Part of the reason for milk bags comes from the time Canada was transitioning to the metric system. | cbcradio
Yet there are areas of the country where the concept of four litres of moo juice coming in transparent, jiggly bags is the most inexplicable thing about life in Eastern Canada.
"Whenever I have American friends visiting, they think the milk in my fridge is totally ridiculous," said CBC reporter Jonathan Pinto. "In Detroit, milk comes in jugs."The reaction is similar for people who come eastward from western provinces. She quickly realized the issue wasn't that every grocery store she visited was just out of what she thought was universal — the four-litre hard plastic milk jug."After going to people's homes and seeing that everyone had these bags of milk, and they cut them open on the corner and drink milk out of this pitcher… well, I just thought this doesn't make any sense. Why would they do it like this?" asked Yamach.
Retrofitting assembly lines or replacing heavy glass bottles was an expensive prospect for the milk industry, and milk bags — which they were already experimenting with — could be easily and cheaply adjusted.
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