price per gallon in this country has not been $1.99 since 1979. Also, who is buying 12 gallons of milk a week?
Did CNN stop to ask any of these questions? https://t.co/TNObuHJt0U
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) November 4, 2021
Of course not.
2.
Heading out to pick up my weekly 12 gallons of milk pic.twitter.com/QUB9KvfQGl
— honest jabe (@jaynooch) November 4, 2021
3.
i'm sorry, 12 gallons of milk? https://t.co/VHUDppFFPe
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) November 4, 2021
5.
putting my 12 gallons of milk in the refrigerator pic.twitter.com/u1VZYeh5Mh
— Leor Galil (@imLeor) November 4, 2021
7.
I’m sorry, these people are not “middle class” and this story is complete BS. These people are buying 12 gallons of MILK a week. All of the groceries were name brands — Velveeta?!?! Not to mention, this family has a deck AND A POOL. Please stop playing with us. https://t.co/UhpTldU9pX
— MoneybaggHo (@KirkWrites79) November 4, 2021
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oh hi are we talking large families and drinking 12 gallons of milk in a week today?? well, I'm from a family of 8 kids and my mom and I are calling bs pic.twitter.com/QqiWJknWgO
— Lyz Lenz (@lyzl) November 4, 2021
9.
12 gallons of milk per week…..? ik it smells crazy in there. https://t.co/jPNWbHXPGg
— samuel (@samtrayter) November 4, 2021
10.
1st: who TF buys 12 gallons of milk a WEEK?
2nd: food prices were MUCH worse under Bush during the Great Recession. No journalist asked me how I made $500 in food stamps last a whole month for my family.
This anti-Biden shit over a global economic phenomenon is ridiculous. pic.twitter.com/94pWjW4FC6
— Queer Capitalist
(@MiddleAgedQueer) November 4, 2021
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Did you bother to fact-check ANYTHING they told you, though?
Are they middle class?
Do they really buy 12 gallons of milk a week?
Did you bother to check their claim of increases in milk prices? https://t.co/FS5B7Bjqa4
— Pé (@4everNeverTrump) November 4, 2021
12.
12 gallons of milk a week?! https://t.co/uz2SbFHir9
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) November 4, 2021
13.
why the fuck are you buying 12 gallons of milk a week? https://t.co/U9tj0Rkp9m
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) November 4, 2021
14.
12 gallons of milk a week?
Seriously?
Damn, dude, just get a cow. https://t.co/tykUFIhHWC
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) November 4, 2021
15.
normal middle class family chugging 12 gallons of milk per week https://t.co/8vvESZG7DP
— Mac (@GoodPoliticGuy) November 4, 2021
16.
If you are buying 12 gallons of milk a week, you should pay an inflated price for milk and ur name should be on a list https://t.co/DUoRxTjvli
— Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) November 4, 2021
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Who among us hasn't purchased a very normal, not obscenely excessive 12 gallons of milk per week or 48 gallons per month?
How do you do, fellow milk drinkers? https://t.co/J5mar8c2Q3
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) November 4, 2021
18.
“Only a serial killer would buy 12 gallons of milk a week.”
The serial killer: pic.twitter.com/QNfGO1wKtz
— NUFF (@nuffsaidny) November 4, 2021




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