Unfortuantely the video isn't working for me, but I grew up in Canada and yes...milk can be purchased in plastic bags (usually it's 3 bags sold in a big bag). Most every Canadian (when I was a kid anyways) had a hard plastic rectangle receptacle with a handle that the bag went into. Canadians also have the option of buying the carton or containers of milk, but the plastic bags cut down on a lot of waste.
Those enormous milk dispensers they use in cafeterias use milk in bags. They even have a long plastic teat that they snip the end off and you use for dispensing.
I sometimes drink wine out of a bag. The bag sits in a cardboard box, but still, it is just a plastic bag. What is wrong with doing the same thing with milk? The plastic jugs most people use in the US uses a plastic that leaches into the milk when exposed to light and causes cancer, (it makes it taste funny too,) I don't know why we think THAT is a good idea. Milk in cartons is safe, as in wine in a bag in a box.
But like good wine, good milk comes in glass bottles.
The bags don't pour well and they tend to shift in the pitcher as you are pouring, resulting in a milk tsunami. The pitchers would get nasty if you didn't clean them after each bag. The unopened bags do not stand up in the fridge, so one gallon of bag milk takes up as much space as two or three gallons of jug milk.
Ask anyone over 35 or so, Americans had bag milk. What may have killed bag milk in this country is that the bags are not recycleable.
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Gotta get back to Canada. It's the little differences....
"hahahahah. yep! milk in a bag! runner up to the beer store for cool canadian quirky things."
But like good wine, good milk comes in glass bottles.
Ask anyone over 35 or so, Americans had bag milk. What may have killed bag milk in this country is that the bags are not recycleable.