A reader asked about "bags of milk" that I wrote about last week. In Honduras, milk is expensive, and regular folk don't have money to buy milk. Children typically drink coffee or Coca Cola as soon as they are weaned. Yes, I know. Scary. However, if you can afford it, milk is available in a number of containers. There is the carton, pictured above.
Then, there is the shelf stable milk for those who lack access to refrigerators.
Or you can go to the source. The choices are only limited by economics, dear readers.
8 comments:
Here in Mexico we are most fond of the second option, the containers you don´t have to put in the fridge till you open them. Seemed weird to me when I first moved here, but not anymore. It´s the only kind of milk I buy.
I wonder why the Dos Pinos brand´s box is almost entirely in English.
I was totally confused the first time I saw milk like this. What, not refridgerated?! How could this be?! After some reading, I am pretty sure this is what is called UHT milk (ultra high temperature milk) that is heated to high temps (hence, the name) and then put in vacuum sealed containers, so it will not spoil. To me, it always tasted gross. I would rather get milk from a neighbor with a cow, if one can be found!
Felipe, favor UHT milk too. It's in small containers, and I can buy several. Always have milk on hand. the Dos Pinos brand is from CR, where many things are printed in English or Spanish.
Live Simply, it is indeed UHT milk, which has never caught on in the US.
My family of 4 moved here 2 years ago next week. We have gone from 2 gallons a week to a half gallon. We buy the Sula brand that comes in a plastic jug and pretty much only use it for cooking. I throw half of it out every week when I buy a new jug. The plastic bags of milk tend to spoil the day after we open them. We use the small, juce box size for coffee and tea.
The regular milk that we buy has a grassy taste to it and no one in my family likes to drink it. Saves me a fortune on breakfast cereal.
We recently returned to the states for a 10 day visit. I and my girls had milk at nearly every meal. Good old American 2%, can't be found here fresh.
The grasses the cows eat here would be conidered weeds in the states and that effects the taste. Also, milk is produced and collected the same way here as we were doing prior to the great depression. They still use milk cans to transport the milk and hard to know how many hours it takes to be refridgerated once the cow is milked. That effects the quaility.
Anon in La Ceiba
The kids at the Milk Project seem to like the taste of Leyde better than Sula. I don't trust the milk of Honduras, as the containers in the supermarket are dirty. What are the dairy plants like if the cartons are dirty? That's one reason why I use Dos Pinos at home.
If you children are young, they need calcium. If not from milk, they shoud take supplements or eat lots of green leafy veggies.
Man, oh, man, reading this stuff makes me glad I live in Mexico. We have no milk issues.
we buy the Dos Pinos milk here in Guatemala and love it.
I love milk in a bag, we get 3 liters for 23p. And it tastes good to us. Sometimes as someone said the bags are dirty but that's on the outside so we just wash it off and move on. Most milk in a plastic jug the way I bought it in the states is to expensive. Oh and it may spoil quick but I really don't know because we drink the whole liter in a day after its opened.
Post a Comment