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The story
A thread on 5ch’s “Nandemo Jikkyō G” board about school lunch milk once being served in glass bottles sparked a wave of nostalgia from people born in the Showa era. Commenters piled on with memories of how they used to open the caps — prying them off with a fingernail, or using a special pick — and of collecting the lids to play “pokkon” (a flipping game using milk-cap lids), showing that bottle shapes and games varied by generation and region. Meanwhile, the claim that “bottled milk tastes better” got some pushback from people pointing out that “the contents were the same,” turning into a minor debate.
What people said
Re: #13
LOL, nailed it
Middle school had bottles
That cold rim on the bottle mouth was the best
Somehow you'd end up with lids from milk you never even drank lol
You scratch it open with your fingernail
It's just got a paper lid on top
There's a special pick for it
There's an old geezer in here lol
https://imgur.com/nOGzfUf.jpg
If it had a cow drawn on it, that's mine too
This looks lukewarm and nasty, how was it?
Don't tell me you've never even made a string-spinner out of a film canister either?
Not ice-cold, but cold enough — enough to get condensation on the surface
Lol, Omigawa Milk
Ours were half-days
Nah, Saturday was just 2 hours, but we'd drink milk or orange juice on the way home
Is that just a thing in my area?
You stab the edge with your chopstick
Paper cartons, plastic bottles, all that plastic stuff — gross.
Sorry to say, the contents were the same
Source: I used to work on the manufacturing side
It's both, honestly
A plastic lid
There's a little string-like tab you pull to open it
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
School lunch milk being served in glass bottles was mainly a Showa-to-early-Heisei phenomenon; glass milk bottles were gradually phased out in favor of paper cartons and plastic containers due to environmental impact, cost, and breakage risk. What split the thread was that even among people who grew up with glass bottles, there were two camps — the “paper lid” crowd and the “plastic cap” crowd — showing how much container shapes varied by region and generation. The “pokkon” (menko-style) lid game and the shared struggle of prying caps open with a fingernail became common ground everyone bonded over, but on the question of taste, some pointed out that “the contents were the same,” suggesting the idea that bottled milk tasted better may largely be a trick of nostalgia. It’s also worth noting that some schools still serve bottled milk today — the switch to paper cartons was never total.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyō G) thread “[Sad News] Showa-born people used to drink their school lunch milk from glass bottles“.
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