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Posted: 11/7/2004, 3:32 pm
by ihatethunderbay
Manitoba doesn't have milk in a bag

?
Posted: 11/7/2004, 6:47 pm
by Sonya
i have never seen milk in a bag outside of South America.

Posted: 11/7/2004, 6:51 pm
by thirdhour
The first day we got to Peru, some guy handed us some coffee in a bag...
(tired me): "SAY WHAT?"

Posted: 11/7/2004, 7:34 pm
by happening fish
It's not a difficult concept, people
You own one of those plastic holder thingies, and you buy 4 bags of milk at a time inside a larger bag. They sit in your fridge until the current bag is empty then you replace it. Snippy snip on corner of the bag and voila, milk. Sounds way more efficient than hauling cartons everywhere. At least in my house, this system pretty much guarantees that we never run out of milk cause if there's only one bag left my mother will pick up another 4-bag.
I've had milk this way my whole life. It comes in every percentage, AND chocolate

Posted: 11/7/2004, 7:36 pm
by Random Name
We still do the carton thing. Though we used to have bags.
Posted: 11/7/2004, 7:36 pm
by Axtech
Sonya wrote:i have never seen milk in a bag outside of South America.

what?
I thought milk in a bag was a phenomenon all across Canada!

Posted: 11/7/2004, 7:37 pm
by thirdhour
seriously, thats common? :O
I have vague memories of something like that when I was a small child, but I always assumed that was powdered milk or something.
I know for certain that you can't buy bags of milk at the store here. We just buy four litre jugs of it.
Posted: 11/7/2004, 7:37 pm
by Axtech
Once you've had milk in a bag, you never go back.
Plus, it's awesome watching confused Americans when they come up!
Posted: 11/7/2004, 7:39 pm
by happening fish
Jugs?

Backwater hicks!
Posted: 11/7/2004, 8:51 pm
by Rusty
Wait wait. I can only get three bags of milk in a large bag at once.

Three is all you need, any more and the milk would spoil. Boy I sure could go for some of that milk in a bag right now. Oh it also improves your manners, you never hear of anyone complaining that someone put their mouth on the bag.

Posted: 11/7/2004, 8:53 pm
by Axtech
Posted: 11/7/2004, 8:55 pm
by nelison
Don't encourage him Rob!
But yes I believe it is only 3 to a bag. It would be cool if they had like "neopolitan" or something where you have one that is regular 2%, one that was chocolate, and the other strawberry.
that would be cool.
Posted: 11/7/2004, 9:14 pm
by beautiful liar
here i haven't found bags of milk yet! stupid calgary. and the jug milk is gross, there are flakes of milk around the rim of the jug where the milk dries in the lid *shudder*
ahhh bagged milk, how i miss thee!
and neopalitan milk?! you're a genius!!
Posted: 11/7/2004, 9:16 pm
by Rusty
J-Neli wrote:Don't incourage him Rob!
I think it's encourage.

Posted: 11/7/2004, 9:29 pm
by Sonya
*sees pictures of milk in bags*
aaaaaah, sweet memories.
Posted: 11/7/2004, 9:52 pm
by joe_canadian
See?
Our cultures are waaay different.
Posted: 11/7/2004, 11:25 pm
by nikki4982
I really wish we'd kept the conversation from the night Nam told us about bagged milk on the hub. Me and Kym FLIPPED out and forced him to take pictures immediately.
This of course, logically, led to Nam smuggling un-refridgerated bagged milk over the Canadian border and to New Jersey... of course!

Posted: 11/8/2004, 12:47 am
by I AM ME
That just blows my mind! There's nothing like that here.
It just seems third world to me.
Posted: 11/8/2004, 12:53 am
by thirdhour
I really think it's an Ontario thing
We had an interesting conversation about it at dinner tonight.
Posted: 11/8/2004, 12:57 am
by I AM ME
Maybe it has to do with Ontario's lack of access to Dairy farms, i get mine in either the standard carton, or the plastic 4 litre jug