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<blockquote data-quote="HereWeGoAgain" data-source="post: 101669" data-attributes="member: 3485"><p><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 'Chelle</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The winner of the Indy gets a bottle of milk to drink, why I don't don't know, guess I could look that up. LOL</div></div></p><p>OK, I did go look it up.</p><p></p><p> <a href="http://www.indy500.com/traditions/" target="_blank">Indianapolis 500 traditions</a> </p><p></p><p> <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <strong>Winners Drink of Milk</strong></p><p></p><p>Three-time 500 winner Louis Meyer regularly drank buttermilk on a hot day, as his mother had told him it would refresh him, and he consumed some in Victory Lane as a matter of course after earning his third 500 victory in 1936. A dairy industry executive happened to see a photograph of this in the following days newspaper and, believing it to be regular milk, vowed to make sure this would be repeated in the coming years. Milk was part of the Victory Lane ceremony between 1937 and 1941 and then again in 1946, the first year after World War II, but disappeared between 1947 and 1955. The tradition was revived in 1956 and continues to this day.</div></div></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HereWeGoAgain, post: 101669, member: 3485"] <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 'Chelle</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The winner of the Indy gets a bottle of milk to drink, why I don't don't know, guess I could look that up. LOL</div></div> OK, I did go look it up. [url="http://www.indy500.com/traditions/"]Indianapolis 500 traditions[/url] <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> [b]Winners Drink of Milk[/b] Three-time 500 winner Louis Meyer regularly drank buttermilk on a hot day, as his mother had told him it would refresh him, and he consumed some in Victory Lane as a matter of course after earning his third 500 victory in 1936. A dairy industry executive happened to see a photograph of this in the following days newspaper and, believing it to be regular milk, vowed to make sure this would be repeated in the coming years. Milk was part of the Victory Lane ceremony between 1937 and 1941 and then again in 1946, the first year after World War II, but disappeared between 1947 and 1955. The tradition was revived in 1956 and continues to this day.</div></div> [/QUOTE]
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