Turner Dairy Farms, in Western Pennsylvania, are celebrating May the Fourth by changing the labels on its Birthday Cake Milk to Blue Banthamilk for a limited period.
Turner’s will sell Blue Banthamilk on a limited basis.
And yes, the containers literally have a sell-by date of May 4.
“Last year for the May the Fourth Be With You Day, just as a joke, I put blue food coloring in a half-gallon of our 2% milk and made a joke label in Photoshop that I posted,” said Turner’s Marketing Manager Steve Turner.
The post got quite a reaction.
“People kind of went nuts over it,” Turner said. “For this year, we were working on our limited-edition milk schedule. We were thinking it wasn’t that much of a stretch to make the milk blue, and we were already planning this blue birthday milk to celebrate our 90th anniversary.”
The Birthday Cake Milk, colored light blue, is the same shade as the milk from the fictional Bantha creature, a part of the Star Wars universe since the very first film in 1977. In “Star Wars: A New Hope,” Luke Skywalker’s Aunt Beru pours a glass of Bantha milk for Luke’s Uncle Owen.
If you live in the Western Pennsylvania area and can help obtain these products for super collectors Guz Lopez and Steve Sansweet at Rancho Obi-Wan they would be very grateful!
