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Particularly popular in Canada
by internet2000 3y ago
Particularly popular in Canada
- rcme 3y agoI always buy tetrapak in Canada.
- Scoundreller 3y agoLike, room-temp stable UHT Tetra-Pak? Where?
- somerandomqaguy 3y agoMostly eastern Canada I think. Fell out of favor in central and western Canada a while ago.
- vlovich123 3y agoInterestingly they seem to be a lot less prominent in grocery stores than I remember the past few years I’ve visited Toronto. Carton milk seems to have gained popularity/prominence on store shelves.
- Scoundreller 3y agoBut look at the prices... a 2L carton will cost like 70-80% of 4L of bags.
- LeeroyWasHere 3y ago7,56 $ (4L) Bags 4,29 $ (1x2L) Box Still saving a 1$~ / 12%
- ComputerGuru 3y agoWhy is your milk so expensive compared to the USA? After an extended price hike due to the volatility of core consumer goods inflation, a 3.78L US gallon of milk is now back to sub-4 USD.
- Scoundreller 3y agogovernment-authorized, legally-enforced cartel/"supply management". In Canada, high prices are good for you! Walmart.com has 3.78L for US$2.52 in Buffalo, ~100 miles from here in Toronto, making our milk 62% more expensive.
- thsksbd 3y agoIts a cartel. But, honestly, the quality of Canadian diary is one of the few things Canada has going for it. I remember first tasting sour cream in the US - yuck. I thought Id accidentally bought the light versions. (In cheese the US regains the advantage though - Quebec cheese is decent , but doesn't hold a candle to European cheeses that are available in US grocery stores for much lower prices)
- nucleardog 3y agoAlso like… what sort of dairy industry would we have otherwise? The US is right next door to… everywhere here. Anything we can do, they can _probably_ do cheaper. Do we want access to basic staples to be at the whim of US policy and production? I know we’re basically joined at the hip anyway (our economy is basically as a cheaper source of manufacturing and services for the US… and resource extraction for the US), but if we want to keep up the idea of being a separate nation it’s probably good we can at least provide basic staples for our own populace.
- jessriedel 3y agoMilk cartel. > The dairy sector is different because since the 1970s it has been subject to supply management. Basically, it’s a government-sanctioned cartel: The Canadian Dairy Commission dictates the precise amount of milk produced every month in the country and uses this top-down control to keep dairy prices artificially high. Similar systems are also in place for chicken, turkey and eggs. > The Canadian dairy sector can do this without fear of international competition because foreign imports are subjected to prohibitive tariffs of up to 300 per cent; this is why border guards will often explicitly ask you if you have any cheese in your luggage (and why the police keep busting cheese-smuggling rings). https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/first-reading-why-milk-of-all-things-is-canadas-most-terrifyingly-powerful-lobby https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/first-reading-why-milk-...
- Scoundreller 3y agoIt's actually worse at my local Toronto Walmart: Sealtest 4L = $5.89 Sealtest 2L = $5.18, or $10.36 for 4L as 2L cartons.
- Viper512 3y agoWhen I lived alone there was commitment in buying 4L of milk. 2L carton was about the same price.
- chongli 3y agoI live in Ontario. I pay $4.49 for 4L of fine-filtered 1% milk in bags. That's 52% of the price you would pay for 2 of those 2L boxes.
- Aerroon 3y agoThe price difference gets even bigger with smaller amounts in Estonia: 1l carton €1.15 1l plastic bag: €0.79 This is the same milk from the same producer from the same store. On a shelf these two products will be next to each other. Same store also sells a €0.59/l milk in plastic bags that basically tastes identical. (They probably buy it from the same place the others do.) So if you're shopping cheap you can pick the €0.59/l or €1.15/l milk here.
- dc3k 3y agoI wish it was popular nation wide. We don’t have them in BC. The 4L jugs take up so much more space.
- gaudat 3y agoI'm pretty sure they have paper carton / plastic jug ones in BC. Oh I miss these... It is practically impossible to keep the milk fresh after the bag is opened.
- wenc 3y agoI used to live in central Canada. The milk in bags with the corner snipped stay fresh for about a week. In a 4L bag, there are usually 4 1L bags. It doesn't take a week to get through 1L. If one is obsessed with absolute freshness, one can attach a clip to the snipped corner, but I don't know anyone who does this.
- seszett 3y ago> It doesn't take a week to get through 1L. For us it does, though, it was always a problem for me when I lived in Canada. Here in the EU my UHT milk can stay open in my fridge for several weeks and still be good. I also prefer the taste compared to pasteurizer milk, since that point will inevitably be brought up by people who always find the milk they are used to to be the only good milk that exists. I prefer UHT because it tastes closer to raw milk.
- wenc 3y agoWell, 1 glass = 250ml, so 1L is 4 glasses. That's really not a lot. Milk in bags probably last more than a week (the opening is very small so there's not a lot of air that gets in), but I've never not finished milk in under a week so I can't say.
- seszett 3y agoI've never met anyone who drinks 250 mL glasses of milk, though. I put maybe about 10 mL in my coffee once a day, and need 500 mL or 750 mL when baking crêpes. Sometimes in cereals but that's not very often.
- timbit42 3y agoIf you pull up on the opened corner and then squeeze it shut with your fingers, it will stay closed until you pour from it again.
- wenc 3y agoMilk bags make environmental sense. Sure the plastic may or may not be recyclable, but the bags are so much lighter than glass, and a little lighter than cardboard, as well as being more efficient with space -- it's saves on transportation CO2 in so many ways. As well, unlike Tetrapak, empty bags don't have to be cut up or compressed. They just naturally take up so little space. We really should ship more liquids in bags.
- timbit42 3y agoThere is also less plastic in milk bags than plastic jugs. Cartons also have plastic on both the inside and outside to make them waterproof. I think the cartons have less plastic than the bags but it is harder to recycle either the cardboard or the plastic because they are fused together.