To all you USA'ers...

lilleah · Jul 8, 2006

Originally Posted by MikeAnderson

Well now that you mention it... that lady next door got pregnant, and she's like 50 or somethin...

K first off..Lilleah no understand this one. Someone please help.

Second, Bagged mile does freak me out. I seen it once at a travelers gas station, and i was like "what the heck is that?" It's very strange.

Liquid, in a bag! what do you put it in after you open it? Do you spill milk all the time? Does it cost less than milk in a carton?

scamperfarms · Jul 8, 2006

we had it at camp when i was growing up. they dont now they get cartons. but it tasted the same to me, and they still have the pitchers with the slit in it for the bag and the kids now dont understand that lol

commonoddity042 · Jul 8, 2006

Originally Posted by ButterflyDream

Absolutely and 100% agreed with you on that one....

Powdered milk is by far the most disgusting concoction I have ever had to drink.

My mother purchased it once when we didn't have money for 'real' milk. I about lost my cookies.

Powdered anything which is naturally a liquid is usually disgusting.

catloverin_ks · Jul 8, 2006

LOL-never heard of bagged milk. I dont drink milk either, so I guess it wouldnt bother me if I did see it.

catkiki · Jul 9, 2006

I have never seen bagged milk. Powdered milk is yucky. I have seen milk that you didn't have to refridgerate until you opened it. I was too chicken to try it and gave it and some powdered milk I was given to the foodbank.

fwan · Jul 9, 2006

never seen milk in a bag either.

and neither have i seen powdered milk unless its for babies!

gemlady · Jul 9, 2006

We had it here at a grocery back in the late 80s. Once you made the initial investment in the plastic pitcher with the slit, the bagged milk was cheaper than what came in cartons or plastic jugs.

Down side was that there were no plastic rings for the kitties to play with!

jdpesz · Jul 9, 2006

I would guess that the chief benefit of milk in a bag would be that the bag takes up less room in the recycle bin.
I can't say that I've ever seen bagged milk before. And I've been to Canada.

lucat · Jul 9, 2006

gemlady said:
We had it here at a grocery back in the late 80s. Once you made the initial investment in the plastic pitcher with the slit, the bagged milk was cheaper than what came in cartons or plastic jugs.

We had it here in NY about same time -then it disappeared-figured it was a product trial-Guess it didn't make the grade for being on the market

sailfish · Jul 9, 2006

Milk in a bag? I'm actually offended! What a mess that must be. Can't imagine getting up in the morning seeing that the bag fell over and now I'm trying to figure out how to get the milk into my coffee. Is milk in Canada more expensive than here in the US? Our dairy farms are government subsidised so they can sell milk to poeple that might not be able to afford it. I think this started so the kids wouldn't get rickets. Milk should come in a jug like god meant it to.

h~chan · Jul 9, 2006

Originally Posted by Cougar

Milk in a bag sounds kind of gross...

I was thinking the exact same thing..

jcat · Jul 9, 2006

Germany has had it forever, but it's not all that popular. I've never liked the idea of it, though - if the pitcher you use doesn't have a proper screw-on cap, bacteria probably gets into the milk. We buy our milk in glass bottles that have to be returned to the store, as it cuts down on waste.

zissou'smom · Jul 9, 2006

Eww. I like mine in paper cartons, thank you. Also it seems it would go bad faster like that, in a clear plastic baggy, and that there would be more waste because you know those are more likely to get punctured. Plus, just carrying it would be weird, like a hard water balloon full of cow teat juice.

muttigreemom · Jul 9, 2006

Many moons ago I worked at an espresso bar and they used to have the 5gal bags of milk with what looked like a baby bottle nipple on one end. You'd put the entire bag in this... well I guess it was like a refrigerator that sat on the counter, and the plastic "nipple" part would face downward. Then at the bottom it had a handle so you could just press that down and milk would pour into the cup underneath.

I think I'm making this sound a heck of a lot more complicated than it really was, but it's one of those things you'd have to see to really get

I tried to find a picture of it, but I haven't found one yet.

But yeah, so we do have bagged milk here, but it's probably not something you see on a regular basis unless you work in an espresso bar with one of these machines

leto86 · Jul 9, 2006

Milk in a bag isn't so bad. I prefer it over the cartons or jugs.. those are too heavy to lift if it's full. And it's 4 litres in the bag of milk.. well.. the three bags of milk you get in one bag.. if that makes any sense

Yum!

sailfish · Jul 9, 2006

Cleanup in isle 4! must go on all day.

miss mew · Jul 9, 2006

I didn't know that the US didn't have bagged milk, I thought everyone had it!

muttigreemom · Jul 9, 2006

Ok found a pic!

http://www.abestkitchen.com/store/milk-dispensers.html

The closed part on top is the refrigerated cabinet that holds the bag of milk. The black shelf on the bottom is where you put the cup and then press down on the lever and the milk would pour into the glass. I couldn't find a pic of one with the milk bag actually in it, but this should give you the basic idea

It's kind of like a soda machine, but for milk.

lilo · Jul 9, 2006

Milk in a bag is sold here too.

I did a comparison between milk sold in bags and milk sold in 2 liters carton.

Since the bags are always sold in bags holding 3 smaller bags, of a total of 4 liters. I added the price of 2 cartons for the price of 1 bag.

Bag (4 liters); $4.39
Cartons (2 liters X 2); $5.22

flisssweetpea · Jul 9, 2006

That's a new one on me, we don't have milk in a bag in the UK. It doesn't freak me out at all, if they've got the method of storing it and dispensing it right so that it doesn't go everywhere then a plastic bag is just another container.

I'm not yet convinced that it wouldn't end up all over the kitchen floor though

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