It
might not seem to be a big grievance, but since it’s a frequently reoccurring
one, it actually is.
Milk
in a bag.
Why,
oh why?
It’s
impossible to keep it in the fridge without spilling. It’s not easy to pour
from a full bag of milk either. And there is no way you can drink straight out
of the bag. Not to mention that they often leak, all the way from the store to
your fridge.
I
hate milk in a bag.
Not
long after I came to live in Honduras,
about fifteen years ago, I visited a friend in Tegucigalpa. She had a special milk
container. It was just an oval sized pitcher, slightly bigger than a bag of
milk, with a handle on one side. So you put the bag in the pitcher, cut off a
corner and pour. Perfect! Since then, I’ve never stopped looking for a similar
“milk pitcher”. To no avail. Although the country is inundated by all kinds of
plastic pots, tubs, buckets and other brightly coloured vessels from China, the milk
container seems to be extinct. So my milk bags keep slouching over in the door
of my fridge, leaking its contents over jars of olives and pearl onions onto
the floor. My dog doesn’t mind, but I do. And there’re not a lot of fun crafts to
do either, with an empty milk bag…
And
another nuisance, related to the topic: the Christmas packaging. Every year,
the two big milk companies, Sula and Leyde, come out with a Christmas edition
of their milk bag, usually with a red coated reindeer, some bells and snowflakes.
But they always print way too many of those bags, so we drink “Christmas Milk”
way into February, when summer has already started. Great publicity.
I’d
never thought that a simple milk carton could be a subject of nostalgia…
We started using yogurt containers to hold our milk and they are perfect. It helps to prevent problems in the fridge and makes it much easier to pour the milk. We have also looked for the milk containers but apparently they were a promotional giveaway a few years ago by Sula and no one seems to sell them. Hope that helps. :-)
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