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    David George 1
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      I am perplexed as I now have to read the label on my milk container as the colour has changed. The milk we received this week has the same colour as the body ie made of same material. After putting skimmed milk in my coffee, my wife's, instead of proper full milk, I now have to read the labels to make sure I don't poison my self with adulterated milk.

      David

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      David George 1
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        #612552
        Michael Gilligan
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          @michaelgilligan61133

          Another great British tradition lost crying 2

          … probably on the pretext of eco-friendly when it’s actually a matter of economy.

          MichaelG.

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          Martin Kyte
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            @martinkyte99762

            It's so you can recyle the entire bottle top and all.

            regards Martin

            #612557
            Speedy Builder5
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              @speedybuilder5

              I thought the cardboard lids with the lift off tab were all "green".

              #612558
              peak4
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                @peak4
                Posted by David George 1 on 06/09/2022 11:07:43:

                I am perplexed as I now have to read the label on my milk container as the colour has changed. The milk we received this week has the same colour as the body ie made of same material. After putting skimmed milk in my coffee, my wife's, instead of proper full milk, I now have to read the labels to make sure I don't poison my self with adulterated milk.

                David

                Do you shop at Aldi?

                An article a little while ago.
                https://www.dairyreporter.com/Article/2022/08/16/goodbye-green-aldi-and-mueller-push-for-clear-milk-tops-in-recycling-trial

                Bill

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                Peter Cook 6
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                  @petercook6

                  Waitrose have done the same thing. The label colour on the bottle does however still follow the colour convention

                  #612571
                  not done it yet
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                    @notdoneityet

                    Plastic for these has to be food grade, so virgin plastic pellets(?) only, used for the manufacturing process. That may not include the caps as they are not actually in contact with the foodstuff. Recycling plastics for making food-grade quality would have to be very stringent – to avoid any nasty chemicals leaching from the container.

                    I don’t think anything will actually poison David or his wife – only offend his/her taste buds, I suspect.smiley Nearly all milk sold is ‘adulterated’ to some extent – even if only pasteurised – and most is homogenised to avoid separation of component parts.

                    #612574
                    Frances IoM
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                      @francesiom58905

                      I doubt if the OP has actually tasted unadulerated milk ie fresh from the cow – the taste + smell are very different.

                      The deep colour caps apparently caused problems as recycled uncoloured milk containers command better prices.

                      #612583
                      Samsaranda
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                        @samsaranda

                        In 1960 I lived on a farm in Devon for a number of months, used to help with the milking, fourteen cows morning and evening, it was a dream come true I was only thirteen at the time, Frances is right the taste and smell of milk that has come straight from the cow and through the cooler is very different from milk that has been processed in a dairy factory. Dave W

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                        Jim Guthrie
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                          @jimguthrie82658

                          Way back in the late 1940s I remember going on Sunday School picnics when the liquid refreshment was milk ladelled out of a churn from a local dairy farm. It was probably the easiest way to get a bulk supply of any liquid refreshment. But I still remember enjoying milk straight from the cow.

                          Jim.

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                          Dave Halford
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                            @davehalford22513

                            These days all fat is removed, then put back in measured amounts – stops all that free cream escaping.

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                            Brian G
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                              @briang

                              Might be worth putting some coloured caps away whilst they are available. My wife found some cardboard tubes for which they are a perfect fit. They are a handy way to store silver solder, skimmed or semi-skimmed identifies which flux to use. (She used the idea first, keeping different kinds of washing powder in 6-pint milk cartons – we had to go to Waitrose for the white caps).

                              Brian G

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                              not done it yet
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                                @notdoneityet

                                I was one of few that could have an orange drink instead of the third-of-a-pint of milk at junior school. Likely during a milk shortage after the nuclear mishap at Windscale? Our milk, at home, was fresh, every day, from the churn.

                                An Uncle (Dad’s cousin, actually) often holidayed on the farm. His start to the day was quart of warm milk before it had been subjected to the in-churn cooler. He used to say ‘nothing better to start the day’ and down it went!

                                Blue tits regularly had their share of the cream on the school bottles and often, in the winter, the cream would be oozing out as the milk started to freeze.

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                                Mike Poole
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                                  @mikepoole82104

                                  When my mother was a girl her father kept a Jersey cow for milk, the cats would appear at milking time and would be obliged with a well aimed jet of milk straight from the teat, I suppose cats were not lactose intolerant in those days.

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