Talk:Milk bag

Can anyone confirm the existence of milk bags? I live in Canada and I've never seen a milk bag.. Chungy (talk) 23:38, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Absolutely. I live in Toronto and you can get milk in bags in any grocery store. What you can't get are those big plastic jugs they sell in the States. Only option other than bags are cartons. CharlotteMR (talk) 19:36, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Yep. I live in BC, and while we no longer have milk bags (We use 4-liter HDPE jugs now), this article pretty much exactly describes the milk bags we had when I was a kid. 24.86.100.88 (talk) 19:57, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't doubt they exist, but I've never seen one anywhere in the UK. Certainly not common here. 86.7.20.47 (talk) 21:31, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

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Comic image

The comic-book style image on this page has the caption "Taken from a tourist leaflet, Toronto Pearson International Airport."

Lolhax0r, the uploader of the image, cites it as "self-created." How can it be from a tourist leaflet if it is a self-created image? Is this just a photoshopped image with a silly caption added? Copyvio problem? —Preceding unsigned comment added by It88 (talk • contribs) 00:44, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Durability?

This article is down right incorrect when it comes to the strength of milk bags. They are actually incredibly durable. While perhaps -slightly- more susceptible to puncture than a carton or jug, they are much more resilient when it comes to blunt force and drops (the kind of thing they are much more likely to experience). If you have them available in your area, try it. Throw it at a flat surface and try to get it to break (unless the surface is rough, like pavement you might actually find this impossible to do). Then take a carton or jug and drop it from counter top height and see how it fares in comparison. This is clearly just made up by the writer who is basing their information on personal beliefs rather than actual facts. Wouldn't be surprising if they had even lived in an area which uses milk in bags. The entire page needs to be rewritten by someone who actually knows what they are talking about. 99.225.114.29 (talk)

Size

Here in Ontario, milk bags were introduced in a 1-quart (Imperial) size before metric conversion, then for a while they were the 1 L size mentioned in the article. But now they are 1⅓ L (one-and-a-third liters) and from memory I think this has been true since about 1980. The reason for the change to this size is that the sale of milk in stores here (whether in jugs, cartons, or bags) was standardized on powers of 2 (i.e. 250 ml, 500 ml, 1 L, 2 L, 4 L) but the package still contains 3 bags of milk, as it did before.

I have no idea whether this is just an Ontario quirk or applies in other parts of Canada or other countries, so I can't tell whether it should be mentioned in the article. I suppose if milk bags are used in the US then the most likely size would be 1 US quart.

--208.76.104.133 (talk) 07:27, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Two other notes

Here in Ontario, the outer package containing 3 milk bags is of lighter, not heavier, plastic than the milk bag itself.

With the bags and holders we have, the only way the bag might topple out of position when pouring is if it wasn't shaken down properly into the pitcher/holder before opening, and that's a mistake that's hard to make.

--208.76.104.133 (talk) 07:27, 22 December 2008 (UTC)