Dan Bucatinsky: More Than I Can Chew
The new milk jug makes its debut
Filed under: Health & Safety: Babies, Nutrition: Health, In The News, Gadgets, Mealtime, Resources
Would you use the new milk jug? Or, are you wedded to the cardboard cartons of what is soon to be the past? I remember when I was a kid and we got milk delivered to our house every week in a glass bottle. Nothing tasted more refreshing. By the time I was a teen those days were gone and we got cartons. Now, those cartons are being replaced by something less expensive to produce and more environmentally sound.
Sound good? It is. Still, the new concept has some consumers fuming, or at least perplexed. The problem with the new milk jug is that it SPILLS. Kids drink more milk than anybody, and this new design, being favored by places like Wal-Mart and Costco, which is becoming more available by the day, is not easy to use.
Kids have trouble pouring anyway, but the new milk jug, so foreign in its design to many, makes that simple task more manageable. Some sellers have taken it upon themselves to educate consumers on the how-to, to make pouring from the jug easier. Folks still are a little unnerved by the square shape of the jug--and they're not convinced the same old milk is in there. I had the same problem with Parmalat. Now I love it, but it was hard getting used to it at first.
What about you? Had any experience with the new milk? And???
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ReaderComments (Page 5 of 19)
7-02-2008 @ 1:08PM
Marlene said...PS I also recycle my plastic milk jug.
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7-01-2008 @ 2:57PM
linda said...Do any of you remember milk in a bag? 1993 It was sold in a plastic bag/with a pitcher to put it in available.
Talk about spilled milk!!! This was 1/2 a gallon spilled at a time (the whole bag) After spilling 2 bags in a row, I never bought it that way again. That definitely was the WORST milk packaging I've seen and never want to see again!!
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7-01-2008 @ 2:55PM
RCW. said...Im willing to try it. Can it be recycled,reused?
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7-01-2008 @ 3:42PM
Thea Allison said...I love them! My milk seemed to last a little longer in the newer container!
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7-01-2008 @ 2:58PM
Johnny Noir said...As a scientist, I have tested the milk in our laboratories and have fournd that the milk itself contains hazardous levels of square plastic ions.
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7-01-2008 @ 2:59PM
adakiz7 said...I have bought milk from costco in those plastic containers and keep spilling it. i thought it was just me!!! i'm glad i'm not alone.. lol
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7-01-2008 @ 3:37PM
Mrssizemore01 said...I too HATE these milk jugs!! I spilled everytime I had to pour from them! What a mess!
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7-01-2008 @ 3:01PM
Jaym said...I think this is wonderful!!! Anything to save some money with the high prices on everything else. I live on the boarder of maine and Canada, and a gallon of milk is almost $7.00 a gallon. Thsi will be womnderful, even if there are some spilling... thats something So minor!
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7-01-2008 @ 3:03PM
tclarkstover said...Our Costco got this container over two years ago and when they did people stopped buying milk from them, so much so that they had spoiled milk in their freezers. They eventually said they were having the containers redesigned...the redesign....they said they made them taller so there was more room for the milk to move before they pour. I see no difference! This milk jug infuriates me because of how much milk I spill when I use it, and forget the children, even teenagers using it cannot do it!. Everyone I know HATES the jug and many I know buy from other stores because of it.
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7-01-2008 @ 3:03PM
Stacey said...Wow! People need to get over it. This world is about change. Think about what our fathers and grandfathers have gone through in their lifetime. And all we can do is complain about the shape of milk cartons.....this is sad.
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7-01-2008 @ 3:04PM
Bjarne said...Does anyone else find this hilarious... all these people crying over spilled milk?
I mean, I have used them... and I am sure I have spilled my fair share seeing as my old job was at an Ice Cream place, where we made everything fresh. Seriously though? I don't think it was a giant issue for anyone who worked there to pour milk.
For a child... I can understand... but still... it is milk, wipe it up and stop crying.
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7-01-2008 @ 3:04PM
Rebekha said...Honestly, we shouldn't be drinking milk anyway. America has been "duped" and manipulated by the Dairy Association to believe it is healthy. It is anything but. If you enjoy consuming blood, pus, feces, bacteria, viruses, herbicides, pesticides, dioxins, and antibiotics, then keep drinking milk. Cows Milk is the cause of many diseases and illnesses in our society. Children with chronic ear and sinus infections tend to consume milk on a daily basis.
I have never had one glass of milk in my 42 years of life and I have never broken a bone and have never had any health problems. The milk we buy actually drains our bones of calcium...not the other way around.
We are the only species that purposely continues drinking milk after weaning (obviously domesticated animals will drink it if you offer it) and also the only species that purposely drinks milk from another species.
We need to educate ourselves and stop believing the lies fed to us so that the Dairy Association can get rich.
http://www.rense.com/general26/milk.htm
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7-01-2008 @ 3:15PM
Stacey said...And just where do you get you info on this milk problem. I'm in the medical field and never have i ever heard such an absurd comment in my life. I drink milk every day and am extremely healthy and when i have kids they will drink milk as well. Oh yeah and milk, it does provide calcium. Check your resources!
7-01-2008 @ 10:24PM
B said...Just buy milk at Stewarts. Not that hard.
Why people are even talking about this is unfathomable to me. It's milk. Love it, hate it, it's the same thing everywhere.
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7-01-2008 @ 3:10PM
Linda said...I hate this jug, Lost alot of milk trying to get it into a coffee cup...I get it pay more get less....
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7-01-2008 @ 3:18PM
PEANUT said...SOON WE WONT HAVE ANY PLASTIC EITHER!!! WHAT DO YOU THINK PLASTIC COMES FROM????
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7-01-2008 @ 3:13PM
Jen said...Those milk jugs suck!! The corner store by my house has been using those for about 4 months now. They spill, leak and are akward when you pour from them..... YUCK. I hope they all dont go that way.
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7-01-2008 @ 3:12PM
Lisa said...I have been shopping at Costco for the past three years and this looks exactly like same milk jug I have been buying since I became a member three years ago.
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7-01-2008 @ 4:21PM
Jim said...What a load of cow pies! The cardboard milk containers are shipped flat in cases and not opened until the dairy fills them with milk. A truckload of cardboard cases can ship more than a hundred thousand more than the plastic bottles saving gas for shipping. Also the cardboard containers are completely recyclable. The plastic bottles are made with petroleum so the price ofthese containers is sky rocketing. Lastly many prominent Universities have made studies and found that light even through opaque containers loses many nutrients and vitamins. I work for a company that makes and ships the cardbourd cartons so I know the facts.
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7-01-2008 @ 3:20PM
joe said...Humans shouldn't drink cow's milk anyways. The dairy industry has lied to us all for years.. Calcium.... Vitamin D??? get them naturally from vegetables and natural sunlight..
www.notmilk.com/
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