Drinking from the milk carton?

[maryfrommaryville]

Crime punishable by death or no biggy?

I think I'm not being unreasonable.

[maryfrommaryville]

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.

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

[maryfrommaryville]

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.

[maryfrommaryville]

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

[Clarabell33]

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...

[Daffydil]

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

Milk comes in plastic bottles.

[maryfrommaryville]

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.

[MereDintofPandiculation]

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.

[maryfrommaryville]

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.

[LeighaJ]

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.

[Idontdowindows]

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.

[Xocaraic]

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.

[LeighaJ]

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