Is this How Canadians Drink Milk?

[kertejud2]

Milk in a bag was the biggest culture shock I had in Ontario. Buy a bag, only to cut it open and put it in a jug anyway. Never made sense to me.

Its probably a good thing this didn't catch on though:

[Hakkola]

Yeah, I remember bagged milk, had it all the time in Ontario, also had it in Alberta in the early 90's.

I'm pretty sure I've seen it recently at the Safeway at Glenmore Landing. I'll check again next time I'm there.

[SikAssR1]

^^ hahaha bagged beer?!?!?

[beyond_ban]

^ Nice sig

[core_upt]

Originally posted by cdnsir
They still had them in the early 90s. I remember getting those delivered to the house. It was like a big plastic bag, and inside there would be 3(?) clear bags like that.

Totes. You had a delivery day, and you used to put tokens in the mailbox and they would take your token and leave you milk bags. What an archaic system!

[BlackArcher101]

Yep, used to get the bags until the late 1980's. Then it switched over to the cardboard wax cartons.

[reiRei]

I remember bagged milk!

When I was younger, my parents would walk to the safeway and buy milk in a bag, hook it onto my stroller and walk home. System worked well until the one day they bought a bag of milk for me, and some how it developed a hole on the way home and leaked all over the sidewalk, got home.. and no more milk...

I even remember the pitcher, ours was red lol


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[Shunsui]

Yeah, I lived in Ontario for 11 years and thought Alberta was weird as hell with it's cartons. Now it's vice versa and Ontario is pretty fucked.

edit: our pitcher was red too

[95teetee]

funny-there was a thread recently on FABO (For A-Bodies Only) where a canuck posted a picture including a bag of milk. The yanks loved that one

Originally posted by D'z Nutz
I remember getting our milk like that for a while when I was younger (yes, in Alberta), but I haven't seen bags of milk like that for a looooooong time

this (but I think we were in B.C. when I saw them)

[nonlinear]

wow, i didn't know about milk bags until this thread. crazy. here is a very informative website for you guys: http://home.cogeco.ca/~husky66/Milk/

[Hi-Psi]

haha they've been having this discussion on a few of the forums I'm on.

Back in the day a lot of people used milk in a bag but now it's mostly in the Eastern part of Canada and in small towns.

[SikAssR1]

Originally posted by beyond_ban
^ Nice sig

haha thanks! I thought it was pretty funny even though I drive a toyota that has been part of the recall.

[turbotrip]

milk in a bag blew my mind back when i lived in toronto; was quite pleased to see the jugs/cartons when i moved to calgary tho

[SKR]

In every rig camp I've been in for work there's been bagged milk. Well, it comes in a box, but inside the box there's a bag. It tastes like milk tastes.

[cancer man]

How about wine in a bag!! that one tears me.

[brucebanner]

My mom still uses bag milk, I kind of forgot about it until I was home (NS) at xmas time. Put one bag in the fridge and put the others in the freezer until needed.

[ExtraSlow]

Wine in a bag is gold if you are hiking. The bag weighs almost nothing, and when it's empty, you can inflate it and use it as a pillow.

[mowglee]

Yup thats Ontario style. We went down over the summer for a wedding and stayed at my aunts house and I saw the milk like that. I asked my mom and she told me that they STILL get it there in bags delivered, whereas in Alberta they stopped it many years ago.

But they only get deliveries like once a week or someshit like that and the people we stayed with were to effing cheap to buy some more, so I ended up having to buy my own milk for 2 weeks

[JordanLotoski]

I grew up drinking milk like that, i dont miss is

[szw]

Originally posted by turbotrip
milk in a bag blew my mind back when i lived in toronto; was quite pleased to see the jugs/cartons when i moved to calgary tho

I don't understand why. They also have the jugs and cartons in toronto as well.