School milk carton giving way to bottle
Posted on December 29, 2004
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Both this headline and it’s story should be filed under “ludicrous” and “Here’s what’s wrong with this country.” This is absolutely stupid.
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School milk carton giving way to bottle — Yet another familiar school-days object may be going the way of the inkwell and the slide rule. Encouraged by a milk industry study that shows children drink more dairy when it comes in round plastic bottles, a growing number of schools are ditching those clumsy paper half-pint cartons many of us grew up with.
Already more than 1,250 schools have switched to single-serving bottles. While that is still a tiny fraction of the nation’s schools, it is a significant jump from 2000, when there were none, according to the National Dairy Council.
Allegedly hard to handle
”Those … square containers are awfully hard for kids,” says New Hampshire Agriculture Commissioner Steve Taylor, who has watched the trend spread to some 320 schools in New England. ”Teachers say you can spend the whole lunch period just walking around and opening those containers.”
Why not just install mechanical nipples and have ‘em all shimmy up like a litter of suckling puppies???
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