March 22nd, 2009
Another CMX Suite repeat…
This is another “CMX Suite” - the weekly strip I do for Community MX. This one ran during the summer of 2006 when I accompanied my daughter’s Girl Scout troop on a camping trip one weekend.
All the Canadian “milk in a bag” jokes are a running gag I throw out at a lot of the Canadian Community MX partners. In certain parts of Canada, they package their milk in, literally, a bag and me… being the stuck up American… just finds that so, well, WEIRD! Don’t you?
-Chris
Currently listening to “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen from The Watchmen soundtrack…
March 22nd, 2009 at 12:44 am
When I was in college in Lansing, Michigan, in the late 70s - early 80s, the local dairy store chain sold milk in 1/2 gallon bags. They also sold a special pitcher to hold the bag. You placed the bag into the pitcher, and then cut a corner of the bag off to make a spout. After serving, you tucked the cut corner of the bag into a notch in pitcher, where a pouring lip would have been on a regular pitcher.
It worked well, and the milk was a lot cheaper than milk in cartons or plastic jugs, or even return-for-deposit glass jugs. Needless to say, on a student budget, that’s what I bought.
Now drinking milk from a bottle in a brown paper bag, that would be degenerate!
March 22nd, 2009 at 2:50 pm
qka,
Actually, that’s EXACTLY the way the Canadians who do purchase milk in a bag do it too. I just kid my Canadian friends that it’s still damn weird. LOL!
-Chris
March 23rd, 2009 at 1:45 pm
when i was in school, back in the 90’s, they switched our cartons out for bags. white, or chocolate, it was a bag, and you stabbed your straw into it (like the old capri sun “pouches”)
needless to say, it took 1 lunch period for us to figure out how to shoot milk spouts halfway across the cafeteria, and make milk bombs.