But he hadn't heard; he'd only put these things he didn't really want into a corrugated plastic carton that still smelled faintly of Mexican oranges.

But it's hard to believe that any American opening the refrigerator door and seeing a plastic carton of milk thinks "mother" even subliminally.

I saw a paper bag or neutral, ordinary-looking plastic carton under everyone's arm.

To food marketers, the most significant thing is the package itself, a clear plastic carton designed with the aid of consumers' opinions and adorned with the name Driscoll's.

'And if you could see your way clear to buy me one of those little Scottish drummer-girl dolls in the transparent plastic cartons.'

There was a white plastic carton on the counter, a one-pint size, like the kind used for chicken livers in the meat section of the supermarket.

Tea, juice and domestic wine - quite acceptable, wine drinkers in the group said - out of plastic cartons were offered.

It was a food container; the heavy plastic carton slammed into Maro's upraised arm, just above the elbow, and the force of it spun him away.

She held out a clear plastic carton containing a gloopy orange liquid.

Gionesca wore a bedsheet and a necklace of rabbit-bones, and led four pall-bearers carrying a plastic carton containing a Marlboro butt.