what color jug does your milk come in?

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I ask this because they have changed ours to white not clear plastic. It is driving me nuts because when i glance in the fridge i think the jug is full when its really empty. Why did they change?

-- renee oneill (oneillsr@home.com), November 04, 2000

Answers

Should be "puke green", if it is NOT goat milk. James

-- James (triquest@about.com), November 04, 2000.

I like the waxed cartons they used to use, still do for some milk products. I thought it tasted better than in the plastic. But the milk still has formaldehyde in it. And what they feed those cows....

-- Cindy (atilrthehony_1@yahoo.com), November 04, 2000.

As of this morning, it is black and white, of the Alpine variety. Yep, first milking from the new goat went onto the morning oatmeal. I'm so happy to really have goats again after about 5 years without. Back to the question, locally one of the distributors uses the yellow jugs, supposedly to save vitumins from exposure to light. I think the real reason is for product identification at the store. How much light is really available in the 'fridge?

-- melina b. (goatgalmjb1@hotmail.com), November 04, 2000.

Mine is brown and white and 10 pounds or thereabouts. Toggenburg named Slinky. I'd have a hard time putting her in the fridge. At a glance you can tell if she's full or empty and she doesn't get any bgh hormones or antibiotics. She's a real happy jug!

-- Doreen (animalwaitress@excite.com), November 04, 2000.

Renee, around here the milk has been sold in white plastic jugs for years. Actually, they are kind of an opaque/translucent white plastic. You can kind of see through them.

-- Green (ratdogs10@yahoo.com), November 04, 2000.


Here we put it in a recycled glass apple cider jug. This eliminates the "guesswork", also when I can get to the dairy farmer for fresh, we have to supply the jug for the milk.

-- Jay Blair (jayblair678@yahoo.com), November 04, 2000.

Hey! Slinky weighs 150 pounds, not ten. How did that happen....shouldn't have had typing after lunch when I was in high school I guess.

-- Doreen (animalwaitress@excite.com), November 04, 2000.

The white or colored jugs are suppose to keep the vitamens in the milk .Something about the light affecting a certain one .Most of ours in this area are still see through.

-- Patty (fodfarms@slic.com), November 04, 2000.

They changed ours sometime last year, from clear to white. You're right! you look in the fridge & it looks full! go to pour some in the cereal bowl---it's either empty or almost!

-- Phyllis (almostafarm@yahoo.com), November 05, 2000.

It is because of the effect of light on the vitamin content -- our refrigerators are dark most of the time, but between the processing plant and your refrigerator, that jug is exposed to a lot of light. That is where the problem lies, I think.

-- Kathleen Sanderson (stonycft@worldpath.net), November 05, 2000.


I have a black jug and a brown and white one. um um good Lisa

-- Lisa in west TX. (hopplehomestead@safezone.net), November 05, 2000.

Like so many others my "milk containers" are a little too large to squeeze into the fridge. One is white and the other brown and white. I guess you never thought we all would have so much fun with your question !! I do just keep my goats milk in a glass pitcher in the fridge. Have no problem with it getting goaty or taking on an odor from other foods. Guess I would try and purchase milk that comes in glass bottles and you return them for the deposit. Seems like the milk in those just taste better.

-- Helena Di Maio (windyacs@ptdprolog.net), November 05, 2000.

Glass milk jugs!!! You still have those? I haven't seen on in the markets here in around 40 years--seriously.

-- Green (ratdogs10@yahoo.com), November 07, 2000.

Locally, and this means driving distance to Portland, Maine, - one "dairy" had recently gone to those dreadful white plastic jugs. You know, keeping the goodies from leaking out through the translucent jugs. Absolute Barbara Striesand! And annoying! Can't tell from looking how much is left. But we have an answer. Small, local dairy still sells milk in returnable glass bottles! Screw the "big guys"! Sorry, I meant - "Avoid the less responsive Clymers"! Brad, the submissive and cuddly pussycat! GL!

-- Brad (homefixer@SacoRiver.net), November 07, 2000.

Mine comes in a big, Jersey brown package. ; - )

-- Connie (Connie@Lunehaven.com), November 08, 2000.


hi here in ohio we now get milk in yellow plastic jugs,no way totell when you are low,hubby & I will be getting an alpine in the spring,can't hardly wait!!!

-- julie (nelson3@bright.net), November 10, 2000.

My milk comes in a white and pind hairy jug named Ginger gail

-- gail missouri ozarks (gef123@hotmail.com), November 10, 2000.

Where I live in New York State, milk comes in clear plastic jugs, waxed cartons and also in glass jugs. That is the way I buy mine. I have heard that light does affect the vitamin content in the milk, but then again, how much light can there be in a refrigerator.

-- Donna Marie Taylor (crazywife6@hotmail.com), November 11, 2000.

Hi, I'm a marketing student at Southern Oregon University, and I'm doing some research on consumer behavoir, in regards to colored plastic milk containers. If you wouldn't mind, I'd like to get some responses to the following questions. All names will be kept confidential, in fact, you don't have to even leave your name. Here goes: -What state do you live in? -How long have colored plastic milk jugs been available? -If all features (price, quantities, freshness dates) were the same, how likely are you to buy milk in a colored plastic container? -If you're not likely to buy in a colored plastic container, with all features equal, how much less (in price) would it have to be for you to buy it.- -Do y ou believe the industry's/dairy claims that these containers are better to preserve the milk's nutritional value? -If you have children, what has their reaction been to drinking milk that comes in a colored plastic container?

Again, I appreciate your help. Please be assured I'm not connected to the diary industry, but am getting information that I would like to balance with consumer opinion. Matt Conens

-- Matt Conens (unclempc@mind.net), January 31, 2001.


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