CANADIAN HEROES - Bag O' Milk

It didn't take Johnada too long to find the freakiest part of the Ontario experience - bagged milk. Instead of coming in plastic jugs, a gallon (or 4 litres) of milk comes in bags. I think milk is bagged to produce less waste, but I couldn't find the official reasoning on the internet. And Johnada refuses to wast time on research.

Johnada is not a big milk drinker because he thinks it's weird to drink another animal's baby food. (But he loves cheese, so he's really just a giant hypocrite.) However, the Wife drinks a lot of milk to prevent osteoporosis, so we eventually had to confront bags of milk firsthand. Plus, what's the point of moving to Ontario if you aren't going to buy bagged milk?

Admittedly, Johnada is not breaking new ground with a hard-hitting blog story on milk in a bag. In fact, there is a website devoted entirely to bagged milk. If you go to the site, note those prices are not accurate. Milk is way more expensive these days, especially the organic kind that we buy. In addition, YouTube has several instructional videos devoted exclusively to the subject:



There's also a longer bagged milk instructional video here. It needs to be edited and the guy's kind of dorky, but it's surprisingly fascinating.

We really should have watched these videos before we bought our milk jug. In Johnada, we just bought a regular pitcher, and we pour the entire bag of milk in, which is a big no no. Though it's not popular here, it's a good way for us foreigners to ease our way in. The pitcher has swans on it, so we should get points for that.

Bagged milk gets 4.5 Hortons. Environmental friendliness is always a winner on this blog, plus it's surprisingly fun to toss a milk bag in the air. But I've got to end this post, because the more I think about milk, the less I want to drink it. And I don't want my fear of milk to spread to cheese, because cheese is good.