On Jul 1, 8:24�am, "Nancy Young" > wrote:
> George Shirley wrote:
> > Nancy Young wrote:
> >> I was in Costco yesterday and came across a strange
> >> sight ... palettes of milk sitting outside the cooler. �I did
> >> a double take to see that it really was milk without it clicking that
> >> something was odd about it. �Odd enough for me to think, is that
> >> really milk? if that makes any sense.
>
> >> It's the new square containers. �Seems they cost less to ship, and
> >> use less labor somehow, saving some 15 cents
> >> a container.
> >> nancy
> > Let's see, when I was a boy in the forties and fifties, milk came in
> > round glass bottles, a little later it came in square waxed cardboard
> > containers, still later yet it came in round plastic or square plastic
> > containers. (Well, sort of square, the squares had rounded corners.)
> > Now it's going back to square containers.
>
> > It's a conspiracy by the big milk producers to get us to buy more
> > milk. Yeah, that's it.
>
> I don't know why I didn't think of that! �Of course that's it. �The
> old milk just won't do anymore, too old fashioned. �Heh.
>
> nancy

All this just proves that milk is best served from its natural
container.