Bagged Milk

Post by **wardrich** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:57 pm

JKSM wrote:Is bagged milk cheaper since the packaging should cost less?

It doesn't look practical as the thin plastic bag it is likely to break easily when one accidentally drops it. I think the milk that comes in plastic bottles and cardboard boxes are better as they can be closed and won't spill even you drop them. Tried before.

This kind of plastic bag looks like those where drink stores pour drinks into when one orders "take away".

I've dropped lots of them before too. They've more milk than air, so that they don't explode when you drop them. And it's a thicker plastic than a shopping bag... I really can't think of anything to compare it to though...

-Richard-

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:25 pm

It looks sort of like a beachball's thickness.

nastypoisonspikes · Post by **nastypoisonspikes** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 3:31 am

Wait, what is the point of using bagged milk anyway? Plastic bottles and carboard seem like a much better idea.

Post by **wardrich** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:28 pm

Da_Goat wrote:It looks sort of like a beachball's thickness.

YES! That's pretty much exact. But less rubbery-feeling.

in RE to K0's message about the bags never being open long enuf to go bad... My house goes through about a bag a day.

-Richard-

Post by **emmzee** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 10:23 pm

I would take a video of changing the bag with my digital camera but I'd feel just a little too geeky

Years ago when I was little, I thought everyone got milk in bags ... then we went on vacation to Florida, and the supermarket had no bags of milk!

It works fairly well ... they usually come in 3-packs (like 3 individual bags of milk wrapped together inside a bigger plastic bag). I think they're more for families who drink a lot. It sure sucks when one breaks at the supermarket tho ... a fairly rare occurance but gross as heck.

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 2:37 pm

According to a thread on another forum I visit, bagged milk is also common in Wisconsin, Israel, and Brazil.

JKSM · Post by **JKSM** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 8:30 am

Kazer0 wrote:4L of milk is around $3 I think. We CAN buy it in 2L jugs, but its more expensive and not really popular.

That is really much cheaper than other packaging. If that savings in cost had to do with packaging, it might be not be a bad idea to have bagged milk. One can always use his own screw-cap container to pour the milk into.

One thing I can be almost quite sure is that at where I live, they will never have bagged milk as I doubt many people will buy that idea.

Hiroshi · Post by **Hiroshi** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 8:32 pm

In Taiwan and China they bag their soy milk and I've seen plenty of it when I was a kid. At public stands you can buy a small bag of it with a straw and drink it right there.

Post by **wardrich** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 4:11 pm

Hiroshi wrote:In Taiwan and China they bag their soy milk and I've seen plenty of it when I was a kid. At public stands you can buy a small bag of it with a straw and drink it right there.

We have a similar idea here, only with Juice instead of milk... they're $0.10 a bag, and 1 bag contains as much juice as your convensional juice-box.

-Richard-

Hiroshi · Post by **Hiroshi** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 11:16 pm

THAT small? Interesting. Next time I go up to toronto I gotta ask my canadian friends to show me more of the bagged stuff. Also about the soy milk from the vendor stands, the size of the plastic bags that they put it in is the same size as a freezer ziplock bag big enough to hold two steaks.

Post by **wardrich** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 9:38 pm

oh wow. Ya, go to a Reid's Dairy. They call them Sip Sacks or Juice Bags or something... I don't even know. But they're amazing. They have 4 flavours.

Green
Red
Peach
Blue

The tastes are unique... but if Green, Red, and Blue had a physical taste, I bet they'd taste like the juice in those bags

. They're REALLY sweet, but I like them. *toothless grin*

-Richard-

Dopefish · Post by **Dopefish** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 10:43 pm

There's CapriSun here in the US, which is fruit-flavored drinks in bags.
It only comes in vauge flavors like "Beach Berry" and "X-Treme Surf" but they all taste the same.

prelude · Post by **prelude** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 1:10 am

In south Africa we also get bagged milk!

We buy bagged milk mostly, but sometimes we buy bottles(plastic)

JKSM · Post by **JKSM** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 4:17 am

Dopefish wrote:There's CapriSun here in the US, which is fruit-flavored drinks in bags.
It only comes in vauge flavors like "Beach Berry" and "X-Treme Surf" but they all taste the same.

There's CapriSun sold where I live. CapriSun has many flavours of different fruits for example, apple, orange etc. My favourite is still grape. I think all CapriSun are sold in the standard aluminium bags. They put 12 bags in a rectangular cardboard box.

In supermarkets here hardly items are bagged except for stuff like flour. The only drinks that are sold bagged are by drink stall owners where they would pour it in a bag on-the-spot when one orders to take it away.

prelude · Post by **prelude** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 1:21 pm

We also have CapriSun, but I haven't seen it lately. They only have 4 flavours and Dopefish is right, it all tastes the same.

Hiroshi · Post by **Hiroshi** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 8:47 am

This thread always makes me thirsty....

prelude · Post by **prelude** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 1:12 pm

Guess what? I saw CapriSun today again!!!

Hiroshi · Post by **Hiroshi** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 6:02 pm

I like loganberry.

Cakephatt · Post by **Cakephatt** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 1:41 pm

yeah, when I was in elementary school my school had milk in bags... They were always exploding and fun to squeeze. My older brother also had milk in bags. Maybe it's just because I live in the upmost area of wisconsin.

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