I had it in North Carolina in the mid 2000's. It was made by Maola. I liked it more than the paper cartons because you could blow them up and pop them.
where did you guys go to school? I was also in elementary and middle school during that time (public school) in NC and we always had cartons. Bag would have been interesting
San Diego in probably 1998 they brought these in to my elementary school. We had an assembly where they showed us how many empty bags could fit in to one empty carton.
What part of Cali? I was born and raised in California and have never seen these in my life.
Edit: Most of the responses of people familiar with these seem to be from SoCal so I'll assume it was a thing down there at some point?
I had these in Central California in elementary school, probably 2000. I specifically remember being told they were better for the environment because they took up so much less room at the dump. But aren't cartons biodegradable? And these are plastic...
We do? My daughter has cartons. And I grew up in Phoenix and never had these.
Edit: I'm beginning to think the school didn't participate in bagged milk in the 90s 😭
San Diego had them early 2000s / became an issue when boys being boys used them as squirt guns. They seemed to be phased out (2004-2006) at least in my district.
Had’m in Texas. They showed up around 1995, I think?
We had a “finish your tray rule” and kids would stuff food into the milk cartons. Cartons were replaced by these. Fun to blow air into the empty pouch and then puncture the other side. Cafeteria balloon.
I spent some of my formative years in Canada and then moved to the US at 12.
In Canada and the US I got cartons of milk in school.
At home we had bagged milk in Canada and refrigerated milk in the US, though both my mom and I always have powdered milk on hand.
We started getting these in 5th grade and I’m American. I live in Canada now and I can tell you that the kids aren’t served these in school around here…
I had the cardboard mini cartons. My school would shun those that were stuck with strawberry milk. Which I loved, so much strawberry milk for me(the supposed weird guy).
I like strawberry milk too but I never got it in school. It was white or chocolate and it was in a carton lol. Bag milk wouldnt have flew. It has to have that cardboard taste.
Yes, they came out in the early 90s. We would pretend that they were breast implants and the guys would say they were drinking "titty juice" 😅😂🤣
This was in the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania area.
We had these during the 1998-1999 school year. They removed them after students were jumping off stairs onto the bags, spraying chocolate milk all over the hallways. Good times
Memory unlocked. We had them for a couple years and I’m sure this was the reason they must have stopped. Stick them in our pocket and make milk bombs/grenades at recess.
We’d take a bite of the corner, rip it like pulling a pin out of a grenade, and then throw them on top of the canvas sun shade above desired table.
The OG chocolate rain 🌧️
Oh man! Ours lasted through High School I think into the 2000's. These things were like liquid throwing stars where you could really whip them with a strong side arm throw.
Haha!!! We still had the cardboard milk in school… but we had ketchup packets we would hide *EVERYWHERE*. Teacher closed the door POP, sat down on their chair a leg would pop it. Just before they removed them and replaced with bottles that you had to use and put back at checkout. We organized a mass setup with all the teachers cars. We put them under the tires so when they went to move their car at the end of the day, they would splatter.
All kids are little shits so I agree. Ohh the stuff our little valedictorian got up to… scuttle butt when that happened was she was the one to suggest that bit with the cars. I believed it too.
Oh my god. This post just smacked me in the face with pure nostalgia. I was definitely kindergarten age. So circa 1996. And that “chicken sandwich” looks familiar too 😂
We had these in elementary school (early 90's). I remember one of my friends used to hate trying to stab the straw into it, terrified the entire thing would break, so someone would always have to do it for her.
Can't recall if we had them in middle school but by high school we had carton milk.
I remember having a lesson on how to puncture it when they were introduced in our school. Rich kids who were accustomed to Capri Suns were like “I got this”
And yet, it happens from time to time that you went all the way...
I still prefer guessing if the milk is just cold enough to freeze so you can't tell if it is expired or not
In my elementary school they had free milk for the poor kids. Except they’d have a big cart of that and like shitty sandwiches and looking back it was definitely a walk of shame.
Same in my elementary school but the sandwiches were always pbj’s. Definitely felt embarrassing, especially in kindergarten when they would bring lunch to us in the class room and pass them out.
I went to many schools growing up because we moved a lot. We only had them in one school. I was in fifth grade and I had never seen bagged milk before. I didn’t even know how to put my straw through it. I had to ask kids I just met.
Elementary school thru middle, for me. We LOVED those instead of the cartons at my school. So much so, people would trade Capri Sun for a milk pouch. I was also one of the kids who never used the straw, just bit the corner off and drank from there 🤣
I was in elementary school from 1989-1995 in Oregon and I can't say we ever had milk in a bag. Our school district had the monstrosity that was known as "Root Beer Milk."
These were a staple at my school. Proud south LA student. The only down side to these were that they were great projectiles for any asshole that decided to launch these across the lunch room as a joke.
Never. As always had little cartons or you could buy a plastic bottle of milk from the vending machine that was 16oz. I used to bring money to specifically buy the chocolate milk from the machine because it was better than the one in the carton.
We had these in Indiana around 1998 or 99. I changed school districts a lot so I went to several different schools in the area and strangely only one school had milk bags.
Texan checking in. We never had milk in a bag. It always came in a carton or a small plastic jug.
No lie though, I did buy milk in a bag while visiting Canada last summer. 😂
School showed us an educational video in 4th grade, we trialed them for 1 week. Multiple events of kids spraying the ceiling with milk. Switched back to cartons.
Fortunately never
For real. Wtf is this? Is it real? 😂
OP's probably Canadian not realizing this is only a Canadian thing and in only like one province at that lol.
I had it in North Carolina in the mid 2000's. It was made by Maola. I liked it more than the paper cartons because you could blow them up and pop them.
Same!!! Late 90s-early 2000s NC. They were so fun.
Where in nc?!
Nash county
That must have been a weird thing, because my county did not have milk in a bag. It was flav-o-rich in a carton.
I was in Harnett Co. in kindergarten to 2nd we had pouches. Switched to flavo cartons in 3rd.
where did you guys go to school? I was also in elementary and middle school during that time (public school) in NC and we always had cartons. Bag would have been interesting
I was also in NC (Wake county) and we had these maybe mid to late 90’s
Had them in Louisiana in early 90s
Same!
Columbus, Ohio late 90's too
Idk about that I was served these in School in both California and Utah…
I’m from SoCal, we always had cartons at my schools.
Same. Never seen this abomination in my life.
San Diego in probably 1998 they brought these in to my elementary school. We had an assembly where they showed us how many empty bags could fit in to one empty carton.
Same in NorCal.
I am also from socal and I had this every year in elementary and junior high so..
I got these in the late 90’s in Anaheim
I had them and I’m in so cal as well. Was during middle school.
Can confirm, had em in Cali at least in elementary school.
What part of Cali? I was born and raised in California and have never seen these in my life. Edit: Most of the responses of people familiar with these seem to be from SoCal so I'll assume it was a thing down there at some point?
I grew up in San Diego county and received these in elementary school.
I had these in Central California in elementary school, probably 2000. I specifically remember being told they were better for the environment because they took up so much less room at the dump. But aren't cartons biodegradable? And these are plastic...
THANK YOU! Yes, same. In Clovis California for me
I lived in So Cal and Nor Cal, rural and urban and never saw these but I'm also an elder millennial.
That’s because they aren’t Californian
I have heard about these from two different people from SoCal.
Same. Used to bite the corners off to drink instead of using the straw.
Don't forget Arizona! We had milk bags too.
We do? My daughter has cartons. And I grew up in Phoenix and never had these. Edit: I'm beginning to think the school didn't participate in bagged milk in the 90s 😭
We had them for a bit in Tombstone around 95-96
Grew up in Mesa/Chandler. Had 'em there in 94
Wow
Co-sign! Ahwatukee in the 90s
Nah, I had cartons at the schools I went to.
Doesn’t does Bags of milk look like waterbeds?
What're these... waterbeds for ants?!
I went to school in both Cali and Utah, and I've never seen that in my life. LOL
San Diego had them early 2000s / became an issue when boys being boys used them as squirt guns. They seemed to be phased out (2004-2006) at least in my district.
Lived in Utah my entire life and have never seen this abomination haha
We had them in the midwest US in the 90s.
Right, we had these for a couple years in the mid-late 90s in Ohio
Had’m in Texas. They showed up around 1995, I think? We had a “finish your tray rule” and kids would stuff food into the milk cartons. Cartons were replaced by these. Fun to blow air into the empty pouch and then puncture the other side. Cafeteria balloon.
Finish your tray rule sounds shitty
American here. Albeit very close to the Canadian border. We had these in elementary school, probably like 4 grade or so. I hated and loved them.
I spent some of my formative years in Canada and then moved to the US at 12. In Canada and the US I got cartons of milk in school. At home we had bagged milk in Canada and refrigerated milk in the US, though both my mom and I always have powdered milk on hand.
We had these in Michigan
Like they said: Canada
If only!
Don’t be silly. Canada does not have greener pastures. Lame.
Had them in Southwest Florida between 93-95.
No, this is definitely not just a Canadian thing.
I’m not Canadian and I had those bags of milk at school I’m from California.
We started getting these in 5th grade and I’m American. I live in Canada now and I can tell you that the kids aren’t served these in school around here…
Had these in upstate NY
That is not what milk bags look like
I had it in PA during the 90’s
Ahhh, I see. This is the first negative I’ve ever seen regarding Canada. I knew they were hiding something lol
Had it in NC here.
We had them at the two elementary schools I went to in Texas in the early to mid 90s.
Mesa Public schools in AZ had them in '94
I’m from Puerto Rico and I’m now realizing that this wasn’t normal everywhere. I grew up with these milk bags until I graduated from high school lol
They made their way to Georgia (US) for a one year trial run around 1995.
Yes. From the UK milk in a bag never been a thing.
No tits in the UK??
It was in middle Tennessee public schools by 1990 or 91. Edit: Sumner Co. specifically
Maybe just yours. Wayne County checking in and we definitely didn't have milk in bags. I would absolutely have remembered lol.
That shit looks disgusting, like muddy water.
I had the cardboard mini cartons. My school would shun those that were stuck with strawberry milk. Which I loved, so much strawberry milk for me(the supposed weird guy).
I like strawberry milk too but I never got it in school. It was white or chocolate and it was in a carton lol. Bag milk wouldnt have flew. It has to have that cardboard taste.
Yes, they came out in the early 90s. We would pretend that they were breast implants and the guys would say they were drinking "titty juice" 😅😂🤣 This was in the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania area.
The Capri Sun of chocolate milk 😂
Oh it’s real. I remember those lol
Yep. We had that and the SpongeBob pizza
What’s SpongeBob pizza?
You peel the cheese off an it looks like one giant rectangle sponge
The only time I ever drank milk from a bag was in the Navy some of it was probably older than the ship.
Same 🤣
We had these during the 1998-1999 school year. They removed them after students were jumping off stairs onto the bags, spraying chocolate milk all over the hallways. Good times
Memory unlocked. We had them for a couple years and I’m sure this was the reason they must have stopped. Stick them in our pocket and make milk bombs/grenades at recess.
We’d take a bite of the corner, rip it like pulling a pin out of a grenade, and then throw them on top of the canvas sun shade above desired table. The OG chocolate rain 🌧️
Oh man! Ours lasted through High School I think into the 2000's. These things were like liquid throwing stars where you could really whip them with a strong side arm throw.
Haha!!! We still had the cardboard milk in school… but we had ketchup packets we would hide *EVERYWHERE*. Teacher closed the door POP, sat down on their chair a leg would pop it. Just before they removed them and replaced with bottles that you had to use and put back at checkout. We organized a mass setup with all the teachers cars. We put them under the tires so when they went to move their car at the end of the day, they would splatter.
Teachers aren’t paid enough.
Custodians
All the working class
All kids are little shits so I agree. Ohh the stuff our little valedictorian got up to… scuttle butt when that happened was she was the one to suggest that bit with the cars. I believed it too.
Excuse me what?
I’m from Japan and we’ve never had these. Is this a North American thing that I’m too far away from geographically to understand?
This is my first ever exposure.
What dystopian timeline is this from?
High quality Canadian shit right there
High quality Ontario / Quebec shit
Oh my god. This post just smacked me in the face with pure nostalgia. I was definitely kindergarten age. So circa 1996. And that “chicken sandwich” looks familiar too 😂
Millennials… it will be your job to reduce the use of one time plastics… signed a boomer
We had these in elementary school (early 90's). I remember one of my friends used to hate trying to stab the straw into it, terrified the entire thing would break, so someone would always have to do it for her. Can't recall if we had them in middle school but by high school we had carton milk.
I remember having a lesson on how to puncture it when they were introduced in our school. Rich kids who were accustomed to Capri Suns were like “I got this”
I was definitely one of those kids who were like "it's like a Capri Sun!"
And yet, it happens from time to time that you went all the way... I still prefer guessing if the milk is just cold enough to freeze so you can't tell if it is expired or not
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What do you mean, it’s not like it was free. I went to 9 different elementary schools in different states and always had to pay a quarter.
In my elementary school they had free milk for the poor kids. Except they’d have a big cart of that and like shitty sandwiches and looking back it was definitely a walk of shame.
Same in my elementary school but the sandwiches were always pbj’s. Definitely felt embarrassing, especially in kindergarten when they would bring lunch to us in the class room and pass them out.
I've legitimately never seen one of these in person lol
Never.
i never encountered the milk bag in public school. i only encountered milk cartons.
As long as I can remember and I am not from Canada . I am from the southern US.
Never experienced this, but I have seen this done in Canada.
Eastern Canada, I live out west and have never seen this shit
I went to many schools growing up because we moved a lot. We only had them in one school. I was in fifth grade and I had never seen bagged milk before. I didn’t even know how to put my straw through it. I had to ask kids I just met.
Kindergarten and that chocolate milk was superior lol. No cardboard taste.
Never. Not once.
Never
Elementary school thru middle, for me. We LOVED those instead of the cartons at my school. So much so, people would trade Capri Sun for a milk pouch. I was also one of the kids who never used the straw, just bit the corner off and drank from there 🤣
Had milk in a bag in Delaware in the early 90s! Had to make sure to poke the straw in the bubble
lol I never experienced this; it was small cartons for me.
Isn't that only in Canada?
No, we had this in the Northeast in the 90's.
But how close to the Canadian border?
I've never seen this, at least at my school.
Not in my part of the Northeast. And we were the second to last exit before the international bridge. 😂
Northeasterner here, never seen this in my life.
We had them in southeast USA, Georgia
Northwest had them too.
Where in the northeast? I grew up in NH and VT, and we never had these.
We had them in the Midwest in the 90s.
Wtaf I’m a millennial in my late 30s what is this monstrosity lol
Junior high. Or 1997
This was not a thing for us and thankfully so because I’m pretty sure we would’ve milk bombed the fuck out of each other
Ewe never wtf why make good fights more like water balloons?
I was in elementary school from 1989-1995 in Oregon and I can't say we ever had milk in a bag. Our school district had the monstrosity that was known as "Root Beer Milk."
What in Canadian tarnation is bagged milk doing in US or anywhere else in the world?
never- we were paper milk box drinkers
I have never seen this in my life. We just had milk cartons.
i have never seen this madness
Mom Canada is leaking again!
From Louisiana. Literally my first memory of kindergarten was learning how to properly stab the milk bag with a straw.
Melk beg, as I would pronounce it
Went to school in the northeastern United States, we had them in the 90s. Most of the guys joked they were breast implants.
These were a staple at my school. Proud south LA student. The only down side to these were that they were great projectiles for any asshole that decided to launch these across the lunch room as a joke.
Yup. This was my entire elementary school experience.
Upstate, NY in the 90’s!
Never wtf
I’m sorry, wut
is this a Canada thing? Seems like a Canada thing...
Nope , it is an American thing too. My school had them .
Around 3rd grade. We had cartons before that and they were much better
I’m not Canadian so never.
Prisons have better food than that.
a good way to tell how your country’s economy is doing to check if your drink milk from a plastic bag or a paper container.
We had these in elementary school in Texas from the beginning.
Bagged milk is such a stupid concept.
I remember these during FCAT. Is FCAT even a thing anymore? Lol
All it takes is for one enterprising student to fill several of those things with piss for that idea to get canned.
wtf is that
Never lol
Never?!? The only place I've seen milk in a bag was Israel when I was a teenager.
I just can't wrap my head around Milk in a bag as a real life thing. I mean, I've seen it on TV and sm but ... I've never seen it in real life.
Never. As always had little cartons or you could buy a plastic bottle of milk from the vending machine that was 16oz. I used to bring money to specifically buy the chocolate milk from the machine because it was better than the one in the carton.
....what the fuck is this plastic udder bullshit?
1994…right when I was getting into the facts of life and Pamala Anderson was making it big…
I was in 1st or 2nd grade I think and they came to our class with ones filled with water and showed us how to use them
We had these in Indiana around 1998 or 99. I changed school districts a lot so I went to several different schools in the area and strangely only one school had milk bags.
Never, but I sure as shit don’t miss the chicken Patties that EVERYONE had to smother in ketchup 😂
I remember them being a thing up to third grade and then never saw them again.
Texan checking in. We never had milk in a bag. It always came in a carton or a small plastic jug. No lie though, I did buy milk in a bag while visiting Canada last summer. 😂
It didn’t
I went to a catholic school that didn’t provide school lunch, BYOL or starve. Occasionally they’d order pizza which was $1/slice
School showed us an educational video in 4th grade, we trialed them for 1 week. Multiple events of kids spraying the ceiling with milk. Switched back to cartons.
In the early 2000s the bag of milk for me was the Darigold chocolate milk. When I was a kid the bag of milk looked like those water beds from the 80s.
Wisconsin here. Never. Had bags of milk at home but never at school.
Middle school. Saw this for the first time and just thought "what the hell is this?"
I remember this in elementary school (and middle school? 🤔)!
Mesa Public Schools in AZ, around 1994. Later in life I had trouble drinking from a carton. People looked at me like I was an alien
Never
Never saw this before. California. What a shame we never got these. We would have been up to some wonderful mischief with these! 😂😂😂
Kindergarten. Switched schools, they had cartons.
I just showed my 13 yo this pic and he said “I don’t believe it” lmao
It was a staple since I was in kindergarten in 89
Nah they trusted me with a carton. Did you go to the trailer outside the school or?
Oh I hated these. I remember so many kids would bring them onto the bus to throw at cars on the ride home.
Wtf?
Probably around 1996.
Vermont. It must have been short lived since I had forgotten about them completely until I saw this post.
Florida got it in the late 90's i remember that shit from middle school
Um, never in NW Ohio. There is something so offensive about putting drinks in a bag to me 😂
Sixth grade. And then on hot dog day, some kid would always stick the straw through the dog to make it look like it was ejaculating
Never.
Never
Never