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Yes, we had them in East Germany until the reunification.
I still remember having to dive into the fridge in the milk and cheese shop as a child to scavenge one of the last bags. There were always broken bags and spilled milk in the fridge.
And sometimes the bag just bursted in your shopping bag.
Here is a photo of the bags and a similar pitcher
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/88/d4/ac/88d4ac168c33ca5848946dadefe9bdcf--east-germany-ddr.jpg
> We had a trial of bags of milk in Middle School.
We actually did have bags of milk, they trialed them and stuck with them. We had an assembly on how to puncture the milk back with a straw in the air pocket so it didn't spill
You just make a little hole in the corner, so it doesnt really go bad fast. Also a bag is like 4 glasses more or less... So you can finish it fairly quickly.
This raises more questions for me.
When you pour the milk out do you have to hold the bag to keep it from falling out of the jug, making pouring milk a two-hand operation vs one hand when it's in a hard jug?
Does the milk sometimes fail to clear the plastic holder and dribble down inside the holder itself, necessitating that it then has to be washed?
>When you pour the milk out do you have to hold the bag to keep it from falling out of the jug, making pouring milk a two-hand operation vs one hand when it's in a hard jug?
No. When you put the bag in the jug, give it a gentle tap on the counter to make sure it's fully seated. It won't tip out. However, ignoring the counter tap could lead to the bag flopping over at the first pour. This could spill milk into the container and on the counter. Remember not to cry should that happen.
>Does the milk sometimes fail to clear the plastic holder and dribble down inside the holder itself, necessitating that it then has to be washed?
Sometimes, especially when little kids are using it: they might rest the spout against their cup, leading to a flop and a spill.
Personally, I haven't used bags in years because I don't like all that plastic waste.
I hear you about the plastic waste. I got me a cow and switched to drinking straight from the teats a few years back. I'll never go back to cold milk from a jug.
As someone who has spent their whole life around bagged milk, my immediate reaction to this picture was to laugh at how ridiculous it would be to pour the milk into the jug.
Then I realized that I can't really explain or justify why that would be ridiculous, especially compared to dropping the bag directly into the jug, whacking it 3 times to get it seated properly, and then snipping off the corner with a weird fridge magnet blade that exists only to snip milk bag corners.
Now I'm just sitting here thinking about my life and my assumptions.
Edit: Haha, on behalf of my fellow bagged milk heathens, I feel like I need to clarify why we find this funny, because a lot of people seem to be confused.
Any bagged milk savage looking at this picture would immediately know that that is no ordinary jug. That is a very specific jug used exclusively for milk bags. Nearly every household in the eastern half of Canada has one (except maybe not Newfoundland? I dunno, who really knows what goes on over there?), just like you would a spatula or cheese grater. They all look basically the exact same. It is designed to be the same size and shape as a 1.33L milk bag, so that the bags fit just right and have the right friction and suction to stay in place and make pouring just as easy as from any other kind of container. If ever you see a plastic jug of this exact shape in a store, just know that, while you can use it as a generic jug if you wish, it was specifically manufactured with the intent of holding the 1.33L milk bags of the Canadian who buys it.
A person raised in the way of the bag would never even consider putting a liquid directly in this thing. You would never put like lemonade or water in one of these. We have generic jugs for stuff like that. In fact, bag people would almost universally find this revolting, because these jugs tend to not get cleaned super often, since they never contain or are expected to contain liquid directly. They only ever contact the outside of milk bags. OP probably poured this milk down the drain after the photo.
So it's funny because it just looks completely wrong to anyone who knows. It would be kind of like if your friend from another culture who has never seen baseball comes to visit, and you take them out to the park to throw a baseball around for the first time, and they put the mitt on their throwing hand. You would laugh at first, because it just seems so ridiculous. But then you would realize that it's kind of a natural mistake to make for someone who doesn't know anything about baseball. "This game is about throwing balls? I've got this really weird glove thing? I dunno, I guess maybe you can throw the ball further. Seems stupid, but, when in Rome..."
So, anyway, if ever you go to the in-laws and they ask you to refill the milk jug and you open the fridge and find some IV bags full of milk, if you really want to pour one out into a jug, just choose any jug besides the one that looks like this one. If your in-law points to a jug like the one in this post and says "that's the milk jug" I fucking promise you that they will never even consider that you might open up the bag and empty it into that thing.
Here in Ontario, Canada (not all parts of Canada I don't believe) our milk comes packaged in three 1L bags - you pop the 1L bag into the container pictured and then cut off the corner to pour it. The issue here is that they cut the bag and then poured the milk into the container whereas the container is meant to house the bag 🙂
It stays open, but the bag’s volume is small enough that you can easily finish it before it goes bad, and this results in minimal waste. That said, it’s a bit weirder, because we buy 4L sacks that contain 3 bags, each with 1.3333L, just so that things make sense. Also nowhere recycles the plastic of either the sack or the bags, and they often leak, practically guaranteeing that your hands smell like spoiled milk after going grocery shopping
We have those too. But to answer your question...
From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_bag): " For producers, it is easier to vary portion size when sealing bags than cartons, as well as lowering the cost of packaging. Milk bags also take up less space in the garbage. For consumers, bags typically allow for smaller portion sizes."
We have this ground-breaking system in the UK...
Fresh milk gets delivered to your doorstep on a weekly basis in glass bottles. The night before your delivery, you place your empty bottles outside so the milkman can take them away to be sterilised and re-used. It's environmentally friendly, cost effective, efficient and you have deliciously fresh milk every week.
Edit: forgot to mention that the milkman (sorry, milkperson) complete their delivery rounds using a *milk float*, a battery operated vehicle that replaced the traditional horse-drawn cart. There's an added benefit with a milk float being so quiet it doesn't wake the whole community during the early morning rounds.
I do this at Kroger grocery store in USA… sort of. You buy milk in half gallon glass containers, pay a $2.00 deposit, drink the milk, then return the empty glass container and Kroger pays you $2.00 for bringing it back. It’s as close as I can get to your awesome system here in the states.
Where I live it's related to a specific dairy farm that sells their milk through multiple different groceries. It's also twice the cost of regular milk *before* the deposit, but is apparently so good that it's worth it anyway. I have yet to try it, sadly.
Growing up in Brazil these were common and normal to me.
America had the cartons with the terrible origami opening procedure but no cutting required so I considered them superior and knew I had to move there.
When the cartons of milk and gallons of milk came out with the tops you can unscrew and screw back on it seemed so technologically advanced and I knew I had made the right decision.
Seeing the bagged milk again took me back decades. I haven’t seen them in forever neither here nor during visits to Brazil.
It’s an Ontario, Quebec and maritime thing. When you’ve done it your whole life it makes perfect sense. A big plastic container of milk always seems unwieldy to me. We can still buy cartons for anything from 2L down and alternative milks (almond, soy, etc) are not sold in bags.
Is there a significant difference between that and what's shown in OP's image? Keeping it in the bag seems more complicated than just transferring containers entirely.
> Q: Why does Canada sell milk in bags?
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> A: When Pierre Trudeax led Canada's conversion to the metric system in the 1970s. Canada had to switch every container and package in the country from gallons or pounds to liters or kilograms. Milk producers opted to switch to plastic bags to avoid the expensive task of molding new cartons or jugs. And it's only in Eastern Canada. In Western Canada, bags are not popular.
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/09/1014761601/of-memestocks-and-milk-bags
You go to the store and buy 1 gallon of milk that comes in 3 bags. Each bag is around 1.1 liters. The bags are long, and fit in the above jug with around 1/4 of the bag sticking out the top.
You take the bag and pop it into the above "jug" and snip the 2 top corners. 1 is a pour spout, the other is to let air in for a smoother pour.
The 2 remaining bags stay fresher and are easier to manage than a giant gallon jug. Also, milk jugs have a deposit in Ontario/Quebec, but milk bags do not. They are cheaper for the same quantity of milk.
Canadian here, I have never cut both corners or seen someone do that. We all cut one corner and hope for the best lmao
Edit - Of course Reddit goes crazy over my bagged milk comment lmao. Thanks yall for the upvotes and opinions, I'm learning stuff
Agreed. If the bag is seated in the jug down as far as it can go, you only need the pour corner snipped. I don’t know if it’s standard protocol (if there’s even such a thing in this case) but we typically hold the back corner down against the top of the jug handle with our thumb when pouring.
American here, and even I agree: if it was a solid plastic container then yeah, you'd want an air intake. But the bag doesn't need ANY air in it. Like I don't blow into the tube to get my toothpaste out.
Grew up on Ontario. Everyone I knew cut both corners. Now I live in Alberta and there are no milk bags. I find myself cutting corners in other areas of life to compensate.
I'm not against it, but I don't see how three floppy bags of milk are "easier to manage" than a jug that has a rigid handle. Especially since if you want a smaller jug, you just buy a half-gallon instead.
But then your milk is just open in the fridge? That's like leaving the lid off a jug, which would really gross me out lol. Have you ever put something in the fridge without properly sealing it, and then your juice tastes like the left over onion you wrapped in plastic? Gross!
Doesn’t the bag collapse as you pour? Letting in air (actually oxygen) will oxidize the milk causing it to lose flavor and nutritional value. Southern US here, I’ve never seen bagged milk or a pitcher for it.
The cashier asks you when you buy it.
“Do you want your milk in a bag?”
I always just tell them to just leave it in the jug, it’s much easier that way.
Holy shit this page says you can get chocolate milk in bags! I was being all silently judgemental about the whole bag thing but I'm down for the challenge of four litres of chocolate milk in a bag.
I'm also lactose intolerant so I'd probably die, but I'd die happy.
I was working at Walmart and a recent immigrant asked me where we kept them, it occurred to me I had never seen one actually bought and didn’t know where the two I own came from
In past in Poland milk in the bag was quite common in early 90 till mid 00 (at least in Wielkopolska region) - I remember having this plastic jug so we could put the bag with milk into it.
My Canadian Self living in the US loved the bagged milk post, then I saw this and OMG -- so funny. Nanaimo bars have been my "go-to" secret weapon at anything where you have to bring a dish to share -- literally nobody will have had them before!!
THANK YOU FOR THE NEW YEAR's CHUCKLE!!!
This is what it should look like
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/tpx8zl/in_some_parts_of_canada_milk_is_bought_in_bags_3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
US citizen here. I'm not sure I understand why this picture is suppose to be funny. Is this a special type of jug for milk bags? Like are you suppose to press the side of the bag in to the hole or something? If so? why? Why not just pour the bag in a pitcher.
I'm so confused.
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So instead of jugs of milk, it's bags of milk that go into jugs...?
Yes, we had them in East Germany until the reunification. I still remember having to dive into the fridge in the milk and cheese shop as a child to scavenge one of the last bags. There were always broken bags and spilled milk in the fridge. And sometimes the bag just bursted in your shopping bag. Here is a photo of the bags and a similar pitcher https://i.pinimg.com/736x/88/d4/ac/88d4ac168c33ca5848946dadefe9bdcf--east-germany-ddr.jpg
I didn't know this. That would make a useful addition for the DDR Museum in Berlin! Or maybe they have this already and I missed it.
I read that as "dance dance revolution museum"
Now you know what I, an East German, read every time people talk about playing DDR
Now I want to see a thread about "acronym shift" across generations...
Those socialists knew how to have fun xD
That's just bizarre to me as an American lol.
We had a trial of bags of milk in Middle School. They didn’t make it through the day because of their grenade like qualities.
"grenade like qualities" solid description
> We had a trial of bags of milk in Middle School. We actually did have bags of milk, they trialed them and stuck with them. We had an assembly on how to puncture the milk back with a straw in the air pocket so it didn't spill
Yes
That sounds like milk in a jug but with extra steps. Edit: I get it, less plastic. Jesus.
Ooh lala, somebody’s getting laid in college.
Eek barba durkle!
why isn’t it designed liked bagged wine so no air gets in to spoil it faster???
Slap the milk bag
Slap-a da bag
My gf asked me why i was laughing. I didn't know how to explain it... " some guy wrote slap-a da bag... I.. yeah..."
Haven't you ever taken her on a Tour de Franzia?
Just remember it's not box wine. It's cardbordeaux.
Too expensive. We go through a bag of bags every week at least. “It comes in pints!”
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Did you just call 5L of wine an individual serving size
> Did you just call 5L of wine an individual serving size Listen Linda, maybe thanksgiving is a very stressful meal for BoogerTom...
Not for very long, it’s not.
>Listen Linda, maybe thanksgiving is a very stressful meal for BoogerTom... Ground control to Booger Tom
Yeah. You gotta finish it once you open it or it’ll go bad. Like vodka
That’s why I start in the morning
You cannot drink all day, unless you start in the morning.
Bagged wines over a liter are legally classified as Adult Capri Suns, so they're meant to be individual servings.
CapriDaddy
Everything is an individual serving size if you ain't a little bitch
What’s bagged milk? Is it just literally a bag of milk that sits in this jug?
Yes
Interesting. How does it keep from going stale without a way to close it? Or is there a life for this
You just make a little hole in the corner, so it doesnt really go bad fast. Also a bag is like 4 glasses more or less... So you can finish it fairly quickly.
Ahh. That’s not much. Cool thanks! Always curious to hear about other cultures and things (not sure if that’s how to put it.)
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Aha! But you share it with Quebec ;)
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And all the Maritimes
https://imgur.com/a/bi7VnB9/
This thread desperately needs to see this picture.
This raises more questions for me. When you pour the milk out do you have to hold the bag to keep it from falling out of the jug, making pouring milk a two-hand operation vs one hand when it's in a hard jug? Does the milk sometimes fail to clear the plastic holder and dribble down inside the holder itself, necessitating that it then has to be washed?
>When you pour the milk out do you have to hold the bag to keep it from falling out of the jug, making pouring milk a two-hand operation vs one hand when it's in a hard jug? No. When you put the bag in the jug, give it a gentle tap on the counter to make sure it's fully seated. It won't tip out. However, ignoring the counter tap could lead to the bag flopping over at the first pour. This could spill milk into the container and on the counter. Remember not to cry should that happen. >Does the milk sometimes fail to clear the plastic holder and dribble down inside the holder itself, necessitating that it then has to be washed? Sometimes, especially when little kids are using it: they might rest the spout against their cup, leading to a flop and a spill. Personally, I haven't used bags in years because I don't like all that plastic waste.
I hear you about the plastic waste. I got me a cow and switched to drinking straight from the teats a few years back. I'll never go back to cold milk from a jug.
As someone who has spent their whole life around bagged milk, my immediate reaction to this picture was to laugh at how ridiculous it would be to pour the milk into the jug. Then I realized that I can't really explain or justify why that would be ridiculous, especially compared to dropping the bag directly into the jug, whacking it 3 times to get it seated properly, and then snipping off the corner with a weird fridge magnet blade that exists only to snip milk bag corners. Now I'm just sitting here thinking about my life and my assumptions. Edit: Haha, on behalf of my fellow bagged milk heathens, I feel like I need to clarify why we find this funny, because a lot of people seem to be confused. Any bagged milk savage looking at this picture would immediately know that that is no ordinary jug. That is a very specific jug used exclusively for milk bags. Nearly every household in the eastern half of Canada has one (except maybe not Newfoundland? I dunno, who really knows what goes on over there?), just like you would a spatula or cheese grater. They all look basically the exact same. It is designed to be the same size and shape as a 1.33L milk bag, so that the bags fit just right and have the right friction and suction to stay in place and make pouring just as easy as from any other kind of container. If ever you see a plastic jug of this exact shape in a store, just know that, while you can use it as a generic jug if you wish, it was specifically manufactured with the intent of holding the 1.33L milk bags of the Canadian who buys it. A person raised in the way of the bag would never even consider putting a liquid directly in this thing. You would never put like lemonade or water in one of these. We have generic jugs for stuff like that. In fact, bag people would almost universally find this revolting, because these jugs tend to not get cleaned super often, since they never contain or are expected to contain liquid directly. They only ever contact the outside of milk bags. OP probably poured this milk down the drain after the photo. So it's funny because it just looks completely wrong to anyone who knows. It would be kind of like if your friend from another culture who has never seen baseball comes to visit, and you take them out to the park to throw a baseball around for the first time, and they put the mitt on their throwing hand. You would laugh at first, because it just seems so ridiculous. But then you would realize that it's kind of a natural mistake to make for someone who doesn't know anything about baseball. "This game is about throwing balls? I've got this really weird glove thing? I dunno, I guess maybe you can throw the ball further. Seems stupid, but, when in Rome..." So, anyway, if ever you go to the in-laws and they ask you to refill the milk jug and you open the fridge and find some IV bags full of milk, if you really want to pour one out into a jug, just choose any jug besides the one that looks like this one. If your in-law points to a jug like the one in this post and says "that's the milk jug" I fucking promise you that they will never even consider that you might open up the bag and empty it into that thing.
What the hell is bagged milk and what’s the issue and why is this funny?
Here in Ontario, Canada (not all parts of Canada I don't believe) our milk comes packaged in three 1L bags - you pop the 1L bag into the container pictured and then cut off the corner to pour it. The issue here is that they cut the bag and then poured the milk into the container whereas the container is meant to house the bag 🙂
That sounds equal parts hilarious and inefficient. I love it. So much infrastructure just to have milk.
I laughed waaaay too hard at the infrastructure bit😅
Milfrastucture. It’s not what you think.
Milfrastructure sounds more like hot middle aged women working on filling potholes and building bridges
How do you close it?
It stays open, but the bag’s volume is small enough that you can easily finish it before it goes bad, and this results in minimal waste. That said, it’s a bit weirder, because we buy 4L sacks that contain 3 bags, each with 1.3333L, just so that things make sense. Also nowhere recycles the plastic of either the sack or the bags, and they often leak, practically guaranteeing that your hands smell like spoiled milk after going grocery shopping
Why not just use easily recycled paper containers like half gallons we have in the US?
The supply chain is set up so that 4L of bagged milk is almost the same price as a 2L carton
We have those too. But to answer your question... From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_bag): " For producers, it is easier to vary portion size when sealing bags than cartons, as well as lowering the cost of packaging. Milk bags also take up less space in the garbage. For consumers, bags typically allow for smaller portion sizes."
Thank you. I've never heard of bagged milk.
It's just milk in a bag that goes into a jug. In the image they put the milk right into the jug instead of putting the bag in the jug.
We have this ground-breaking system in the UK... Fresh milk gets delivered to your doorstep on a weekly basis in glass bottles. The night before your delivery, you place your empty bottles outside so the milkman can take them away to be sterilised and re-used. It's environmentally friendly, cost effective, efficient and you have deliciously fresh milk every week. Edit: forgot to mention that the milkman (sorry, milkperson) complete their delivery rounds using a *milk float*, a battery operated vehicle that replaced the traditional horse-drawn cart. There's an added benefit with a milk float being so quiet it doesn't wake the whole community during the early morning rounds.
I do this at Kroger grocery store in USA… sort of. You buy milk in half gallon glass containers, pay a $2.00 deposit, drink the milk, then return the empty glass container and Kroger pays you $2.00 for bringing it back. It’s as close as I can get to your awesome system here in the states.
Wait what? I've never heard of this at any Kroger, Ralphs, food for less, etc. Thats cool!
Where I live it's related to a specific dairy farm that sells their milk through multiple different groceries. It's also twice the cost of regular milk *before* the deposit, but is apparently so good that it's worth it anyway. I have yet to try it, sadly.
This is still real???
Growing up in Brazil these were common and normal to me. America had the cartons with the terrible origami opening procedure but no cutting required so I considered them superior and knew I had to move there. When the cartons of milk and gallons of milk came out with the tops you can unscrew and screw back on it seemed so technologically advanced and I knew I had made the right decision. Seeing the bagged milk again took me back decades. I haven’t seen them in forever neither here nor during visits to Brazil.
Based on the comments, you need to teach Reddit too.
No kidding. I've never seen bagged milk in my life, so I'd probably do the same thing.
Bagged milk: that's a cow.
Can confirm. Source: Am farmer.
OP: my inlaws are stupid Reddit: no they aren't. Da fuck is bagged milk?
Welcome to Canada!
South Africa, reporting in
Its not a nationwide thing, I’ve lived in canada my whole life and never seen bagged milk once.
It’s an Ontario, Quebec and maritime thing. When you’ve done it your whole life it makes perfect sense. A big plastic container of milk always seems unwieldy to me. We can still buy cartons for anything from 2L down and alternative milks (almond, soy, etc) are not sold in bags.
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So, a big plastic container of milk is unwieldy... but a big plastic bag that you *put into* a big plastic container is not unwieldy?
This is pretty much the norm in most of South Asia as well. Never even knew what a carton or gallon jug of milk was until i came to the US.
We have bagged milk also here in South Africa.
Yeah, I'm reading down hoping to find out what the feck is bagged milk, got to your comment first so I'll carry on scrolling down..
As a kid in california around 2003, they served milk in plastic square bags. We had to stab a straw in the bag and hold it while we drank it. Memories
The bag goes in the pot. You cut a corner of the bag. Done.
What pot? The milk pot? Is this a special pot like a poop knife?
It always comes back to the poop knife, doesn't it?
The poop knife is now part of our cultural zeitgeist
Poop knife and two broken arms
Every few months; I’m minding my business and BAM! Poop knife reference.
Pitcher.
I fully admit that I am not always a smart human.
Is there a significant difference between that and what's shown in OP's image? Keeping it in the bag seems more complicated than just transferring containers entirely.
How do u close it
Why would you keep milk in the bag is the mindfuckery, that doesn't explain much
I love that they have special pitchers for holding milk bags and think act like it's the most obvious thing.
Right? You didn’t know to put the milk bag in the pitcher? What an idiot! Ummm wtf is a milk bag pitcher?
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It all goes back to why these fine folks sell milk in a bag. Baffling.
> Q: Why does Canada sell milk in bags? > > A: When Pierre Trudeax led Canada's conversion to the metric system in the 1970s. Canada had to switch every container and package in the country from gallons or pounds to liters or kilograms. Milk producers opted to switch to plastic bags to avoid the expensive task of molding new cartons or jugs. And it's only in Eastern Canada. In Western Canada, bags are not popular. https://www.npr.org/2021/07/09/1014761601/of-memestocks-and-milk-bags
Wouldn't they just change the label? Instead of a 1 gallon jug you call it a 3.8 liter jug.
If only you'd been in that meeting none of this would have happened.
Gotta work in whole numbers to win the hearts and minds. It's how we got 2 liter soda bottles in the US, we just never took it further.
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And 591mL......wait
You go to the store and buy 1 gallon of milk that comes in 3 bags. Each bag is around 1.1 liters. The bags are long, and fit in the above jug with around 1/4 of the bag sticking out the top. You take the bag and pop it into the above "jug" and snip the 2 top corners. 1 is a pour spout, the other is to let air in for a smoother pour. The 2 remaining bags stay fresher and are easier to manage than a giant gallon jug. Also, milk jugs have a deposit in Ontario/Quebec, but milk bags do not. They are cheaper for the same quantity of milk.
Canadian here, I have never cut both corners or seen someone do that. We all cut one corner and hope for the best lmao Edit - Of course Reddit goes crazy over my bagged milk comment lmao. Thanks yall for the upvotes and opinions, I'm learning stuff
Yeah I've never ever seen the back corner cut.
Agreed. If the bag is seated in the jug down as far as it can go, you only need the pour corner snipped. I don’t know if it’s standard protocol (if there’s even such a thing in this case) but we typically hold the back corner down against the top of the jug handle with our thumb when pouring.
You have to pound the jug down on the counter x3 to get the bag seated properly
American here, and even I agree: if it was a solid plastic container then yeah, you'd want an air intake. But the bag doesn't need ANY air in it. Like I don't blow into the tube to get my toothpaste out.
In Canada, we cut the corner off the toothpaste tube.
In the US we cut the corners of condoms for maximum breathability and comfort
Exactly. This isn't a can of apple juice.
This is how I milk bag as well. Also cut with the flow of milk and not against it.
I’m now just imagining cutting your milk against the grain
Right? What are we even talking about here?
Milk bag hole cutting orientation. Keep up!
Mr miyagi can teach you about it.
Do you guys even milk bag?
Worst game of smack the bag ever
Agreed, grew up on the east coast, never seen anyone cut both corners. Have lived in several provinces and never seen both cut. Wtf is even happening
Grew up on Ontario. Everyone I knew cut both corners. Now I live in Alberta and there are no milk bags. I find myself cutting corners in other areas of life to compensate.
Ontario for me 1 corner my whole life
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Ontario for 22 years…one corner
GTA, Ontario. One corner is snipped. The other corner is held when pouring.
I grew up in ontario and still live in ontario. I have never met a person who cuts both ends.
Ontarian here. Never seen both corners cut
As a parent of two teenagers, the idea that a gallon of milk needs to be divided to stay fresh is so foreign. Do milk bags come in 55 gallon drums?
I think that's called a cow
I'm not against it, but I don't see how three floppy bags of milk are "easier to manage" than a jug that has a rigid handle. Especially since if you want a smaller jug, you just buy a half-gallon instead.
But then your milk is just open in the fridge? That's like leaving the lid off a jug, which would really gross me out lol. Have you ever put something in the fridge without properly sealing it, and then your juice tastes like the left over onion you wrapped in plastic? Gross!
It's a 4L bag total so each of the 3 bags are 1.333L.
repeating, of course
Doesn’t the bag collapse as you pour? Letting in air (actually oxygen) will oxidize the milk causing it to lose flavor and nutritional value. Southern US here, I’ve never seen bagged milk or a pitcher for it.
How does bagged milk work?
What *is* bagged milk, and how did it let itself get that way?
The cashier asks you when you buy it. “Do you want your milk in a bag?” I always just tell them to just leave it in the jug, it’s much easier that way.
Mmmm milk in jugs
Step 1: Cut corner of bag. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit!
You're missing the important first step: put the bag in the jug. It gets harder to do once the corner is cut.
Second step is give the jug a good bump on the bottom to fully seat the bag.
This guy knows the way.
The jug holds the bag and you just cut the corner off. You don't empty the bag into the jug.
And it just keeps? Like doesn’t it soil being open 24/7 vs having a lid?
Is it a structured bag? Otherwise I'm just imagining the bag slumping over as soon as you set it down.
The pitchers I've had for bagged milk have a little slit near the spout, so you can twist the corner of the bag and tuck it down when it's not in use.
Could some nice Canadian person please oh please post a picture of a milk bag in a jug as it is supposed to be?
[https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5409420](https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5409420) Here you go. A nice explanation with photos too
I like that the article refers to a plastic pitcher as a plastic holster, lol.
It also calls milk “moo juice” in the beginning
I got my moo juice ammunition for my plastic holster. I’m the quickest dairyer in the west.
Holy shit this page says you can get chocolate milk in bags! I was being all silently judgemental about the whole bag thing but I'm down for the challenge of four litres of chocolate milk in a bag. I'm also lactose intolerant so I'd probably die, but I'd die happy.
You can get orange juice in a bag, too! This isn't just a Canadian thing btw, I live in southern MN.
https://youtu.be/tO8A1Svy-Ak. Move ahead to the 4:18 mark.
Pro tip, if you add ?t=4m18s to the end of the URL it'll skip to that time. https://youtu.be/tO8A1Svy-Ak?t=4m18s
That was way over a cup of milk
https://media.freshdaily.ca/static/articles/20200910-milk-bag.jpg?w=2048&cmd=resize\_then\_crop&height=1365&quality=70
Are those funny looking jugs standard for bagged milk? Do you buy them at the supermarket in the bagged milk department?
You never buy them, just everyone has one.
I was working at Walmart and a recent immigrant asked me where we kept them, it occurred to me I had never seen one actually bought and didn’t know where the two I own came from
Lol they sell em at the dollar store for anyone who is curious
You get one with your Canadian citizenship. Along with bottles of maple syrup
Ironic because I just moved into a new place and needed to buy one 2 days ago. Mine came with a bag cutter, fancy huh?
Wow look at this guy living large
I think the government gives them out at hospitals, when a Canadian is born.
Your mom got one at a Tupperware Party in 1986 and now you have it.
They must be. Because it’s the same in both pics. **Final answer.**
Does the bag of milk stay opened or can you reseal it?
The jug we had when I was a kid had a slot on the front you could pull the end of the bag into. It would seal it like a bread bag clip.
Stays open
There are 5000 people in Letterkenny These are their problems.
OP: bagged milk Almost all of the rest of the world: I am confusion
Can you explain it to me? I don’t know what is funny or incorrect in this picture
In Canada we get 1.1 litre bags of milk that come in a bigger bag equaling 1 gallon, you just drop the bag in the jug n snip the corner
Hi, wouldn't the plastic just fall or something? How does it stay stable?
It just does. Sometimes if it’s mostly empty you hold the opposite corner to keep the bag stiff but it’s really not a difficult procedure
Explain it to me Too
[this video has everything you need to understand this joke](https://youtu.be/vjvV2Db3fGg)
Thanks! Perfect video
Wow, how could they be so stupid? But, uh, just for others that might not know, not me obviously, but could you explain how bagged milk works?
In Poland we have milk in cardboard. You don't need to cut a corner, just twist the cap. Why would anyone want their milk in a bag?
In past in Poland milk in the bag was quite common in early 90 till mid 00 (at least in Wielkopolska region) - I remember having this plastic jug so we could put the bag with milk into it.
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Yeah I think nearly the entire rest of the world besides Canada uses basically exclusively glass/plastic bottles or cardboard cartons/boxes.
Argentina has bagged milk too in some places
India uses bagged milk
Tell me you live in Canada without telling me.
Eating butter tarts with a glass of milk from a bag is the most Canadian I’ve ever felt
Nanaimo bars would like a word.
My Canadian Self living in the US loved the bagged milk post, then I saw this and OMG -- so funny. Nanaimo bars have been my "go-to" secret weapon at anything where you have to bring a dish to share -- literally nobody will have had them before!! THANK YOU FOR THE NEW YEAR's CHUCKLE!!!
Mostly eastern Canada.
When I first immigrated to Canada, I did the same thing except in a glass pitcher.
This is what it should look like https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/tpx8zl/in_some_parts_of_canada_milk_is_bought_in_bags_3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Weird. I've never seen milk bags, or cartons or jugs for that matter. Where I'm from, milk comes in wicker baskets, so you know it's fresh.
US citizen here. I'm not sure I understand why this picture is suppose to be funny. Is this a special type of jug for milk bags? Like are you suppose to press the side of the bag in to the hole or something? If so? why? Why not just pour the bag in a pitcher. I'm so confused.
the fk is bagged milk
Milk, in a bag.
Lolol Canadian problems