Why doesn't all milk come in glass bottles

[tynopik]

I think anyone still debating this from 2011 doesn't care anymore. NECRO

6 years later, glass milk bottles still suck

 

[NutBucket]

Disagree. While its about $5/quart I'll indulge every once in a while. The whole milk is actually thick and creamy. Maybe it just means the milk is better quality and the glass bottle is a coincidence.

 

[lxskllr]

Maybe it just means the milk is better quality and the glass bottle is a coincidence.

This would be my guess. Around here, it's the boutique producers that pack in glass. It would be unsurprising to me that the milk is better than the commodity grade milk in the grocery stores.

 

[Red Squirrel]

The problem with glass is that it breaks in winter when the milk freezes. Sometimes the milk man comes earlier and the fresh milk sits out all day by the time you get home from work it's cracked the bottle. They switched to bags here and they can stretch just enough that they won't burst. You bring it inside put it in the fridge in the pitcher and by next morning you have very cold fresh milk for your Kelloggs Frosted Cornflakes.

 

[sdifox]

The problem with glass is that it breaks in winter when the milk freezes. Sometimes the milk man comes earlier and the fresh milk sits out all day by the time you get home from work it's cracked the bottle. They switched to bags here and they can stretch just enough that they won't burst. You bring it inside put it in the fridge in the pitcher and by next morning you have very cold fresh milk for your Kelloggs Frosted Cornflakes.

wtf you still have milkman delivering milk?

 

[Red Squirrel]

wtf you still have milkman delivering milk?

Yep delivered with horses too. Some people go in the street to gather the dung with their snow shovels as it makes great fertilizer in summer.

Kidding of course - but always thought that concept was neat. You just would not see something like that now days. That milk was probably locally produced too. I like the 3 digit phone number. That would have been back in the stepper switch days. My office at work is where the switch would have been.

 

[IronWing]

We had a milkman until the mid-1980s.

 

[MrSquished]

Out in Cyprus, they still get Coca Cola in glass bottles. True Story.

 

[IronWing]

Out in Cyprus, they still get Coca Cola in glass bottles. True Story.

Ditto for Mexico. Stores here import it and sell it at a premium.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Does anyone do beer in returnable glass bottles any more? Not growlers, actual bottles that get reused.

That was the norm growing up. In college I loved buying cases of 7oz returnables, 42 to a case.

 

[cbrunny]

Does anyone do beer in returnable glass bottles any more? Not growlers, actual bottles that get reused.

That was the norm growing up. In college I loved buying cases of 7oz returnables, 42 to a case.

Wha? I only buy beer in bottles that are returnable. Cans are more expensive. I probably have bought maybe 50 cans of beer in my life, compared to several thousand bottles.

 

[sdifox]

Does anyone do beer in returnable glass bottles any more? Not growlers, actual bottles that get reused.

That was the norm growing up. In college I loved buying cases of 7oz returnables, 42 to a case.

Still true in Canada.

 

[Linflas]

Does anyone do beer in returnable glass bottles any more? Not growlers, actual bottles that get reused.

That was the norm growing up. In college I loved buying cases of 7oz returnables, 42 to a case.

We used to get cases of 12 oz returnables from the Navy Exchange when I was in the Navy. Even used the cases of empties as cheap end tables when I lived off base.

 

[Murloc]

1. it's heavy and logistically difficult
2. I don't taste any plastic
3. there are strong controls on this stuff

here there is this system only for gazosa bottles, it's the traditional local soda pop.

But small bottles are increasingly using PET, which is not an issue because we have a superstrong and even profitable PET recycling system.

 

[Red Storm]

We get raw milk delivered to us in half gallon glass containers. Great stuff.