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India also has bagged milk
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If bagged milk is so great why dont they bag other drinks as well? Is there bagged apple or orange juice?
I'm sure there is in some form.
I mean we have canned juice and milk too.
For confused Americans: Canada also sells milk in those cardboard-like cartons. It's just that bagged milk is more popular and more prevalent, and also seems to be more cost effective and easier overall.
I sometimes get chocolate milk in medium sized cartons, and those small ones can be gotten at certain restaurants or in schools.
I sometimes get chocolate milk in medium sized cartons, and those small ones can be gotten at certain restaurants or in schools.
But it seems if bagged drinks were so much more cost effective and efficient there would be more of a demand for other bagged drinks. So why is bagged milk the only one thats prevalent?
We have boxed wine, which has plastic bags of wine inside of it.
Pop is sold in cans all over the world, and plastic bottles or glass bottles (which we don't get here, or I don't see...anymore).
Pop is sold in cans all over the world, and plastic bottles or glass bottles (which we don't get here, or I don't see...anymore).
Having to explain this baffles my mind. I've been drinking milk like this every day of my life (not on its own, it's always mixed with tea or coffee), so finding out that people don't know about this feels incredibly weird to me.They're cheaper to make and less wasteful, and no.
I distinctively remember getting bagged milk in my school cafeteria when I lived in Louisiana (Baton Rouge) so bagged milk manufactory must exist in the US.
I can't drink milk anymore so I don't have an opinion on all this, but after seeing the workers in my college cafeteria spill an entire bag of milk numerous times when refilling the milk dispenser I have to question how big the environmental benefits are.
Wisconsin also had bagged milk and cartons depending on the school.
Same here in FL...at least for a little while. I seem to recall getting individual size plastic bags/pouches of milk from about kindergarten until 3rd grade or so in the early 90's, then they switched back to little paper cartons. I do remember kids playing with the bags a lot and making messes with them, so I always assumed that was the reason they went away.
Ayyy bagged milk gang.
This is why bagged milk is good people.
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Carrying/transporting things in bags just seems weird to me anyway, because bags ... don't hold their shape. It's like how cereal is all in bags, but then around the bags, are boxes (for all but the lowest level bargain cereals).
How is bagged milk displayed at the super market? Is it like a bunch of bags laying on top of each other, or stacked in a way to keep them from falling out? Or, is it in a box, and you take it out of the box to bring it home?
Interesting. They're like frozen turkeys.
Question for those in on the bag game:
Does it weird you out or skeeve you out to buy the bag on the bottom level? I know it shouldn't, but when I buy things that lay down like that at the super market, the one on the bottom is always slightly skeevier than all of the others... and I'll reach into the back to get one that's on top rather than the bottom, even if it's less convenient.
DoesCanada people do this with other liquids not changed/contaminated once its opened, like say, orange juice?
How is bagged milk displayed at the super market? Is it like a bunch of bags laying on top of each other, or stacked in a way to keep them from falling out? Or, is it in a box, and you take it out of the box to bring it home?
Interesting. They're like frozen turkeys.
Question for those in on the bag game:
Does it weird you out or skeeve you out to buy the bag on the bottom level? I know it shouldn't, but when I buy things that lay down like that at the super market, the one on the bottom is always slightly skeevier than all of the others... and I'll reach into the back to get one that's on top rather than the bottom, even if it's less convenient.
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They're cheaper to make and less wasteful, and no.
So, when you're finished, do you fold up the top part of it or anything, or just kinda leave it open? Or, do you have like clothes pins, "chip clips," or anything specific for milk?
Because if not I have a line of products I want to make. It'll basically be a sealing system in the shape of, like, TinkerBelle, and it'll be called "The Dairy Fairy," and it'll seal up your milk for you when you're done.
I imagine I could spin this into a trillion dollar idea, if only the population of Canada was larger than California.
I think it is a solid idea. I've dropped & spilled soda, beer, juice and milk that were in cans and jugs so I can't imagine bags being any worse, logistically. You'd just have to place them strategically in grocery carts or otherwise so they don't get pinched or punctured.
I'm in Wisconsin and the Kiwk Trip stores have bagged Juice and Milk. I buy the Milk in the bag from time to time but I prefer Fairlife brand milk.
It just stays open, there is no reason to seal it. It's not like milk cartons are air tight when you refold the spout either.
Just use jugs. Why are you countries weird.
Better than that hyper-pasturized nonsense France does, I guess.
Better than that hyper-pasturized nonsense France does, I guess.
They're starting to remarket UHT milk here in Canada, too, under the guise of 'extra filtration' and long life...and double the price of regular milk.
I haven't tried it yet but the tetra-packed shelf stable high-temp pasteurized milk they sold a few years back tasted terrible.
I legit could barely stomach cereal while I was in France.
Stuff is... euhg
Same here in SoCal, but they stopped when kids started throwing them at each other like water balloons. Sometimes you would save a milk bag for a week or so, then it would be nice and rancid when you threw it at someone.
As a Canadian, I approve of this thread.
One caveat to be weary of that it is not a nation wide occurrence. As someone who moved from Ontario to Newfoundland, my only options are cartons and the recycling stations are sparse here. It becomes very wasteful if you do not have access to private transportation to take to you to an aforementioned recycling station.
One caveat to be weary of that it is not a nation wide occurrence. As someone who moved from Ontario to Newfoundland, my only options are cartons and the recycling stations are sparse here. It becomes very wasteful if you do not have access to private transportation to take to you to an aforementioned recycling station.
Carrying/transporting things in bags just seems weird to me anyway, because bags ... don't hold their shape. It's like how cereal is all in bags, but then around the bags, are boxes (for all but the lowest level bargain cereals).
How is bagged milk displayed at the super market? Is it like a bunch of bags laying on top of each other, or stacked in a way to keep them from falling out? Or, is it in a box, and you take it out of the box to bring it home?
Interesting. They're like frozen turkeys.
Question for those in on the bag game:
Does it weird you out or skeeve you out to buy the bag on the bottom level? I know it shouldn't, but when I buy things that lay down like that at the super market, the one on the bottom is always slightly skeevier than all of the others... and I'll reach into the back to get one that's on top rather than the bottom, even if it's less convenient.
DoesCanadapeople do this with other liquids not changed/contaminated once its opened, like say, orange juice?
Not all stores put the milk bags at the bottom. Some do. Sometimes one of the bags spills milk on the other bags and it's gross, but other than that there's no real skeeviness.
Ayyy bagged milk gang.
This is why bagged milk is good people.
We don't have milk cartons in the UK, they come in plastic bottles that so thin that they tear easily when they are dropped. ¬_¬;
But you can recycle the carton. Can you recycle the bag?
Wait, what? I always thought that was available worldwide. We have them in Brazil, but it is it is uncomfortable to put in a pot so almost nobody buys.
Yes you can. But the fact is that it uses less plastic, because even the plastics in the cartons etc aren't 100% being recycled so its using less material to make meaning less waste
Box wine gets a bad rap for no reason other than the aesthetic. It's actually a really good way to drink a large quantity of wine over a week without it getting corked.
No, you have a separate container you put the bag in and then cut a hole in the corner:
It's seriously not difficult lol
Bagged milk is convenient. You just buy one pitcher / holder thing and then the bags. You can shove about a thousand of those bags in a recycling/garbage bin, but a plastic milk carton takes up a ton of room.
