• unalivejoy
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    127 months ago

    I’m Canada, milk comes in bags. This could also be powdered milk.

    • @janNatan@lemmy.ml
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      57 months ago

      You drink powdered milk? We pretty much only use it in baking. It tastes off. Do you do something to make it more palatable?

        • theotherone
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          47 months ago

          And it makes a very nice white sauce liquid. That’s what happens when the summer camp gets both liquid and powdered milk on subsidy. I should make yogurt out of that blend………brb.

      • Bonehead
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        77 months ago

        The real trick is to start giving it to your kids when they are really young and never give them real milk. That way powdered milk tastes normal and real milk tastes weird to them. Or at least that’s what my parents tried to do.

        • cobysev
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          06 months ago

          I was raised on skim milk. My mother was always on a diet, so we had a lot of diet-type foods in the house.

          Skim milk is practically just water with a little bit of milk flavoring. It was my refreshing go-to drink on hot summer days. I drank almost nothing but skim milk all through my childhood. It was my favorite drink.

          The first time I had 2% milk, I thought it was melted ice cream. It was so thick and creamy! I had no clue that it was “normal” milk.

          Also, I learned in adulthood that milk makes your bones brittle. That whole “milk does a body good” thing was just advertising, not scientific fact. It doesn’t strengthen bones, it just makes them more likely to break. Makes sense; I survived off the stuff for years of my childhood and I’ve broken 9 bones in my life.

          • @Gunrigger@lemmy.world
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            06 months ago

            That’s not strictly true. While the whole “milk makes your bones strong” line was found to be greatly overstated, there’s still a lot of calcium in milk and combined with vitamin D that makes for stronger bones. Most importantly exercise improves bone density, so maybe it’s true if you chug a bunch of milk while completely sedentary.

    • Backspacecentury
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      57 months ago

      Hey! Don’t speak for all of Canada! Milk comes in containers on the west coast, just as the universe intended.

    • @SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
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      36 months ago

      That’s not entirely true. BC does plastic jugs, I had no idea milk came in bags out east til I went to visit family.

      • WashedOver
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        26 months ago

        Yes I see never seen them in BC. I think Alberta in the 80s is the first place I saw them as a kid. It was trippy as milk was in cartons or cans (Pacific Condensed Milk) but never bags. I found it messy…

        • @SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
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          26 months ago

          I had no idea what to do with a bag of milk. I did what OP did in the pix and poured it from the bag to the jug…and promptly got reemed by my aunty…

          • WashedOver
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            36 months ago

            Even just cutting the corner of the bag seemed messy but it was the preferred method?