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A milk jug is the transport of bulk milk serving container.

The traditionally made of aluminum or enamelled sheet steel - and later from plastic - and jug made ​​in different sizes is provided with an insertable lid or cover a specific design. Smaller cans are more equipped with a folding carrying handle with double handles.

With the technical development of the transport of milk in bulk form in the retail sector was replaced by milk packaging in the form of milk bottles, milk pouches, Tetra Paks, etc., and in wholesale by milk container. From the end-user plastic containers that often do not remember the conventional Milchkkannen be used in farmgate milk sales primarily.

In the United States and Canada Square milk jug ( 3,785 liters) is sold (Figure).

Milk jug. France, 20th century

Milk cans to the consumers in the Kitchen Museum by Mr. Baumgarten