I'm here to tell ya - Tumblr isn't just picture after picture after picture of gorgeous men, sometimes doing unspeakable things to each other (yes it is). Tumblr is also informative! Yesterday I learned from KAYCE'S TUMBLR that some people in Canada buy their milk in bags. BAGS?!?!!!
Why is this??? It seems to me that it's much easier to transport, store and display milk in jugs or cartons - which you simply take home and throw in the fridge. But apparently in Canada you take the bag home, put it in a pitcher thing, and then cut off the corner to serve. I'm just guessing by what I found after a Google Image search.
Is this true?!? Now don't get me wrong - I LOVE my Canadian DustBunnies. All Americans love Canadians. What's not to love?? Canada is like that polite, successful, smart relative that - try as you might - you just can't hate because she's so damn nice and cute and treats you so well. AND she's got your back if shizz gets serious and you gotta fight. Canada is Melanie Hamilton to America's Scarlett O'Hara - and always will be.
So this is like finding out Melanie Hamilton isn't perfect at all! She drinks milk from bags!!! MELANIE HAMILTON IS A BAG-DRINKING MILK FIEND!!!!!!
Sorry, I got carried away. Seriously, I'm curious: could a Canadian DustBunny (or two) 'splain to me about these bags and why Canada doesn't do the whole carton/jug thing??? I'm dying to know...
XOXOXOXOXO
12 comments:
David,
Habits are hard to break. I'm 45 and it's always been this way. They do crumple up real small to take up lots less space in the garbage. That's a good thing. Cartons are available and I've never seen cream or whipping cream in a bag. My mom would throw lots of bags in the deep freeze and my brothers and I would play the blame game when there wasn't enough thawed milk for cereal.
Darren.
How do I break this to you?
David honey they sell milk in bags here too.
Hard as it may be to believe. You really need to get out more.
Bless your heart.
Back in the day (when I lived there) we had good, old fashioned cartons! Now school kids in one of our five districts drink milk out of little milk bags - which I considered a recipe for disaster but have never seen one be exploded.
when i lived in the youth home we had a ginormous milk machine and the milk for it came from the dairy in 5 gallon bags so i guess it's possible they could have smaller home dispensers.
maybe it's a recycling thing?
xxalainaxx
Hilarious!
Allow me to ease your troubled mind. Canadians buy their milk in cartons, too. I, for one, haven't purchased a bag of milk in about 20 years.
The bags come in threes, so it doesn't always take up as much space as three cartons.
Outside of that, I have no idea why they exist. I'm surprised, actually...all that plastic isn't so great for the environment.
Feel a little better?
yes...it's true, our Moo Juice does come in bags but only in some regions.
Our bag sensation is spread around the world though! We are not alone! It's even infected a region of your United States! BAH HA HA HA HA!!
I really have no idea why it's bagged....We aren't suppose to think that way or ask questions about it here!!! Your website has probably been red flagged now here in Canuck land and you're being watched by undercover moose....
you can watch this...
Ode to Canadian Milk Bags
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_ohpnlOWME
LOLLLLL ~ the melanie/scarlett comparison is probably the best i've ever heard.
in re: the milk bags, the only thing i can guess is that it's more easily recycled while also keeping the milk fresh. b/c the wax-coated cardboard is actually best b/c it blocks light, you can't recycle those. and the plastic jugs are cool, but contain more plastic than a bag. these are just my hypotheses, formed after i found out it's actually true LOL. god, i love 30 rock.
Now you know Mame I don't know my way around a pair of milk bags!!! I don't think I could get use to this. Maybe it has to do with the enviroment? And bsides, I hear way back in your day, they delivered it in beautiful, shiny glass bottles? And I just adore Canada! I could live there in a minute.
Love you. Love your milk bags!
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOX
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I buy my milk in glass bottles and I am Canadian..lol..bags are so 20 years ago ;-) Now should I tell you in some parts milk is still delivered!!
David don't look into the chocolate bar situation as we have some wicked one's up here that you don't ;-)
This was funny AND informative! (And Alec Baldwin needs to run for President.) XOXO
I have never, ever heard of bags of milk and have never seen any here in the US. Very interesting. I hate milk anyway and only buy it for grandchildren and/or banana pudding.
LOVE THIS: "Canada is Melanie Hamilton to America's Scarlett O'Hara - and always will be." Genius!!
When we were in about the 4th grade, the school cafeterias switched from milk cartons to little plastic bags with a pointed straw attached to the outside. You pulled the straw off, put your thumb over the top, and with just the right pressure, impaled one side of the bag. Too little pressure, and you would open the bag but the straw wouldn't go in. Too much pressure, and you impaled both sides of the bag. Either mistake rendered the bag useless, and you had to go to the teacher to get another one!
I've never seen the family sized ones like you showed in the picture, but they make a shitload of sense, as that bag takes up way less plastic than a milk carton. And as a city dweller, you know that a milk carton in the trash can pretty much means a trip to the sidewalk to take the trash out!
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