The LAUSD started using these back when I was in the 1st or 2nd grade, so it was in 1995 or 1996. I remember that someone came to each classroom and demonstrated how to perforate the plastic with a straw. They are definitely fun to handle because they’re so jiggly in my hands (padum pum!). Needless to say, when I entered junior high, I got along with people who found that by biting open one of the white milk sacks and squeezing the milk out through the little hole, it was similar to a male organ releasing a liquid.

They also make great milk grenades. Throw them far enough and they’ll splat if they hit the concrete. I’ve never done that myself. ;)

Looks like the stuff we used to give prisoners when I was a police dispatcher in St. Joe County Indiana. I guess it was safer to give them plastic with pointy straws than cardboard with no straw.

What does ICME mean? ;)

I lived in Jerusalem for a bit as a child. It was standard there for milk to come in a bag. (We’d put the whole bag in a pitcher and then cut off one corner with scissors to pour it out.) Though this is the first time I’ve heard of single serving bags.