I just discovered that people in Canada get their milk in bags. I’ve never heard of that here in the U.S.. We get out milk in gallon jugs. It’s also available in half-gallon, quart, pint and half-pint cartons. Some varieties are in bottles but that is not as prevalent as the carton.
Where are you from and what kind of containers does your milk come in?
You know oddly enough I don’t see this as weird. I grew up in a small town in the panhandle Texas. When I was in elementary and middle school we got our milk in the small pint cartons. However, once I started Jr. High and High School (1998-2004), the pint cartons were done away with and Borden Pint “Bags” were introduced. Just a square clear bag full of milk with a small straw attached. You just stabbed the bag anywhere with the straw to drink it (similar to Capr-Sun).
Back woods Tennessee,,from Bessie’s udders.
Just kidding, from gallon jugs.
I have never seen milk-bags in Vancouver. Canada is a big country though.
I’m not sure bags are used across Canada. They are in Ontario, but I grew up in Saskatchewan, where milk was generally only available in cartons, not jugs or bags. That may have changed since I left, but I remember when I first moved to Ontario thinking it was so inconvenient to have to keep a pair of scissors handy in order to cut open the milk bag.
shes hot,love the ad for breast pumps too funny
In the Minneapolis area and some parts of Wisconsin, we have Kwik Trip convenience stores. They offer milk in bags and that’s what we buy. They work great.
Tehobu what part of TN are you from? I was born and raised in Knoxville.
THANKS for this one Jon! I had never heard of such a thing
We usually get them in plastic bottles (for all my child hood tho, we got them in glass pint bottles), but you can buy the bags some places here. I think they’re more for camping or something in this country tho – or maybe for bulk buying at cafeterias and what not
In California years ago we bought milk-in-a-bag-in-a-box like the wine system.
Some had a screw on lid that we replaced with a valve that we washed between uses, some had a built-in valve that was discarded with the bag and box.
In parts of British Columbia, The Northwest Territories, and Alaska we bought milk in boxes that didn’t need to be refrigerated until it was opened (“UHT”? “Shelf stable”? I forget what it was called).
Here (east-central Nebraska) we get most of our milk in cardboard cartons, occasionally in glass bottles.
I fibbed–on second thought,a lot of our milk comes in plastic bottles.
My sister-in-law in Ottawa Ontario used to have easy to handle jugs but now she has the large sized milk-bags.
I’m udderly surprised that you were handling your sister-in-laws jugs.
ditto with some guy…i grew up in wisconsin and for a while my parents got the milk in a bag from kwik trip, thou i think that’s the only place i ever saw it in a bag. i live in florida now and all i see are jugs or cartons.
There’s a lot less waste with plastic bags in comparison to plastic jugs but I live in B.C., Canada and haven’t seen a milk bag in years. I buy the plastic jugs.
in greece we have cartons of half, one, one and a half, and two litres
you can rarely find milk in plastic or glass bottles of one litre
I discovered this about 10 years ago when I was visiting my then-girlfriend(now spouse) who was working in Toronto (we’re in FL). I went to the store to get some cereal & milk, and was surprised to see the milk in bags!!! i thought it was the funniest thing!
BTW – the milk was horrible, so needless to say NO CEREAL FOR ME during my stay.
Here in Hungary we have bags just like in the video (well, they are actually not transparent, but white plastic bags with markings and brand logos on them), quite stupid and wasteful, if you ask me:)
Milk cartons are pretty popular too, I’d say they have slowly became the most popular option over the last 10 years or so. You can find rare varieties in jugs too, but almost none in (glass) bottles.
oh, and pretty much all varieties are 1 or 1.5 liters in volume.
We have them here in the UK, too, but to my knowledge it’s only one supermarket that stocks them.
Bella,
Funny, I’ve always thought the plastic bags were wasteful but if you are buying anything more than a two-litre carton, they are the only game in town. 20 years ago we used to buy the 4-litre plastic jugs from Becker’s convenience stores (now owned by Mac’s) and they would recycle them once empty.
I will say the milk-in-bag system is a lot easier for little kids to handle.
Romania …. plastic bag
carton box
plastic bottle ….. glass bottle…. etc…..
WMM, it’s embarrassing enough to state that I’m from Tn.,even though I got my education(what little I have) in Germany. Don’t make me tell where. But it is west of Nashville, so pretty far from Knoxville.
We have milk that comes in bags in Serbia, where I live, but nowadays cartons are more common, although milk in bags is cheaper. When I think of it, 538 said it quite nicely, it is the same here, packs of 1 and 1,5 liters. No glass bottles or plastic jugs though. It was interesting to me that people buy special items to store their milk in – here, we just put it in a cooking pot or something like that.
Here in Northeastern, PA (the Back Mountain area to be exact), there is a family run farm store that sells milk in bags and glass bottles. They process and sell milk from their own cows. They also make and sell their own soft and hard ice cream. Best place in the Wyoming Valley. People of my generation have never tasted milk this fresh. It’s so good. Sometimes we splurge and get a half gallon glass bottle of their chocolate milk. It is the thickest, creamiest chocolate milk and makes delicious hot chocolate. Their milkshakes are to die for too – they use their own milk and ice cream.
If you’re ever in the Wyoming Valley, take a trip to Hillside Farms Dairy store. You’ll thank me.
Milk has been available in bags for quite a while in Ontario – certainly when I was a teenager many moons ago. However, milk packaged in bags is sold 3 (1.33litre) bags bundled together into a larger bag and sold as 4 litres. Generally anything less than that will be sold in 2litre, 1litre, half litre etc cartons. For a while in the 1990s you could purchase milk in Victoria in glass bottles.
Infidel likes 10 gallon plastic jugs. But I wonder what he gets his milk in?
Chile.
Bags
boxes (tetra packs)
I’m embarrased to ask this, but, am I the only one that watched this whole thing with this young lady expecting (hoping) it would kind of take a different angle?
Kwik Trip in my town sells milk in half gallon bags along with milk in gallon jugs. But that is in Wisconsin.
I think bags are an Ontario thing, my parents used to get milk in bags when I was a kid but I haven’t seen bagged milk in BC. I get milk in re-usable glass bottles these days.
BTW, the milk bags make great freezer bags for the frugal.
I wonder what two milk bags smashed together with a hot dog in-between would look like.
In Northern Ireland it came in glass bottles, until very recently… now it comes in plastic coated cartons you can’t recycle. Oh also, it comes from a milkman! In shops you buy it in cartons or plastic bottles.
Wifemotherme – Keep an eye out for Revrick. He lives in Knoxville.
I believe the Rev lives in Nashville.
Nope, Richard, Nashville area for me.
Well, I am from Costa Rica.
When I was a kid (20 years ago), all the milk was sold in 1 liter (about a quarter) plastic bags similar to those in the video. About 15 years ago, Borden introduced a tall cardboard box. It was rapidly replaced by the Tetra-Brick box, just like this one
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vilynk/307974016/
However, in the last 2 years, it has become common to see milk in bags once again, sold at a lower price.
Found another picture:
I used to buy milk in bags when I lived in the Canadian prairie provinces years ago, but have not seen milk sold that way since moving away to BC in the early 90’s. Too bad though, they were easier for kids to handle (just put the bag in the little jug, cut the corner off, and pour), milk stayed fresher (smaller quantity opened at a time), and these days, would be much less plastic to recycle than the 4 litre plastic jugs. Apparently, you could freeze them too, but I never tried that.
In Italy we’ve got plastic bottles of a liter and tetrapak boxes of one liter and half a liter.
they sell them in NZ too. milk bags are often used by cafes and restaurants; they snip the top, put the bag in a sturdy container and pour.
sometimes, you can find them in shops.
From Estonia. And one liter milk bags are most popular, like here http://www.tere.eu/products/tooted/piim
But also cartons, 1 liter and 1/2 liter
Bags are bit cheaper
Estonian designers lately game up with this
Wonderful item produced in millions by Soviet Union, and still produced in my hometown Tartu.
Oh, and she is doing it wrong. The milk comes out better if you cut both corners
Switzerland. Milk is available in bags, cartons, and plastic bottles. There is even a milk vending machine in front of a farm close to where I live, that dispenses milk into a paper cup.
I have never seen them (US, many places). Well, the cafeteria at college had large milk dispensers that used bags, several gallons each, with an integral spout, that fit into dispensers.
My real question is “how do you seal the durn things?” if left open, the milk would surely pick up smells from the other foods, and I would think not last as long. That bowl of. . . I don’t remember what. . . in my fridge surely flavors everything.
Here in the UK we have glass bottles, but only if your milk is delivered by the milkman. Otherwise it is 2, 4 & 6 litre plastic bottles for fresh milk and tetrapak cartons for long-life, UHT milk.
And all of it sold at a price which is less than it costs the farmer to produce. Soon, all our milk will be coming from Europe. Not good, I tells ya.
Have a local dairy in NE KS that produces and bottles their own Thats what I get and it comes in half gallon bottles.
Colombia.
Bags, cartons and jugs are equally available. I think bags are cheaper.
I live near Montreal, Quebec. Here we can get milk in bags. I know the 2% milk in the bags is the most popular way to buy milk here.
There are 3 smaller bags (1.33 L. each.) kept together inside a bigger bag. 3 X 1.33 L. = 4 L. (A bit over 1
US Gallon)
I usually buy a lot of milk since there are 4 people in our house and we eat a lot of yogurt too (we make it ourselves using the milk so that’s why we need a lot,
usually 6 L. per week is enough.)
A typical week I would get one bag of milk, 4 L. and 1 carton of milk, 2 L. The milk in the bags costs a bit less per L. than the milk in the cartons but the milk
in the cartons is more convenient when you want to pour it in your coffee for example so that’s why we don’t get all our milk in bags. we pour some of the milk
from the bags into the carton when it’s running low…
We’ve got it all here in Ontario. Bags, cartons, jugs.
More variety than the US!! Guess we’d better milk that one for all it’s worth.
this has been done in Pennsylvania for years at local dairies
We bought milk by the bag when visiting in Montreal. For the uninitiated it was hard to use and it did not keep well. Soured in a couple of days. It also picked up odors from other stuff in the refrigerator.
I am from Wisconsin, and yeah Kwik Trip sells milk in half gallon bags, you need a pitcher to serve it, but they have those for cheap if not free. The milk, in my opinion tastes way better than anything from a carton or jug.