Some, but not enough, Prince Edward Island residents are mourning the loss of Triple-Milk after its maker wound down its production, CBC reported Monday.
Amalgamated Dairies’ (ADL) Triple-Milk, a product unique to P.E.I., was pasteurized, homogenized, concentrated milk with 66 per cent of its water removed.
Unlike evaporated or condensed milk, Triple-Milk was a fresh product that could be mixed with coffee or tea straight from the carton or mixed with two parts water to make regular milk, while taking up less fridge space in the meantime. It also wouldn’t separate once it was reconstituted, ADL said.
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“Why carry home all that extra water?” the company wrote on its web site at the time.
ADL CEO James Bradley, quoted by CBC, said Triple-Milk was developed over 50 years ago at the request of Canadian Forces Base Summerside, which wanted food products that could travel in condensed form.
Bradley told CBC the product, so far as he knew, was unique in Canada, but demand for it among consumers had “dropped to a point where continued production is no longer economical.”
The Summerside company — shareholders of which include dairy farmers who actively deliver to the plant — stopped making Triple-Milk last month and the product is no longer listed on its web site.
ADL has drawn some complaints over the decision, but a company can’t keep losing money on a product, no matter how much some people come to rely on it, Bradley told CBC.
