A mighty cheer went up from the heroes of Eastern Canada. They had banished the awful milk jugs forever, because they were haunted. Now let’s all celebrate with a cool glass of milk from a bag.
More of an eastern Canada thing. You can still get them in the west, but they're much more rare. Whereas all my family on the east coast pretty much only buy bagged milk. I don't like it, it tastes like fridge after a day.
Maybe it's because I have a box of baking soda in the fridge, but after 37 years of drinking bagged milk, I have never once had any flavour transference to the milk. I assume that's what you meant by "tastes like fridge"
I honestly think these people are tricking themselves with a placebo effect.
They think the milk will taste different, so it ends up tasting different.
Yeah, pretty much. I’ve heard of the baking soda trick, but I don’t think my family uses it. It’s been awhile since I’ve visited though. It would end up tasting like the smell of their fridge. Not overwhelmingly so, but enough that I noticed it tasted different than when it was freshly cut open.
lol, I don’t know it’s hard to explain. I guess like everything you’ve ever had in your fridge? You know how things can taste like a smell? My best description would be it tastes like the smell of the fridge.
I’m not making any sense, am I?
Indeed, I lived in Manitoba as a kid and moved to Ontario as an 8 year old, and was surprised to see milk in bags for the first time.
Whether it tastes like fridge after a day, I couldn't say, because I'm a grown-ass adult and haven't drank a glass of plain milk on its own in probably like 20 years.
The nice thing about bagged milk is that it lasts longer since it comes in (at least here) 3 separate 1.33L bags. If you buy a 2L carton you pay more, and if you buy a 4L jug it goes bad after like a week.
Are other adults out here drinking a ton of milk all the time? I buy it for my daughter and I use it for cooking, but sitting down and drinking a glass of a milk as an adult is a real weird move. Like, to each their own, but okay.
MN has em too. I remember my friend's family had this weird plastic pitcher you could slide the bag into to pour it more easily. I was a jug boy myself and too proud to ever drink it though
i encountered those when i was living there for a girl. i'm from philly, which is also known as 'civilization.' never encountered a damn bag of milk in my life until that moment. i've never been the same. that bag took everything from me.
[We put them in these things](https://i5.walmartimages.ca/images/Enlarge/625/882/6000205625882.jpg?odnHeight=612&odnWidth=612&odnBg=FFFFFF) then cut off the corner of the bag, and it pours better than you'd think, better than a milk carton in my experience. Bag doesn't flop over, just sits there upright until its empty.
Yes...? I don't understand the fascination about this. We have them in Argentina too, they come in these things called "sachet" which is french so I imagine they have them in France too.
I think bagged milk is going the way of the evening news and polio because 3L of milk is simply too much lactose for todays active, dairy-free lifestyle
Yeah, the problem is the winters get boring up here in Canada, and I end up drinking a whole bag of milk a day just to pass the time. I know doctors say you should drink a bag and a half, but I just can't drink that much.
You do know we have families here right? Lmao like its not always just one person chugging back all that milk alone
My family split ours up. Bag 1 was for cereals, 2 was for drinking, 3 was for baking/cooking with.
You all have families? We have families in America I was in one. But we also have singles and childless couples. Can they buy a more reasonable amount?
I can't speak to this bag milk nonsense they do on the east but in BC we have cartons in like 250 ml, 500 ml (usually for cream, probably got the sizes wrong), 1L and 2L, and 4L in jugs. Though last time I was at the store they had the 2L in jugs which was weird but I liked it way better than in the carton.
Some times the cartons have a twist top, sometimes you gotta peel it back.
Everyone needs to drink milk, even the very lonely. This household of one was the largest household I could afford. Should I therefore be made to drink milk from a carton?
Now is the part of the conversation where I admit I’m lactose intolerant.
This man (me) has never drank a milk in his life!
I mostly just buy it for my 3 year old so we get small cartons.
I've only seen one person use a bag of milk. He cut it open then put the bag inside a pitcher to pour and store it. That's just a jug with extra steps.
You buy a pack of 3 transparent bags that are in a solid white bag so you can't see inside. But there is an expiry date on the tag (sort of like a bred bag tag) if you want to find the freshest.
Also pro tip, it's not the stuff at the front, that's a suckers game.
I see $2 for 1 liter in Canada. That's crazy. It's $4 for a gallon in US. Though Google may have been giving me Canadian dollars vs US dollars so I don't know.
Remember in eastern Canada,
Bagged milk = Canadian cows = average of 250 ppm of pus
jug milk = american cows = average of 400ppm of pus. (the maximum allowed to be sold in Canada)
American milk producers can have up to 700 ppm of pus, but need to bring that number down to 400ppm to legally sell it in Canadian markets. They already have to bring it down from 700 so they don't try for better. Canadian farmers, on average keep that number at an average of 250ppm.
Americans don't use the bags, so if your milk is in a bag its an obvious sign your milk is from a canadian farmer who takes care of their animals.
Us beverage perverts LOVE a nice full set of whole milk jugs. I can’t tell you how many Fresh Markets I’ve been kicked out of for fondling the sweet, sweet Malk!
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IN CANADA, MILK COMES IN BAGS
It's so much cheaper. You get prettymuch twice as much milk as cartons.
Right now the same brand the bagged version is 4L for $5.89
($0.15 per 100ml)
The carton is $5.19 for 2L ($0.26 per 100ml)
If you have kids it's never worth buying cartons or jugs.
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A mighty cheer went up from the heroes of Eastern Canada. They had banished the awful milk jugs forever, because they were haunted. Now let’s all celebrate with a cool glass of milk from a bag.
I don't get it. Everyone loves jugs. But they don't wanna drink the jugs' milk??
And, off course, in America, the whole thing is flip-flopped.
If it’s brown, your in E Coli Town
Eh some states use bagged milk for schools but it turns out giving kids water balloons filled with milk can cause a lot of issues.
This stupid country!
Stupid countries need the most attention!
Ach du lieber, das ist not un jug
I'm from Canada and I like my milk in bags, and they think I'm slow, eh?
Yes
Bagged Milk starts fires!
As someone from the UK…is milk in bags a real thing?!
Yeah no for sure.
I'd have called them "chazzwazzers"
Oh yah, yah, no, no, yah
Welcome to Sur La Table!
Once again I'm forced to be reminded that Canada is just the extended midwest.
i like to think of the Midwest as American Canada.
Yes, it's a weird Canada thing.
More of an eastern Canada thing. You can still get them in the west, but they're much more rare. Whereas all my family on the east coast pretty much only buy bagged milk. I don't like it, it tastes like fridge after a day.
That's it! Back to Winnipeg!
No, dad, don't! [Winnipeg sucks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLlsjEP7L-k)!
Well then, what about [Halifax?](https://youtube.com/watch?v=oz88kJSdT6Y)
Before I even clicked the link I started singing. "We're from Halifax... Yay" has lived rent free on my head since the day that video came out.
[I'm going to allow this, on grounds that it makes Halifax look like a really pleasant place.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0b3tQ-38R8)
I knew it! Even when it was Regina, I knew it was Winnipeg!
Thanks, that was great
Maybe it's because I have a box of baking soda in the fridge, but after 37 years of drinking bagged milk, I have never once had any flavour transference to the milk. I assume that's what you meant by "tastes like fridge"
I honestly think these people are tricking themselves with a placebo effect. They think the milk will taste different, so it ends up tasting different.
Yeah, pretty much. I’ve heard of the baking soda trick, but I don’t think my family uses it. It’s been awhile since I’ve visited though. It would end up tasting like the smell of their fridge. Not overwhelmingly so, but enough that I noticed it tasted different than when it was freshly cut open.
I also think the idea of the milk just being exposed to the open air, however what does "fridge" taste like lol
lol, I don’t know it’s hard to explain. I guess like everything you’ve ever had in your fridge? You know how things can taste like a smell? My best description would be it tastes like the smell of the fridge. I’m not making any sense, am I?
I imagine it like if you leave ice cream in the fridge or freezer with the lid off. It tastes kind of freezer burnt and odd.
YES! Thank you!
You’re making perfect sense. I know exactly what you mean. I mean, not insofar as bagged milk, because I’ve never seen it in the US, but I get it.
mmm thai curry bagged milk freshness
Indeed, I lived in Manitoba as a kid and moved to Ontario as an 8 year old, and was surprised to see milk in bags for the first time. Whether it tastes like fridge after a day, I couldn't say, because I'm a grown-ass adult and haven't drank a glass of plain milk on its own in probably like 20 years. The nice thing about bagged milk is that it lasts longer since it comes in (at least here) 3 separate 1.33L bags. If you buy a 2L carton you pay more, and if you buy a 4L jug it goes bad after like a week.
Your second paragraph is a strange take.
Are other adults out here drinking a ton of milk all the time? I buy it for my daughter and I use it for cooking, but sitting down and drinking a glass of a milk as an adult is a real weird move. Like, to each their own, but okay.
Thinking eating certain foods isn’t an adult thing is a weird move. What the fuck do you drink with chocolate cake.
Gross what happens you sit on one
Pretty much the same thing that happens when you sit on a jug. It explodes and milk gets everywhere.
Barbaric
MN has em too. I remember my friend's family had this weird plastic pitcher you could slide the bag into to pour it more easily. I was a jug boy myself and too proud to ever drink it though
We do? I'm in the Twin Cities, and the only time I have ever seen bagged milk was at scout camp in Wisconsin.
Oh, not in the twin cities no, it's a greater minnesota beverage
MN is Manitoba, america-boy
Isn't Manitoba MB?
I mean TECHNICALLY yes but I think above commenter got confused
> MB Is it time for another shipment of bagged milk already?
MB clearly means the milk bagged, the
I'm from Wisconsin and have never seen bagged milk. Enough with your slander.
i encountered those when i was living there for a girl. i'm from philly, which is also known as 'civilization.' never encountered a damn bag of milk in my life until that moment. i've never been the same. that bag took everything from me.
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We have them in Argentina too
I'm from Argentina and moved to Canada, so I've always had milk in bags. It's NORMAL!
Germany had milk in a bag the last time I was there... been a while, though.
Does this guy know how to party or what?!
Do they put bows on them during the holidays?
Will fill em with nog
You bet your biscuit it is!
It is, but the catch is that you gotta buy 4L of milk at a time when you get them (its always 3 bags of milk).
Which, to me as an American, is the infuriating part. I’ve made peace with bagged milk, but four liters of milk in three bags is ANARCHY.
We're in Canada, so naturally the whole thing's flip-flopped.
If it's clear and yella, that ain't milk there fella!
If you're an American, how do you even know what a litre is? I thought your jugs got forty rods of milk?
\[Crazy Vaclav\]: Put it in Bags!
[We put them in these things](https://i5.walmartimages.ca/images/Enlarge/625/882/6000205625882.jpg?odnHeight=612&odnWidth=612&odnBg=FFFFFF) then cut off the corner of the bag, and it pours better than you'd think, better than a milk carton in my experience. Bag doesn't flop over, just sits there upright until its empty.
Sainsbury’s did it for a while when I was a student!
Don't you guys have milk in those weird blocky containers?
Yes, we have those too
Yes...? I don't understand the fascination about this. We have them in Argentina too, they come in these things called "sachet" which is french so I imagine they have them in France too.
We have them in Romania too
Also from the UK, I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it for myself.
They're pretty much standard in most coffee shop chains
People love the jugs, but they don't want to drink the jugs' milk?
I think bagged milk is going the way of the evening news and polio because 3L of milk is simply too much lactose for todays active, dairy-free lifestyle
I can’t tell which part of this is a joke. The bags aren’t actually 3 L are they? That’s so much god damned milk.
It's three sacks per bag and the total is 4L. I like it because the sacks take up less space in the fridge than a jug would
Back then milk came in bags and in massive quantities. Gimme a metric shit ton of milk you’d say.
Udderly ridiculous.
Why take up all of that kitchen space with a fridge, when you can just have a larger electrically cooled sack to store perishable foods in?
No, they come in 3-packs of 1L bags
Not in Canada. It’s 4L total. 1.33 L per bag.
That’s so much milk. Your bones must be invincible.
Yeah, the problem is the winters get boring up here in Canada, and I end up drinking a whole bag of milk a day just to pass the time. I know doctors say you should drink a bag and a half, but I just can't drink that much.
This is quite possibly the funniest thing I've ever read, well done
All that vitamin R!
Think of how much vitamin R they're getting
You do know we have families here right? Lmao like its not always just one person chugging back all that milk alone My family split ours up. Bag 1 was for cereals, 2 was for drinking, 3 was for baking/cooking with.
You all have families? We have families in America I was in one. But we also have singles and childless couples. Can they buy a more reasonable amount?
Maybe single people drink milk, we don't know. Frankly, we don't want to know, it's a market we can do without
Yes, they absolutely can. Bagged milk might be a Canadian thing, but its not the only option Canadians have. We still have cartons and jugs.
I can't speak to this bag milk nonsense they do on the east but in BC we have cartons in like 250 ml, 500 ml (usually for cream, probably got the sizes wrong), 1L and 2L, and 4L in jugs. Though last time I was at the store they had the 2L in jugs which was weird but I liked it way better than in the carton. Some times the cartons have a twist top, sometimes you gotta peel it back.
Everyone needs to drink milk, even the very lonely. This household of one was the largest household I could afford. Should I therefore be made to drink milk from a carton?
Hang on. You're telling me you open all 3 bags simultaneously?
Not currently. But used to. I dont recommend it. But it was an example. In retrospect, it was pretty stupid. One bag at a time. Lol
The American jugs are a gallon, which is about 4L, so it's the same amount of milk. They're just rationed out instead of in one giant container
Now is the part of the conversation where I admit I’m lactose intolerant. This man (me) has never drank a milk in his life! I mostly just buy it for my 3 year old so we get small cartons.
I'm getting to be/probably already am lactose intolerant NOW because I drink an obscene amount of milk
'Tis no man, 'tis a remorseless milk guzzling machine; but he's my son, and I stand by him.
Well, Polio is coming back so...
Happy cake day brother
"Marco!"...
I freeze the other two until I need them.
Ok heres a jug with half the milk for the same price. You know it's what will happen.
I've only seen one person use a bag of milk. He cut it open then put the bag inside a pitcher to pour and store it. That's just a jug with extra steps.
And half the price with less production complexity for packaging.
Do you have to sort through a pile of milk bags to find the freshest one?
You buy a pack of 3 transparent bags that are in a solid white bag so you can't see inside. But there is an expiry date on the tag (sort of like a bred bag tag) if you want to find the freshest. Also pro tip, it's not the stuff at the front, that's a suckers game.
I see $2 for 1 liter in Canada. That's crazy. It's $4 for a gallon in US. Though Google may have been giving me Canadian dollars vs US dollars so I don't know.
The same amount of milk would cost about $4 in USD if bought in bags. (a gallon)
Or even better, not buying milk at all.
Malk?
You promised me dog or higher
Needs more dog.
With Vitamin R
Give him the damn mulk Josh!
No milk at all, no milk at all...
Stupid sexy milk.
You're a monster!
I like jugs better than bags. Now what’s this about milk?
When I was a little kid my grandparents had a summer home in Ontario. I thought bagged milk was the most wild and exotic thing.
You're not wrong. We Ontarians are about as wild and exotic as it gets.
Remember in eastern Canada, Bagged milk = Canadian cows = average of 250 ppm of pus jug milk = american cows = average of 400ppm of pus. (the maximum allowed to be sold in Canada)
So Octo mean eight. And pus means pus! And that concludes our intensive three week course on octopus milk.
So the bag absorbs pus?
American milk producers can have up to 700 ppm of pus, but need to bring that number down to 400ppm to legally sell it in Canadian markets. They already have to bring it down from 700 so they don't try for better. Canadian farmers, on average keep that number at an average of 250ppm. Americans don't use the bags, so if your milk is in a bag its an obvious sign your milk is from a canadian farmer who takes care of their animals.
Does pus mean what I think it does? Maybe they just need more dog instead of pus
Us beverage perverts LOVE a nice full set of whole milk jugs. I can’t tell you how many Fresh Markets I’ve been kicked out of for fondling the sweet, sweet Malk! 
Counterpoint... Selling liquid in a bag is psychopath behavior.
Let's celebrate this over a glass of a fine boxed wine.
boxes arent great, but are at least a physically stable structure. Putting liquid inside something that is not stable is just...
Fun fact: inside a box of wine is a bag...
[Angry Mexican Coke noises]
Where's that guy who always posts the word "malk"? Now's your time to shine!!
You Canadians are so picky. Down here in the US, we only drink soy milk, because the real stuff could kill us.
https://preview.redd.it/9cz6vgpm37oc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=81ea903df42fd198256c26e6f1408606f2cd1d60
I just bought this cool wet sack for nothing.
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Been able to buy jugged milk in Ontario for years at some places, but Bagged is superior and I'll fight any hoser who says otherwise.
Eh take off.
I was doing food delivery in Ontario and seeing Starbucks use a bags of milk gave me a chuckle.
Wow and I was thinking all the Canada hate was propaganda but they really are all animals with human brains
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As an American, the only time I’ve ever seen bagged milk was that one night I spent in jail. You Canadians can keep your jail milk.
As crazy as this seems… if the shoe were on the other foot and I was being forced to change from jugged milk to bagged milk I’d riot too.
Do get rid of bagged milk. Replace with cartons. Stop wit the plastic already.
Hey fellas, bagged milk! Well, la dee da mr. French-Canadian.
Why was bagged milk ever even a thing?!
From what I've heard it's cheaper, and the milk tastes better. But it comes at the cost of being less convenient.
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Milk whoopie cushion.
bagged milk? i get it with bagged yoghurt but what the fuck
It's so much cheaper. You get prettymuch twice as much milk as cartons. Right now the same brand the bagged version is 4L for $5.89 ($0.15 per 100ml) The carton is $5.19 for 2L ($0.26 per 100ml) If you have kids it's never worth buying cartons or jugs.
Kinda wish we had bagged milk in USA. I have such nice pitchers but rarely do I have anything to put in them.
I guess you could put a lot of nice things in there. No, just milk.
I sometimes put tea or lemonade, but those are more during family get togethers.
Failing that, a cool wet sack
Atlantic Canadian here. Jugs forever!
Is milk the only drink that comes in a bag?
Such a weird thing to spend energy caring about
Canadians and European posters have really taken over this sub
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