Got Milk.

[jhameia]

Now. I grew up with milk powder. That's the sort of stuff where you put the powder into the cup, and add hot water, and ta-da, milk. I know it sounds fucking ghetto to your naive First World ears, but in Malaysia, this is a good thing, because not everyone as refrigerators to store fresh milk in. XP And fresh, cartoned milk tends to be expensive, and the use-by date for carton milk is shorter than the use-by date for powder milk. I could leave my powder milk alone for a few months and still use it and be okay.

I remember coming across carton milk and my dad had to teach me how to open the carton. It was confusing and I didn't quite get it the first few times. I thought carton milk wasn't a very good idea, and only good for small cartons which you obviously had to finish in a short amount of time. I also didn't think very much about milk in general - I mix milk powder with MILO (in fact, I still do; I actually don't quite like carton milk with MILO much... there's some odd tinge of a taste) and I try not to drink milk by itself. Not to say I haven't; I did when I was in England the first time and couldn't get a hold of hot chocolate easily.

I first came across bagged milk on my first trip here, when my father and I stayed with a friend in Toronto. He showed us how a bag of milk could sit in a jug, and be poured out, and all was needed was a small little cut on the corner of the bag. This, he explained, was economical, since one got more milk for one's money, and plastic bags are, I guess, better than jugs. It made sense to me, particularly in light of the fact that in my Occidentalist mind, Westerners sure did drink a lot of milk.

So when caitlin_chan showed me this insanely epic thread on bagged milk, I initially laughed at how much discussion bagged milk can spawn. Not only that, the graphic on it is pretty effin' funny too. lolmilk.

But the comments? Some are incredibly hostile to the idea of bagged milk. Very negative. Of the "what's wrong with Canada" variety. A lot of them are freaking out over the idea of bagged milks. Freaking out AND mocking, too. You'll have the one-off Canadian expressing disbelief that no one's ever heard of bagged milk before, but nothing compared to the overwhelming number of "OMGWTF BAGGED MILK??"

And I've got this to say to those people freaking out over bagged milk:
what's wrong with you? You'd think you'd never been able to understand the idea that liquids can be kept in bags! Next you'll be telling me "OMG EW MILK COMES FROM COW BOOBS?"

ONE comment on "wtf is wrong with Canada" can be funny. Two to three, okay. But the sheer number of comments reflecting on the weirdness of bagged milk as if it were some flaw of Canada is ridiculous, and NOT funny. Complaining that bagged milk is fucked up shit is like complaining that any liquis can be stored differently than what you're used to. And THAT makes you sound like a close-minded moron whose brain breaks at the slightest hint of "omg strange to me".

Just, wow.
I'm kinda irritated right now.

Comments

[salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever seen bagged milk around here, but... what's the deal? It's milk, in a bag.

[tenchan.livejournal.com]

most of the what's wrong with Canada comments, I'll wager, come from Americans...(we're always trying to figure out ways we're better than the rest of the world yanno..) Bad news, though, we got it, too. It's commonplace in Wisconsin, and I think, Iowa. I've seen bagged milk in PA, too....

[infi-chan.livejournal.com]

All this from a country that seemed to think that cheese from a spray can was a good culinary choice....

And yes, we Canadians do drink an awful lot of milk compared to pretty much everyone else in the world.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_juju_/]

We used to have bagged milk all the time. For an asian family who's mostly lactose intolerant, we drink an eerie amount of milk.

Anyway... I once saw a commericial that said that light can degrade the nutrients in your milk. That's why they were put in cartons ( I think).

A link I found:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3301/is_9_103/ai_92137784

[fantasyecho.livejournal.com]

That would be fun, actually! I've never actually seen cows being milked before.