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It has come to my attention that not everyone can buy milk in bags. Can you?
Here, as with everywhere in Canada I've lived, milk can be purchased in 1L jugs, 2L jugs, or big bags containing 3-4 1.5L smaller bags that you put in a plastic jug at home.
How does your milk come?
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I've never seen milk in bags except in institutional sizes in military chow halls and schools.
I buy milk in plastic gallon jugs, and occasionally paper half gallon cartons.
Since 1980, I've lived in California, Florida, Illinois, Virginia, Idaho, Tennessee, Washington, New Mexico and Hawaii... none of these states have had milk in bags.
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Here, we buy powdered (the most commonly available form of milk here), and sometimes in the UHT containers. Milk in cardboard containers, plastic jugs, or plastic bags do not exist here.
Edit to add: Pardon me, plastic 1 litre milk jugs are sometimes available. We've bought milk this way a couple of times.
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I remember when I was growing up in B.C. my mom would buy milk in bags. I don't think they are available like that anymore there though and I have never seen it in Edmonton. We just have plastic jugs in 1, 2, and 4 litre sizes and cartons in 250ml, 500ml, 1 litre, and 2 litre sizes.
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While most of America buys in plastic gallon jugs, I like mine in 1 liter parmalat boxes. Just like in brazil. mmmm.
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I buy Garelick Farms milk in plastic containers becasue it has no growth hormones in it. However, I have learned of a guy who delivers milk in bottles, as well as cheese and eggs. I am on it!
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Some people think "so" is no way to start a sentence. Others go out of their way to start sentences with "so" and label them accordingly.
I misspoke when I said "jugs," I actually meant "cartons." Though I have lived in places where you could get plastic jugs in 1L denominations.
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I use to get in the bags, when we lived in MI. Here in MA I can't find it, at least not close by, so we just buy it at the gas station close by.
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Dang it, I just went online to check the delivery place, nd we are not in their delivery area.
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It's pasturized, Kama, just not homogenized. So no tummy problems. But I have pretty close to a cast-iron stomach anyway. I eat all sorts of things that should make me sick. Posts: 7954 | Registered: Mar 2004
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Plastic jugs, non-fat powder (for cooking and baking, mostly; I mix it half and half with whole or 2% to cut costs, or add a Tbsp. or two of the powder to many recipes to add calcium and such), also available in serving-size, cardboard box type containers (but I don't really buy shelf-stable milk much).
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I buy my "milk" in paper cartons, of course my milk has no relation to cows Although there are a few dairy eaters in the family and they get their milk in plastic gallon jugs (you can get them in two-packs at the local CostCo) Bags sound cool but I wonder if the bag or the plastic jug uses less material? (The reusable glass jar beats all, but between those two) Although on second thought we recycle our milk jugs here, and you probably cannot recycle the bags
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I actually wonder sometimes if the energy required to sterilize and reuse my glass bottles is more than the resources used for paper cartons or plastic jugs, and the only reason they do it is for nostalgia value. Hmmmm.
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I buy my milk as Lactaid, too -- I don't notice any taste differenc, honestly, but I guess it has been a while since I've had "real" milk. But my favorite thing about Lactaid is... it doesn't go bad NEARLY as quickly as the real stuff. It lasts for weeks. I guess this isn't an issue if you go through it fast, but I don't.
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Hmm I didn't think much of the sterilization process for the glass but I wonder if that would really tip the scales out of their favor as the plastic jugs not only need manufactured, they are then broken down to form another product (if recycled). Now I'm going to see what I can find about energy use in recycling operations Posts: 29 | Registered: Apr 2005
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Hmmmm. Here's my dairy. I was hoping they'd have some info on it, but doesn't seem like it. *keeps looking*
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Once I was in a small town in the Muskoka region of Ontario with my friend Eric and we passed a store with a big sign above it that said "JUG CITY -- MORE THAN MILK." I snapped a picture of it but somehow mislaid it in the following week.
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Mine comes in boxes because anything bigger than the thin-but-tall box would go off before I use it up!
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Christy and I buy our milk in half-gallon bags from the gas station when we fill up for the week.
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Liter sized boxes that you don't refrigerate until you open. Weirded me out for a while. Or you can get them in plastic bottles and one or two other packages. Bags used to be the norm here, but now they're less common. Still can find them occasionally though. So count me in the "sort of" category.
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Ours comes in plastic bottles; one, two or three litres. We often freeze some cos we live far enough out of town that it's pretty annoying to have to "run to the supermarket" if we run out of milk.
When we used to have a dairy farm we'd get milk straight from the vat, and bought milk tasted thin and weak. Now, of course, farm milk is strong and weird-tasting. Not that I ever drink straight milk. Ew.
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All you can get here is plastic jugs and paper cartons. The cartons keep the milk good about 4 times longer; I have no idea why people keep buying the plastic.
But I'm with O'Douls - I really like the irradiated milk that you don't have to refrigerate. I drank it in Mexico all the time. Something about that Cherrios kind of taste it has is very appealing.
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Didn't we have a thread similar to this between like August and October, about milk in bags, and where it is available that way? Maybe I'm lost in a time warp
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We buy half gallon cardboard cartons of organic TJ's milk; one fat free (hubby and I), one whole (the boys). Olivia gets Soy Dream.
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As far as I'm concerned, jugs are open topped containers, like a beaker in a lab but with a handle. Bottles are, well, bottles. Posts: 1528 | Registered: Nov 2004
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Yeah, jugs are definitely open topped. Bottles and jugs are only similar in that they can both hold liquid and stand upright; to me the names aren't interchangeable at all. Weirdos.
Sarah, yes there was a thread to this last year. I'd never heard of milk coming in plastic bags before then.
Edit: Similar. I think I've caught (the other) Sarah's condition. Must be cos I'm sick...
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Bags. Or cartons. I used to buy it in plastic jugs, but it was generally inferior to the stuff in cartons. It tasted like plastic and didn't keep as long.
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I think we've had a couple of these threads. Until the first one, I had no idea you could buy milk in bags anywhere but Israel.
Here in California, all milk (by law) has vitamins and junk added to it. Much like our gasoline . . . well, ok, that's not vitamins, but both have legally required additives.
Milk is sold in waxed-cardboard cartons ranging in size from one pint to half-gallon, and in plastic jugs that hold a gallon (other sizes of plastic exist but are far rarer). Powdered and UHT are also readily available.
I usually buy the two-gallon pack. Cheapest way to buy it, and we use it fairly quickly.
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I bought milk in a box straight off the shelf when I lived in France. Took a while to get used to it not being refrigerated at the store, but needing refrigeration after I opened it.
Edit: Groshery store. Somehow that just sounds so much more appealing.
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I could just wrestle a cow into submission every morning with my brawny, well-toned arms. Except I don't have brawny, well-toned arms. I do, however, have access to plenty of cows as they wander the streets like cheap whores.
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