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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Milk Box

This week, for the firs time, I gave Kailer a drink from a "box"...he doesn't get juice, so he got strawberry milk. What a treat!!
Here's a little history for you on the creation of beverages in a box:
The aseptic container (Milk box) was invented in the 1960s by a Swedish man named Ruben Rausing. In 1963, Rausing was trying to figure out a more efficient method to get milk to the market. He needed a container that was smaller and less cumbersome than the metal canisters being used. Rausing developed a precursor to the juice box: a brick-shaped box he named the Tetra Brik. Because of their rectangular shape, Tetra Briks, when stacked on top of each other, took up half the space of the old containers. Five years later, Rausing made an even bigger breakthrough when he figured out how to fill the Tetra Briks under completely sterile, or aseptic, conditions.
So there you go, your history lesson for the day.

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