Invisible wrote:
>>> Milk cartons, anyone? ;-)
>>
>> If the ones in the UK are anything like the ones in the US, I learned 
>> in grade school that you have to apply pressure to the exact right 
>> spot on the corners, or else you wind up spending your lunch period 
>> fighting with a carton containing substandard milk.
> 
> There's a popular video clip [it's probably on YouTube] where the CEO of 
> some milk company came on TV to show you just how drop-dead easy it is 
> to open their new-fangled milk cartons.
> 
> He nearly dropped dead. :-D

I remember a live TV demo when the fold-back cartons first came out, 
maybe it's the one you're thinking of. The bloke giving the demo was 
unable to pull out the top of the carton that you're meant to pour from, 
so he ended up cutting the corner off with scissors and then folding it 
down. This left a spike of cardboard in the middle, so, when he poured, 
two distinct streams of milk flowed out sideways, missing the glass he 
was aiming for.

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