Please settle this bet between me and my friend. I say that it doesn’t exist over there but my friend thinks americans have at least seen it in their country at least once. Who’s right? Are we both wrong?
Please settle this bet between me and my friend. I say that it doesn’t exist over there but my friend thinks americans have at least seen it in their country at least once. Who’s right? Are we both wrong?
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Completely foreign
Never seen it. Ever.
I’ve never seen it in my life, and neither has my husband. It’s possible we’ve just overlooked it, but I don’t think it’s a thing in my area at all.
Doesn’t exist here
Nonexistent
It doesn’t exist here. At least nowhere that I’ve lived
Haven’t seen milk in a bag in the Northwest.
Never seen it don’t want to. I would be too paranoid of a leak or exploding.
Not drinking your commie bagged milk.
I’ve never seen it.
Never have. Pretty sure it’s just a Canadian thing.
no. only seen it outside the us.
That’s a thing? I’ve never heard of it or seen it.
Milk in a bag is a Canadian thing, as far as I know. We buy our milk in jugs.
I’ve literally never seen it once.
I haven’t seen milk in a bag since my elementary school switched to cartons when we were in third grade.
In a supermarket? Never seen it, not in PA, not in NJ, not in WI. I’ve seen it in commercial cafeterias for those silver milk dispenser things, but it’s more an Eastern Canadian thing for retail.
I have never seen that. I have heard that it’s a thing in Canada.
In a normal retail setting, I have not seen it. In a restaurant/food service setting, I have.
I have never seen it.
I’ve never seen it.
Never seen that.
Nonexistent.
I’ve never seen it before and I’ve lived in various parts of the U.S.
I’ve lived in and visited multiple states. I’ve never seen it and until this thread I didn’t know it existed
I’ve never seen it here, in the many states where I have shopped for food, but this is a large country so it may exist somewhere.
I have never seen this in the US.
I have seen it in Canada here and there. My family members up there have a plastic pitcher that holds the milk bag. Drop in the bag, open the top, and it pours like a carton. I saw it in Eastern Canada.
I have not seen it in British Columbia or Alberta, where I also spend time.
Quite literally never seen it. DNE
I remember a short period in late 1970s you could buy in a bag. Didn’t take at our house because made a mess. Haven’t seen bags since then.
It might exist somewhere, but I don’t think many Americans have ever seen it. It barely even exists in Canada. It’s an Ontario thing. As is Ontario thinking it’s all of Canada.
Kwik Trip gas stations have milk in a bag in MN
Edit-they stopped selling it last May 24
In the early 90s, there was a year or two where some schools had bagged milk due to budget issues. That was the only time I’ve seen or heard of it.
Milk in a bag?????? Like if the “bag” is the cow’s udder then maybe?
Not unheard of in the midwest. Kwik Star used to carry it, but I’m not sure if they still do.
I’m in my sixties in the PNW. When I was a kid in the 70s, they tried this for a while. You would but gallon bags and put it in a special pitcher you could buy separately. The idea was to create less pollution. Too many bags broke, though, so they quit packaging it that way.
I’ve never seen it in more than 40 years of life. Not once. And I’d go even further and venture a guess that there is a huge portion of Americans who have never even heard that such thing exists in other countries.
When I was a child, my school was selected to run a pilot program where milk would be packaged in small, individual serving bags. These bags were punctured with a straw and drank out of.
They gave these bags of milk to a hundred or so elementary aged school children.
It went about as well as you would imagine.
I believe this lasted for about a year before they reverted back to cartons.
I have not seen milk on a bag (in the US) since.
Shelf stable milk in a carton? Yes. Bagged milk? Nope.
Edited to add: Here’s a thread with a picture of the milk bag in it, if you’re wondering how it worked. : Bagged Milk at School : r/nostalgia
Non existent, once at Kwik trip here in Wisconsin and they stopped carrying it.
Powdered, in a box? Yes. Condensed in a can? Yes. In a bag? No. Never.
They used to have it at Kwik Trip, but not in recent years.
When I was a child in Michigan, Quality Dairy sold milk in bags. They had stopped doing so by the time I was in high school, in the 90’s.
I’ve never seen this, ever. And it still boggles my mind it’s a thing, it seems impractical and messy.
California for almost 70 years. Delivered in glass, then purchased in jugs or carton. Heard about the bag in Canada, never here.
We had it in Wisconsin when I was growing up, but it wasn’t super common. The last company that made bagged milk just stopped producing it in 2024. https://www.nbc26.com/news/local-news/kwik-trip-to-stop-selling-bagged-milk-due-to-declining-demand
I would guess most people in other states have never seen bagged milk.
Kwik Trip (a gas station/convenience store in the Midwest) sold milk in a bag up until a few years ago.
I have seen it, in America. At scout camp we use 5 gallon bags of white and chocolate milk in dispensers in the dining hall.
I swear the little shits drink milk and eat ketchup and that’s about it.
I’ve seen it. I live in Wisconsin and there’s a well known convenience store chain called Kwik Trip that sells bag milk as well as a special pitcher to hold it in. I wouldn’t say it’s common though.
There is no bagged milk in America.
Period.
You do not recognize the bodies in the water.
Period.
We used to have it here in Lansing, but I haven’t seen it in about 20 years. I thought it was a great thing.
Was a thing in the Midwest. Minnesota discontinued it within the last year.
I definitely remember that from the late seventies, early ’80s. You had to buy a separate plastic picture and you would place the bag of milk in it and then snip the corner of the bag off so you could pour. Frankly, it kind of sucked.
Never seen it in grocery stores, but did have them at my junior and high school in Louisiana. Little individual pouches to stab with a Capri-Sun style straw.