Whatever happened to glass?

[Alpo]

When I was younger, so many things were packaged in glass. Mayonnaise. Booze. Not just large sizes, but pints, half pints, and even miniatures. Pancake syrup. Coke.

 

But they are all plastic now.

 

I can understand, kinda, mayo going from quarts to 30 ounces, and pints to 15, to save money. "Sell the customer less, for the same price." That's been going on for years. But plastic is made from oil, right? And the price of oil keeps going up, so it seems like using plastic containers would actually cost more.

 

So why the plastic?

 

And as long as I'm bitching, why did they change the threads on the mayo jars? The glass jars had the same threads as a mason jar. You could put up a quart of pickles in a mayo jar, and the mason lid and band fit, or you could use a mayo lid on an opened mason of something, because you didn't want to keep messing with the two-piece rig every time you want a pickle.

 

But I have noticed that the new "pint" mayo jars, with nice reusable lids - but the lids don't quite fit a mason jar. They ALMOST fit. But not quite.

[Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme]

Simple equation. Less weight equals less freight (or more bottles per truckload).........

[Sedalia Dave]

Maybe the new lids are metric???

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

When you retool, such as for plastic base, plastic lid, you might as well do what saves money all around. If a certain tpi, pitch and thread design gives you a better product and or price, use it. Discard any prior design if it does not relate to product quality.

[The Original Lumpy Gritz]

Plastic is so much cheaper to make-Larger profit for the product seller.

Less breakage-

OLG

[J-BAR #18287]

What happened to glass? Lawyers.

 

One of my classmates in the 1970s had a 2 liter Coke bottle explode in her hands as she was carrying it to the checkout line. There went her career as a surgeon. Lawsuit.

 

Doesn't take many of those before an alternative to glass is considered.

[FriscoCounty]

Drop a plastic container, no clean up on aisle 3.

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

Well, one thing's for sure - ice cold milk out of a glass bottle is much, much better than any from plastic or cardboard!

[Blastmaster]

Alpo,

 

Spend the rest of the day thinking how economics (cost, savings, value, etc) plays into your question from both the consumer and producers point of view.

[Utah Bob #35998]

$$$$$$$

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

I remember raw milk in a 2 gallon stainless steel can.

Edited October 14, 2015 by Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984

[Elm Creek Smith]

Whippersnapper! Milk cold from the springhouse out of a galvanized steel can. Din't have no stainless steel.

[Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172]

Follow the money.

 

 

Aside thought. Remembering how milk was packaged in glass bottles with a cardboard cap

on it. Don't think that would work in this world today.

Edited October 14, 2015 by Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172

[Noz]

Well, one thing's for sure - ice cold milk out of a glass bottle is much, much better than any from plastic or cardboard!

or beer.

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

or beer.

 

Yep.

[Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172]

I don't think I have ever tasted beer. What does it taste like?

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

I don't think I have ever tasted beer. What does it taste like?

 

Why... it tastes just like mother's milk, Badger...!

[FriscoCounty]

Follow the money.

 

 

Aside thought. Remembering how milk was packaged in glass bottles with a cardboard cap

on it. Don't think that would work in this world today.

Have a local dairy. The neighborhood grocery carries their product. The cardboard cap has been replace with a plastic one. Bottle comes with $2.00 deposit.