Kingdom of Knuffel

So I guess we DO have bagged milk here somewhere then looool. It remains a cryptid to me here on the west coast.

unless your hole is excessively huge, then it's spill galore!

This would definitely be me, I guarantee it hahaha

Or you could have the milk come in a jug or carton and not have an additional item required?

We used to have milk bags when I was a kid.
That was fresh milk though, it only lasted a day or two or something like that.
But now the most common package is a brick, for UHT milk.

We mostly still use the glass bottles for milk here, because there are.... I guess seven or eight? Dairy farms within a ten mile radius of my house and all of them try really hard to build up brand loyalty -using fancy glass jars and high initial price but a discount on the next purchase if you return the bottle is a way to keep people coming back (since they don't buy the bottles back outright but only give a credit, it's a loss if you don't go back to them).
Marketing-wise I don't know how effective it actually is.
In practice though, at least there's less waste from the containers?

Milk in bags simply MUST be a newer thing, though, since I very much doubt it was available in that format before plastics became common.

Well, tetrabrick is probably even more modern than plastic, so.


I remember using returnable glass bottles for a number of things.
It was starting to go out of fashion when I was a kid, now you hardly see it anymore.
Which is a shame imho.

I had so much fun as a kid to put the glass bottles in the machine in which you could return them. I was allowed to keep the money as allowance I loved it XD

My family had cows a lifetime ago and we still must have the big metal jugs they used to move the milk somewhere in my house.
I think a few years before I was born no one in my village even bought milk.

I still remember buying milk here.
UHT milk just does not taste the same as fresh boiled milk.
And that cream! Oh, that cream was just something else.

Now it's all more convenient though. Which is also good.
But the memories of the old times are kind of romantic in their own way.

.... that's an interesting case of your brain tricking you!
It's funny that it would be a sight which would do it, instead of a smell. Milk that's gone bad has such a strong and distinct scent. But I guess if you were never exposed to milk that really had gone bad, you wouldn't have the comparison and it would be the sight instead of the odor. Huh.
That's really fascinating!

I love how intricate and flexible the human brain is. Sometimes it trips us up, as in your story, but it can also pull off the most incredible feats!