Ode to Canadian Bagged Milk on Q TV

[frozendolls]

we have bagged milk in brazil too!

[TheSnowyice]

omg Who cares how you drink things? I hate milk...-_-

[vengefulspirit99]

i find milk to taste strange out of a box... i like my milk in bags...

[emtyach]

hey im from the prairies and as a kid all our milk came in a bag , fond memories of them frozen to the steps on frozen febuary mornings

[ExtremeBogom]

National Identity Crisis?

I think national identities are overrated.

Those kind of things can get in the way sometimes.

Canada doesn't come across as the kind of country to rely on these things.

When you don't have a recognised identity, you just concentrate on what's going on, on a deeper level, more important things.

From the outside?

Canada is seen as one of the most respectful countries out there.

Intelligent, grounded, and humanistic.

No gimmicks. Just salt of the earth people.

[pdx5756]

You can actually find bagged milk just about anywhere where there are not regulations restricting the use of non-recyclable materials as food containers.

Polyethylene is recyclable, until you make it into a bag, and put food into it. At that point it is cost prohibitive to clean and process the material so that it can be reused. Check any location where you can buy milk in bags, like Ontario, and you will find that those bags go to the landfill.

[savocado]

we're doing it in the uk in sainsbury's too

[ExtremeBogom]

@savocado

Yeah that's true.

We had bagged milk briefly in the 70's too, but noone bought it lol.

It's a good idea, getting rid of all the plastic and all.

[svd205]

WHAT IS IT WITH THE NATIONAL IDENTITY CRISIS IN CANADA? seriously, if bags of milk, tim hortons, and beer make you proud, then you have some serious problems as a country. i've noticed that canadians define themselves as "not American" a lot, which is sad in itself. i could never imagine an American saying, " i'm so glad i live in the USA because we have low taxes, unlike Canada". it would be so pathetic to base our identity in opposition to another.

[loucious22]

@svd205 Well Canada and the US have a lot in common. Like whenever I travel sometimes I am mistaken for being an American, which is rather unfortunate at times. Then it's like well we do this, this, and that in common but not these things.

I wouldn't say it is a "crisis" though lol. That's a bit blown out of corportion.

[svd205]

@loucious22 - you're mistaken for an American, becaue you are totally Americanized. Dont keep thinking that we "have a lot in common". it's the Americans who are influencing you, not the other way around.

[fizzypopism]

@svd205 Thank you!

Although, I thought this was funny.

[DanielCMM]

im looking for information about canadian culture, which one is the #1 radio station there in canada? Kiss 952¿ CBC?

[Caramia007]

Can you still get bags of milk? I live in BC now but I grew up in SK and we always used to have milk in bags delivered to our house every week. If you can still get it (in BC) please let me know! Thanks! :)

[ghomeshilover23]

I never seen it................

[ghomeshilover23]

But then again, I could wrong.

[69drummerdude]

We had milk in a bag in Germany a couple of years ago for a couple of years. But it didn't catch on, apparently because they're gone. Don't really know why, I've allways liked them, and a bit odd for a country that is so into "umweltschutz"

[kemptonjones]

Right on Jian . . long live bagged milk . . lol

[brightlightbabe]

remember Tom Green?

[cam10312113]

the bags are more environmentally friendly than cartons any way from what I'm told

[Di97]

Have children at home and milk in a bag...a sure spill on the table every morning.

[j2pink]

My boyfriend refuses to .... pour his own milk from a bag, he thinks its weird and gets me to do it for him.

[oopspaw]

hahaha ... that's hilarious! i LOVE it! ... XD

[emmahke]

Brilliant. Greetings from Poland.

[punkyriffs]

Wonderfully put

[eduardoavai]

So bagged milk is unusual in certain places. I didn't know that. It's very common here in Brazil.

[staplestaples]

this really reminds me a William Shatner rant!. Well done! Long live the bag!

[nadiaboo1]

I got milk.  In two bags (lol)!

[blackbook92]

lol too

[nadiaboo1]

lol

[Desdamona2]

I'm not sold on the bagged milk. I'm from Saskatchewan, but i'm going to shcool in ontario and I just can't do it... it's too strange. plus I find that it tastes diffrent.

[swift55555]

I hate it when you can't find a pair of scissors...

[blackbook92]

do you like it a LOT?

[kylakins1969]

Oh milks bags, how you hamper my day. I'll take a giant jug of milk over reaching for the scissors everyday, thanks. Flimsy, messy to clean for recycle and a royal pita. Spending triple the amount of time to prepare, serve, store and recycle is no joy. Not a biggie, but it irks me. When the kids ask for "more" I always whimper. ON.

[Turambar88]

I've lived in Canada my whole life. I've never had milk in a bag. We don't have it in Alberta, it is in fact an Eastern thing.

[ghomeshilover23]

Yeah, we don't have it in BC either, must be an Eastern thing.

[iloverock816]

i live in America and one of my fav parts of my yearly trips to Toronto is bagged milk=)

[ccm800]

Jian can put his bag o milk in my fridge any day

[ccm800]

I want bagged milk!

[canadaeast]

I didn't know milk came in anything but bags.

[simbeau]

Brilliant.

[BusanKevin]

I'm from Nova Scotia and I grew up with milk in a bag. Now that I live in Japan....I never see such technology.

Maybe I can introduce the fine and friendly people of Japan to one of Canada's greatest creations....milk in a bag :)

Good one Jian :)

[emgcarra]

Please, go ahead....!

[sipme]

There is no bagged milk, in Manitoba, or Saskatchewan.... Hence, bagged milk isn't so much "Canadian" as it is "Ontarian".

[evanfrederick]

There is milk in bags throughout the Maritimes as well, and I've heard that it is in Quebec as well. It is not just Ontarian; if we must nitpick about the region, 'Eastern-Canadian' is a better descriptor.

But I think the fact that half the country has milk in bags qualifies it to be called Canadian, no? I doubt anyone outside Canada really is going to care about exactly which provinces have bagged milk...

[ghomeshilover23]

Never seen it here, in BC.

[7hebox]

bags all my life, i know no other way.

[BenjaminFranklin2u]

I like the bags,

helps me tell whether or not I'm using good ole Canadian Dairy, or the disgusting US shit with the growth hormones/antibiotics.

[loucious22]

I find bag in a milk is easier to store in the fridge than a big jug of milk.

[srollans]

Bagged milk made a brief foray into Alberta -- I think it was back in the 70s. I don't miss it. Seems every time you turned around, it was time to reload the milk holder and hunt for a pair of scissors. And these days, in our house, we go through three or four litres a day. Eastern Canada, you can keep those bags.

But let's not get into a whole "jugs vs. bags" debate.

[groozfraba]

Ever since moving State side just over 4 years ago one of the things I really miss is Milk in a bag! The Kraft peanut butter we import same with jam because you can get nothing else like it, but alas bags of milk just doesn't have that kind of shelf life :(

[bearmare]

Milk of a bag is pretty stupid. I mean Canada has accomplished a great deal, but one thing that could take everything away is milk in a bag. For one thing, milk in a bag will always seep inside that holder-thingee for the milk in a bag. What happens when that holder becomes filled with a substance that resembles mutant yogurt? How many landfills must be closed because of these discarded holders? And, it has happened to me, what if you drop the milk in a bag on the kitchen floor? Disaster!

[BenjaminFranklin2u]

You have never used a milk bag ...clearly.

Milk bags do not break if you drop them, no disaster, but a carton... Big mess.

Holders are generally kept for many years, unlike the milk carton which is coated in plastic.

Milk NEVER seeps into the holder, I have used bags all my life and never seen that.

The only stupid thing here is you.

[bearmare]

I guess having the head up the ass must be the thing to do this month. Dumb ass. Take a milk in a bag and drop it on a kitchen floor. It will break. Do you still shit in your pants?

[BenjaminFranklin2u]

I guess it is, because your head is so far up yours you cannot see the ignorance in your own comment.

No it does not break, try it.

[bearmare]

Right now, I could break one and another over your fat head, stupid schmuck.

Yeah, frozen solid milk in a bag, crushing your soft shell skull. Oh, the joy! You fall flat on the kitchen floor, your limp body begging for more. I drop another milk in the bag on your flattened head. You don't notice or more. Now worries, cuz your are dead.

[BenjaminFranklin2u]

An ignorant asshole like you would resort to violence over been proven wrong about a milk bag. I guess you are as dumb as you sound.

[bearmare]

Violence is the answer to everything. It's fun and profitable. Imagine how much more the dairies would make if milk in the bag became the weapon of choice for so many? Each frozen milk in the bag used as a potentially lethal weapon. Yeah! Throw em. Bash em. Smash em. Broken bones and torn cartilage abound. Hurl that milk in the bag and knock another mutha to the ground.

[Ladymelonhead]

hahaha beautifully stated! milk bag poetry, i love it.

[NickijoeCanuck]

LOL - thanks for the childhood memories, Jian.

[cyoungblood]

Milk in a bag! Milk in a bag! Lookin' like a fool with your milk in a bag! See General Larry Platt sing Milk in a Bag to the tune of Pants on the Ground here!

bit (dot) ly (slash) 9XHUHj

[Ottee2]

Canadian unity glue ? Ew ! Come on, Jian, you're gonna make me spew on cue.

[treinspore]

on the topic of milk bags.

there is this idiot online who tried making a jug with bagged milk.

i laughed so hard.

check him out here...

it's hilarious, what an idiot!

watch?v=orC-0D2m368

[bertanderniemusic]

haha that's awesome!

[BRANSCOMBEx]

cant get it in alberta... weak.

i mis nb

[hendrixnut]

i miss milk in the bag they have them in ontario but not in bc

[Hawise1]

you totally rock Jian :)

I enjoyed hearing you this morning doing this show :)

and btw today I noticed that Chocolate milk is indeed available in bags beside the white milk at our local food store in Winchester, Ontario :) (I also apparently live in the Dairy Capital of Ontario here :)

xoxoxoxoxo

[sabrezfan9]

@Hawise1 yeah its available here in Ottawa too. So Ontario FTW?

[septicbrainfluid]

@Hawise1 I remember you could get milk in the bag in BC back in the 80's, at least in the Fraser Valley. used to have it all the time as a kid.

[justinc18]

MooJuice. LOL

Too bad I can't drink it anymore. That goes to question: Is it lactose intolerance, or chemicals? Do they put chemicals, or anything in the milk to preserve it nowadays? They do with everything else. What about the grass, hay, or other means of cheaper food production, what do the cows eat? Hormone use in cattle? ...artificial hormone use?

Wikipedia: /wiki/Cattle_feeding

Glad I don't drink this stuff anymore. Our bodies get older, we don't digest and retain the goodnessoffered

[blugreenblu]

I'm lactose intolerant. :(

[Kentheartteacher]

My husband was raised on bagged milk, I on powdered, but I'm a convert. I work for a US company and my co-workers think this is wacked. It makes me just a little bit proud of our unique way to serve milk... well done Jian. I've forwarded this video along.

[15robbie92]

i love bagged milk

it's delicious

although i did drink powdered milk before that so anything is better but it truely is good

i have friends in oter provinces that have never had bagged milk till they came here and they started loving it as well

good job with the show jian and keep up the good work, see ya

R. Bruce Kerr

[nicksutherby]

A piece of genius Mr. Ghomeshi

[BrandonRolfe15]

Awesome.