The latest Great Debate: Milk Jug Design - Page 2

sleeper54 · #41 07-12-2008, 10:24 PM

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jgibson2 said

In that case, I should just let the kids drink out of the jug.

...and the husband, in my case. ...

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...tom...
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sleeper54 · #42 07-12-2008, 10:33 PM

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emeleel said

I had never in my life before this thread heard of milk in bags.

--snip--

Milk in a bag

...tom...
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*emeleel* · #43 07-12-2008, 10:59 PM

Well, I have drunk goat's milk from a bag....

but we'd put in a jar before drinking it...

**jgibson2**[$] · #44 07-12-2008, 11:31 PM

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magenta321 said

Anyone got a good idea to reuse gallon jugs? I have four right now and I can't think of anything to do with them. There's something about seeing four of them at once that makes me feel guilty about our waste.

(They were filled with water, not milk. A gallon of milk would last me about 3 months, assuming you could actually keep that fresh that long.)

In several of our local grocery stores, you could save a boatload on your bottled water by reusing those jugs. If I bought bottled water, that's what I'd do.

**amykhar** · #45 07-12-2008, 11:42 PM

In Egypt, milk was sold in bags. You could also get it from the fresh milk guy by taking out your own container and he would fill it. The other option was the long shelf like stuff from Holland.

wivabef · #46 07-13-2008, 12:01 AM

Tom! Haven't seen you around, much! And here you are, in your usual witty way.

Udderly hilarious.

mtbat · #47 07-18-2008, 08:33 AM

I've heard of but not seen the new milk jugs.

Meh. I agree with JD

I do have to point out that giant bags of milk aren't that easy to deal with-both at th e hotel and at the school I worked at we got giant bags o milk..., there were a few oppses

anderclayton · #48 08-24-2008, 04:16 AM

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emeleel said

I wish I could get milk for $2.18 - $2.58 per gallon! It's at least $3.58 anywhere around here, and yesterday I saw some name brand stuff for $6.08/gallon!

(And it wasn't even "specialty", just 2% name-brand Barber's milk.)

I dunno about the design. I could probably get used to it, but it looks like it would be really hard for kids. I have enough problems with milk spillage with regular containers!

Boy oh boy. It would be nice to get milk back at the 2006 price of 1.99

I've actually noticed milk prices have dropped a bit lately but they are still up there around three bucks a gallon here. Safeway dropped their price to 2/5.50 so WalMart followed suit and dropped theirs to 2.85. For one gallon Safeway still charges 3.19 and the other store in town is around 3.39 though.

I don't know. It seems like the companies are finding this design easier so are trying to sell the public on it rather than trying to find a design that the public likes. It sounds like this version is kinda tough to pour which seems like a basic functional flaw with it. If it greatly decrease the price (as opposed to their cost) that would be one thing but it doesn't sound like a good and happy change if you don't take that into account.

Needless to say, I haven't seen the new style of milk jug

JonSmith · #49 08-24-2008, 11:11 AM

Walmart here still charges $5.00 a gallon for Mayfield's. (our best) It was $5.54 and has gone down.

**mtomm**[$] · #50 08-26-2008, 02:00 PM

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JonSmith said

Walmart here still charges $5.00 a gallon for Mayfield's. (our best) It was $5.54 and has gone down.

*cough*

Magick1 · #51 08-26-2008, 02:31 PM

Man, I thought we were bad at $3.98/gal.

**mjfrombuffalo**[$] · #52 08-26-2008, 03:04 PM

At first I thought this was the gas thread and couldn't believe someone was getting gas for $2.85.

**drmomentum**[$] · #53 08-26-2008, 03:56 PM

That Wal-Mart milk comes from Chinese child labor udders.

-JP

**mjfrombuffalo**[$] · #54 08-26-2008, 04:06 PM

Well as long as udders are doing the labor instead of me.

**mtomm**[$] · #55 08-27-2008, 11:05 AM

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mjfrombuffalo said

Well as long as udders are doing the labor instead of me.

Just two days ago my son walks in with a gallon of milk (old style jug) and asks: "This all came from a cow? ALLL of this came from a cow? They can't manufacture milk can they."

Yes, son and probably just ONE cow at that.

It kinda skeeves me out when I think too long about it.

anderclayton · #56 08-28-2008, 04:16 AM

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mtomm said

Just two days ago my son walks in with a gallon of milk (old style jug) and asks: "This all came from a cow? ALLL of this came from a cow? They can't manufacture milk can they."

Yes, son and probably just ONE cow at that.

It kinda skeeves me out when I think too long about it.

*laugh* I've been to the fair before so it is pretty normal to me really.

Also lived on a farm but didn't have any cows (just ummmmmmmmm... guy/gelded cows--I forget the word).

*emeleel* · #57 08-28-2008, 10:02 AM

Steers.

I've never had cows, but we did have goats, so that stuff doesn't squick me out either.

**mtomm**[$] · #58 08-28-2008, 10:17 AM

I've actually milked cows so that part doesn't squick me out it's the AMOUNT that is amazing.

My boys really aren't city boys, either.

anderclayton · #59 08-28-2008, 06:45 PM

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emeleel said

Steers.

I've never had cows, but we did have goats, so that stuff doesn't squick me out either.

Yeah. Steers. Sorry, it was late.

**drmomentum**[$] · #60 08-29-2008, 12:49 PM

Beeves.

**Helen_B**[$] · #61 09-08-2008, 02:23 AM

My kids all saw Sesame Street, the bit where the baby is crying in the crib, and the voice over is "milk! milk!" and you follow the milk from the cow to the baby bottle. Since we didn't have milk in baby bottles, that may have confused them a tad, but they all got the part about the milk coming from a cow.

**jgibson2**[$] · #62 09-08-2008, 08:13 AM

I didn't see that episode, but I'm really surprised that Sesame Street would be promoting Cow's milk for babies. And that they didn't get slammed for it.