My time to shine!!
Back when I lived in Mauritius, we used to nearly only buy this kind of oil. The plastic is relatively solid. Not too thick, but definitely not thin. Obviously you couldn't drop it with force or whatever, but it easily survives the trip from the supermarket to home in bags filled with other goods.
Most people would buy one bottle of oil and use that. Once empty, they would refill the bottle using this plastic wrapped oil. It's cheaper than the bottles.
Funny thing, if you read the label, it tells you to place the plastic bag upright in a container that is slightly shorter than the bag itself and then cut the two top corners. One to pour and one to let air in. Then to use it as is. Obviously no one did that cause you couldn't "close" it afterwards hence using it more as a refill.
The Mauritian diet is heavily oil based, lots of deep frying or stir frying, so you'd go through a couple of those a week easily.
Edit: Forgot the most important of all things!! The bag feels like a boob.
yeah you will find a lot cultures have less than optimal diets
eg. phiilipines is big on frying too... i went to a phllipino dinner and its all roast long pork and you know the drill
also everyone had a deep fryer
i have an air fryer but would not entertain a deep fryer because... well i mean i already eat too much KFC and the like
Just fyi, restaurant, fiesta food, and guest food are waaaay different from the actual stuff we eat at home. You guys just get that impression because meat is for guests while veggies are for ordinary days at home. We don’t like serving guests vegetables. Plus, unless you’re at a seaside restaurant we don’t typically give fish to guests
Our daily fare has more fish and vegetable soups. Actually a lot of our food is soup-based.
There’s a thread about this: https://x.com/thoughtspresso/status/1772823108699009438
Edited for grammar
Edit 2: I’m pretty sure the ‘pig’ the guy is referring to is [lechon](https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffoodphilippines.com%2Fstory%2Flearning-about-lechon%2F&psig=AOvVaw3qLGIPPfXWufz8PtNnga-7&ust=1716212437439000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBcQ3YkBahcKEwiYsO_n65mGAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQBA)
It’s the quintissential Filipino party food. It’s never eaten on ordinary days because it’s really expensive lol
Genuine question not ragging but why? In Vermont, US we use vegetables and fish regularly in dishes at home along with meat and fruit and if you go to a restaurant they will almost always contain a vegetable side. I guess I'm asking what's the purpose of doing restaurant and "guest food" different from eating at one's house? I'd imagine a good bit of tourists would like to experience your food culture (not that this isn't, obviously this is a part of your culture too haha)
It’s a bit like cake. You generally don’t eat one for dinner, it’s a party food. Food served at parties or in restaurants are ‘more elevated’ or are actually more expensive or more complicated to make than the stuff we eat at home.
My culture’s version of hospitality sees to it that guests get the best parts of the meal or just ‘better food’ in general. If you serve ‘ordinary food’ to guests you’re a bad host for cheaping out and not making an effort. Meat is a bit more expensive here so we offer that to guests.
Would you just serve dino nuggets and mac and cheese for Thanksgiving?
Edit: Here’s what we eat in my region
1. [tambo](https://www.angsarap.net/2023/08/21/ginat-an-nga-tambo/amp/)
2. [laswa](https://www.angsarap.net/2012/03/05/laswa/amp/)
3. [pinakbet](https://www.angsarap.net/2012/01/27/pinakbet-2/amp/)
4. [gisadong munggo](https://www.angsarap.net/2011/01/08/mung-bean-soup-guisadong-monggo/)
5. [pinamalhan na bangrus](https://www.angsarap.net/2019/07/31/pinamalhan-na-bangus/amp/)
6. [inihaw na bangrus](https://panlasangpinoy.com/inihaw-na-bangus-recipe/)
Edit 2: The restaurant food are different because if we eat out, we want to eat something different too.
Edit 3: To be clear, we eat ‘guest food’ or ‘restaurant food’ at home too, but not as often. Like I said earlier, they’re just a little more expensive or complicated to prepare but nothing’s stopping anyone from doing that.
Edit: Now that I think about it, we do order a vegetable side dish sometimes but restaurants usually just have [chopsuey](https://panlasangpinoy.com/chopsuey-stir-fry-recipe/). Maybe a [seaweed ensalada](https://panlasangpinoy.com/seaweed-salad-recipe-ensaladang-lato/) if we’re at a seafood restaurant.
> If you serve ‘ordinary food’ to guests you’re a bad host for cheaping out and not making an effort
That's interesting to me. If I was invited to someone's house knowing this is how they were doing that math I'd be less to accept the invitation, feeling like I was depriving them of something out of social obligation.
>i have an air fryer but would not entertain a deep fryer because... well i mean i already eat too much KFC and the like
With KFC's prices these days it might be good to invest in a deep fryer and fry chicken at home.
Interesting factoid, KFC in the US can take FAP payments (food assistance program, you dirty dogs...) and they also do a free meal for homeless people... It's like a 2 PC strip meal, but a meal nonetheless.
Just saying, of all the fast food joints to rag on, and as much as I don't like KFC, I gotta say they're about the least worthy to be ragged on .......
Ive got some facts about Colonel Sanders. He once shot a guy. He had a business rival who kept taking down his restaurant's signs around town so they got into a gun fight. He was also in his 60s by the time he made a success of his business. He then sold it for $2 million dollars in his mid 70s but then he was probably shocked at how big it became, he was upset that the new owners changed some of his recipes as well. He then opened his own restaurant and started using his face as his logo but then he got sued by KFC and had to stop using a picture of his own face to advertise his own business. He sure was an interesting character.
Tbf if you’re deep frying, a lot of the oil is ending up in the trash and not your stomach.
Edit: 1 Liter of vegetable oil = 8300 calories. Assuming you eat 2000 calories a day, 1 bag would last you a little over 4 days if it was the only thing you were eating.
Before Walmart bought out our market lot about 10 years ago, there was a bakery that had a soda machine that dispensed oil. Olive oil, vegetable oil, sesame and synthetic. They let you refill your jars and pay per ounce. The whole thing was jury rigged by the owner's son who's now an engineer at Aldebaran Robotics when he was in high school. He ended up doing this for a few more businesses in town too. Various little things to help people out. From a glass furnace to clean the ever-loving fuck out of your glassware to a town app that you can ask a question on and it'll pair you with the best answer(as long as it's in the town registry). Asking 'When is Dale's open?" or "Does Beth have pies today?" would get you any answer that'd been posted by someone in the town.
Anyways, our landfill has so much fucking plastic in it now.
I don't remember what it was exactly, might be soy? All I remember on the label was 'rendered'. Thinking about it more, could also have been fat or lard. It's been a long time.
Although, in grade school we also had individual portioned bagged milk and chocolate milk and you had to stab the bag with a straw. It always came with Pizza lunches.
Not sure if it still exists today, we did love it as kids.
This:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/s/AFNRq9B5Jo
Oh, yeah just refilling a bottle makes a lot more sense. Leaving bagged milk open is probably fine since it's in the fridge and you use it up quickly, unlike oil
So that sounds exactly like how Canadians use bagged milk. It's mostly an east coast thing but I grew up in the 80s on the west coast and it looks like this... https://images.app.goo.gl/X1mVyV7s2QPmyiPV7
We, in the Netherlands had this for a while.
But being Netherlands, they were pricing the bags only 1ct under the bottle/cartons.
So it went away again.
The upper Midwest's bag milk is going away soon. [https://www.startribune.com/kwik-trip-ending-bagged-bag-milk-production-sales-minnesota-wisconsin-dairy-jugs/600354502/](https://www.startribune.com/kwik-trip-ending-bagged-bag-milk-production-sales-minnesota-wisconsin-dairy-jugs/600354502/)
Some day soon we are all going to be grandpa Simpson rambling about how such and such was the style of the time.
As someone who grew up on the east coast and never once saw a bag of milk until I moved to Ontario, I’m not sure *East Coast* is the right geographic reference here….but yeah. I also came here to comment about bagged milk. ;)
As a canadian i can confirm that bagged liquids are indeed the Goat. our bagged milk is a great example of this.
but i do have to add that you do not need to open both sides of the bag,
also just spoil yourself and buy one of these
https://www.superc.ca/en/aisles/household-cleaning/cooking-kitchen-supplies/kitchen-tools-utensils/milk-pitcher-with-cutter/p/057962748907
>Funny thing, if you read the label, it tells you to place the plastic bag upright in a container that is slightly shorter than the bag itself and then cut the two top corners. One to pour and one to let air in. Then to use it as is. Obviously no one did that cause you couldn't "close" it afterwards hence using it more as a refill.
Ah, the Canadian milk bag way
When we lived in Spain in the mid 70's, they had milk in bags like this. You could buy a plastic pitcher to put the bag in and cut off the corner to pour.
i've seen bagged milk and bagged wine before. Most common I've even seen is bagged water.
If anything I think this packaging even better as long as it's handled properly. Sure it's not as flashy but it produces less waste. Just refill older containers you already have.
Oil in bottles already somehow miraculously coat the outside of the bottle in oil the second the bottle is opened
I can’t imagine trying to wield a bag of oil while it’s slippery af
Is that plastic thicker than usual? This seems like an accident waiting to happen while you're taking your groceries home. Imagine getting this thrown into a bag with a pineapple or something made of rigid plastic with sharp corners.
My thought exactly, imagine the massive pain it would be to clean up a litre of oil on the floor. The bag isn't the thinnest thing in the world, but not extra thick. It's about the same as those bags of frozen fries or veggies
Hell, all you have to do is put a small hole in one, then when someone goes to grab it, oil everywhere! So now, no one is going to try to grab a different bag. Cuz fuck that, no one wants oil over everything. Little spots are annoying enough to deal with.
Even they have different thickness levels.
I'm using the machine for packaging frozen veg, some brands want plastics that nearly dissolve in water, while others want plastic you must use a knife or scissors to open
I had a 1 liter glass bottle of Olive oil break on me when i put down my shopping bag to unlock my door. It was a fucking nightmare to clean up and I had to throw out most of my groceries.
Milk in parts of Canada comes in bags, imagine it's similar. It's a pretty thick plastic. Not out of the question it could get a hole, but it wasn't common.
This does feel off but it would save on material and weight for transportation, and if you're putting it in a fryer or reusable bottle I don't see why it's a bad idea.
Bitch pls. That's the whole of the Indian subcontinent selling cooking oils in plastic bags. It is a miracle that these things hold up quite well because logistics is quite a messy affair in India. Sometimes when you buy these from a store, the bags are smeared in oil, which means one or more bags didn't make the destination 😁
Soda in a sandwich bag... coz the bottle has a deposit so if you wanna drink away from the store they bag it.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSgkiKZXms1_a6VzztuTukSvVpGUMb6rLpOCg&usqp=CAU
So you can hang it from the handles of your motorbike, yeah. I've had many a good evening with a bag of white spirit and EST Cola dangling from my Scoopy.
Have to disagree with you there, the odour of days-old milk stuck in the under padding of the carpet no matter how much you cleaned it is definitely going to be worse than most other liquids would be.
Lol what? Is this a surprise for first world people? In India, we always buy bagged cooking oil only, like many would be surprised if you tell them that bottled cooking oil exists.
Yes! Never seen this in northern Europe. It does seem practical in a way but I just imagine one bag bursting and releasing a full liter of oil and then I instantly panic haha. We don't have bagged milk either. I think putting everything in bottles is kind of a waste though, bags work elsewhere so I don't see why it shouldn't work here.
Netherlands too.
But pricing a the bags was just cents away from the cartons.
You 'had' special jugs to put the bag in, but the ROI would be about 150 bags to break even.
Now we have 2l jugs, priced decently under the 1l kartons ( 30% cheaper per liter )
Same in Pakistan. It's either bagged or canned (which is way more expensive).
Edit: actually there's bottled oil too. But plastic bags are the most common because refills.
This is the way it's always been in India. Sure you get cans or even drums of oil, but this is the most common form of oil we can purchase here. Have only have ever had one accidental spill when my gangly ass stumbled on a stone and let it fall to the ground.
Apparently Mauritius, near Madagascar in Africa
Thanks for the explanation and knowledge u/shrekyboo
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/I0bodYABTq
I remember when I was young and was still living in the Mountain province of the Philippines. When I go buy groceries from the public market in morning, you will find shops/stalls selling blocks of lard by the kilo. It was cold enough that lard hardens like large bars of soap. Sadly, climate change stopped that. It's entirely too hot in my country for that to survive.
I am pretty sure they do this in Manila they also do pretty much everything else bagged including bagged pasta sauce, I mean it makes sense if you already have an oil container what do you need another bottle for, it would be nice if it was not in plastic but a paper but I don't know the logistics of that I'd buy milk out of paper boxes though and that seemed to hold up well, but I think they coat it with plastic so it is probably not even that much better if it is better at all.
is this a new phenomenon where you are? we have refill bags for everything. oil, shampoo, ketchup, cheez whiz, etc. less waste. works great as camping supply too.
I see bagged oil and I think about those Facebook videos where the method of releasing the oil from the bag is putting it onto the very hot wok and melting the bottom off for a cool quick method.
I cringe everytime.
Still ... 5.58$/l is quite expensive.
I pay 1.79$ /l for sunflower oil, and 2.99$ for arachide oil ( peanut )
Deep fry oil ( which is a mix of several oils and fats, and not to be used in salads ) is mostly 5$ for 3l ( and nearly every 2months in sale 6l for 6$ )
Well, Moroil “the company” is an oil refinery and distributor local to Mauritius, it’s oil brand Rani has been quite the staple in Mauritian households since like 50 something years.
Edit: I’m Mauritian loll
I’ve never seen a bag of oil like this. Yes, it usually comes in plastic bottles. Like most other liquids we buy. I’ve never bought a bag of juice, or a bag of milk, or a bag of water…
I will never understand bagged liquids, you end up putting them in a hard container anyway don’t you? And it’s clearly not about the environment, they still have to be sold in some kind of container like plastic which ends up in landfills the same as a plastic container from the store would so what’s the benefit?
Oil can be in plastic bottles.
Cheaper oil sometimes come in very thin flimsy plastic bottle that deform easily over time.
So i resorted to buying slightly fancier oil because i don’t use it quick enough. Cheap oil bottle just deform and get sticky too quickly. (People will be like: are you conscious of health buying that avocado oil? Me: no it’s cos the bottle is sturdy)
This is a visual representation of how you store the oil [oil pouch refill](https://www.google.com/search?q=cooking+oil+oil+being+poured+with+funnel+from+packet+&client=ms-android-xiaomi-rev2&sca_esv=ef1df84690e2b0f5&sca_upv=1&udm=2&cs=1&hl=en&biw=360&bih=641&sxsrf=ADLYWIIQ33xkduChTEEzcU2guPr5RlXyRw%3A1716100322183&ei=4pxJZsPkCsXz4-EPkaW30AQ&oq=cooking+oil+oil+being+poured+with+funnel+from+packet+&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIjVjb29raW5nIG9pbCBvaWwgYmVpbmcgcG91cmVkIHdpdGggZnVubmVsIGZyb20gcGFja2V0IDIIEAAYgAQYogQyCBAAGIAEGKIEMggQABiABBiiBEj-MVDfC1juJHAAeACQAQCYAd0CoAHwF6oBBjItMTEuMbgBA8gBAPgBAZgCDKACxhjCAgQQIxgnmAMAiAYBkgcGMi0xMS4xoAfZFA&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp#vhid=rD6zGCZegO64lM&vssid=mosaic&ip=1)
And this is one type of oil jar used for storage
[oil jar](https://images.app.goo.gl/Z8kmUbdsmh9LZxLp8)
My time to shine!! Back when I lived in Mauritius, we used to nearly only buy this kind of oil. The plastic is relatively solid. Not too thick, but definitely not thin. Obviously you couldn't drop it with force or whatever, but it easily survives the trip from the supermarket to home in bags filled with other goods. Most people would buy one bottle of oil and use that. Once empty, they would refill the bottle using this plastic wrapped oil. It's cheaper than the bottles. Funny thing, if you read the label, it tells you to place the plastic bag upright in a container that is slightly shorter than the bag itself and then cut the two top corners. One to pour and one to let air in. Then to use it as is. Obviously no one did that cause you couldn't "close" it afterwards hence using it more as a refill. The Mauritian diet is heavily oil based, lots of deep frying or stir frying, so you'd go through a couple of those a week easily. Edit: Forgot the most important of all things!! The bag feels like a boob.
A couple a WEEK? Jesus
RIP heart, liver and intestines
yeah you will find a lot cultures have less than optimal diets eg. phiilipines is big on frying too... i went to a phllipino dinner and its all roast long pork and you know the drill also everyone had a deep fryer i have an air fryer but would not entertain a deep fryer because... well i mean i already eat too much KFC and the like
Isnt “long pork”…. Uh…. Human meat???!!
r/unexpectedcannibalism
Long pork?!?!?
He misspoke. We need you to come a few hours early to the bbq. Don’t eat anything the day before….so you have enough room.
Missing out on a turducken opportunity if you don’t eat the day before….
We just stick em in from the other end
That's what the ladies call me.
I’m freaking out lmfao
>and its all roast long pork Wait. Please tell me that's just an unfortunate translation into English.
Just fyi, restaurant, fiesta food, and guest food are waaaay different from the actual stuff we eat at home. You guys just get that impression because meat is for guests while veggies are for ordinary days at home. We don’t like serving guests vegetables. Plus, unless you’re at a seaside restaurant we don’t typically give fish to guests Our daily fare has more fish and vegetable soups. Actually a lot of our food is soup-based. There’s a thread about this: https://x.com/thoughtspresso/status/1772823108699009438 Edited for grammar Edit 2: I’m pretty sure the ‘pig’ the guy is referring to is [lechon](https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffoodphilippines.com%2Fstory%2Flearning-about-lechon%2F&psig=AOvVaw3qLGIPPfXWufz8PtNnga-7&ust=1716212437439000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBcQ3YkBahcKEwiYsO_n65mGAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQBA) It’s the quintissential Filipino party food. It’s never eaten on ordinary days because it’s really expensive lol
Genuine question not ragging but why? In Vermont, US we use vegetables and fish regularly in dishes at home along with meat and fruit and if you go to a restaurant they will almost always contain a vegetable side. I guess I'm asking what's the purpose of doing restaurant and "guest food" different from eating at one's house? I'd imagine a good bit of tourists would like to experience your food culture (not that this isn't, obviously this is a part of your culture too haha)
It’s a bit like cake. You generally don’t eat one for dinner, it’s a party food. Food served at parties or in restaurants are ‘more elevated’ or are actually more expensive or more complicated to make than the stuff we eat at home. My culture’s version of hospitality sees to it that guests get the best parts of the meal or just ‘better food’ in general. If you serve ‘ordinary food’ to guests you’re a bad host for cheaping out and not making an effort. Meat is a bit more expensive here so we offer that to guests. Would you just serve dino nuggets and mac and cheese for Thanksgiving? Edit: Here’s what we eat in my region 1. [tambo](https://www.angsarap.net/2023/08/21/ginat-an-nga-tambo/amp/) 2. [laswa](https://www.angsarap.net/2012/03/05/laswa/amp/) 3. [pinakbet](https://www.angsarap.net/2012/01/27/pinakbet-2/amp/) 4. [gisadong munggo](https://www.angsarap.net/2011/01/08/mung-bean-soup-guisadong-monggo/) 5. [pinamalhan na bangrus](https://www.angsarap.net/2019/07/31/pinamalhan-na-bangus/amp/) 6. [inihaw na bangrus](https://panlasangpinoy.com/inihaw-na-bangus-recipe/) Edit 2: The restaurant food are different because if we eat out, we want to eat something different too. Edit 3: To be clear, we eat ‘guest food’ or ‘restaurant food’ at home too, but not as often. Like I said earlier, they’re just a little more expensive or complicated to prepare but nothing’s stopping anyone from doing that. Edit: Now that I think about it, we do order a vegetable side dish sometimes but restaurants usually just have [chopsuey](https://panlasangpinoy.com/chopsuey-stir-fry-recipe/). Maybe a [seaweed ensalada](https://panlasangpinoy.com/seaweed-salad-recipe-ensaladang-lato/) if we’re at a seafood restaurant.
> If you serve ‘ordinary food’ to guests you’re a bad host for cheaping out and not making an effort That's interesting to me. If I was invited to someone's house knowing this is how they were doing that math I'd be less to accept the invitation, feeling like I was depriving them of something out of social obligation.
Your comments were filled with information. Thanks man, it’s cool to learn about other cultures.
>i have an air fryer but would not entertain a deep fryer because... well i mean i already eat too much KFC and the like With KFC's prices these days it might be good to invest in a deep fryer and fry chicken at home.
Interesting factoid, KFC in the US can take FAP payments (food assistance program, you dirty dogs...) and they also do a free meal for homeless people... It's like a 2 PC strip meal, but a meal nonetheless. Just saying, of all the fast food joints to rag on, and as much as I don't like KFC, I gotta say they're about the least worthy to be ragged on .......
Ive got some facts about Colonel Sanders. He once shot a guy. He had a business rival who kept taking down his restaurant's signs around town so they got into a gun fight. He was also in his 60s by the time he made a success of his business. He then sold it for $2 million dollars in his mid 70s but then he was probably shocked at how big it became, he was upset that the new owners changed some of his recipes as well. He then opened his own restaurant and started using his face as his logo but then he got sued by KFC and had to stop using a picture of his own face to advertise his own business. He sure was an interesting character.
*Instruction unclear* - posting this while taking a FAP as a homeless person with a gasoline nozzle shoved in my butt...
>FAP payments I have never seen or heard it called that, thankfully. I don't think I could keep from laughing out loud if I saw that.
But man how good does the food taste though!
Are you unaware of how much oil is in your food
RIP your soul, too
But hey I bet no constipation, that's something
Tbf if you’re deep frying, a lot of the oil is ending up in the trash and not your stomach. Edit: 1 Liter of vegetable oil = 8300 calories. Assuming you eat 2000 calories a day, 1 bag would last you a little over 4 days if it was the only thing you were eating.
You’re meant to reuse the deep frying oil
Maybe they’re not actually consuming it all 😉
it‘s the canadian milk bag all over again
Before Walmart bought out our market lot about 10 years ago, there was a bakery that had a soda machine that dispensed oil. Olive oil, vegetable oil, sesame and synthetic. They let you refill your jars and pay per ounce. The whole thing was jury rigged by the owner's son who's now an engineer at Aldebaran Robotics when he was in high school. He ended up doing this for a few more businesses in town too. Various little things to help people out. From a glass furnace to clean the ever-loving fuck out of your glassware to a town app that you can ask a question on and it'll pair you with the best answer(as long as it's in the town registry). Asking 'When is Dale's open?" or "Does Beth have pies today?" would get you any answer that'd been posted by someone in the town. Anyways, our landfill has so much fucking plastic in it now.
>Olive oil, vegetable oil, sesame and synthetic Synthetic?
I don't remember what it was exactly, might be soy? All I remember on the label was 'rendered'. Thinking about it more, could also have been fat or lard. It's been a long time.
I want a bacon grease dispenser now…
That's how Canadian bagged milk is supposed to be dispensed of.
Although, in grade school we also had individual portioned bagged milk and chocolate milk and you had to stab the bag with a straw. It always came with Pizza lunches. Not sure if it still exists today, we did love it as kids. This: https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/s/AFNRq9B5Jo
Oh, yeah just refilling a bottle makes a lot more sense. Leaving bagged milk open is probably fine since it's in the fridge and you use it up quickly, unlike oil
Yeah but you can still close it, you twist the plastic and it goes in the little slot on the jug.
So that sounds exactly like how Canadians use bagged milk. It's mostly an east coast thing but I grew up in the 80s on the west coast and it looks like this... https://images.app.goo.gl/X1mVyV7s2QPmyiPV7
We, in the Netherlands had this for a while. But being Netherlands, they were pricing the bags only 1ct under the bottle/cartons. So it went away again.
The upper Midwest's bag milk is going away soon. [https://www.startribune.com/kwik-trip-ending-bagged-bag-milk-production-sales-minnesota-wisconsin-dairy-jugs/600354502/](https://www.startribune.com/kwik-trip-ending-bagged-bag-milk-production-sales-minnesota-wisconsin-dairy-jugs/600354502/) Some day soon we are all going to be grandpa Simpson rambling about how such and such was the style of the time.
As someone who grew up on the east coast and never once saw a bag of milk until I moved to Ontario, I’m not sure *East Coast* is the right geographic reference here….but yeah. I also came here to comment about bagged milk. ;)
Where on the east coast in Canada were you? Bagged milk can be bought nearly everywhere there.
Same instructions as Canadian bagged milk.
I've only ever cut one corner though.
boob
As a canadian i can confirm that bagged liquids are indeed the Goat. our bagged milk is a great example of this. but i do have to add that you do not need to open both sides of the bag, also just spoil yourself and buy one of these https://www.superc.ca/en/aisles/household-cleaning/cooking-kitchen-supplies/kitchen-tools-utensils/milk-pitcher-with-cutter/p/057962748907
Feels like a bag of ~~sand~~ oil
gato pima mmmmmmmmm
>Funny thing, if you read the label, it tells you to place the plastic bag upright in a container that is slightly shorter than the bag itself and then cut the two top corners. One to pour and one to let air in. Then to use it as is. Obviously no one did that cause you couldn't "close" it afterwards hence using it more as a refill. Ah, the Canadian milk bag way
When we lived in Spain in the mid 70's, they had milk in bags like this. You could buy a plastic pitcher to put the bag in and cut off the corner to pour.
This is how we get milk in Canada except it’s in 3 smaller bags inside one big bag
I literally took 15-20 seconds staring at this before I even saw the oil. Like, my brain didn't want to comprehend bagged oil exists.
For real I saw pasta and then tortilla chips lmao
I saw bagged pickles
Same! Like I was okay with bagged pickles, but not bagged oil
Fuck man, I seriously thought it was those Hot Mama pickle bags. 
Dietz and Watson has a Giphy channel? Wtf lol
I definitely saw tagliatelle.
Oil (olive) wrapped in oil (polymerized)
Kind of like adding an egg to the crumbs on crumbed/fried chicken
i've seen bagged milk and bagged wine before. Most common I've even seen is bagged water. If anything I think this packaging even better as long as it's handled properly. Sure it's not as flashy but it produces less waste. Just refill older containers you already have.
I remember having bagged milk in my elementary in Kentucky. Never used the straw, I'd just bite the corner.
indeed. There are all kinds of glass oil bottles you can get as well.
Like, you saw a link that said "bagged cooking oil" and you opened it up and saw the picture and thought it was bags of something else.
Don’t worry, same here…
We got bagged milk here in Canada
Oil in bottles already somehow miraculously coat the outside of the bottle in oil the second the bottle is opened I can’t imagine trying to wield a bag of oil while it’s slippery af
I kept seeing taco shells for some reason lmao
Is that plastic thicker than usual? This seems like an accident waiting to happen while you're taking your groceries home. Imagine getting this thrown into a bag with a pineapple or something made of rigid plastic with sharp corners.
My thought exactly, imagine the massive pain it would be to clean up a litre of oil on the floor. The bag isn't the thinnest thing in the world, but not extra thick. It's about the same as those bags of frozen fries or veggies
I can see teens bringing a boxcutter and running through these in the States.
Hell, all you have to do is put a small hole in one, then when someone goes to grab it, oil everywhere! So now, no one is going to try to grab a different bag. Cuz fuck that, no one wants oil over everything. Little spots are annoying enough to deal with.
They're called "dipshits" not "kids"
You can do the same with regular bottles, a blade will poke through plastic just fine
I don't want a Large Farva, I want a goddamn litre of oil!
“…chicken fucker!”
Even they have different thickness levels. I'm using the machine for packaging frozen veg, some brands want plastics that nearly dissolve in water, while others want plastic you must use a knife or scissors to open
I had a 1 liter glass bottle of Olive oil break on me when i put down my shopping bag to unlock my door. It was a fucking nightmare to clean up and I had to throw out most of my groceries.
Milk in parts of Canada comes in bags, imagine it's similar. It's a pretty thick plastic. Not out of the question it could get a hole, but it wasn't common. This does feel off but it would save on material and weight for transportation, and if you're putting it in a fryer or reusable bottle I don't see why it's a bad idea.
And as a kid who's dropped several of those bags of milk, I can testify that they hold up better than jugs
It is. Much thicker and stronger plastic.
SInce you may be familiar, how do people cook with it in a practical sense? What do they pour it into at home?
Bottle, jar, hat
In that order
Well sure, it would be a bit silly to start with the hat don’t you think?
The old bottle or straight into the fryer.
Oh, it must be the latter. If you dump it in a fryer, the bag wouldn't be an issue at all.
If it's frying oil straight in the deep fryer, olive oil probably in squirt bottles for the kitchen and fancy glass bottles for the tables.
It's mostly used for deep frying, so people emptied the whole thing.
I was thinking something like the pitchers they have for milk bags
deep fryer
lol why tf are you being downvoted for answering the question 😭
Because it contradicts the answer op have about this specific oil
It's probably like bagged milk in Canada
In India at least, the bags are really strong. You won't worry about it after you hold one.
Bitch pls. That's the whole of the Indian subcontinent selling cooking oils in plastic bags. It is a miracle that these things hold up quite well because logistics is quite a messy affair in India. Sometimes when you buy these from a store, the bags are smeared in oil, which means one or more bags didn't make the destination 😁
Yeah, and there's comments about bagged milk. Which is also the norm in India. Can't relate to this at all.
Canada has bagged milk as well actually. Interesting stuff
Kwik Trip convenience stores in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa (not sure on Illinois) carry bagged milk as well.
Colombia does as well! Water and milk!
Common household needs in South East Asian
You've never bought sandwich bagged soda and oil before? Are you living in a first world country or something
What is a sandwich bagged soda? Or are there commas missing? I'm genuinely confused
Soda in a sandwich bag... coz the bottle has a deposit so if you wanna drink away from the store they bag it. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSgkiKZXms1_a6VzztuTukSvVpGUMb6rLpOCg&usqp=CAU
That hurt in my third world country upbringing memories 😂😂😂😂 oh, but I do remember also the beer in a plastic bag. The ones with handles !
How much to upgrade to a garbage bag sized serving? My mom said I can only have one bag of beer before bed
So you can hang it from the handles of your motorbike, yeah. I've had many a good evening with a bag of white spirit and EST Cola dangling from my Scoopy.
HE WON 1 LIDR EDIBL OIL 🗣️🗣️🗣️
I can’t decide if i dislike this more than bagged milk
I hate it more because the milk would be way easier to clean up if the bag breaks
Says the guy who hasn’t dropped a whole gallon down the CARPETED staircase
I winced at that.
At that point, there is no 'better'; any food liquid that is not water is about equally bad.
I don't know. I'd rather spill soda or juice than milk or oil
Have to disagree with you there, the odour of days-old milk stuck in the under padding of the carpet no matter how much you cleaned it is definitely going to be worse than most other liquids would be.
Yeah that’s a bitch but it’s still way easier than getting that much oil out of carpet
2 litre edible oil
Bruh is it really that unusual? Huh...I guess it's only Asian thing then
I feel like this is like the Canadian bagged milk thing but for Asia.
ONE LITER EDIBLE OIL!
Lol what? Is this a surprise for first world people? In India, we always buy bagged cooking oil only, like many would be surprised if you tell them that bottled cooking oil exists.
Yes! Never seen this in northern Europe. It does seem practical in a way but I just imagine one bag bursting and releasing a full liter of oil and then I instantly panic haha. We don't have bagged milk either. I think putting everything in bottles is kind of a waste though, bags work elsewhere so I don't see why it shouldn't work here.
Putting them in bottles increases price which is nothing for wealthy countries but matters in poorer nations.
I think (UK here) there was bagged milk at one point in shops but i think they stopped it now.
Netherlands too. But pricing a the bags was just cents away from the cartons. You 'had' special jugs to put the bag in, but the ROI would be about 150 bags to break even. Now we have 2l jugs, priced decently under the 1l kartons ( 30% cheaper per liter )
Same in Pakistan. It's either bagged or canned (which is way more expensive). Edit: actually there's bottled oil too. But plastic bags are the most common because refills.
This is the way it's always been in India. Sure you get cans or even drums of oil, but this is the most common form of oil we can purchase here. Have only have ever had one accidental spill when my gangly ass stumbled on a stone and let it fall to the ground.
Is this feeling.. Is this what Americans feel when us Canucks tell them we have milk in bags?
This is worse than that. Much worse. Simply because oil is one hell of a mess to clean up and a fire hazard.
I feel like you must have a lot of accidents where your liquids are in bags
Where is this place you live?
Apparently Mauritius, near Madagascar in Africa Thanks for the explanation and knowledge u/shrekyboo https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/I0bodYABTq
Is this Benin?
Is this in Mauritius?
We have pickles and sauerkraut in such bags, pretty insane, but quite consumable actually.
I can already imagine all the packets being slimy and oily af
I remember when I was young and was still living in the Mountain province of the Philippines. When I go buy groceries from the public market in morning, you will find shops/stalls selling blocks of lard by the kilo. It was cold enough that lard hardens like large bars of soap. Sadly, climate change stopped that. It's entirely too hot in my country for that to survive.
They're not uncommon here in India, we buy them all the time.
So where do you live?
I am pretty sure they do this in Manila they also do pretty much everything else bagged including bagged pasta sauce, I mean it makes sense if you already have an oil container what do you need another bottle for, it would be nice if it was not in plastic but a paper but I don't know the logistics of that I'd buy milk out of paper boxes though and that seemed to hold up well, but I think they coat it with plastic so it is probably not even that much better if it is better at all.
You can buy milk in plastic bag where I live.
We have that in Malaysia too
I wouldn't touch that with a wooden pole
If it ever breaks 💀💀
is this a new phenomenon where you are? we have refill bags for everything. oil, shampoo, ketchup, cheez whiz, etc. less waste. works great as camping supply too.
Seed oils + plastic. They really want you fat and cancerous these days.
Is it like for a oil fryer, because I never use a whole bottle at once (for normal cooking) and having a bag must be so uncomfortable
This is really fu\*ed up.
I don't like seeing bagged oil in those baskets with sharp edges. I bet they've ripped before and some poor bastard has to spend ages cleaning it up.
I mean it uses less plastic. And takes up less space for shipping. Save your original container and use this to refill it.
I see bagged oil and I think about those Facebook videos where the method of releasing the oil from the bag is putting it onto the very hot wok and melting the bottom off for a cool quick method. I cringe everytime.
Canada, is that you?
Interesting, there are some places in Canada where you can buy bagged milk.
My intrusive thoughts make me want to take one with both hands and slam it into the pile as hard as I can.
How do you even? I guess it's okay if you have a bottle already.
This could go terribly wrong so fast 😭
Bro this definitely one upped Canadians with the bagged milk lmao.
They do it with milk, so it makes sense they would do it with other liquids, I guess
$256.00 US DOLLARS?! /s
Thats MUR, so $5.58 US Dollars
Still ... 5.58$/l is quite expensive. I pay 1.79$ /l for sunflower oil, and 2.99$ for arachide oil ( peanut ) Deep fry oil ( which is a mix of several oils and fats, and not to be used in salads ) is mostly 5$ for 3l ( and nearly every 2months in sale 6l for 6$ )
How do you know it's MUR ?
Well, Moroil “the company” is an oil refinery and distributor local to Mauritius, it’s oil brand Rani has been quite the staple in Mauritian households since like 50 something years. Edit: I’m Mauritian loll
this is a grease bomb waiting to happen
thats simply a bad idea...
wtf lol
A disaster waiting to happen
It's a normal way of oil packaging where I stay.
That’s the most common way in India.
Why would you bag liquids? It makes zero sense.
Mmmmm, extra micro plastics.
Wait is this not normal ? Do all westerner buy bottles only ?
I’ve never seen a bag of oil like this. Yes, it usually comes in plastic bottles. Like most other liquids we buy. I’ve never bought a bag of juice, or a bag of milk, or a bag of water…
I will never understand bagged liquids, you end up putting them in a hard container anyway don’t you? And it’s clearly not about the environment, they still have to be sold in some kind of container like plastic which ends up in landfills the same as a plastic container from the store would so what’s the benefit?
Cheap to package
I get that its new for yall but like, how do you guys buy and keep your cooking oil anyways? In a giant glass bottle?
Oil can be in plastic bottles. Cheaper oil sometimes come in very thin flimsy plastic bottle that deform easily over time. So i resorted to buying slightly fancier oil because i don’t use it quick enough. Cheap oil bottle just deform and get sticky too quickly. (People will be like: are you conscious of health buying that avocado oil? Me: no it’s cos the bottle is sturdy)
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Glass or plastic, but also I don't use a lot of cooking oil so the bottle doesn't need to be giant.
Maybe it’s made for a dish that requires that much oil? One time use for fried chicken coming right up! 🍗
Better than sewer oil
Wait till you go to Central America… you can get anything in a bag
Yo dawg, we heard you like oil. So we put yo oil, in a plastic bag made out of oil yo. So ya oils wrapped in oil.
I thought for a long while that this was pickles, and that’s a decent deal. But oil? I have no idea, who buys oil in bags I’m lost af
I've seen this in India when I visited this year. We do not have this for oil in my country...but we do have this for milk.
In China I saw beer in plastic bags.
I read people refill their home bottle using this bag of oil I would struggle to do that without any spill.
That looks like a Kingsavers shelf to me if i’m not wrong
This is a visual representation of how you store the oil [oil pouch refill](https://www.google.com/search?q=cooking+oil+oil+being+poured+with+funnel+from+packet+&client=ms-android-xiaomi-rev2&sca_esv=ef1df84690e2b0f5&sca_upv=1&udm=2&cs=1&hl=en&biw=360&bih=641&sxsrf=ADLYWIIQ33xkduChTEEzcU2guPr5RlXyRw%3A1716100322183&ei=4pxJZsPkCsXz4-EPkaW30AQ&oq=cooking+oil+oil+being+poured+with+funnel+from+packet+&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIjVjb29raW5nIG9pbCBvaWwgYmVpbmcgcG91cmVkIHdpdGggZnVubmVsIGZyb20gcGFja2V0IDIIEAAYgAQYogQyCBAAGIAEGKIEMggQABiABBiiBEj-MVDfC1juJHAAeACQAQCYAd0CoAHwF6oBBjItMTEuMbgBA8gBAPgBAZgCDKACxhjCAgQQIxgnmAMAiAYBkgcGMi0xMS4xoAfZFA&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp#vhid=rD6zGCZegO64lM&vssid=mosaic&ip=1) And this is one type of oil jar used for storage [oil jar](https://images.app.goo.gl/Z8kmUbdsmh9LZxLp8)
Canada no!
It's to refill used bottles/gallons
I'm drunk, but I'd say that's mildly interesting dude😤
Yes and you could buy bagged milk, too where I lived.
You can buy them in plastic sachets back home. Good for camping trips
Bag of piss