The bakeries get all kinds of icing and filling in them. In the store where I go, they give them away, lids and all. The recently quit ordering stuff in the 5 gallon sizes I guess because they are too heavy for the women to handle. They have 2.5 gallon sizes and a smaller 1 gallon size.
I use them for all kinds of stuff. They are food grade and my most recent acquisitions are used in my maple syrup making operation.
They come with paper labels adhered. If you feel it necessary to remove the labels, a hairdryer set on high will cause the adhesive to release and they can be carefully pulled off.
Thanks, Bert. We have some left over from building our daughters house, but I doubt if they are food grade, and by now they have all kinds of junk pressed into scratches and stuff. Even if cleaned up, I don’t know what kind of stuff might leech into the plants.