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Drinking from the milk carton?

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maryfrommaryville · 13/03/2018 00:08

Crime punishable by death or no biggy?

I think I'm not being unreasonable.

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LeighaJ · 13/03/2018 11:07

It could also be passed through kissing, should we outlaw that as well? 😏

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Xocaraic · 13/03/2018 10:52

You are not being unreasonable.
There is an infection called Helicobacter Pylori which I was unfortunate enough to contract. It is truly awful and passed from person to person through direct contact with saliva, vomit or fecal matter.
Drinking out of a carton, bottle or any other receptacle which is used by household should be outlawed.

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Idontdowindows · 13/03/2018 10:51

In our house no biggy. Just the two of us now and we exchange fluids anyway.

If we have company that wants milk we open a new one.

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LeighaJ · 13/03/2018 10:50

I drink milk from the carton, I'm lactose intolerant so my husband and I buy separate milk. My milk lasts about 4 times longer than the stuff he buys so he's always welcome to use one of my many cartons.

He knows I drink from them and doesn't care.

I hate drinking milk because my Mom made me drink normal milk all the time when I was a kid which made me sick, I find it easier to drink not having to look at it in a glass.

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maryfrommaryville · 13/03/2018 10:46

We buy whole milk since having ds so I've actually gone off semi skimmed as now when I have it at friends it tastes like water.

But the old school milk was super creamy. Maybe it was actually the gold top stuff coming to think of it.

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MereDintofPandiculation · 13/03/2018 10:44

But if you shake the milk the whole thing is too creamy. Well in that case you should be buying semi-skimmed. Or the abomination that is skimmed.

Drinking out of the bottle is OK if a) it's not going to be used later by anyone outside your household b) they don't know you've done it.

People in the same household will probably have shared all available germs, but you need to apply higher standards for visitors. And what you don't know about won't hurt you.

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maryfrommaryville · 13/03/2018 10:43

See I thought there was a possibility of them being jugs too. Just not quite sure.

I think I probably just called it 'the milk' as I can't definitely remember calling it anything in particular.

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Daffydil · 13/03/2018 10:43

Chocolate milk comes in a cardboard carton. And it's totally acceptable for me to drink that from the carton, but not for anyone else in the house Grin

Milk comes in plastic bottles. Wink

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Clarabell33 · 13/03/2018 10:39

My milk comes in jugs (Scotland). They're plastic containers with a handle and a shite lid that always leaks if remotely non-vertical. It's also just known as 'the milk', as in 'put the milk back in the fridge you lazy bastard', 'which of you selfish buggers put the milk back almost empty and didn't say so?' etc.

Big jug, wee jug, I am starting to question the word 'jug' now...

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maryfrommaryville · 13/03/2018 10:38

But if you shake the milk the whole thing is too creamy.

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maryfrommaryville · 13/03/2018 10:37

Oh noooooo. Expect I'm not think of demigods so every time I see milk for the foreseeable I'm going to have "when you're staring st a demijohn, you're welcome" in my sodding head. Angry

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maryfrommaryville · 13/03/2018 10:36

I think that's what i used to call them. 4 pints etc.

Although I shall now be calling them demijohns. Nobody here will have a clue. Grin

Even Americans don't call egg boxes 'cartons'. That's just odd.

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Whitelisbon · 13/03/2018 10:29

Eggs come in boxes, not cartons.
And milk comes in multiples of pints. So I have a 4 pint of milk in the fridge. That's what they're called. So there.

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MereDintofPandiculation · 13/03/2018 10:24

Hmm. Doesn't say anything about handles though. Bottles CANT have handles. If you really believe that, then you'll have to say that milk comes in demijohns.

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MereDintofPandiculation · 13/03/2018 10:22

And the flow of cream at the top on your cereal. envyenvyenvy> not envy. That's why you shake the bottle before opening. Or you decant the cream to save for some purpose where you need cream

Definitely plastic bottles. A carton is made of waxed cardboard, and you have to tear or peel it open and fashion a spout from bending the cardboard. A bottle has a ready made opening with a removable cap over it.

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maryfrommaryville · 13/03/2018 09:40

Omg they are!!!

No wonder every fucking recipe that calls for a pint has gone wrong! (I have a UK pint jug measurer that I brought with me.)

Seven years how have I not bloody noticed??????!! 😂😂😂

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maryfrommaryville · 13/03/2018 09:36

Woah. Wait. US pints are different to UK pints?

Fuck.Off. HmmConfusedShock

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Orangedaisy · 13/03/2018 08:23

Egg carton???!! Eggs most definitely come in egg boxes.

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SandLand · 13/03/2018 06:46

But cartons are cuboid (except for egg cartons), so it's not a carton of milk if its in a plastic thing with a lid.

Unless you finished the receptacle of milk, ywbu to drink directly from it.

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Whatshallidonowpeople · 13/03/2018 06:33

Why is anyone, apart from babies, drinking milk? Yuk

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MerryShitmas · 13/03/2018 06:26

Not American no, British but In Australia. You can get both plastic containers and cardboard cartons ones here but you won't find the plastic ones outside of supermarkets (I use a farms delivery service) Smile

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Ifailed · 13/03/2018 05:20

Francix but pints in the US are different than pints here.

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Francix · 13/03/2018 05:07

I'm here to tell you all with good British authority that it is a carton. Or a pint.

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maryfrommaryville · 13/03/2018 04:29

I'd be bloody overjoyed! I have to drive half an hour to pick up the sodding post, milk delivery isn't in my wildest dreams. Grin

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DalekDalekDalek · 13/03/2018 04:22

Mwah ha ha...

(That was supposed to be an evil laugh by the way)

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