Milk in Bags

There are many iconic Canadian images. Red maple leaves, moose chasing, beaver racing or curling or playing ice hockey in a frozen pond while wearing a toque.

Another iconic Canadian image is the humble ‘bag of milk’. Yes, you read that correctly. This is not a joke. Plastic bags filled with milk and not bottles of milk. The two things seemingly do not go together. You don't see bags of juice or bags of beer do you?

Apparently bags of milk are more environmentally friendly than bottles. They use less plastic and take up less space in landfills. Even if that's true, you have to wonder what was going through the mind of the first person who decided to put a liquid into a bag. It just seems wrong. My opinion is that they were invented to stop you drinking milk straight out of the bottle, without using a glass.