Milkmen/women

[George 1978]

I am someone who switched to UHT milk as a result of the 2020 lockdown because on some occasions it went off before I had time to finish it. I wonder whether anyone thinks that getting milk straight from the milkman has their milk a lot fresher and lasts longer rather than getting it from the supermarket?

On the other hand, the Co-op was both a supermarket and a dairy, and so by implication, it more or less came from the same place?

[Richard1978]

My Mum still has milk delivered by a local dairy.

[George 1978]

I have wondered whether milkmen (and of course milkwomen) have been put out of business in recent years due to most people getting their milk from the supermarket? - the same with the baker with bread; the butcher with meat and so on.

I have to admit that I have not seen milkmen for years; very much a 20th century thing. And it was the Co-op that supplied the milk.

[jennyb1990]

I do!!! I use the modern milkmen theyre so good, im an eco friendly freak so love this old fashioned esque method! they do other stuff too tbf xxx

[Donald the Great]

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Milk stopped being delivered in my home town in 60s or was it the 70s? I remember as a child hearing the "milko" cart rattling its way up our dirt street then the bottles tinkling as the "milko"dropped off his items at firstly the neibors and then our place. I have often wondered why milk was not later delivered in the electric carts like it has been done for decades in the UK. I also recall having a small bottle of milk every day at junior school. "drink your milk..it is good for you" the teachers espoused.

[Arran]

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

A kid at my secondary school used to drink silver top milk at iftar during ramadan. He used to buy it off a family nearby that had milk delivered by the milkman. The rest of the year he had blue top milk in plastic bottles.

[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

[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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I know George 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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No milk was in the bottle at the time, you understand.

Ghostly milk? lol

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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?