Drinking from the milk carton?

[maryfrommaryville]

Crime punishable by death or no biggy?

I think I'm not being unreasonable.

[WilyMinx]

My milk also comes in cartons (not in UK). I think it's fine if the drinker can finish the remainder of the carton in one sitting.

[maryfrommaryville]

But it's not bottled shaped. Bottle is a shape.

Now the word doesn't even sound right.

[maryfrommaryville]

"A bottle is a container with a neck that is narrower than the body and a mouth. By contrast, a jar has a relatively large mouth or opening which may be as wide as the overall container."

Hmm. Doesn't say anything about handles though. Bottles CANT have handles.

[DalekDalekDalek]

I was just about to google the definition of bottle in response but I think that is a sign that I have lost the plot! 😂

[DalekDalekDalek]

I was just about to google the definition of bottle in response but I think that is a sign that I have lost the plot! 😂

[DalekDalekDalek]

So it is a bottle then? Because the next is narrower. And the lid is definitely narrower.

[maryfrommaryville]

Apart from maple syrup bottles that have tiny handles but they're still bottles because they're glass.

Anyway, I was the one caught drinking from the milk receptacle and dh lost it and went on a rant about how revolting I was.

[maryfrommaryville]

No I think the handle negates the narrower top argument.

[DalekDalekDalek]

Milk receptacle 😂😆

[cornishmumtobe]

Bottles. Bottles. Bottles. Bottles. Bottles.

Bottoms gosh it's late. And I've been up with DS waaaaaaaayyyyy too long.

Still.....

Bottles.

[maryfrommaryville]

I've got this awful feeling I'm going to wake up with 100 mumsnetters yelling 'bottles' at me. I'll have bloody nightmares now.

[cornishmumtobe]

If we're talking bottle nightmares perhaps worse than that you'll wake up and look out your front door and see a whole line of offended bottles lined up just staring at you. Creepy.

[DalekDalekDalek]

Mwah ha ha...

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

[maryfrommaryville]

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.

[Francix]

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

[Ifailed]

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

[MerryShitmas]

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)

[Whatshallidonowpeople]

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

[SandLand]

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.

[Orangedaisy]

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

[maryfrommaryville]

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

Fuck.Off.

[maryfrommaryville]

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??????!! 😂😂😂

[MereDintofPandiculation]

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.

[MereDintofPandiculation]

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.

[Whitelisbon]

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.