Brown grocery bags in USA

[taliesin238]

How on earth do the Americans cope with doing all their food shopping with brown paper bags? Do you get these bags in every grocery store in USA? How about when u do your main shop? Just imagine carrying out 20 brown paper bags full of heavy bottles n all sorts!! You would have to make several journeys to the car and what if your living in a multi storey department????

[naomi24]

I love those brown bags the Americans use. They're strong, they hold more shopping than you imagine, and they don't take years to disintegrate. I don't understand your question about making several journeys to the car. You load them in a trolley, just as you do with your carrier bags.

[gina32]

when i was young thats all you ever used to have, brown paper bags with string handles!

[B00]

They've always fascinated me those brown shopping bags, along with those little white boxes of chinese takeaways they all seem to eat.

[taliesin238]

Dont get me wrong the idea of using the paper bags is much better for the environment!! How do you get all your shopping from your car into your house I mean??

LOL those little white chinese take away boxes seem well cool!! We dont have them here in Britain!!

[Miss Random]

Hi taliesin,
I've always been enthralled by the American programs that show people going home with just two of those brown paper bag thingies....
First of all, it never seems to rain there, so they don't get soggy and split.
Secondly, they never seem to contain anything bigger than a carton of eggs (how do they manage to buy economy size loo rolls and bottles of bleach and washing powder???) duh?

Now that UK supermarkets are going to charge for carrier bags due to wastage (they clearly have no idea that we re-cycle them when we use them as bin bags) we now have to use our old bags... or resort to the type of shopping baskets (and wheelie baskets) that our grannies use.
Or we will have to use those damn brown paper bags and shop every day (when it's dry) and pop them onto our fantastic open plan kitchen surface, and promptly produce a meal from scratch for a television audience.

Quiet frankly, I'm at a loss.... this is eco-friendliness in the extreme, so will just have to marry a man.... and expect him to bring home the groceries.....

Missy
xxx

[leelapops]

What a great thread this is! I love the idea of bpbs, but practically they are a faff in the UK! I do re-use carriers, and also have some shopper bags and foldaway totes that I use when shopping, to save carriers. I don't mind that at all. I LOVE the little takeaway cartons they have-everything just seems so much more, well, catered-for, in America!

Missy, I am tickled by your thread...Why would TV people need all the everyday items like loo roll and cleaning products when they actually just magically appear in their cupboards!

Soon we will have no carrier bags, and if we forget to bring our own, we will have to take a month's worth of grocery shopping home with our bare hands, like jugglers! x

[Miss Random]

I agree leela,
Some things are just too damn heavy or bulky for them paper bags.

In the absence of a good man I will also take up juggling!!!!

Missy
xx

[pastafreak]

LOL! tv people don't wipe their bums-or so we are led to believe!! so-no need for mundane things like "toilet tissue" as it is known. Funny how those BPB's always look so crisp and uncrumpled!...and no-one has a stash of old ones in their kitchen cupboard-hehe.

[funnygirl]

But you cannot carry those bags properly, they have no handles!!!