Posted on 11/04/2023 10:34:18 AM PDT by DallasBiff
The tiny, half-pint cartons of milk served with millions of school lunches nationwide may soon be scarce in some cafeterias, leaving districts across the country scrambling to find alternatives.
The problem is not a shortage of milk itself, but the cardboard cartons used to package and serve it, according to dairy industry suppliers and state officials.
Pactiv Evergreen of Lake Forest, Illinois, which bills itself as “the leading manufacturer of fresh food and beverage packaging in North America” acknowledged in a statement Friday that it “continues to face significantly higher than projected demand” for its milk cartons.
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Weird that there is a shortage of packaging now.
You know what they should do? They should put a picture of a missing milk carton...on a milk carton...
When I went, they had pint glass bottles.
GMTA
Lol!
60 years ago, it wasn’t in single serve containers. It was dispensed into heavy duty re-usable plastic glasses. But that was before the green revolution.
it “continues to face significantly higher than projected demand” for its milk cartons.
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Don’t they know how many illegal aliens are going into the school system?
Could be an unexpected larger number of school age children taking advantage of free and reduced lunch programs.
If they are missing, how are they hitting lunchrooms? 🤔
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Only took two posts to say exactly what I was thinking.
When I went, we had to milk the cow ourselves and lead it from home...
Those tiny milk cartons have to be among the most wasteful packaging around.
How about pouring it out of stainless steel jugs into individual cups or glasses?
The new wave is not just free lunch for everyone, but free breakfast for everyone.
All the woke, wealthy towns think everyone should get free meals so the token poor kids won’t be embarrassed about getting their meals free.
Yeah, a stupid thing to worry about, but they could easily change their processes so other kids wouldn’t know who they were—if they wanted to.
Wow, you had it good.
Back in the day we had to go out into the fields, rope a cow, and then bring it back and milk it.
It was funny when a new kid roped a bull and tried to milk it.
How about parents feed their own damn kids.
What nitwit couldn’t foresee the demand for these after millions of illegals cross the border with families that actually value having large numbers of children?
All we had was dirt, and we were thankful for the dirt.
Actually, the hard part was getting it out of the living
room.
When I was a kid, real little kid we had 1\2 pint glass bottle. You had to shake the bottle cause cream went to the top.
Half of these unopened cartons are returned unused and are prohibited from being distributed to charities.
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