# Jugs - different color caps

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jugs-different-color-caps/53871>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 10, 2001, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jugs-different-color-caps/53871 "2001-02-10T02:48:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![PlanMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@PlanMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlanMan)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2001, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jugs-different-color-caps/53871/1 "2001-02-10T02:48:34Z")

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How is it that competing dairies can both agree and disagree on the same thing? Around here, jugs of whole milk, no matter the size or dairy, come with a red cap. But, there’s no agreement for the other types of milk - 1% from Gustafson may be light blue, while 1% from Publix green, 2% from Gustafson may be purple, while Publix is light blue, and so on. (colors used here are merely examples, I am not that much of an analyst)

If they agree for one “type” of milk, why not all. If they are going to be different, isn’t it a wierd coincidence that they all chose red for whole milk?

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**Author:** ![likearock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a4c791/32.png) [@likearock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/likearock)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2001, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jugs-different-color-caps/53871/2 "2001-02-10T03:44:41Z")

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It’s a plot to drive the american populace insane…

No really, I have no idea. In my locale, all the caps match.

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**Author:** ![choosybeggar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@choosybeggar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choosybeggar)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jugs-different-color-caps/53871/3 "2001-02-10T03:49:42Z")

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Damn, I thought we were going to be talking about areolar pigmentation. I’m leaving.

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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2001, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jugs-different-color-caps/53871/4 "2001-02-10T06:22:24Z")

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> \*Originally posted by choosybeggar \*  
> \*\*Damn, I thought we were going to be talking about areolar pigmentation. I’m leaving. \*\*

Fooled me too, only I thought it was going to be about nipple color.  
😉  
Peace,  
mangeorge