You might laugh, but milk used to really sell in actual bags where I live…
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And purified water! At least when I used to visit family in India years ago.
Still like this in both countries I frequent.
We had bags of milk in elementary school. Kids used to poke a hole through the woman on it’s chest and drink her milk. Guaranteed every day there was one kid that poked it through too far and spilled a bunch everywhere.
It always annoyed me when customers wanted their gallon milk jugs bagged when I worked as a store clerk. “Ok, here’s two more layers of plastic crap for this one item that already has a carry handle you weirdo, hope that’s actually enough to keep it from popping through the bottom and bursting open on the floor.”
Was particularly unpleasant that one time the double bags failed before they even got out of the store.
it’s for the one-trip type, you know, the “i’ll give myself a hernia and leave marks on my arms to avoid going back to the car again” crowd.
In our defense, some of us have to park aways away from our front doors
They gotta work on their pinky strength.
Bagged milk is shit. In this house we believe in carton supremacy. And without that stupid ass plastic cork

Carton milk has a plastic lining inside that’s even more prone to produce microplastics than PET bottles or milk bags.
Exchangeable bottled milk is the best. Reduce, reuse, recycle.

Are exchangeable milk bottles a thing anywhere? I was thinking about this the other day and it’s insane we had an awesome system for exchanging milk bottles but we threw it all away for disposable plastic. I guess that insanity took place in a lot of industries.
Sure is a thing in Montréal. I have the choice of two milk coops in my part of town but I’m sure there’s more.
Plastic cork sounds like plastic glass to me.
Szerintem a műanyag kupakra gondolt.
Tudom. Csak viccesen hangzott, mert ha nem is feltétlenül parafa, de a cork általában dugó.
Shop in Canada and you can get it pre-bagged :)
Like this but full of milk?!?

Can I save $0.08 by bringing my own bag?
I swear I’ll wash it sometimes!
We usually do cloth bags these days but I don’t see why not.
Serious answer for those unaware
It’s pretty common in certain parts of Canada to buy milk in bags. They usually come 3 bags in one larger bag, the whole thing totalling 4L (so 1.3L per bag) which you’d put in a milk pitcher. You can get cheap plastic pitchers at the grocery store or nicer ones from kitchen stores or pottery fairs. I personally have a nice pottery one from a local potter. The pottery keeps the bag cold for much longer on the counter or table, plus it happens to look nice.
This is what they look like from the grocery store:

And here’s one in a cheap plastic pitcher:

Do you guys cut the back and the front or just the front?
I grew up in a front only house, but my spouse is ADAMANT that you have to cut both sides.
I get the argument, equal pressure, but it’s just not enough volume it’s an issue. Even if you pour out the whole bag it just compresses due to the vacuum.
I grew up front-only too. When my wife and I got our first apartment together, we tried front and back for a bit but it didn’t do anything noticeable so we just do front. Like you said, since it’s a bag it compresses easily. If it were a hard plastic for some reason, that would be a different story. I know there’s a strong discourse on it but after trying both sides, I’m a firm believer in the front-only technique.
So… you and your wife experimented with the front and back holes when letting the milk out, but the back didn’t do anything noticeable, so you are a firm believer in front only
Yeah, two sides make more of a difference for rigid containers
Hi, american here! Ha ha ha! I laugh at your silly milk arguements! Clearly milk is meant to be in a hard carton with a screw on top.
realises I’m telling other countries how to do things
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remembers what america looks like right now
…dammit! I miss the 90s when my country wasn’t a dumpster fire! I’m fine with clinton getting a blowjob from a consenting adult. I’m not fine with pedophiles and fascism.
Have your milk however you want. Just don’t use the metric system.
As an American, we must embrace the superiority of the metric system, but yeah I’ll pass on bagged milk
Bro, you live in a POLICE STATE. Epstein (alive), both the Clintons, Hunter Biden, and Donald Trump and beyond play a functional role as “cops.” As in, they get this bad media coverage, and the average person isn’t paying mega super close attention to both sides of each story that breaks while these people get reamed by each opposing news side, and thus the unscrupulous talk about “business” with them. And Trump is garbage, but in the same vein, that homeless guy on the light rail saying the n-word and smoking fetty is ALSO a cop. A “festival cop” is called a “pot head,” if you didn’t know.
So, did you not read the full comment that you’re responding to?You know, the one where I made fun of americans not having the self awareness to know the country is a piece of shit, and then realized it midway through, and then gave up on defending the country, and switched to defending milk cartons instead?
Bro, that’s state-sponsored propaganda you just read. Education is our best crime deterrent :)
I wouldn’t screw with how you package your milk
What is this, eastern Canada?
Ooh love me a NitW reference




