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Nell Merionwen
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milk pouchesIn Sainsbury's they have staarted doing pouches of milk in 2 pints. You buy the specially made jug (around £2) and pop the pouch in. It uses 75% less packaging. Personally I'm rather happy with it. The jug is very no mess and no nonsense too. The only problem I see so far it they only seem to do this in semi skimmed milk. Why do no other supermarkets do similar?
Anyone else use them?
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Rob R
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Hell no, there ain't no supermarkets selling raw milk
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gardening-girl
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I do if we are near Crewkerne.They do the same system in Waitrose.
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gz
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Calon Wen started doing this in the 90s if I remember rightly.
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Midland Spinner
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My sister used to work for a farmer who packed jersey milk in bags like this. I remember one Christmas morning she came back home with a huge bag full of bags of jersey milk, the only problem was that we didn't have the proper jug!
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windyridge
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Guernsey and Jersey used and discarded this system many moons ago. I am really suprised anyone is introducing them again. One of the problems was the packs leaked in storage. If a pack was dropped it sometimes exploded everywhere. Very messy
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cir3ngirl
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Tescos do it as well but only in one of the 3 shops they have here. Which mean I can only get a bag if I can get a lift to almost out of town store
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Rob R
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My sister used to work for a farmer who packed jersey milk in bags like this. I remember one Christmas morning she came back home with a huge bag full of bags of jersey milk, the only problem was that we didn't have the proper jug! |
Who was this? (the Jersey herd, I mean)
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Dee
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I get organic milk delivered in bottles to my doorstep. Easy peasy...
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gz
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lucky you!
Where are you?
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Green Rosie
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I get my milk brought to the school bus stop . It's raw milk straight from the farm that the farmer's wife brings along when we drop the kids off for school.
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Bulgarianlily
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I remember thinking this was a good idea when I saw it used in Canada in 1967. What has it done, hopped slowly on one foot backwards across the atlantic?
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BadgerFace
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When I lived in Somerset during the 70's - 80's the milk from the local shop came in bags, we had a funny oval shape blue plastic jug that the bag fitted in. I seem to remember a few exploding bags on the kitchen floor - the dogs liked them !
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Midland Spinner
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My sister used to work for a farmer who packed jersey milk in bags like this. I remember one Christmas morning she came back home with a huge bag full of bags of jersey milk, the only problem was that we didn't have the proper jug! |
Who was this? (the Jersey herd, I mean)
I don't think I ever knew the name of the farm or the herd, it was yonks ago and I was still at school.
We lived down in Kent at the time, and AFAIR the farm was somewhere like Ivy Hatch, but she only worked there for a short time.
catbaffler
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When I lived in Somerset during the 70's - 80's the milk from the local shop came in bags, we had a funny oval shape blue plastic jug that the bag fitted in. I seem to remember a few exploding bags on the kitchen floor - the dogs liked them !  |
I lived in Bristol during the mid 70s and have similar recollections though sadly I lacked the canine cleaning assistants
Ginkotree
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Remember these from days gone by too..not something that caught on for long as much mess...love having milk delivered to my door and hope my milkman does not retire ..
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dpack
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never seen one ,how odd
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Kenworth
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We had this in our high school in the mid '70's. If I remember correctly, the bags didn't have a specific spot for the straw to be inserted.
The only milk in bags that I know of now are what are in large bags that are for restaurant use. They are set in a crate and the crate is inserted in a cooler. They have a nipple on the bag that sticks out of the cooler. The nipple is snipped and some type of locking divice at handle on the outside controls flow.
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