Milkmen/women

[MalcolmAndSheldon]

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@Arran

When I used to deliver milk as a weekend job, the milk which was delivered in bottles with foil tops were the standard, semi-skimmed, skimmed and full fat varieties. These weren't homogenised, as homogenised milk came in a taller, slimmer bottle which had a bottle opener cap (same with the sterilised milk). They all came in glass bottles, no plastic involved anywhere.

And yes, I was delivering semi-skimmed milk back then - and this would have been in the mid 1980s. The provider was a large privately owned firm (not Co-op or Unigate) which owned a number of dairies, both large and small, across a wide area.

[Arran]

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The only time I used to regularly drink silver top milk was at nursery and primary school. At home I had plastic bottles. There used to be several shops that sold 2 and 4 pint plastic bottles locally so not many kids at my school had milk delivered by the milkman at home although I vaguely remember a milk float doing its rounds early in the morning. I never managed to find out the name of the dairy that supplied milk to my school but it was delivered in a van rather than a milk float. It might have been an LEA supplier that bought a tanker load of milk then bottled it for schools. My cousin who lived in a different part of town originally had silver top milk from the milkman at home but around 2000 it was changed to semi-skimmed with red and silver stripe tops. Red top homogenised was around at the time and I got a bit confused between the two.

[Richard1978]

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Green Top was unpasteurised which was withdrawn in the late 1990s.

[Zincubus]

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I remember our milkman had one tray at the back with fresh orange juice (with bits in the bottom )


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[George 1978]

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These days now I have the milk in plastic bottles from the supermarket, I now associate the colour green with semi-skimmed, rather than red and silver stripes.

[zabadak]

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We only ever had silver-top milk, which had delicious cream at the top mmmmmm....

[darren]

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HARD TO BEAT THE CREAM TASTE IN A BOTTLE OF MILK.

YOU JUST DONT GET THAT IN THE PLASTIC CONTAINERS.
WHY IS THAT?

[Richard1978]

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Not long ago I spotted a milk bottle with a little amount of orange "drink" in the bottom, which was the first time in years I had seen any.

My parents never bought any, probably because it was full of sugar & E numbers.

[George 1978]

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I vaguely remember orange juice in milk bottles on the local milk float.

No milk was in the bottle at the time, you understand.

[Arran]

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Some local shops have a few bottles of silver top milk nestling alongside many plastic bottles of milk in the chilled cabinet. Always silver top and never homogenised or semi-skimmed. The price per pint is higher than milk in a plastic bottle although less than what some milkmen charge. I have been buying it to help maintain consumer demand for it.

[Twocky61]

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No milk was in the bottle at the time, you understand.

Ghostly milk? lol

[George 1978]

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Ghostly milk? lol

I meant that it wasn't a milk and orange juice cocktail in a bottle.

[Twocky61]

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I know George lol

[Arran]

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A local sandwich shop / takeaway was selling orange juice in pint milk bottles about a year ago.

[Twocky61]

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My Brother in Law had a local pub he delivered twelve pint bottles daily

That should have been from the wholesale division really