semi-skim

[Barbara Need]

For a long time, my family referred to "red milk" (whole) and "blue
milk" (2%)--which worked fine until we moved to a location with
different color values. I'm not sure my parents stopped using these
terms, however, even when the colors were not blue or red!

Barbara

Barbara Need
Ithaca

On 28 Feb 2011, at 12:16 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:

> There are some common schemes, but they are not standardized. Some may
> be proprietary, some regional. Foil color scheme on glass bottles is
> always different from cap color scheme on plastic or the print color
> on
> cardboard. The most common coordination that I've come across has red
> for whole, green for 2%, blue for 1% and yellow for skim. But I've
> also
> seen purple on both 2% and whole, white and blue caps (plastic) on
> skim,
> etc. It's usually not a big issue because milk-fat content is one of
> the
> few product characteristics that is labeled in big font on packaging
> in
> the US. It's more important in countries where the labeling may be
> less
> conspicuous. Semiotic issues involving product packaging and labeling
> can be quite interesting.
>
>     VS-)
>
> On 2/28/2011 11:14 AM, Chris Waigl wrote:
>> ... In contrast, there doesn't seem to be a label color convention
>> here in the US.
>> ...
>>
>> Chris Waigl
>> (*) I moved from London, UK to the Fairbanks, AK, US area and am
>> having to go through some minor cultural adjustment here and there.

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