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Must have been made in Ontario. We don't have bagged milk in Alberta.
It was probably made in Australia.
This might be a dumb question, but I've never actually been out west. What does it come in? Is it just those cardboard cartons? Are you able to get sizes larger than 2 litres? Sorry, just curious.
It was probably made in Australia.
This might be a dumb question, but I've never actually been out west. What does it come in? Is it just those cardboard cartons? Are you able to get sizes larger than 2 litres? Sorry, just curious.
Could be in plastic jugs of 2litre.
I gather that milk is a loss leader for supermarkets so they hope you’ll by more when you stop in for milk cos when you look at the prices they don’t make sense.
Normal twice the size and you pay close twice the price unless there’s an economy of scale factor but with milk a 4l bag isn’t twice the price of a 2l carton and the 3l bags that came about some years back after people complained don’t seem to make much sense price wise.
I generally by the 4l bags and if I get it fresh enough will last me close on 3weeks (two weeks on the Best Buy date and go date +5 days).
It was probably made in Australia.
This might be a dumb question, but I've never actually been out west. What does it come in? Is it just those cardboard cartons? Are you able to get sizes larger than 2 litres? Sorry, just curious.
We have a tremendous variety of choices in milk.
Carton sizes:
250 mL
500 mL
750 mL
1L
1.89 L
2L
Plastic jug sizes:
1L
2L
4L
Plastic bottle sizes (these are flavored milk):
200 mL
310 mL
473 mL
1 L
I see that Milk2Go has a new limited edition flavor... Cinnamon Bun. I'll have to see if Walmart has it next time I shop (they probably won't).
Oh, and it also comes in cows. And goats. I'm told I was given goats' milk when I was a baby because I couldn't tolerate cows' milk. Since I have an old picture of my grandfather and two nanny goats, I have no reason to doubt this story.
You can even get cat milk. It's for cats, not humans (not that I'd want to drink it; it's brown and slimy, but my cats loved it).
I always buy the 4 L bags too. I know you’re used to what you’re used to, but the idea of milk not being available in a bagged option is just so foreign to me!
Ah, OK, so I guess the 4 L plastic jug would take the place of our 4 L bags. Interesting. Although I would think one big plastic jug would be harder to pour from?
I know everyone’s personal tastes are different, but to me, that sounds… not great.
Oh, and back to the video… if anyone was wondering, we don’t call them bunny hugs here. I think I heard that was more of a Saskatchewan thing.
to my thinking it would be - that's a big heavy container (Milk's specific gravity is ~1.030 so weighing just over 4Kgs) to be pouring into a cup.
not to mention the mess and loss if you dropped/spilled it (and yes I've seen plastic millk bottle break)
guess if you dropped the the brand new bag you could lose the lot but otherwise the you're dealing with singles bags so maximum loss would be 1.33l
I always buy the 4 L bags too. I know you’re used to what you’re used to, but the idea of milk not being available in a bagged option is just so foreign to me!
Ah, OK, so I guess the 4 L plastic jug would take the place of our 4 L bags. Interesting. Although I would think one big plastic jug would be harder to pour from?
I know everyone’s personal tastes are different, but to me, that sounds… not great.
Oh, and back to the video… if anyone was wondering, we don’t call them bunny hugs here. I think I heard that was more of a Saskatchewan thing.
People who buy the 4L jugs are the ones who tend to have multiple kids and/or do a lot of cooking/baking that's milk-intensive and want to save some money. They also need a larger fridge. If I want 4L of milk, I buy two 2L cartons. It costs more, but they fit in my fridge better.
Milk2Go is mostly flavored milk. There's one non-flavored one that's like regular milk, that's available at McDonalds here. Otherwise, they have a nice variety of flavors I really shouldn't have, since they're sweet and I'm diabetic. But dammit, sometimes I just need a fix of strawberry, or vanilla, or French vanilla. Their French vanilla tastes like eggnog, so it's a cheaper way to get that around Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter (real eggnog is more expensive).
There used to be a couple of Milk2Go flavors they don't have anymore - blueberry and one that was peachy, like creamsicles. I loved those, so of course they were discontinued. They've got several varieties of chocolate, as well as cookies & cream, and mocha. So I'm willing to give this cinnamon bun variety a try, if it's available.
I'm also on the lookout for the garlic toast limited edition of Lay's chips. I absolutely love their new cucumber-flavored chips, as well as the honey butter flavored ones.
Two of the major reasons for milk bags is that they're both apparently easier to ship and use less plastic than jugs or cartons. I don't know how much of that is true anymore though as I see more and more cartons sold and available compared to milk bags.
Ugh, isn't that always the way? It's a running joke in my family to not like anything too much, because that's a sure sign it will be discontinued.
I haven't seen those around, I wonder if they are regional? Although I think I tried a garlic bread version in a previous year, and wasn't all that impressed. I'm curious what cucumber-flavoured would taste like, because cucumber itself doesn't really have much of a taste. And honey butter doesn't really grab me, but I guess I would try them.
The last two limited edition flavours I bought were with the "Laysfest" branding. I got Rockin' Buffalo (good, but could be stronger) and Poppin' Sweet Lime & Sea Salt (haven't opened them yet).
That's why there isn't Blueberry Coke anymore. That was good.
Many years ago I tried a cherry-chocolate variety of cola. It wasn't Coke brand. It was available for a short time at the local convenience store, and I've never found it anywhere else since then (going back about 40 years).
They had a small ton of new flavors over this past year. A couple of them are far too spicy for me (based on Indian flavors). There are a couple of tomato ones that are still spicy but not too bad. They're not like ketchup chips. And they came out with the cucumber and honey butter ones... and bingo. Both of them are nicely flavored, in a way that's mild without being bland. You can definitely taste the cucumber.
Buffalo and Lime & Sea Salt? Honestly, neither of them sound appealing.
A few weeks ago, Kevin J. Anderson went on FB with a "WTF???" rant about Lay's chips. I guess in his neck of the U.S. (Colorado, I think), he had an impulse to get some chips and freaked out over all the new flavors. He'd never heard of a lot of them, but one that he was upset about was cinnamon-something. I'd try that in a heartbeat. There was another, but I don't remember what it was. Some kind of seafood flavor.
Something funny/bemusing/WTF on YT some time back, about chips. I started watching several RV channels, of Americans navigating their way through the wilderness of Canada on the way to Alaska, via Alberta and BC (rolling my eyes at their fretting on the American side that they'd have to stock up on WEEKS' worth of groceries because they didn't know if we had grocery stores and electricity). Anyway, in one episode they decided to get brave and try ketchup chips.
Except they weren't really ketchup chips. They were "vegetarian" ketchup chips, and not really chips, like normal chips. The conclusion was that they didn't really like them. So I wrote in the comments that whatever those things were, they weren't REAL ketchup chips (since when do you have to specify that ketchup chips are vegetarian - they don't contain meat!), and they should try again when they got back to some place with a grocery or convenience store, because there's basically nowhere in Canada where you can't find real ketchup chips. It's one of the standard varieties available everywhere.
I always hated bags when we had them. They'd flop around in the fridge. They weren't nicely stackable. And if you didn't cut them open exactly right, you'd get a mess.
More sales of cartons could people not consuming much milk (I use it every morning for breakfast - weetabix with some maple syrup in the warmer months/porridge in the colder) or cost thing.
but referring back to what I wrote earlier, if you do use enough milk, it's going to cost more to buy 2 x 2l cartons than 1 x 4l bag but then again if you're my father-in-law who's set in your way, you'll insist on cartons in a brand that's almost a metro exclusive.
Drives my mother-in-law up the wall.
Not sure you about less plastic as you've got two layers - the outer plastic and the inner one that holds the milk.
Shipping wise the 2l cartons would be nice easy in crate but that's giving you 8l per crate, versus 3 to 4 backs in the crate so 12 to 16l but 4l jugs of milk would be a major pain in the arse.,
Data sovereignty...
Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty
Microsoft representative says US CLOUD Act comes before other country's sovereignty.
www.digitaljournal.com
Data sovereignty...
Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty
Microsoft representative says US CLOUD Act comes before other country's sovereignty.www.digitaljournal.com
And that’s the sort of attitude that is seeing a movement in Europe to implement their own systems to regain data sovereignty.
Problem is that while there’s a massive amount that can be done using open source software as a basis, at the end of the day regaining data sovereignty will fall victim to reality - cost of development, cost of deployment, lack of alternatives.
I’m not aware of any such movement in Canada so I guess we’re at the mercy of Microsoft and over big U.S tech no matter how we may want to tell them to sod off.
Ugh, I wonder if government even saw this coming. Maybe it can be looked at on a case-by-case basis. I think maybe part of the problem is that our tech sector has never really made something like this a priority. At least I'm not aware of anything.
I wanna see how they milked the kitty
I have no idea. I don't want to know. I just know that every cat I've had who tried it really liked it. Unlike cow's milk, it's safe for them. It's intended as a treat, though, so I never give them more than a spoonful at a time.
Other provinces: Don't do what Alberta is doing: Book banning in school libraries
The excuse is that they're banning sexually explicit books in K-12 libraries. And yes, some books are sexually explicit. But you wanna know which book that contains sexually explicit content is NOT on the ban list?
The Old Testament. Part of which provided some of the inspiration for one of the books that IS being banned: The Handmaid's Tale.
Other books being banned for sexual content that isn't explicit: 1984 and The Great Gatsby.
Well, I've read 1984 and found it confusing and depressing. I don't remember any sexual content in it, but then it was nearly 40 years since I read it. My knowledge of The Great Gatsby is limited to the computer game based on it.
But I note that both The Handmaid's Tale and 1984 go into the themes of government propaganda and deception, both of which the Alberta government is engaged in on a daily basis. Danielle Smith lies so much that she should have a line of at least a couple of dozen flunkies to walk in front of her to help carry her nose because she couldn't possibly keep it up herself.
If CBC allowed comments, I'd advise parents who want their kids to have a well-rounded education to buy their own copies of these books, or at least make sure their kids have access to them in public libraries. What passes for government here hasn't been going after the public libraries. Yet.
(Though that's been tried, back in the 1990s, when the MLA for Red Deer South tried to have Of Mice and Men banned; his effort backfired spectacularly, as all the copies in the libraries and every bookstore in town and the surrounding communities were snapped up because people wanted to know what the fuss was about - more people read that book that year than they would have in any other 10-year period, at least.)
The excuse is that they're banning sexually explicit books in K-12 libraries. And yes, some books are sexually explicit. But you wanna know which book that contains sexually explicit content is NOT on the ban list?
The Old Testament. Part of which provided some of the inspiration for one of the books that IS being banned: The Handmaid's Tale.
Other books being banned for sexual content that isn't explicit: 1984 and The Great Gatsby.
Well, I've read 1984 and found it confusing and depressing. I don't remember any sexual content in it, but then it was nearly 40 years since I read it. My knowledge of The Great Gatsby is limited to the computer game based on it.
But I note that both The Handmaid's Tale and 1984 go into the themes of government propaganda and deception, both of which the Alberta government is engaged in on a daily basis. Danielle Smith lies so much that she should have a line of at least a couple of dozen flunkies to walk in front of her to help carry her nose because she couldn't possibly keep it up herself.
If CBC allowed comments, I'd advise parents who want their kids to have a well-rounded education to buy their own copies of these books, or at least make sure their kids have access to them in public libraries. What passes for government here hasn't been going after the public libraries. Yet.
(Though that's been tried, back in the 1990s, when the MLA for Red Deer South tried to have Of Mice and Men banned; his effort backfired spectacularly, as all the copies in the libraries and every bookstore in town and the surrounding communities were snapped up because people wanted to know what the fuss was about - more people read that book that year than they would have in any other 10-year period, at least.)
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