Just wanted to clarify something here about Canadians… So you put your milk in bags but your vodka goes into milk jugs?
Bagged milk isn’t common in Edmonton, 4L jugs just like this are ubiquitous in Alberta. That’s more of a
BC+Ontario+Quebec thing. I can’t remember if the Maritimes do it now.That being said, I’m not sure if you could store vodka in a bag, with booze being so controlled. I suppose boxed wine is a bag inside.
I haven’t seen bagged milk in BC either
Oh, maybe not then. I only know it was available out there at some point.
I have a vague memory of seeing bagged Island Farms milk in one grocery store on Vancouver Island but it would’ve been over 20 years ago. I only ever knew one family that bought it, and they were complete weirdos across the board.
Bagged milk isn’t common in Edmonton,
In the last 30+ years it’s only really common in Ontario.
Back in the late 70s it was tested across the country, but only for a few years.
But, apparently, what happens in Toronto means that it must be normal in the entire country, according to the rest of the world…
Ah yes, Toronto, Canada’s largest and only city. /s
Good to know. I’m guessing the information I had about BC was from the late 80’s, but it’s possible it was just that guy’s specific family. I’ll have to ask older people I know if it was ever a thing here.
you buy milk 4 L at a time?
No…that would be insane. 1 US gallon is only 3.78541178 liters.
surely your milk can’t be that precise
I just used kagi to search for the conversion, and thought the long decimal was funny.
But now that I think of it, does Canada make it’s own 4 L jugs so they can be accurately advertised or do they just use the US 1 gal jugs and call it a 4 L out of convenience but then write in fine print on the bottom that it’s actually 3.79 L?
Unless that is actually a 4L jug of vodka, couldn’t someone sue for misrepresenting the amount of product being sold?
Someone’s liquid here is probably not precise. And I’m going to guess it’s the one claiming to be a larger volume with an additional manufacturing cost.
I got a terrible hangover just looking at this picture
If you need a cheap 40% ethanol solution for some reason, this is a decent bargain.
I don’t recommend drinking it.
Dozer makes it. It’s good for two things, degreasing engines and killing brain cells.
doesn’t alcohol kinda dissolve plastic?
Depends on the plastic, but most plastics are fine.
Hand sanitizer usually comes in plastic bottles and can be ethanol or isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol. Also you can buy high percentage isopropyl (and sometimes ethanol) at the drugstore in plastic bottles. Also many large bottles of liquor come in clear plastic versions.
I wouldn’t recommend using Plexiglas or acetate though. Alcohol will eat those up.
I haven’t had it dissolve plastic per se, but it definitely tastes funky pretty quickly if you’re using the sort not intended to store alcohol.
That being said several popular brands offer plastic versions of their product and it’s basically the same stuff.
its one of my things. I will drink the cheapest stuff that still comes in glass and that is my low bar.
Honestly I do the same. Even though the plastic bottles don’t impart flavor, I’m sure they leech something nasty in there.
No we get pure ethanol for the lab in plastic bottles
I was recently in Japan and found a store selling a 4L bottle of Suntory whiskey. I was shocked by it too, thing was fuckin massive.
A small cup for small family
12.50 per litre??? That’s premium price not value
Something like Smirnoff is about $30.00 for a 750ml bottle most places in Canada.
That sounds about right, I don’t buy much alcohol these days but when I did it would be around $12-15 for a 375ml of most bottom tier spirits. And I don’t remember any getting significantly cheaper/ml by buying a bigger bottle like you’d see with most other products.
Canada has alcohol taxes I think. Also those ain’t real dollars, but their local variant.
For the interested, my estimate is that $34.28 of this sticker price is liquor tax.
Federal excise is $13.93 per litre of absolute alcohol. Normally, AB provincial liquor tax is $13.76 per litre of volume, but this 4L is probably self-distributed by an AWP producer. They get reduced rates that scale based on the volume of production. Here, I’d guess it’s something like $3 per litre of volume.
Which actually makes it even cheaper.
Idk where you are getting your vodka, but low value brands in the US (Ohio specifically for me because oir state liquor board controls the proce of all spirits state wide) cost about $12 for a handle. I would agree that this is too expensive for what it is, but premium vodka like Titos or Grey Goose cost $37 for a handle, which is over double the price per liter, and those are USD, not CAD. Admittedly it has been nearly a decade since i was in an LCBO, but i know Canadian alcohol prices are al2ays higher than American ones, which is why you can’t take alcohol north across the boarder.
I can only assume when a politician says this is irresponsible that they want the price to be lower?
Nope, higher. 'Cause protectionism, of people I’m sure he’s not involved with in any way. /s
I didn’t even know it came in gallon form.
It doesn’t come in imperialism form, it is in liberté form.
I wish we could get liquor prices that good in Ontario. The cheapest bottle of whiskey or any 40% liquor is at least $31. It’s outrageous.
