If it’s so good for you, why does it need a marketing board?

Here now, for the edification of my American friends, are the mysteries of the Milk Bag revealed.

Please, use this information wisely.

This is what a bag of milk looks like.

It is located at the *back* of the grocery store, so you have to pass by all the really good foods, like cookies, to get to it. The bags come in other colors, too, but the milk inside is different. Not much different, except the chocolate milk. Note the handy label in two languages. It also says the quantity, 4 L, which means 4 liters. About a gallon, give or take a sip.

Opening the big bag by removing the plastic bread-bag-tab-looking thing, you can see it actually contains three smaller bags. How They divided 4 liters into three bags is beyond me, but I don’t question Them very often. Once my grandmother had a small bag that leaked, so she wieghed each bag to see which was lightest, and therefore leaking, so I can smugly tell you each bag weighs about a pound.

They even sell special plastic holders for the bags. Each bag is used one at a time, as most household only have one holder. Not because they are expensive due to some kind of monopoly on the market, no. To have more than one milk bag holder would just be silly. The remaining bags will wait patiently in the big bag until they are needed. It might not be immediately obvious, but a small corner of the bag has been snipped, opposite to the handle, which makes pouring milk out of the bag much easier.

I know. You have better tv shows, and we have milk in bags. Somehow, we can still be friends.