A video showing how to properly open milk in a bag has gone viral! Americans – tell us what you think, milk in bags: weird or smart?
In the video, Sheryl Ng lays out a bag of 2%, a jug and a pair of scissors. She runs through the milk drinker’s skillset: the proper triangular cut, the cautious first pour, preventive measures to keep an overfull bag from collapsing. Collectively, the viewing world outside Ontario leaned back in its seat and said, “What the hell is that?”
Apparently not. Ontario, the world has seen your milk drinking habits, and the world now thinks you’re a weirdo. Ng posted her milk-drinking video as a way of illustrating the differences between Canadians and Americans. They drink milk out of jugs. We drink it out of bags. She titled the whimsical instructional, “Milk in bags, eh?”
Bagged milk also hits an impassable imaginary wall at the 49th parallel. Almost uniformly, Americans are jug/carton people. Wisconsinites, people who know something about dairy, buck that trend. Among other forward-thinking nations that have warmed up to the plastic udder — South Africans, Argentines, Hungarians and Chinese. Those latter also bag beer, which means we have some catching up to do. The Soviets used milk bags, though central Europeans rushed to embrace the carton once the Wall came down. For ten shekels, Israelis can buy a Kankomat — a bag-holder that includes its own cutting device.
Source: Copyright 2010 Toronto Star Newspaper, Ltd., Cathal Kelly
3 Comments on “Milk in Bags, Eh?”
Bag milk isn’t as common as it used to be because many locations do not allow non-recyclable packaging like this. If you check the Toronto recycling web site, where the person in the video is from, you’ll find that they do not recycle milk bags.
Bag milk isn’t as common as it used to be because many locations do not allow non-recyclable packaging like this. If you check the Toronto recycling web site, where the person in the video is from, you’ll find that they do not recycle milk bags.
Bag milk isn’t as common as it used to be because many locations do not allow non-recyclable packaging like this. If you check the Toronto recycling web site, where the person in the video is from, you’ll find that they do not recycle milk bags.