Shortage of mini milk cartons hits school lunchrooms in Pa., elsewhere

PennLive ^ | 11/4/23 | JONEL ALECCIA, AP Health Writer

[Chickensoup]

She was right

[SpokeshaveReturns]

When I was in school we had 1/3 pint glass bottles and waxed paper straws.
On an aside comment...Starbucks sells stainless steel straws.
Could do some serious damage in a street fight.

[9YearLurker]

The lunchroom ladies.

But as also pointed out, better still is a thermos of milk sent from home with lunch.

[9YearLurker]

There’s still plenty of packaging, but stick to meats, eggs, dairy and fruit (veggies from the garden) and it’s at least better.

[ConservativeInPA]

To be honest, I only remember having milk in kindergarten. I think from first grade on everyone packed a thermos in their lunch box. I can still vaguely remember the smell of the thermos after spending half a day unrefrigerated.just think of how wildly unsafe things were back then. Egg and tuna salad left at room temperature and just about every kid ate deadly peanut butter sandwiches.

[digger48]

Put a picture of Joe on the carton

[Chickensoup]

We had no lunch room. Most went home for lunch. The rest packed lunch.

[MotorCityBuck]

Our workplace just instituted a free breakfast for the line workers.
Day 1 all the cereal, and milk was gone. It was stashed in their locker's to be taken home to feed their kids. 😂

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Oh no! The horror of it! Let the little darlings drink water and like it!

[moovova]

China has had to halt the production of milk cartons because they’re running short on melamine. It’s an integral part of the waterproof coating on the inside of the carton.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

How about pouring it out of stainless steel jugs into individual cups or glasses?
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Are the water fountains broken?

[moovova]

"Have you seen me?"

[9YearLurker]

You’re a genius—line up for the milk fountain!

[Vendome]

LOL!!!!

[mass55th]

Check and see if the prisons and jails are getting them. When I was an officer in NY State’s prison system 20 years ago. Inmates got two cartons of milk in the morning, and evening. I highly doubt they are withholding milk from the convicts. They don’t want riots on their hands.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

How about parents feed their own damn kids.
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YES! And they should also get their little buggers to and from the schoolhouse so we can get those yellow menaces off the streets.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Half of these unopened cartons are returned unused and are prohibited from being distributed to charities.
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Why should I have to pay so someone else’s brat can get free milk?

[Mariner]

60 years ago, it wasn’t in single serve containers. It was dispensed into heavy duty re-usable plastic glasses. But that was before the green revolution.”

When I was in second grade in CA 60 years ago, there was nothing other than what we brought in our Lone Ranger lunch box, with thermos.

Baloney & cheese sammich, banana or apple, and chips was the most common fare, with that little thermos of milk.

LOL!!!!!!!!! I still have similar for lunch.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

AS thermos with some milk from home could slosh down a nice packed lunch.

And breakfast should be eaten before leaving home.
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YES, and YES!

[kaktuskid]

Most of the dairies have gone to plastic single serve bottles. They have longer shelf life and plastic is cheaper than paper or aluminum.