# Do you drink directly from a carton and then put it back in the fridge? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 3, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-directly-from-a-carton-and-then-put-it-back-in-the-fridge/1005192 "2024-08-03T15:34:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2024, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-directly-from-a-carton-and-then-put-it-back-in-the-fridge/1005192/41 "2024-08-04T20:39:27Z")
I grew up in a household with five boys. Eating practices most closely resembled feeding time at the zoo. Drinking right from the carton wouldn’t have even raised an eyebrow (but not in front of our parents, who were obstinately inflexible in this matter). I don’t regularly do it anymore, but my threshold for “ew! that’s gross” is way higher, apparently, than many in this thread. As long as nobody loses any fingers, it’s a successful meal. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2024, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-directly-from-a-carton-and-then-put-it-back-in-the-fridge/1005192/42 "2024-08-04T20:53:06Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > my threshold for “ew! that’s gross” is way higher, apparently, than many in this thread. I don’t drink from the carton because I’m a klutz and I’m more likely to spill than if I drink from a glass or cup. But in the 1960’s, 70’s, and up through at least most of the 80’s it was routine to pass wine or water jugs around a group, whether a group of friends or (in the case of water) a group of farm field workers. I still often drink from a water jug out in the field (if it’s that hot I may spill some on me on purpose), though it’s usually just me out there and if there are others these days I’ll supply individual glasses, because these days people expect it. I do use a clean spoon (or whatever) in containers of food I’m not finishing off right then; but that’s at least as much a matter of not putting swirls of different food in there as it is of not putting germs in. I may want mayo in the tuna I’m having for lunch, but I don’t want tuna in the mayo that I’m putting back in the fridge. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-directly-from-a-carton-and-then-put-it-back-in-the-fridge/1005192/43 "2024-08-05T03:27:57Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I don’t pee in the shower. That’s Disgusting! ? I do, and I’m female. As long as the shower adequately washes it all away (and drains it away immediately, so that you’re not wading in pee), what’s wrong with peeing in the shower? On average, if you don’t have some kind of bladder infection, pee’s not any dirtier than the sweat or snot or blood or any other effluvia that you routinely wash off your body in the shower. I mean, I’m not telling anybody that they ought to pee in the shower if they don’t like it, but rationally speaking, in the vast majority of cases it harms nothing. As for the issue of liquid going in rather than coming out, I don’t drink directly out of any container that could possibly be re-used for other purposes than my personal consumption. But if I’ve got an individual-serving bottle of soda or juice or whatnot in the fridge, and I drink directly from the bottle and don’t finish it, I’ll put the cap back on and put it back in the fridge to save for later. Is that bad? Personally, I wouldn’t find it enjoyable or comfortable to glug directly from a carton or other large heavy container. But if you like it, and you can manage it without spilling, and if nobody else who doesn’t or might not like it is sharing that container with you, then I don’t care. (However, if you’re standing in front of the open refrigerator while you’re taking your swig out of the carton, stop that, you’re wasting energy. Unless you’re a super-fast swigger, I guess.) > [@thorny\_locust](#): > > But in the 1960’s, 70’s, and up through at least most of the 80’s it was routine to pass wine or water jugs around a group, whether a group of friends or (in the case of water) a group of farm field workers. I still often drink from a water jug out in the field When I lived in India I learned how to drink from a shared container like the locals did, pouring the liquid into your mouth with your head tipped back rather than letting your lips touch the container. Best of both worlds, once you learn to accomplish it without pouring the contents over your face. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-directly-from-a-carton-and-then-put-it-back-in-the-fridge/1005192/44 "2024-08-05T14:20:49Z")
That’s interesting! and does seem useful once you learn the trick. I never saw anybody do it that way here, though; and think that I probably would pour the contents all over my face and shirt. Maybe I’ll try it with plain water on a hot day. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-directly-from-a-carton-and-then-put-it-back-in-the-fridge/1005192/45 "2024-08-05T14:41:15Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > > [@Gatopescado](#): > > > > I don’t pee in the shower. That’s Disgusting! > > ? I do, and I’m female. As long as the shower adequately washes it all away Ditto. I used to pee right before my shower, waiting for the water to heat up. But now that i have a handheld shower head, i often do both of those in the shower. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-directly-from-a-carton-and-then-put-it-back-in-the-fridge/1005192/46 "2024-08-05T14:51:23Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I used to pee right before my shower, waiting for the water to heat up. But now that i have a handheld shower head, i often do both of those in the shower. Then there’s me. I rarely go into the water, but when I used to at the beach, I’d get out, go to the men’s room, and pee there. My gf would laugh at me. Knowing that the majority of people do not get out is one of the reasons I don’t go in the water. Yet I LOVE sitting on the beach. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-directly-from-a-carton-and-then-put-it-back-in-the-fridge/1005192/47 "2024-08-05T15:42:30Z")
Again, while I’m not pushing anybody to do anyrhing they’re personally uncomfortable with, just pointing out that AFAIK there is no valid hygiene reason to avoid peeing in the ocean or to avoid swimming in the ocean where other swimmers have peed. There is a LOT of water in the ocean, and the concentration of urine from swimmers is pretty much immediately diluted to sub-homeopathic levels. My guess is that there is probably a higher concentration of urea-type contaminants in your municipal water supply that you shower in than in the seawater at the beach. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-directly-from-a-carton-and-then-put-it-back-in-the-fridge/1005192/48 "2024-08-05T15:50:24Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > there is no valid hygiene reason to avoid peeing in the ocean or to avoid swimming in the ocean where other swimmers have peed. Fish pee in the ocean. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-directly-from-a-carton-and-then-put-it-back-in-the-fridge/1005192/49 "2024-08-05T15:52:25Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Don’t be clobbering your milk. That’s just mean. > 😀 > > It’s clabbering. Otherwise, curdle. > > Actually clabbered whole milk is great for corn bread. I swear I wrote clabbered. For once, I can blame it on autocorrect. I understand clabbered cows’ milk can be good (as long as it really clabbers and doesn’t go bad for other reason due to modern sterilization.) But the same is not true of either of these plant milks. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-directly-from-a-carton-and-then-put-it-back-in-the-fridge/1005192/50 "2024-08-05T15:52:52Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > there is no valid hygiene reason to avoid peeing in the ocean or to avoid swimming in the ocean where other swimmers have peed. I totally understand that, but just thinking about it turns me off. I love boating and being on or near water. I just have no desire to be _in_ the water. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-directly-from-a-carton-and-then-put-it-back-in-the-fridge/1005192/51 "2024-08-05T16:10:39Z")
Remember when cartons didn’t have plastic screw tops and you had to tear the top open? Well, I was about 15, and drank a carton of juice straight from the fridge. I could feel something against my teeth which I assumed was a bit of cardboard. When I had drained the whole carton, I fished the object out from my front teeth and found it was … a massive dead fly. I have never drunk from a carton ever again. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-directly-from-a-carton-and-then-put-it-back-in-the-fridge/1005192/52 "2024-08-05T16:12:07Z")
And that is totally okay too! Pee avoidance is a valid personal choice. 👍 (But I would recommend that anyone with that preference also refrain from asking any crunchy-ecological-type home gardeners how they manage to grow such delicious veggies 🤣) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-directly-from-a-carton-and-then-put-it-back-in-the-fridge/1005192/53 "2024-08-05T16:19:14Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > (But I would recommend that anyone with that preference also refrain from asking any crunchy-ecological-type home gardeners how they manage to grow such delicious veggies 🤣) See, I’m totally fine with horse manure. We have horses and fertilize with their manure, and make manure-tea to water plants. No problem. _But_ when I was a kid and would help the neighbors bale hay, the farmer’s sons would jump into a nasty, stagnant, little pond in their field. When the cows returned to the barn, they’d walk through the pond and urinate/defecate as they walked. I never jumped into the pond, and the two boys would think I was crazy not to enjoy a refreshing dip. 🤮 ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-directly-from-a-carton-and-then-put-it-back-in-the-fridge/1005192/54 "2024-08-05T16:24:43Z")
Okay, now THAT I would agree probably qualifies as inadequate contaminant dilution. (Although to be fair, cow excreta are in some ways much less toxic to humans than human excreta, and there are whole societies where cow dung and urine are used on the body by many people with no adverse health effects. But still, in our society swimming in the cattle pond seems like a very reasonable place to draw the line.) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-directly-from-a-carton-and-then-put-it-back-in-the-fridge/1005192/55 "2024-08-06T05:24:26Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > Fish pee in the ocean. Fish Fuck in Water. That’s why I don’t drink it. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-directly-from-a-carton-and-then-put-it-back-in-the-fridge/1005192/56 "2024-08-06T16:39:58Z")
> [@chela](#): > > > [@dolphinboy](#): > > > > No, never. It’s just gross, whether I do it or someone else does it. > > Especially not Selina Kyle! > [Michelle Pfeiffer Milk GIF - Michelle Pfeiffer Milk - Discover & Share GIFs](https://tenor.com/U9Ee.gif) She should be more careful. Some of that is getting in her mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-directly-from-a-carton-and-then-put-it-back-in-the-fridge/1005192/57 "2024-08-06T17:49:59Z")
I don’t even do it if - it is the last in the bottle - it is only my bottle - it is a small bottle (like a diet coke) I literally pour everything into a glass. And we just got a new fridge with an ice maker so I am still not over ALL! THE! EXCITING! ICE! that I can pour into every drink. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-directly-from-a-carton-and-then-put-it-back-in-the-fridge/1005192.md?page=2)