Jan 26 2009
Milk in a Box
The latest thing identified as what we miss most is a good glass of milk. Milk in the stores is the ultrapastuerized milk in a box. Now the good side is you don’t have to worry about running out of milk because you keep it on the shelf until you open it. The bad side is it doesn’t taste quite like milk. Now trust me, it has come a LONG way. Back in 1991 when I first went to Japan, the choice was predominantly filled milk. There was not a single thing nice thing I could say about filled milk so milk in a box really isn’t so bad. But it is different and not what you really want with your morning bowl of cereal. Yesterday we were in S&R, the Philippines version of a Sam’s club, and they had some fresh milk. No clue what country it was from, but we didn’t look long. It was more than $4 for a half gallon and I refuse to establish a trend in buying it. OK call me cheap but that’s just a bit more than I plan to pay for milk when we have a workable substitute. I paid almost $10 for a small bag of shredded morarella because I could not come up with a substitute for it on pizza. The Milk in a Box works just fine for me!
