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This April Fool's Day prank really sucked me in!

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I checked only to fulfill my duties as a moderator. 馃槜
 
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Best prank seen on internet forums yet!
 
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We used to buy milk in bags in Ontario, you鈥檙e not allowed to in BC though 馃槵
 
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We used to buy milk in bags in Ontario, you鈥檙e not allowed to in BC though 馃槵

Milk is bags is still a thing here - has been for probably 40 years...
 
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Milk is bags is still a thing here - has been for probably 40 years...
Wine in a bag (inside a box) was once the brunt of jokes. Now wine in a bag (pouch they call it) is upscale for the backpackers and campers. From trailer trash to traversing trails.
 
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We used to buy milk in bags in Ontario, you鈥檙e not allowed to in BC though 馃槵

Found on the 'net. (For oldies like me, I clearly remember milk bags in BC.)

According to the BC Dairy Council: "The rigid plastic jug was already established in the United States, and began to show up in BC as a result of cross-border shopping. Its popularity led dairy processors in BC and Alberta to start selling milk in rigid plastic jugs. Consumer acceptance of the jugs was very high -- in addition to being safe, convenient and easy to handle, they were positioned as the 'price fighter' in a suddenly competitive retail marketplace (retail price controls having disappeared in most provinces by the early 1990s). In a relatively short time, jugs supplanted plastic bags as the container of choice, along with cartons which continued to dominate the smaller (two litres and under) formats.

However, Ontario was still subject to a 'legacy' regulation which stipulated that companies distributing milk in rigid containers greater than two litres in size were required to charge a refundable deposit at point of sale. The regulation dates back to the 1960s and has had the effect of maintaining the market for flexible plastic containers (i.e., bags) in the province which manufactures them. Over time, dairy processors, who much like other businesses went through a protracted period of consolidation, standardized production in rigid plastic jugs (primarily four litres) and paperboard cartons (primarily two litres and under) throughout most of the country -- except in Ontario where the regulation ensured that plastic bags continued to dominate the large formats. "
 
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^^^ Yes, before we had bags, milk came in the old opaque plastic jugs. There was a deposit on them. I can't recall exactly when they disappeared, but bags have been dominant (along with cartons for smaller amounts) for a very long time.

Speaking of April Fools, snowed today - can't imagine this is anything but a cruel joke...

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Thankfully it didn't snow for long.
 
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I remember milk in glass bottles. And milkmen. 5 years from now it will probably be a thing again.
 
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I remember milk in glass bottles. And milkmen. 5 years from now it will probably be a thing again.
It is here already. A local creamery does delivery to hipster houses (we have quite a few hipsters here).
 
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