re: #144 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

When I was little, milk came in a glass bottle, orange juice came in a glass bottle, soft drinks came in glass bottles (this was before aluminum cans became popular), etc.

The throw-away container really became dominant just in our lifetimes.

Going back to the old ways may be better.

When I was a kid our milk came in glass bottles too, but not from a “store”. Ours would get delivered from a local dairy a couple miles up the road. By mid 70’s they had stopped delivery but you just had to bring your bottles back to the farm and exchange for filled ones. Still no throwing anything away. That farm closed sometime in the 80’s and most people were left with store bought throw-away containers.

Here is the exact bottles our milk came in. Hell I might have had my hand on this exact bottle at one time or another :-)

My kids still mess with me when I absently pull the milk jug out of the fridge and shake it. Reflex from before homogenization became big, mix the cream back into the milk.