Serious question to Canadians.
 

Please explain milk in a bag.
Step grandparents where up there on a road trip and mentioned it to me today on the phone.

was used in europe to. Its like wine in bags, better to store.

americans dont have milk in bags? wtf...its so much easier...

My folks sometimes get milk in a bag (and orange juice) and they live in PA. Mom has a special pitcher that makes the bags easy to poor from. I think they get it from farmer shops but it tastes good.

How is it easier? What makes it superior aside from maybe less air on milk?
I need to know.
My fridge has room in door for 2 gallons in jugs.
Have I been hoodwinked.

well, you can get anything on you tube:

Girl shows her milk bags - https://youtube.com/watch?v=6N6fnrzWY6o
Guy who thinks he is more clever than he really is talking demonstrating milk bags - https://youtube.com/watch?v=mB4hPjRvzu4

Never saw it in the US but I like paper cartons best. I don't like teh crusty stuff that gets on the plastic ones :1orglaugh

Damn it, please use text. I am in bed on laptop and the woman is asleep next to me, so no sounds allowed. :Oh crap

My mom likes them because they are easier to freeze and stack in the freezer. She keeps a couple in there in the winter incase she gets snowed in.

It was a shock that youtube has sound? ;) Just turn down the sound and watch..you'll figure it out.

Freeze milk?
Doesnt that mess it up since its fatty and it may never melt back to the right consistancy again.

Anyway I am not worried about getting snowed in.
More reasons please :upsidedow

I know it has sound so I didnt click.

Also been artfully avoiding all top gfy banners.

You can freeze most milk just fine. I'm lactose intolrent so even if I was snowed in I wouldn't care about milk but the orange juice in a bag is nice to have around.

They are the whole reason I surf with the sound off. You need headphones :)

How do you all do a sniff test on milk in a bag?
And do not pretend everyone pays attention to expiration dates.

This guy is too much.:1orglaugh :1orglaugh
And to you stupid Americans this is the the way we do it in Ontario.
And they call us snobs!

How will I survive without milk in bags?

you look at it after you pour it...:)

Easier to store. Supposedly takes us less space in a landfill. To use it you just take it out and put it in a plastic pitcher, and snip the top corner off. Just sniff the corner you cut away if you want to do a sniff test.

And ruin your coco crispies?

The great milk debate ?
Only here.
P.S bags are better.

No debate, just curious as to the why's.
I get the idea.

i only buy cartons of milk now, but yes milk in bags keeps it fresher.

I don't like bags... I like the paper ones better.

Ok but once you cut the corner on a milk bag how do you close it?

You don't really get milk in cartons in the UK either. You get plastic jugs but not the big ass jugs you get in the States.

The milk bag is to prevent us filthy males from opening the fridge, grabbing the carton, opening it and drinking directly from the carton, like we do with just about every other drink in the fridge.

i just had some milk that was expired, that sure woke me up

We have milk in bags, in cartons and in plastic jugs in Ontario. Bags seem to be most popular because of some tree huggers in gov't thought it was a good idea to get more votes back in the day.

milk in bags is easier for me to store and use. Keeps it fresher I find

Never had milk in a bag. Not available here. I just bought a gallon of milk for $1.99 though, so I'm not too worried if the last tiny bit goes a little sour. The plastic carton is recyclable too so thats not too bad.

the milk ,man used to deliver the milk in a bag to us every wednesday......... i was always like WTF why dont u just get the cartons u fags but my parents were all "old school"

cartons... !!
At least ya can print some missing faces on it.....

hehehehehhehehehee

used to drink out of those back when I was a kid

:1orglaugh I'm proud of our youth :)

I have no idea why they have it in bags. We can also get it in plastic jugs as well as in cartons.

I'm guessing it's probably cheaper to package. Also, you get 3 bags at once (4 litres). Since you only open one bag at a time, it stays fresher longer.

You have to drink it all that day...I prefer walrus milk

They resemble a cow's udder. Did you know a cow's udder can hold 10 gallons of milk!

!!

i miss milk in the bags :(
the plastic jugs they have here get krusty on the top. I dont like that.
& they take up more room. & there is no 3.25% milk here either.. bastids

Woah I didn't know this was a Canadian thing as well.. First pizza pops then this. I feel dirty. Like i've been living a lie.

http://forestpirate.net/pictures/MilkBags.jpg

Canuckstani Fake Breast Implant maybe ?

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

What is a pizza pop?

This is how we get our milk in the UK.. don't ask me what those two tools are doing besides the picture (linkhotten).

http://www.dartingtonhive.co.uk/images/Materials.JPG

Milk in a bag is also the standard here in Uruguay. I hate those damn things. Fortunately there's also milk in rectangular cartons (Tetra-Brik). I use the latter.

I'm almost scared to ask.

Yeah, that is what I meant by a jug but not like the American jugs.

much easier to dispose of.. imagine 2 gallon jugs as opposed to thing plastic that balls up about the size of your hand or smaller.

i just buy the little boxes of milk on the shelves. was sooo weird when i got here that they sell milk and eggs unrefrigerated...just sitting on the shelves. and the expiration date is usually over a year away! i used to wonder what made costa rican milk so special, heh

Dos Pinos makes good stuff!

Hurm that's prety neat. Down here we just have bottles or cartons never seen the bag before. As for useby dates, I assume it'd be stamped on the bag, or whatever the bag comes in?

But assuming the milk bag is put back in the fridge after each use, it would have the same shelf life as normal milk. And I'd say it'd be prety easy ASM to tell if it was off, by the rancid ass smell and chunks floating in the bag. :)

-N

I think it's because its less expensive too. You can't buy only ONE bag at the time...they come by packs of 3 (3L). So, it comes less expensives than cartons. For big families who drinks lots and lots of milk, this is the solution.