Ron, you're just an old hoodlum.  Here I am trying to emphasize the genuine qualities of milk and other foodstuffs that were all we had in small communities in the the 1950s, and you had to bring up Pez, of all things.  I never ate them, but I suspect those peculiar containers are now considered "artifacts" in our current Alice's Wonderland of historical archaeology.  You send a crew of 20-somethings into the field and (despite repeated lectures) they record anything they don't recognize as part of their own world (e.g., beer can tabs or Pez containers). That said, I appreciate your ingenuity, although because I always wore cowboy boots rather than Keds I was able to do more serious smuggling.

Morgan

From: Ron May<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
  To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
  Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 8:42 PM
  Subject: Re: Weird disks - milk lid



  In a message dated 9/13/2007 7:49:58 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
  [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> writes:

  Thanks,  Bill, and I'd like to remind folks that what we got in those glass 
  bottles was  real milk, not the watered-down slime you find today in the  
  supermarket.




  I had to laugh over this comment! But it also reminded me of the school  milk 
  bottles provided by some federal health program between 1950 and 1955.  Those 
  bottles were amber-brown in the belief that the color would protect the  
  "real milk" from bacteria or other nasty bugs. I seem to recall the school  health 
  officials were concerned that poor parents of the kids in my school  could 
  not afford to have milk in our thermoses. The pog on those bottles was  covered 
  with a foil paper that had white paper on the inner side. I vaguely  recall 
  light brown lettering on those foil wraps, but no longer what it said.  When my 
  school outlawed Pez machines, I distinctly recall dropping one in my  milk 
  bottle to prevent it being confiscated by the school yard goons (and I then  
  retrieved it from the bottle and managed to smuggle it out in one of my  Keds).
   
  Ron May
  Legacy 106, Inc.



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