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The Milwaukee Bucks Milk House returns to Wisconsin State Fair for the 31st year and an eight-ounce cup of flavored milk remains 50 cents.
The long-lived stand – once supported by and named in honor of former Bucks owner Sen. Herb Kohl – is back on the south end of the ground at Main Street and South Grandstand Avenue.
This year’s flavors are chocolate, strawberry, root beer, mint and, replacing sea salt caramel is the new chocolate peanut butter.
The milk house typically sells more than 160,000 cups of Prairie Farms milk at the State Fair, which, this year, runs Aug. 1-11.
Savvy milk house fans have long known that the best way to enjoy the flavored milk is in blends.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
