Whatever happened to Milk-in-a-Bag?

Some milk. In a bag.
Still popular in Canada apparently.

I was having a beer-fueled discussion the other day and we decided the point of differentiation between being old and young was whether or not you remember when milk came in bags. The teenaged-studenty types who work behind the bar thought the whole concept was ridiculous, but us potential-summer-wine-cast-members remember the sopping wet mass of leaking milk bags you used to get in supermarkets and corner shops which had a tendency to completely lose their structural integrity as soon as you snipped a corner off. If you were lucky, and you strategically positioned your cup of tea and cereal bowl you could catch at least some of the milk on it's inevitable downward journey to the floor.


Spar. Guilty as charged.

I seem to remember this fantastic example of packaging technology was particularly prevalent in Spar shops in Wales and Ambleside and other such places where you'd be buying the milk for camping purposes. Which somehow made the whole thing even more inappropriate.

Along then, came the evil Tetra-Pak, and milk in a bag was no more.

RIP Milk in a Bag.

Or is it?

Because while pootling around on t'interweb the other day I stumbled upon this fascinating bit of footage on the BBC's website.

It seems Milk-in-a-bag is to have it's renaissance, and shall grow to be known and loved by a whole new generation. Unfortunately however, it seems the current manufacturers have not quite grasped the concept and have tried to create a boring plastic jug system to enable easy pouring and mess-free opening. Certainly no fun in that.

Kids, ditch the jug, wrestle with the polythene-clad-liquid and enjoy Milk-in-a-Bag for it's sheer pointlessness. This is the stuff memories are made of.