THE GREAT WHITE WATERFALL

Milk bags. It's a Canadian thing. I might have thought it was odd as a kid, but now I look at it and think, who thought that was a good idea? Is the amount of trash you save by serving milk in a plastic bag really worth it? (Yeah, probably, actually. They're way cheaper to make, use and reuse than jugs or cartons, as long as you're not a total hamhanded klutz.

So no, then.)

If you've never used milk bags before, and you plan on moving to Canada, Here's a how-to for drawing milk from a bag.

Needless to say, there's nowhere else I've heard of on Earth that delivers milk in flimsy plastic tubes, and it certainly never made it to New York, where a sturdy container is the sine qua non of proper milk delivery. (According to ITV, they do it in India and Switzerland, and they've tried it in England. I stand corrected.)

I miss them, in the way you miss anything figuring prominently from childhood, but I remember the mess when a bag would rupture at the supermarket and some poor sot would have to hose down the rest of the bags and clean out the dairy case.

Go ahead and laugh.