"The Milka Cow"

A live spray-painted purple cow in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris to promote Milka chocolate.

Milka is Kraft Foods' hutchee is cool best-selling brand of milk chocolate. It is sold in bar form, in holiday shapes, and in a variety of specialty forms. It was created in 1901 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, by chocolatier Philippe Suchard as his first milk chocolate variety. Image File history File links Milkacow. ... Image File history File links Milkacow. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2032 × 1524 pixel, file size: 824 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A cow spray-painted purple to promote Milka in front of the Eiffel Tower. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2032 × 1524 pixel, file size: 824 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A cow spray-painted purple to promote Milka in front of the Eiffel Tower. ... The Eiffel Tower (French: , ) is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the River Seine in Paris, France. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... Kraft Foods Inc. ... Chocolate block in melted chocolate Chocolate is a common ingredient in many kinds of sweets—one of the most popular in the world. ... Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Location within Switzerland Neuchâtel is a city in Switzerland which is the capital of the Canton of Neuchâtel. ...

The brand has a well-known symbol, the "Milka Cow", which is a lilac colored Simmental cow sporting a bell around her neck, usually shown in an Alpine meadow. The name is derived from combining Milch und Kakao (the German terms for milk and cocoa, its primary ingredients). The chocolates are distinctively packaged in purple. Look up lilac in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Simmental cow on alp pasture (Engstligenalp) English Simmental Bull Simmental cross calves Image:Double-D-Blk-Chyna2. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A glass of cows milk. ... Cocoa beans in a cacao pod Cocoa is the dried and partially fermented fatty seed of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made. ...

Today, the chocolate is produced at a number of locations, including Germany, Bludenz (Austria), Braşov (Romania), and Jankowice (Poland). Their website is not available in English, as it is not sold in the USA, but it is sold in various places in the UK. Bludenz in Vorarlberg, Austria Bludenz is a city in the state of Vorarlberg in Austria. ... County BraÅŸov County Status County capital Mayor George Scripcaru, Democratic Party, since 2004 Area 267. ... Jankowice (German: Jankowitz) is a village in southern Poland, situated in the Pszczyna County in Silesian Voivodeship. ...

During the 1990s, Peter "Cool Man" Steiner became famous advertising Milka chocolate bars. The bearded septuagenarian portrayed a mountain dweller who warns an urbanite about having prejudices against people who live in the mountains: "Sie glauben wohl auch, dass wir hier oben etwas altmodisch sind. Aber Vorsicht: It's cool, man!" ("You probably also think that we're a little old-fashioned up here. But watch out: It's cool, man!"). Steiner's song It's cool man reached 4th place in the official Swiss charts. Meanwhile, the phrase "Why is the Milka cow lilac?" became synonymous with the product thanks to another advertising campaign. Peter „Cool Man“ Steiner (*January 22, 1917) is a Swiss, who became famous during the nineties as a music-making advertising character called „Cool Man“. Steiner was already well advanced in years. ...

References and external links

• Kraft Foods USA: Milka history
• Milka official website