school milk

[Richard1978]

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While I was at secondary school from 1989 to 1994 they switched from bottles to cartons.

[Arran]

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The only people I have encountered who had milk in bottles at primary school in the 1990s went to a school in my locality. Everyone from elsewhere had milk in cartons. I'm now thinking that the small bottles must have been very localised in the 1990s and cartons were the usual packaging.

[trip2themoon]

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Whats tepid milk.

Milk we got was lovely really icy cold and came in small bottles.

Probably the nicest milk i ever had.

I cant remember ever having it in cartons.



We never ever had soured milk cant imagine it tasted nice.

Slightly warm.

[darren]

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Whats tepid milk.

Milk we got was lovely really icy cold and came in small bottles.

Probably the nicest milk i ever had.

I cant remember ever having it in cartons.



We never ever had soured milk cant imagine it tasted nice.

[trip2themoon]

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School milk put me off milk for about a decade. It would be brought into our class at about 10 past 9 but we weren't allowed to get our carton until after 1st playtime: 10:45. Tepid milk is bad enough but getting a carton that's soured is indescribably awful.

Carton used to have jungle animals on them and there used to fights over the best animals (gorillas, cobras, lions). You always got a slagging if you were left with a giraffe or a zebra.

[Arran]

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The milk bottles. Not sure if this is in a school or not.

[Richard1978]

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Where I work has a "book club" that often has other items.

One is a set of small milk bottles in a crate

I found it on Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vintage-Kitc.../dp/B010AWTAQM

[Arran]

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This photo looks quite recent but I have no idea where or when it was taken.

[Arran]

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Fantastic colour footage here although it's from the 1960s.

http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-...tivities-1966/

[Richard1978]

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There's a shop in Manhester which sells pint bottles with the bottoms removed as lampshades.

[Arran]

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There seems to be a craze at the moment for glass school milk bottles for flower vases or at parties and countless places sell reproductions at high prices. I amassed a collection of milk bottles from my primary school to drink out of at home and comparisons with reproduction bottles reveals that none of them are identical to the real thing so they can't be being manufactured with the same tooling.

[darren]

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Not for too long tho or it would go off.

I was amazed how cold it was like it had been kept in arctic conditions..

SOMETIMES IT HAD A NICE CREAMY TASTE YUM.

our milk in primary school was left outside the classroom in plastic crates

[amethyst]

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Our milk in primary school was left outside the classroom in plastic crates

[Trickyvee]

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Ours was never refrigerated. It got delivered and left outside then the monitors would go and collect it for the class. It was always reasonably cold thanks to our weather but sometimes a bit warm in summer when it had been hanging around enough. Never to the point of actually going off though.

[darren]

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I sure remember during the summer that the school milk i got was very cold.
It near give me a sore head.:d

and remember we got milk everyday which makes it more amazing.
Man we where so lucky.

i've often heard that many schools didn't have a fridge bit enough to keep all the milk in, so it just had to hang around until it was served, which meant in the summer it was turning into cottage cheese.

I never remember having a problem with how fresh it was, so my schools must have been able to store it chilled or it was delivered only shortly before.