Milk in bags, eh.

[Fishy]

Is this true????

http://www.thespec.com/article/717446

[dodgechargerfan]

We are an advanced civilization here at the centre of the Universe.
You can still get cartons. Jugs and bottles are very rare. Bags are the most prevalent way to buy milk.
You can even get chocolate milk in bags.

[dodgechargerfan]

This might be too much of an inside joke.. It's funny if you live anywhere near Toronto, ON - but not IN Toronto. If you live there, you believe it.

We are an advanced civilization here at the centre of the Universe.

[restoman]

That's one of those things that you never give any thought to.
Milk in bags.
I thought everyone got it that way.
Now, if we could just get the price of the stuff down compared to the US, we'd REALLY be ahead of the world. The cheapest here in Sarnia is $3.75 for three litres. Down East it can run as high as $7.00 for three litres. We shop at Kroeger in Port Huron, where a US gallon usually goes for $1.75 - $1.99.
Which begs the question - are Canadian cows unionized?

[Fishy]

Which begs the question - are Canadian cows unionized?

[Fishy]

Funny thing here is, Wisconsin is the Dairy State yet all the "Happy Cows" live in California.........

[dodgechargerfan]

California has a little sumtin sumtin in the fields for the cows to graze on.

[dodgechargerfan]

That's one of those things that you never give any thought to.
Milk in bags.
I thought everyone got it that way.
Now, if we could just get the price of the stuff down compared to the US, we'd REALLY be ahead of the world. The cheapest here in Sarnia is $3.75 for three litres. Down East it can run as high as $7.00 for three litres. We shop at Kroeger in Port Huron, where a US gallon usually goes for $1.75 - $1.99.
Which begs the question - are Canadian cows unionized?

It's around 4 bucks here - but go 10 minutes down the highway to Niagara Falls - right in the heart of the tourist area and they'll skin ya for 7 bucks.

My brother used to work at one of the hotels there and a guy approached him one - he was from Lindsay, ON - and asked how people make ends meet around here.
He explained the cost of milk at the nearby convenience store.... My brother let him know it would be worth the 5 minute drive to the edge of the tourist area to save on milk and other basic necessities.

Nuts I tell ya. If they gave milk, we'd corner the market.

[71dusterman]

My son works at a convience store and when they run out before their regular shipment they will go to Walley World and buy milk there to sell and he says that is the only way they make a profit on it. Their own supplier prices leave them selling at a loss.

[BootHead]

just got to check each bag for pinholes or you'll have a mess. we get oj too
http://www.kwiktrip.com/m_eatsanddri...turestouch.asp

Kwik Trip (Star in ioway) is always cheaper than the grocery store for bread and dairy. It's a love hate thing, yeah, you'll save a bunch of $$ until the local independent grocery folds.

[dodgedifferent2]

The cheapest here in Sarnia is $3.75 for three litres. Down East it can run as high as $7.00 for three litres. We shop at Kroeger in Port Huron, where a US gallon usually goes for $1.75 - $1.99.
Which begs the question - are Canadian cows unionized?

*shakes fist in Restomans general direction*

we get paid 25 cents for that exact same litre of milk... and the average cow produces 25 litres a day...
$4.00 a bushel of corn
fluctuating hydro prices
=/- $1.00 of hay for that cow in a day
fuel to fill silo for one year and grow said crop to feed cows Would be about the same amount the average person consumes in 10 years
costs to pay for the quota to milk said cow (which one cow will never pay for her own life)
Said cow only milks for 200 days out of the year the rest they are only eating/pooping.
one cow costs on average $2000-5000

now all the government restrictions ................

Who makes the money?
last dairy farmers raise was 2 years ago .01 cents a litre. The last one before that? 2 decades ago.......

[gunbunny]

Last night, my wife gave $3.29 for a gallon of milk, and she threw a fit. Go down to Kroger and it's $2.50 a gal or $1.00 a half. (Yeah, we always buy in halfs).
As for the plastic bags, they are used in the restaurant business in the US, but I think they would have a hell of a hard time catching on in the home. I would be resistant to it. Just another thing in the fridge to have to wash.
I haven't seen milk in a paper carton in any size but 1/2 pints in years. It's all in plastic jugs here.
I gotta tell you, you guys up in Canada, I feel for you. To damn cold, Brian Adams singing every other song on the radio and to damn expensive to live there. Your stronger than me.
Oh, Dodgedifferent , the 2 happiest days of my fathers life, The day my grandfather bought his own dairy farm and the day he sold it.

[Fishy]

I'm not opposed to milk bags.....<snickers and grins to self> or milk in bags for that matter. I just thought it was a bit odd at first. Would actually take up less room in the fridge too.

[thrashingcows]

Out here on the wet coast of Canada we pay about $3.75+ a gallon, and a 2lb block of cheese is $11-14, plus 15% tax on those prices.

Now I usually cross the border and buy my gas, milk and cheese there and I pay $2.39 a gallon for milk and $7 for 2lbs of cheese, and only a little tax...think it's like 5%? I'll roll out of there with 3 jugs of milk ad a block of cheese for just under $15.

[restoman]

We can't afford to buy milk in Canada. In any given week, this family of three will go through 5 - 7 gallons of milk.