In Canada, milk comes in bags.

[Linguofreak]

Neither I. Why not simply pour milk down the jug?

C'mon, you're tricking me!

Nope. That's how they do it in Canada. Sure, it's weird, but it is how they do it.

 

[Notebook]

Does it work with beer?

N.

 

[N_Molson]

Next ... beer in bags ?

:facepalm: :facepalm:

 

[garyw]

UK used to have pint milk-bottles, delivered to your door by yor local friendly milkman in an electric milk-float:

Haven't you seen the new revamped local milkman? They do half your shopping for you. I'm tempted to give it a go.

As a kid I remember the frozen milk bottles on the doorstep with this small frozen stick of milk sticking out of the top. The good ol' days. :lol:

 

[Turbinator]

It's been already done, in China.

In Qingdao, China, brewery workers are partially paid with beer, and they take their kegs to the streets. People like it because of how fresh it is, so it is customary to see people walking the streets with their bags of beer.

Qinqdao is home to China's "largest and most prestigious" brewery, Tsingtao, which was founded by German settlers in 1903. (I think there's a German phrase that goes something like, "Beer. Never leave home without it.") Not only is it China's largest brewery, Tsingtao Lager is China's #1 consumer product exported from China.

 

[Chub777]

Milk and beer in bags. What's next? Petrol in bags?

 

[Turbinator]

They allready have those, they call them Portable Fuel Bladders.

 

[N_Molson]

:facepalm: Heresy !!

I tasted Tsingtao once... Honestly even american beer is better... And that's a pretty low standard...

Let beer to Germany, Belgium, Nederland, North of France, and Ireland.

(+ Quebec, Canada breweries that do excellent work too).

 

[PeterRoss]

Petrol in the bags made of petrol? Why not?

Speaking of Chinese, they're quite known for using poisonous materials for all kinds of plastic products like children toys and, possibly, plastic bags too. It's a bad idea to drink anything from Chinese plastic bags

 

[Chub777]

Petrol in the bags made of petrol? Why not?

Speaking of Chinese, they're quite known for using poisonous materials for all kinds of plastic products like children toys and, possibly, plastic bags too. It's a bad idea to drink anything from Chinese plastic bags

There was also that incident with Chinese milk the other year.

 

[Arthur Dent]

:facepalm: Heresy !!

I tasted Tsingtao once... Honestly even american beer is better... And that's a pretty low standard...

Let beer to Germany, Belgium, Nederland, North of France, and Ireland.

(+ Quebec, Canada breweries that do excellent work too).

Don't forget the Checks! They're the iventors of the Pils Lager beer.

And You can find good beer even in countries with a bad beer reputation, like the US. They have some decent (micro)breweries. It's not all Bud Light over there
Oh, and don't forget the Ales of Brits! They can be good, too
Even Tsingtao beer is okay, when you don't expect a traditional beer taste. It goes very well with asian food

But back to the milk topic:
I hated the orginal tetra packs where you have to rip one corner off (or use scissors), which always caused me to spill some milk. A slightly improvement was a plastic lid that you had to flip open and tear out another lid (which also always caused me to spill some milk).

But recently, at least in Germany, they put screw caps on some tetra packs. This is a huge improvement for me. No more messing around in the kitchen and the fridge!
Canadian Milk Bags are IMHO unpractical (you have to pour them in a jug, which makes storage difficult). American Milk Gallon Jugs are probably to big for my tiny non-US-sized fridge

Tetra Packs and Bottles fit quite well in the side on the standard German fridge. The only problem I have with bottles is, that I don't want to bring the empty bottles to the nearest glass container. It's probably a different think in the UK where the milk man collects the empty bottles.

 

[Hielor]

And I'll stick to jugs. Cardboard cartons pass a really icky taste to the milk. Plus, given that I drink 2 1/2 gallons a week, cartons would go too quickly. (I don't think I've seen cartons bigger than one or two quarts, but the standard jug around here is a gallon).

I don't taste anything wrong with the cartons, and if I used enough milk to justify having a jug I'd do that instead, but it takes me a few weeks to go through a single half-gallon carton.

 

[Artlav]

beer in bags

What if you shake it?
What if you drop it?
Impractical.
Polluting.

 

[agentgonzo]

What if you shake it?
What if you drop it?
Impractical.
Polluting.

It'll get fizzy*
It'll bounce**
But cheaper and more eco-friendly
Less polluting than glass bottles that are used once.


*I'm going to assume that they don't use super fizzy beer for these.
**Some plastic bags are pretty solid. I'm going to assume they aren't stupid enough to use a weak bag that'll burst. I have a camelbak water-bottle/backpack that can hold 3l. Someone was worried that it would burst if I sat on it so I put it on the floor, climbed on a rock and jumped onto it with full force. It didn't burst and is still working fine. They probably won't make these beer bags anywhere near as strong, but plastic bags can be surprrisingly sturdy.

 

[garyw]

I dropped a glass milk bottle once. I was still picking up small pieces of glas a month later. When those things hit the ground they exploded.

Of course, the glass ones were very eco-friendly as they were collected, washed out and reused.

 

[Evil_Onyx]

UK used to have pint milk-bottles, delivered to your door by yor local friendly milkman in an electric milk-float:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mi...oCTGYLOhAejtcVg&ved=0CFUQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=628

Might still in some places, I think most get it now from the supermarket in Litre-multiple plastic bottles.

N.

Sill get mine delivered by milk float. Its very easy on the environment, the bottles get picked up when they deliver, to be refilled.

 

[Ghostrider]

In Soviet Russia, bags come in milk!

In Soviet Russia, milk bags you!

 

[Pyromaniac605]

This thread should be renamed "The x in bags thread." :lol:

So far we've got milk, beer and petrol, I think we're on the way to an all bagged liquids party. :lol:

Edit:

Less polluting than glass bottles that are used once.

Actually, in many countries glass bottles are cleaned (Properly of course) and reused, if not they are usually melted down or broken up and used to make new bottles.

 

[PeterRoss]

Call me when you'll come to LOX/LH in bags, I'll take few.

 

[Jarvitä]

In the Eastern Bloc, milk comes in cans.