One of the cheese makers I follow is in Canada and explains how to use bagged milk in each video because us yanks get so distracted by it. It’s just regular cow milk in a plastic bag instead of a plastic bottle.
He can make cheddar cheese out of bagged milk and I can’t make the damn stuff with fresh from the cow milk. I am such a failure!
Bagged milk IS fresh milk. When I was a kid, a chain of drive-thru dairy stores sold bagged milk. It came in a heavy-duty cardboard box. There was a tab you pull to access the bag, and that is where you popped in your reusable spout.
The next door neighbor used a lot of the bagged milk. Four kids, you see. The oldest was my best friend, and during the summer her mom would send us down to Mrs Moo’s (the drive-thru dairy store) to buy milk. Sometimes we could wheedle her mom for some change to get us root beer popsicles.
~VOW
Bagged milk is the cheapest way to buy a gallon in many Canadian provinces. Cartons are reserved for half and quarter gallons (the metric equivalents, more or less). Jugs are seen more rarely. Bags are a pain, but almost half the price of boxes.
So it’s that they are cheaper. Not because they are necessarily loved. Though some likely do.
Oh, gosh, I had forgotten about that stuff. Mom used to get it from the store after the milk truck stopped running. (I have fond memories of the bread truck man showing Mom a tray of donuts so we could pick out a treat.)
I’m not quite old enough to remember trading milk bottle caps around, the heavy glass bottles of milk we had delivered had screw tops.
Helms Bakery! The toot-toot of the Helms truck was so different than anyone else! I remember the beautiful polished wood of the drawers that held all the bakery products! And the yummy smells of yeast breads, donuts, and cookies!
~VOW
YES!!!
Damn, you are old, girlfriend!!!
Milk is heavy, If you’re shopping on foot or bicycle, having to carry an extra kilo every day is annoying. I know people who rent a car to do their monthly shop* for groceries, including flour, beverages and other items that can be stored for weeks. UHT milk means adding the milk to the monthly shop instead of the daily shop.
*I went to the mobility site for linking, and the top ad is for doing a monthly shop.
Looking forward to it. Are you in the FR, GE, IT or RM speaking area?
German. Staying in a little village about half an hour from Luzern.
Dinner last night was local farm-made sausages. Zero complaints.
Aka, about an hour from me.
Did you get coffee/espresso after dinner, and did they give you UHT cream?