The Milk in Canada

lonnarin · 03-13-05, 03:42 AM

I miss it. I haven't visited in a while and I forget what real milk tastes like.

In Canada, they sell milk in airtight sealed bags that lock in freshness from the dairy to your doorstep. Here in America, it gets poured into a plastic jug and stopped off with a little ringed plastic twist cap that continually leaks, dries and crustifies in transit. The bacteria formed from milk spoiling in the cap makes the rest of the batch taste like watered down soy in comparison. Drinking milk in Canada tastes about as good as drinking it fresh from the farm here.

Unfortunately I live in Florida, notorious for having the highest pus per liter ratio in the entire country. (and possibly world, as this is a byproduct of bovine growth hormone)

Maybe Gunky can smuggle me some Canadian milk and Aero bars. I also miss those Hostess ketchup and pickle potato chips.... oooh, and some President's Choice cola. Just got a huge Canuk craving.

orth · 03-13-05, 03:46 AM

*sends lonnarin a care package from the Great White North*

03-13-05, 04:24 AM

We can still get it in bags? Comes in cartons and plastic jugs here too but that stuff is armored tight, it'll last like 4 days past expiary. *helps Orth make the care package*

lonnarin · 03-13-05, 04:31 AM

Sweet! Thanks. heheh, I never knew you were Canadian too Orth!

My parents moved to Florida when I was one to avoid the tax rates, but the rest of the family's all in Ontario scattered from Windsor to Cochrane and North Bay. People are so much friendlier and more relaxed north of the border. Down here fights get started because the wrong people dare make eye contact... One time in a bar in Windsor I accidentally bumped into a guy, making him drop his beer. He apologized for some getting on my shoes and bought us both a round. Had the same thing happened in Florida, I would likely have been stabbed.

Also, there seems to be a Games Workshop store for Warhammer miniatures in just about every major shopping mart. I found ones in Mississauga, Toronto, Windsor, Burlington, North Bay.... they were EVERYWHERE. I guess all that Roleplaying must be what's helped make them such chill people. It's really tough to find a good game store down here, or a good comic shop. Everything's been all Walmartized and put out of business.

freemen2 · 03-13-05, 04:43 AM

Once in a while when it gets too close to the braking point and you just gotta have some real milk or you're gonna kill someone...try 7/11...yup you heard right, they sell milk in glass bottles, none of this skim or tease of a 2% but nice wholesome get yer arteries and heart pumping M.I.L.K. Enjoy

Dorganath · 03-13-05, 05:12 AM

FWIW, we get our milk delivered once a week�in glass bottles by a local dairy.� Mmmm.....good stuff...

lunchboxkilla · 03-13-05, 05:22 AM

I used to work on a dairy farm... Oh man you haven't lived till you drank milk out of the milk tank! That was the best stuff in the world!!! Heck even milk that came out of the udder was good just gotta clean the teats. yeah i am strange... I used to chase the farm's Bull around and ride him about the field on a $50 bet with the owner.

lonnarin · 03-13-05, 05:27 AM

Ah man, the milk tank! My sister's godparents work a farm in Windsor, and yes, that tank is bloody amazing. They have a huge swarm of farm cats that congregate by it drinking the drip off, and one of the funniest things I've ever seen was a cow recently unhooked from milk machine with a wee kitten licking at the drippy udders. I'm glad he didn't try batting at them with those claws!

trillex · 03-13-05, 05:46 AM

We got something called express here in Denmark, ensuring fresh milk.

The cow gets milked in the evening and cooled down in the tank, then a truck comes and takes it down to the whateveritscalled where it gets poured in cartons and transported out to the market where we at 8 am can pick up fresh milk.

Meizter · 03-13-05, 08:07 AM

yeah the milk over here is really fresh and tasty...lucky us i guess

trillex · 03-13-05, 08:16 AM

En dane!

freemen2 · 03-13-05, 12:06 PM

Aaaaaaaah man, a café au lait with milk just out of the cow, t'is divine

Qui_Z · 03-13-05, 12:54 PM

Presiden't choice is better than coke in my opinion, but nothing beats Nestea. It's nowhere in Florida though! On my vacation this year, we went to Sawgrass Mills mall for a day. I remember trying to find Nestea all day, even tried to order it at the cheesecake factory there. Lady looked at me and never even heard of it...

Murgleys · 03-13-05, 04:30 PM

I thought ice cream came from Canadian cows, not milk. Black and white bovines make vanilla and the brown ones make chocolate ice cream.

Eight-Bit · 03-14-05, 01:14 AM

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Murgleys - 3/13/2005 10:30 PM

I thought ice cream came from Canadian cows, not milk. Black and white bovines make vanilla and the brown ones make chocolate ice cream.

That's only if you leave them out in the cold overnight.

Murgleys · 03-14-05, 03:26 AM

But everywhere in Canada is "out in the cold"... ipso facto, Canadian cows only make ice cream.