# Could We Please Stop With The Boxing Day Jokes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 28, 2005, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-we-please-stop-with-the-boxing-day-jokes/337430 "2005-12-28T11:08:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-we-please-stop-with-the-boxing-day-jokes/337430/41 "2005-12-29T01:56:20Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > They just think of it as quirky Canadiana, like curling and liquid milk in bags. Pardon me - milk in bags is an Ontario thing. I haven’t seen it outside of Ontario since the late 70s. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-we-please-stop-with-the-boxing-day-jokes/337430/42 "2005-12-29T02:05:32Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > Pardon me - milk in bags is an Ontario thing. I haven’t seen it outside of Ontario since the late 70s. It’s in Quebec and Manitoba as well. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-we-please-stop-with-the-boxing-day-jokes/337430/43 "2005-12-29T02:37:31Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > It’s in Quebec and Manitoba as well. I stand corrected. I have never been to Quebec, and have only driven straight through Manitoba. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-we-please-stop-with-the-boxing-day-jokes/337430/44 "2005-12-29T04:04:21Z")
> [@Elret](#): > > Really you don’t have milk in bags? > _And_ no day off on the 26th? > I think my head just fell off. Milk does come in bags in the US, but we’re talking 2 gallon bags. They go inside the milk machines in cafeterias so college students can have milk for cereal or to drink and not have bottles or boxes all over. They’re a real bitch to set properly too. But I get the impression that up north milk comes in single serving type bags - like capri sun juice - which isn’t something I’ve ever seen. And while we don’t celebrate Boxing Day (a holiday I don’t understand at all. I know what people did on it, but can’t imagine it being a state holiday) in the US many many employers give their workers the day off. The biggest exceptions being retail health service industries. I’ve yet to work anywhere that didn’t give the 26th off. \ Most people get the day after Thanksgiving off too, but most places other than private schools don’t close at all for Easter… I loved Easter in college. It was a three hour trip to get back to school so I could make my morning classes the next day, but no where on campus, not even the local places, would be open to serve dinner to us when we got there. :dubious: \ ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-we-please-stop-with-the-boxing-day-jokes/337430/45 "2005-12-29T04:23:12Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > But I get the impression that up north milk comes in single serving type bags - like capri sun juice - which isn’t something I’ve ever seen. No, they come in ~1 litre bags. They sell them in packs of 2 or 3. It takes up way less space in the fridge than several 2L cartons. ---
**Author:** ![Ludy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Ludy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludy)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-we-please-stop-with-the-boxing-day-jokes/337430/46 "2005-12-29T04:25:49Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > I stand corrected. I have never been to Quebec, and have only driven straight through Manitoba. Add New Brunswick onto the bag milk list. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-we-please-stop-with-the-boxing-day-jokes/337430/47 "2005-12-29T04:31:26Z")
I know the feeling. When I was younger my hair was firey red. It get’s awfully tiresome endlessly hearing the same remarks. Like the guy named Livingston. “Doctor Livingston, I presume.” I have to admit when I was younger and a little more dense I was guilty of that one myself. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_loblaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@bob\_loblaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_loblaw)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-we-please-stop-with-the-boxing-day-jokes/337430/48 "2005-12-29T07:34:40Z")
growing up in a non-religious environment in southwestern ontario, christmas day was always a visit-with-family-day, boxing day a visit-with-friends-day. still is that way, as a matter of fact. as evidence for this tradition, i offer up the fact that about the only thing open boxing day in my home town besides gas stations & 7-11s is the hometown brewery beer store. and of course milk comes in bags… what you buy it boxes? silly people… ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-we-please-stop-with-the-boxing-day-jokes/337430/49 "2005-12-29T12:55:18Z")
> [@cowgirl](#): > > They don’t have Coffee Crisp, either. But we _do_ have [Cookie Crisp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie_Crisp), which is much better. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-we-please-stop-with-the-boxing-day-jokes/337430/50 "2005-12-29T14:07:25Z")
In America, Boxing Day is when we repackage milk. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-we-please-stop-with-the-boxing-day-jokes/337430/51 "2005-12-29T14:40:57Z")
> [@Rysto](#): > > No, they come in ~1 litre bags. They sell them in packs of 2 or 3. It takes up way less space in the fridge than several 2L cartons. Right, and a household will have a sort of pitcher for them: you slip the milk bag into the pitcher and snip off the corner of the bag with scissors to make a spout. (Single servings of milk come in little boxes, just like, AFAIK, the States.) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-we-please-stop-with-the-boxing-day-jokes/337430/52 "2005-12-29T18:07:32Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > Right, and a household will have a sort of pitcher for them: you slip the milk bag into the pitcher and snip off the corner of the bag with scissors to make a spout. My American-born wife could not understand this concept, even after I demonstrated. So, no bagged milk for us anymore (“It just somehow seems _wrong_, Spoons”), and our pitcher is now used as a scoop in the giant economy sized bag of cat kibbles we tend to buy. Works well there, though. On the other hand, she has no problems understanding and enjoying Boxing Day. She thinks it is a good thing to have a day off to relax after what is usually a busy and exhausting Christmas Day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-we-please-stop-with-the-boxing-day-jokes/337430.md?page=2)