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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Poll Milk in a Bag; or Why Canadians are Fucked in the Head

Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:09 AM

WAIT.
Is this some kind of fucking joke? Is this person SERIOUSLY telling me that Canadians drink milk out of a bag?
WHAT... THE... FUCK??
I was mesmerized by this video because I was waiting for the punchline, and yet? THERE ISN'T ONE! This person is thoroughly convinced that Canadians drink milk out of a plastic bag! And I have to admit, she makes a pretty convincing case! But it's not true, right? It can't be! Because if it is... that is so fucked in the head!


Poll time!
What's Your Opinion of Canadians Allegedly Drinking Milk From a Bag?

 

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1
we used to totally drink milk in bags. late 70's in astoria. we did all this - the triangle cut and the milk jug.
Posted by toughwheels on February 2, 2010 at 11:25 AM · Report
2
Well, many of us drank milk from a bag when we were babies.
Posted by Suburban Porn King on February 2, 2010 at 11:26 AM · Report
3
Unfortuantely the video isn't working for me, but I grew up in Canada and yes...milk can be purchased in plastic bags (usually it's 3 bags sold in a big bag). Most every Canadian (when I was a kid anyways) had a hard plastic rectangle receptacle with a handle that the bag went into. Canadians also have the option of buying the carton or containers of milk, but the plastic bags cut down on a lot of waste.
Posted by Jody_pdx on February 2, 2010 at 11:38 AM · Report
4
Those enormous milk dispensers they use in cafeterias use milk in bags. They even have a long plastic teat that they snip the end off and you use for dispensing.
Posted by boyasunder on February 2, 2010 at 11:39 AM · Report
5
First milk bags and now "clothes pegs"?? WTF is happening up there!?
Posted by mtw on February 2, 2010 at 11:41 AM · Report
6
If you're having trouble viewing this totally effed in the head video, here's the link.
http://www.doubleviking.com/videos/page0.h…
Posted by Wm. Steven Humphrey on February 2, 2010 at 11:44 AM · Report
7
Of course any fan of christian Ska rock band Five Iron Frenzy would already know the answer to this question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIrmPEyt0Nc
Posted by Paul Leonard on February 2, 2010 at 11:51 AM · Report
8
totally had those at my high school cafeteria in texas.
Posted by travis on February 2, 2010 at 12:38 PM · Report
9
These milk bags don't even come CLOSE to my favorite milk bags, if you get my drift.
Posted by ujfoyt on February 2, 2010 at 12:45 PM · Report
10
That's awesome. I appreciate that this girl understands this custom is strange enough that she needs to video a detailed explanation of how it works.

Gotta get back to Canada. It's the little differences....
Posted by Blabby on February 2, 2010 at 1:00 PM · Report
11
From my Canadian friend:

"hahahahah. yep! milk in a bag! runner up to the beer store for cool canadian quirky things."
Posted by cloister on February 2, 2010 at 1:03 PM · Report
12
I'd take milk in a bag over the Costco milk jugs. Those stupid things don't pour very well.
Posted by penthesilea on February 2, 2010 at 2:15 PM · Report
13
They sold milk in bags in every store in Portland for a time in the 70's and 80's. It looks like the Canadians bought our old packaging machines.
Posted by Smiley on February 2, 2010 at 2:47 PM · Report
14
I sometimes drink wine out of a bag. The bag sits in a cardboard box, but still, it is just a plastic bag. What is wrong with doing the same thing with milk? The plastic jugs most people use in the US uses a plastic that leaches into the milk when exposed to light and causes cancer, (it makes it taste funny too,) I don't know why we think THAT is a good idea. Milk in cartons is safe, as in wine in a bag in a box.

But like good wine, good milk comes in glass bottles.
Posted by Matthew D on February 2, 2010 at 4:04 PM · Report
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The bags don't pour well and they tend to shift in the pitcher as you are pouring, resulting in a milk tsunami. The pitchers would get nasty if you didn't clean them after each bag. The unopened bags do not stand up in the fridge, so one gallon of bag milk takes up as much space as two or three gallons of jug milk.

Ask anyone over 35 or so, Americans had bag milk. What may have killed bag milk in this country is that the bags are not recycleable.
Posted by Smiley on February 2, 2010 at 4:45 PM · Report
16
What did her shirt say? Canada and underneath 'done'?
Posted by bikefor1 on February 3, 2010 at 10:36 PM · Report

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