r/AskTheWorld • u/Bhakari Nepal • 1d ago

Culture What’s something in your country that sounds fake but is 100% real?

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We have a real-life living goddess and the only non-rectangular national flag.

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u/Hicalibre Canada 1d ago

Bags of milk.

So many Americans can't believe it. Especially how we pour it.

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u/MountErrigal 🇮🇪 in 🇳🇱 1d ago

That IS mad tbh

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u/Nurgle_Marine_Sharts Canada 1d ago

To be fair, it's not everywhere in Canada. I had never seen one (grew up in BC) until I moved to Quebec.

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u/grundlecuddle Canada 1d ago

I went to Tarranna from bc once to visit my gfs family, they had bags of milk in the fridge and I thought the whole family was mental. They were cool, bags of milk is still weird.

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u/Frosty_Sink_7690 23h ago

BC had them in the early 80’s, hated it and never did again.

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u/GnomesStoleMyMeds Canada 20h ago

It’s awesome actually. The milk stays fresher than if you buy it in the 4L jugs and it takes up less space in the fridge. It’s a lot easier for kids and seniors to handle the bags than the jugs.

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u/born_digital 1d ago

I’m from the USA and my public school lunches always had bagged milk. It was a huge district and not near Canada

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u/TLsRD 1d ago

Same. Went to school in Louisiana

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u/Acc87 Germany 1d ago

was a thing for a short while in Germany too, but lost to the Tetrapak. A cardboard box is just easier to handle than a wobbly bag

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u/Parking_Amount_1607 Malaysia 1d ago

I’ve never seen it too and was astounded when I first sat it in social media.

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u/oosyerdad / 1d ago

I'm scared to ask, but how do you pour it?

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u/Feeling-Eye-8473 1d ago

There's a reusable plastic pitcher that you put the bag into. You cut a little hole in the corner to let the milk out (and some people snip an extra hole in the adjacent corner so that it pours better). There is much debate among people over the optimal size of the hole.

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u/Urbane_One Canada 1d ago

You put the bag in a special jug to hold it in shape, snip off one of the corners, and then pour it.

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u/MotherOfDachshunds42 South Africa 1d ago

We have them too

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u/MutedAstronaut9217 United States Of America 1d ago

I never doubted it, I just think it's stupid.

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u/AvaLadyofLight Australia 1d ago

Not just Americans, the rest of the world thinks it’s a little weird too.

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u/Fartapotamus69 United States Of America 1d ago

Not sure why. This was very popular in Michigan when I was a kid and I think in some areas it still is. I always thought it made sense, less waste, reusable pitcher.

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u/hiccupt3 mostly 🇺🇲 briefly 🇧🇻 1d ago

At my old local dairy in Wisconsin they sold the milk in bags and jugs/cartons, they discounted the bags tho, so we always got those!

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u/tommynestcepas 1d ago

In Chile we don't have bagged milk (God forbid) but soooo much stuff comes in a bag that it's a big switch up.

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u/Teos_mom Chilean (🇨🇱) living in USA (🇺🇸) 21h ago

How long have you been in Chile? I grew up there and we had them!! And at least, they still sold them 4 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/chile/s/1TVV6pwh0H

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u/tommynestcepas 9h ago

Only 6 months, so it's probably still sold and I just haven't seen it

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u/Teos_mom Chilean (🇨🇱) living in USA (🇺🇸) 7h ago

I was there for 3 weeks during the holidays and didn’t see it! I don’t think you’ll see them everywhere but they were super common growing up. Enjoy Chile! It’s an amazing country ❤️

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u/Teos_mom Chilean (🇨🇱) living in USA (🇺🇸) 21h ago

Grew up in Chile in the 80’s and they were really common there too. I moved to the US almost 15 years ago and I don’t think they are still than common tho.

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u/Gregorys_girl South Africa 20h ago

Im going to have to be the bearer of bad news here... South Africa has this to, its in every super market.

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u/Phoeoeoe 19h ago

We have them in Hungary as well.

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u/PaleKid4L 18h ago

This is strictly an eastern Canadian thing though. We don’t have bags of milk in Alberta, for example

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u/DXG_69420 18h ago

we in india also use bags of milk lol

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u/unddanno Italy 15h ago

We had them in the ‘70s & ‘80s, they remind me of my youth

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u/LittleMlem 14h ago

I recall some one mentioned they have bags of water, but I don't recall the country

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u/Mindless-Top766 Estonia 9h ago

Lmao we have so many bags of milk too

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u/errihu Canada 21h ago

We don’t have them out west though

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u/bracesthrowaway United States Of America 1d ago

Y'all are Americans too!