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[todd]

^ equal

[Love the rock]

No such charge on skim milk powder.  If they're living in poverty, why would they be blowing a fortune on liquid milk anyway?

 

jbw

jbw are you seriously asking me why adults who have children buy liquid milk ? 

[kirk]

Dropping glass off at a depot is still an option for anyone in those condos. Same process any single family dwelling resident would do for styrofoam, soft plastic, etc.

 

Late response to this but did you mean the bottle depot?  You can indeed bring beer bottles & refundables to the bottle depot, but they do not accept pasta jars etc which they refer to as "junk glass".

 

Bottle depots also no longer accept soft plastics. Only places that do are London Drugs (free) or http://pmdrecycling.com (for a fee, at their mobile depots) 

 

Anyone know any other places where one can bring non-refundable glass or soft plastics that I am missing? 

[Matt R.]

The dairy board has partnered with the restaurant assoc. to “support” and promote restaurants during this challenging time etc etc with some proceeds going to a no doing worthy cause. I’d rather they had supported restaurants by not jacking prices another 10%.

How’s that for garbage in the CRD.

Dancing banana, and all that.

On top of this garbage, the 1l cream and whipping cream and buttermilk now come with the addition of a plastic spout, further enraging me.

[Nparker]

...the 1l cream and whipping cream and buttermilk now come with the addition of a plastic spout, further enraging me.

Not to sound like Jerry Seinfeld, but what's the deal with these plastic spouts all of a sudden? Have people forgotten how to pour liquids out of traditional milk cartons?

[Matt R.]

I dunno man but after a while you get pretty good at opening them with one hand while working, now you gotta stop, twist the top, pull the ring and then get the work done. I’m sure they are saving a quarter penny per container somehow. Dicks.

[Victoria Watcher]

Not to sound like Jerry Seinfeld, but what's the deal with these plastic spouts all of a sudden? Have people forgotten how to pour liquids out of traditional milk cartons?

 

I think it's just as production lines upgrade equipment and they CAN add the spout, they do.

 

I've always liked it on my Tropicana cartons.

 

 

I think some consumers likely feel that these keep milk longer/fresher/less cross-contaminated by other fridge contents, even if that's not necessarily true.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 February 2022 - 11:50 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

HERE is how your milk carton is made:

 

https://youtu.be/jNbKIc8tD5I

[Matt R.]

Separate the ligma.

[vortoozo]

Late response to this but did you mean the bottle depot?  You can indeed bring beer bottles & refundables to the bottle depot, but they do not accept pasta jars etc which they refer to as "junk glass".

 

Bottle depots also no longer accept soft plastics. Only places that do are London Drugs (free) or http://pmdrecycling.com (for a fee, at their mobile depots) 

 

Anyone know any other places where one can bring non-refundable glass or soft plastics that I am missing? 

 

In addition to London Drugs, Hartland Landfill, the recycling depots in Sidney & Esquimalt & Oak Bay public works (for Oak Bay residents) accept glass jars & soft plastics for recycling.

 

I think it's just as production lines upgrade equipment and they CAN add the spout, they do.

 

I've always liked it on my Tropicana cartons.

 

 

Tropicana juice now comes in single use plastic.

[FogPub]

Question: does anyone know if they'll accept milk cartons if they've been flattened?  I ask as with the amount of milk we go through, storing the cartons unflattened until there's enough to justify a trip out to the return-it is going to be a nuisance.

[todd]

Not to sound like Jerry Seinfeld, but what's the deal with these plastic spouts all of a sudden? Have people forgotten how to pour liquids out of traditional milk cartons?

remember bagged milk

[Nparker]

remember bagged milk

I'm so old I remember when the dairy man would pull up to our stoop in his horse-drawn cart and replace our 3 empty, glass milk bottles with 3 full ones*. 

*this may have only happened in an old movie I watched once

[todd]

^Always nice when Dad would come to visit.


I think at least one brand is still offering glass containers but with a plastic top opposed to the paper/foil top in the old days.


Father was actually a milkman in LA for a time he claim to have witnessed multiple flashes from atomic blasts early in the morning

Edited by todd, 17 February 2022 - 08:20 AM.

[vortoozo]

I think at least one brand is still offering glass containers but with a plastic top opposed to the paper/foil top in the old days.
 

 

That's Avalon. I was getting it until I realized they're now owned by the Chinese state. No thanks.

[todd]

Similar story, know somebody their babysitter(sister-in-law) wetnursed their child without asking(thinking that’s what they wanted), they were very extremely upset. You need to specify apparently

Think I told that story before

Edited by todd, 17 February 2022 - 11:42 AM.

[LJ]

That's Avalon. I was getting it until I realized they're now owned by the Chinese state. No thanks.

Really?

[vortoozo]

Really?

 

Yes, it was sold to Sanyuan in 2016. Decisions — July 2016 - Investment Canada Act (ic.gc.ca)

 

 

 

Sanyuan Group (Chinese: 三元集团; pinyin: Sānyuán Jítuán) is a state-owned group of companies based on agriculture and animal husbandry in China. It consists of 12 state farms, 20 professional companies, 41 transnational joint ventures, 3 overseas subsidiaries and 1 public company as Beijing Sanyuan Foods, which is listed in Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Sanyuan Group - Wikipedia

[Barrrister]

Who the hell approved this?

[todd]

Stopped eating White Rabbits few years back:

“In addition to White Rabbit candies, the agency has already singled out Mr. Brown 3-in-1 Instant Coffee and Nissin Cha Cha desserts for possibly being been made with tainted milk products”: https://www.cbc.ca/n...ncerns-1.703736




https://youtu.be/WANNqr-vcx0

Edited by todd, 18 February 2022 - 09:57 AM.