Do you guys really not buy your milk in bags?

 Umm, until this post I had no idea that milk was packaged any other way than in a jug or carton!

I'd never heard of milk in bags either. When I lived in Germany, we bought it in smallish cartons and it didn't need to be refrigerated. That was very cool. Here we usually buy it in gallon jugs. When I was young, we had it delivered every morning and it was in glass bottles. That seemed to taste better but maybe it was my imagination.

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......really? Does your milk not come in bags? I mean, I knew there were milk jugs around, and we usually buy cartons ourselves, but do you even have the OPTION of bags?

CBC radio alerted me to this on my lunchtime drive to get food. It appears that milk bags only exist in Ontario and perhaps Nova Scotia?

Strange. Seems a large jug would take up a lot of room in a fridge.

I honestly didn't know there was such a thing until a few months back. I usually just by half a gallon of milk at a time. :P 

lol to me milk has always come in bags hehe but again, I'm in Ontario

I've never seen milk in a bag, but the one gallon containers fit nicely on the rack inside the fridge door.  I keep an open one in the kitchen and the other one in the fridge in the laundry room until we're ready for it. Silly question maybe, but how do you pour milk out of a bag without spilling it all over?

Joyce

the_gopher

 Umm, until this post I had no idea that milk was packaged any other way than in a jug or carton!

Do you pour the bag into some other container when you get it home?  I can imagine having a bag of milk creating a mess if it's not in a good container.

Milk aisle at Meijer (we get the "pink" [1%] one gallon jug)

(not me, I have never had so much as one glass of milk....random Google images pic)

The milk comes in a package of three bags.  Once you get home you take one of the bags and that bag goes into a milk jug, then you cut the corner off the milk bag to pour it.   

Here, some girl made a whole youtube video out of it apparently,  watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTPgd4HUk4w

So your jugs are probably around the same size as the two litre cartons I buy then?  I have seen super huge jugs here, probably four litres or so, that was what I was thinking of.  

OK - I'm forgetting what little metric I know.  Is your litre the same as our quart?  If so, then the one gallon jug would be about four litres, I think. They do look huge, but like I said, they fit quite nicely on the door rack without taking up any space inside the fridge. Since a lot of stores make you buy two gallons to get the lower price, I just look for jugs  that have an expiration date about two weeks away. Now that Super Target has opened here, they don't make you buy two gallons at once so some of  the stores are doing the same.

Joyce

Litre is a bit bigger than a quart Joyce --

Milk in bags?  Hmmm, sounds like an udder solution!! 

(crawl back in your corner, Callie .... )

 OK, that seems like a pain in the butt, and not something we would be likely to put up with here.  Personally, I wish they'd go back to glass (yes, I am very old - but there are still a few dairies that use glass - Caleb's in NH, for one, but it's too far of a ride for me).  No funny taste, recyclable, you didn't have to carry them because in the old days the milkman came to the door and did the swap (my mom used to leave the empties in the back hall), and no chemicals interacting with the milk.

I love bagged milk discussions...we had one here a while back...I think. Maybe that was a real life discussion...no idea. But yes I knew about milkbags...and no I have not ever seen one IRL...not even in Germany...they had everything in TetraPaks there.

American fridgerators...are in general HUGE so I don't see how a jug takes up more room. I have seen some fridges in Home Depot that are walk in closet size...truly. I am always more concerned with freezer space than fridge...ours has plenty of room and is usually not that full!

Callie, that pun was terrible...but I hope you aren't too cowed by my reaction to moo-ve back into the discussion and chew the cud with the rest of us?

 Here you go. This is the bags (3x1 liter), then you have to have the jug to hold the bag.

 That's funny! I've never heard of milk coming in bags. I do agree that it would be nice if they came in glass bottles, though.