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why does he give jack the carton of milk at the start


at which point jack throws an entire litre in to the trash

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Jack was lactose intolerant, you see. He couldn't have drank it even if he wanted to. Keen eye, you have.

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ty. i would have left it on top of a mail box, for some street person, but thats me

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i would have left it on top of a mail box, for some street person


How humanidocious of you. Im thinking it would freeze, but I have never been to NYC in the winter. It looks extremely cold, though.

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its always cold. sure its lively, but its a disguting place full of bad air and garbage

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It was really hot and humid when I went in the summer.

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was there either feb or match 05, cold as hell. whats the attarction, unles su r super lonely

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I didn't like it much either. Its very expensive, too.

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It wasn't milk. It was the Egg Nog Jack was buying.

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nevertheless, on a winter nite in nyc it would keep, and provide sustenance to a walker by

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Of course. I wasn't disregarding leaving it on top I was just explaining that it was Egg Nog. If I were Jack I wouldn't drink it either after a stranger swigged it. I would absolutely give it to a homeless person though.

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You see Jack specifically pay for the egg nog before he leaves the shop, whereby Cash sips it, then, the nice crook that he is, gives it back to Jack (to give it to a homeless person).🐭

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Like Eve_of_Destruction said, it wasn't milk but the eggnog that Jack bought at the deli (which incidentally used to be a real deli on Park Ave in NYC, a few blocks north of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel). When he walked into the deli, he asked the Asian clerk if they had eggnog, to which the clerk replied "In the back, five dollar". Don Cheadle's character walks out with the eggnog and drinks some of it, which is why Jack then throws it away.

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its playing a lot these days

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