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I love Milk
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We drink a lot of it. Cereals in the morning. Copious cups of tea and Horlicks at night. ::)
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I love Milk
Me too, on cereals and by the glassful. Maybe the odd milky coffee . I consider it a food I ‘d find difficult to be without hence I have it delivered to my door .
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I couldn't drink milk by the glass, but do have it on cereal and a small amount in coffee. I have black tea, as far as I'm concerned tea is revolting with milk.
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I love milk ! The creamier and colder, the better. I like to buy the Jersey stuff now and then.. I could drink it by the pint, but have to stop after half, and leave some for coffee, which I like milky and strong.
Years ago when I was deluded into thinking that skimmed stuff was better for you, husband decided rather than put the stuff in his coffee ( why bother - the coffee stayed brown ) he went without.
I got wise and stopped using that wishy washy stuff, and wouldn't buy anything else but full cream now.
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I do usually have skimmed milk, in tea, coffee and on cereal, I don't drink it on its own.
I do buy milk products, cheese, yogurt, rice pud sometimes.
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I always use skimmed milk, I much prefer it, but I'm happy to have semi skimmed occasionally.
I do love cream on puds though
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When I was young. I used to try and get the top of the milk first, before anyone else had a chance. I was always told to shake the bottle first ( but never did if I could help it !)
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I remember buying a little round rubber gadget which had a tube going through it. The longer end in the middle went in the top of the bottle (you pulled it down to where the cream ended) and the other end came out of the side. I can't remember how it worked, squeezed I think, but it then siphoned out the top of the milk which I then used on desserts etc.
I haven't found it, think it pre-dated the internet.
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I remember that Silvermist.
I only use full fat milk for milk puddings. I prefer semi skimmed in tea and coffee and I prefer skimmed if I drink it.
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Oh we would never have been allowed to take the cream, my mother poured it off into a separate jug, for puddings etc.
I remember when the bluetits first learned to peck through the lids so my mother got a box for the milkman to put the bottles in if she wasn't at the door when they arrived.
Nowadays all the milk I see seems to be homogenised, so if you want cream you have to buy it separately.
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I do remember the frozen milk when young at the door when delivered.
I am fine with semi skimmed milk now though buy at a store.
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Yes, and children putting their bottles on the radiators to thaw out.
(I freeze it now deliberately as I've started getting it delivered weekly to save such frequent trips to the Co-op, as the stuff in the local shop isn't reliably fresh.)
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I miss my 1/3 pint daily dose bottle from school days, stolen from us by that nasty lady who became future PM.
However, I must admit the classroom often stank of stale stuff especially in winter days.
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Were you ever a milk monitor Mag. ;)
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I'd already left school before that nasty lady appeared on our horizons. My milk-drinking days were long over.
I don't know how much the loss of that milk affected the younger ones, it coincided with the gradually increase of so many unhealthy habits.
(I managed to avoid the doubtful honour of being a milk monitor.)
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I do appreciate that lady enabled me to buy my house.
So thinks we just stick to milk. :)
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Only a bit on cereal for me.If I drank it it would cause me stomach cramps.
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Were you ever a milk monitor Mag. ;)
Yes, and it carried perks. You could finish off all the unclaimed bottles left in the crate.
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Better than being the ink monitor.
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- or the Tidy Monitor
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Not keen on milk, at home I have a small amount of Semi skimmed in Coffee and on cereal. I remember the small milk bottles at School, probably a third of a pint. I was thankful when the Blessed Margaret stopped us poor children from having to waste it by pouring it away. :bravo:
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I remember at senior school the milk was left in crates in the playground. In the winter you could have as many bottles as you liked but had to be quick in the Summer.
I now have skimmed milk but also Alpro,especially the Dark chocolate one.
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I'm sure ours was never left outside. But I wonder who distributed the crates to the classrooms? Too heavy for a milk monitor or even two. I think at senior school we took a bottle each on our way out, and put the empties back as we came back in after break. I certainly wouldn't have wanted more than one bottle. I can't remember anyone having more than one, or anyone pouring it out.
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Ah well, boys are a bit more competitive, we used to have drinking contests to see who could down the most number during break. It gave a good excuse to hold your hand up during a boring class and ask to be excused for toilet.
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I don't know why I remember this but I still have a picture in my head of our teacher in primary school, using a pair of scissors, partly opened, and going all around the crate of milk bottles, cutting a gouge in each one to let the straw through, then the straws were pushed in and we all helped ourselves..I loved it when there were bottles over, as some children never liked milk. ( couldn't understand that!)
Our crates were carried inside by Mr Barber, the school handyman, and we always drank the milk inside at break time. Ah, happy days..I loved the orange juice too, but not the cod liver oil we were given.
Milk. I love the stuff. But only the proper stuff.
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Drinking through straws? Cissy stuff. Never happened at my boys' school.
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Hah ! Tough little kid.
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I don't know why I remember this but I still have a picture in my head of our teacher in primary school, using a pair of scissors, partly opened, and going all around the crate of milk bottles, cutting a gouge in each one to let the straw through, then the straws were pushed in and we all helped ourselves..I loved it when there were bottles over, as some children never liked milk. ( couldn't understand that!)
Our crates were carried inside by Mr Barber, the school handyman, and we always drank the milk inside at break time. Ah, happy days..I loved the orange juice too, but not the cod liver oil we were given.
Milk. I love the stuff. But only the proper stuff.
Yes, of course there must have been a handyman who carried crates round, I can't remember seeing it done but it would have been during lessons. Heavy job, 16 classes at junior school. I can't remember anyone making holes in the bottle tops for us. I do remember the flavoured straws some children brought from home to make the milk taste of chocolate or strawberry. My mother of course would not buy those.
There were a few children who couldn't drink milk or eat custard etc. They had to have a note from the doctor (and teachers would know the doctors, you couldn't fake that). You weren't allowed just to "not like" things!
We had cod liver oil and malt, and orange stuff, at home. I don't know what was in the orange stuff we were given in a spoon. But that was only when we were very small. We drank squash, not juice, very diluted.
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Only a bit on cereal for me.If I drank it it would cause me stomach cramps.
Are you milk intolerant? It seems that you can have a little milk. Can you have milk in cakes or chocolate? My young granddaughter is milk intolerant. It is hoped that she will improve as she gets older.
Cats often are milk intolerant. ;)
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Is it milk per se, or lactose? You can get lactose free milk these days.
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I think it is milk protein.
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My sister had that problem and now has almond or soya milk.
At my first school there were big solid fuel stoves (Tortoise? and the milk crate was put near them to thaw out, Sometimes the ice had pushed up the cardboard tops about half an inch. we used the tops, which had a round punchhole, to make bobbles.
We still have a milkman who delivers Monday,Wednesday and Friday to the door in bottles.
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Fresh? and at reliable times for people who have to go to work?
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Yes fresh. No-one here goes to work.
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We still have a milkman who delivers to us three times a week.
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When I cancelled my milkman, oh, 45 years ago-ish.. I remember him saying to me 'You Ratbag !' !!!
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None round here. I did have one 20 something years ago but he was too unreliable.
I get it delivered once a week now (with my veg box), and put most of it in the freezer. More expensive, but I think it's worth the hassle.
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We had milk delivered for at least 40 years on a daily basis. They then changed to 3 times a week. We stopped several years ago-can't remember why.
Now buy a Litre every Saturday when home at Sansbury's.
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I was unfortunate enough to have been milk monitor and ink monitor.
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I remember when we used to get it at school, and in the winter we had frozen milk, but those were the days
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I got a bottle is Guernsey Full Fat in my Tesco Click and Collect order..When I got home I just had to drink half the bottle ( pint bottle ) So creamy and cold and good. Nectar of the Gods !
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I appreciate my milkman so much and I'm pleased I have never stopped my deliveries. I'm unable to leave the house at the moment as I need to be with my husband so those bottles of delivered milk are a godsend at the moment.
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I remember when we used to get it at school, and in the winter we had frozen milk, but those were the days
I expect most of us remember. I think we took it for granted then, didn't know we were lucky.
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I expect most of us remember. I think we took it for granted then, didn't know we were lucky.
Lucky?
I've always hated fresh milk and refused to drink the milk we got at school. Of course there were children who liked it, so it was usually easy enough to get rid of it without having to resort to pouring it down the drain. Some of them might also have needed it because they weren't adequately fed at home, but I don't think there were many of those even in a school with a large slum area in its catchment area.
Milk in tea or on cereal or in custard etc is a different matter. But it's definitely one of those things that needs disguising!
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Well, my mother told us we were lucky, (though they'd had plenty on the farm) and others said we were lucky when Thatcher snatched it.
I know some children had notes from doctors not to have it.
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I got a bottle is Guernsey Full Fat in my Tesco Click and Collect order..When I got home I just had to drink half the bottle ( pint bottle ) So creamy and cold and good. Nectar of the Gods !
Just came back after 2 weeks there.
Plenty of milk but not many large growers and exporters of tomatos now. Lots of locals have veg in a box outside for purchase and money in the honesty box.
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Lucky?
I've always hated fresh milk and refused to drink the milk we got at school. Of course there were children who liked it, so it was usually easy enough to get rid of it without having to resort to pouring it down the drain. Some of them might also have needed it because they weren't adequately fed at home, but I don't think there were many of those even in a school with a large slum area in its catchment area.
Milk in tea or on cereal or in custard etc is a different matter. But it's definitely one of those things that needs disguising!
I also hated School milk, always managed to give it away to someone who liked it. These days I buy semi skimmed long life milk to have with coffee and cereal. Bliss
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Not so much Bliss for me today though.. Boo hoo, I've finished the lovely dreamy creamy fridge-cold Guernsey, I put some in my coffee and I drank the last of what was left of it, and will be getting a pint in every order from now on.
( Hope you enjoyed your holday and your Guernsey milk, Hotton )
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Not so much Bliss for me today though.. Boo hoo, I've finished the lovely dreamy creamy fridge-cold Guernsey, I put some in my coffee and I drank the last of what was left of it, and will be getting a pint in every order from now on.
( Hope you enjoyed your holday and your Guernsey milk, Hotton )
Actually tried more of the beer than the milk!
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Woo - hoo ! good for you..
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I remember the beer in Guernsey. Flowers. When the bill came for the meal, I said: what's this, we didn't have any flowers. Good stuff.
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I remember the beer in Guernsey. Flowers. When the bill came for the meal, I said: what's this, we didn't have any flowers. Good stuff.
Not seen any Flowers beer in Guernsey but drank it in the UK. It is an old beer from the 1830's and was/is made in Stratford-on-Avon.
Liberation are the main brewers who own Butcombe in the UK. There was a micro brewery White Rock who went bust in August this year.
There is a new micro called The Little Big Brew company who make Nigel,Betty and Alen beers.
Seems they make Milk better than beer!
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Just drank half a pint of the Channel Island Milk. So creamy .
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I don't drink milk on its own, only for cereal and tea/coffee.
Abel & Cole milk tastes better than Sainsbury's. I suppose it depends how the cows are fed.
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I drink fully skimmed milk which my wife(Hardly drinks any) refers to as "coloured water".
I recently drank 2 cartons of goats Milk my daughter left after staying a while when we were recently away. Thought it was good as is the cheese.
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I don't like goat's ,milk or goat's cheese.
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I don't drink milk on its own, only for cereal and tea/coffee.
Abel & Cole milk tastes better than Sainsbury's. I suppose it depends how the cows are fed.
I can't remember the last time I ate any cereal, and as for the taste of the milk, I suppose if you drink skimmed milk,( your wife's quite correct Hotton )... it depends on how much water the cows have drunk ?
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Abel & Cole skimmed milk is OK, if it's Sainsbury's I prefer semi-skiimmed.
I suppose they all let cows drink as much water as they want? Don't know if that'd affect the milk as most of it would be urinated anyway.
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We still have a milkman who delivers to us three times a week.
Likewise and has never missed delivering even during bad weather conditions .
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Likewise and has never missed delivering even during bad weather conditions .
Worth their weight in gold Sq plus we are keeping small businesses going.
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No milkmen here, I haven't seen one for ages. I wouldn't buy milk at my corner shop as nothing is fresh in there.
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Got another bottle of Jersey today.. Looking forward to a big glass of creamy cold goodness !
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Got another bottle of Jersey today.. Looking forward to a big glass of creamy cold goodness !
as it is said in my daughter's favorite cartoon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKg5L9X8Ty8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKg5L9X8Ty8) if you drink milk from a suitable glass - it will be much tastier))
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I thought this was going to be about Morrison's
When I heard the news I looked at my bottles and was surprised to see they do say Use By and not BB. But mine go straight into the freezer after washing anyway. I only look at the dates when received.
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Ironically our doorstep milk delivery now has 'Use by' on the top. Fairly recent.
Though I've always done the sniff test as it varies in length of 'freshness'. On milk with less than a week to use by I'm convinced it's been out on a round as spares and come back again!
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One reason why I stopped getting milk delivered, the dates were practically invisible and often didn't pass the sniff test.
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One reason why I stopped getting milk delivered, the dates were practically invisible and often didn't pass the sniff test.
I've never had that problem in over 50 years of having milk delivered.
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I gave up door step delivery when during a very hot summer the milkman started delivering the milk about 1 am, well after I'd gone to bed. So it sat outside for over 5 hrs. Asking him to deliver in the morning fell on deaf hours. I think he enjoyed having the rest of the day off. I now buy 4 pints at Iceland which usually lasts me well over a week. I bought some today and the best before date is the 20th Jan. It goes straight into the fridge as soon as I get home.
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Our milkie comes around 4am on Wed morning and 11pm Friday night. He leaves the milk in the porch, which is OK for the 0400 delivery even in summer. I usually pop down to bring in the 11pm one ion hot days in summer.
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Cravendale milk is a bit more expensive, and it lasts longer than others.
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Abel & Cole milk is more expensive than Sainsbury's but tastes better. (Of course a time may come when I'll have to give up on Abel & Cole.)
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Anyone remember Model milk? Came in tall, slim 1pt bottles with a crown cap, such as used on beer bottles. Ultra-heat-treated, lasted for months without refrigeration. Not too nice to drink but made excellent custard and rice puddings.
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I think the Model milk was known as 'sterilised' milk in our house Tl.. And I used to love to drink it, but it wasn't to everyone's taste, as I remember it had a completely different flavour to it from the normal full cream.
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No, I hadn't heard of it.
https://www.modelmilk.ca/about ?
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We were the last in our street to get milk delivered to the doorstep. In the end, we felt sorry for the milkie who got complaints about the electric van's noise and his having to make a special trip to get paid every Friday evening.
Two memories stick in my mind:-
The day all milk in the area disappeared from doorsteps. I don't think it was ever proved but suspicion lay with the nearby travellers site where people had arrived for a funeral.
The day something big and black was visible inside the capped bottle. A call to the dairy brought a very apologetic manager carrying gifts of fresh cream. Probably a slug or snail.
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Many milkie memories, including one who was murdered for the cash (long ago now, when I was a child. The did know who did it because they boasted about it. Only given short sentences for manslaughter because of their age. And went on persecuting milkie's widow when they came out.
But the reason why I had to give up was that the last one kept such irregular hours and brought milk the wrong days and then out-of-date milk.
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Of course my mother always had a special affinity with milk people having been one herself. Back when it was the pony and trap. Winter 1941-2.
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i cant take milk or anything made with it because i have lactose intolerance , it upsets my stomach very badly,
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I enjoy 2% Milk
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When making coffee in my machine, I like to heat up a good dash of Channel Island full cream milk in the microwave before putting the cup under the coffee maker. This makes a lovely hot creamy coffee.
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Gone are the days when you would hear a rattling of bottles,
And you new your milk was on its way
Liked to get it in as soon as possible as the birds would peck the cap on top to get some milk.
Now it’s mainly bought from the supermarkets.
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Most of the time when I was working I could not have milk delivered as I would not have been at home. Travel times varied.
there was a time when I could get milk delivered (3 times a week) and the milkman sold eggs, potatoes, bread & orange juice too. But then he left and the one who took over was useless, came on the wrong day, brought out of date milk and juice, so I gave up. Had to buy it on the way home from work, and sometimes it was a long commute, times varied, and corner shops were not reliable. I relied a lot on Marvel then, or evap.
Now it comes from Abel & Cole, once a week, and luckily they have now invented reusable plastic bottles so I put them out for collection.
https://www.abelandcole.co.uk/milk-semi-skimmed-1-litre
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Gone are the days when you would hear a rattling of bottles,
And you new your milk was on its way
Liked to get it in as soon as possible as the birds would peck the cap on top to get some milk.
Now it’s mainly bought from the supermarkets.
I remember having to get the milk in before the tits had it.
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Gone are the days when you would hear a rattling of bottles,
And you new your milk was on its way
Liked to get it in as soon as possible as the birds would peck the cap on top to get some milk.
Now it’s mainly bought from the supermarkets.
I still hear the rattling of bottles Dixie as my milk is delivered, the milkman comes at 5-30 am so fresh milk in glass bottles all year round.
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I still hear the rattling of bottles Dixie as my milk is delivered, the milkman comes at 5-30 am so fresh milk in glass bottles all year round.
Long gone around here Beppy . And of course the supermarket is a lot cheaper
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Long gone around here Beppy . And of course the supermarket is a lot cheaper
We still have a few dairies here Fruit so we're lucky to have deliveries. The supermarket may be a few pennies cheaper but to have my milk on the doorstep all year round without braving the cold weather in winter is priceless to me. They will also deliver eggs, bread and other things but I shop online so I don't need the extras.
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We still have milk roundsmen here. Two companies. And, as a sign of the times, we get half a dozen eggs for our next-door neighbours, as the milk companies now demand online payment - no cash. And Mrs next-door is not on the internet.
We swapped companies as the first one started delivering at 11pm, after we'd gone to bed. It meant in the summer having to get up to bring it in. And the company we presently use delivers at 3 am and pops it in the porch.
They also deliver other stuff, too expensive for us.
The milk is much more expensive than supermarkets, but comes from local farms. As if Stafford is local to here! Mrs DM believes in using local companies and trying to keep doorstep deliveries alive.
Only tiny problem is the milk sometimes is dated days apart, like this morning. 22nd and 25th. Makes you wonder if it's been out on a round and come back.
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I'm with Mrs Dm in keeping small businesses going and when in town I always pop into the market for fresh veg all from local farms. Supermarkets have their place but if I can help out by buying local I do.
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Unfortunately, Solihull council suppressed the local much used market some years ago. Now all we get are the highly expensive 'Artisan' and foreign food street markets.
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Unfortunately, Solihull council suppressed the local much used market some years ago. Now all we get are the highly expensive 'Artisan' and foreign food street markets.
We still have a very big indoor market Dm full of butchers, fruiterers, speciality sausage makers, cheeses in fact all weird and wonderful stalls. We have the European traders here at Christmas but they are very expensive selling handmade soaps and knitted goods.
Our market is criss crossed with aisles and one very long aisle is now dedicated to street food which does very well as we have two universities and many colleges in the city.
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Do you know the thing I most remember about Solihull's indoor market was the fake perfume stall, which sold one so close to Mrs DM's favourite perfume I (and most importantly Mrs DM) couldn't tell the difference. Apart from the ££££s less!
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Another thing was fridges, we take fridges & freezers so much for granted now.
When we didn't have them, or in temporary problems of being fridge-less. we notice the difference.
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Remember when semi milk was introduced in the early eighties, was still having the milk delivered to the door, but when I changed over from full milk to seni skimmed, even putting the milk staight into the fridge, it went off very quickly. So cancelled the milkman and starting getting it from my local supermarket, which I've continued to this day. Currently getting my two litres of milk from Farmfoods for the last two months for just £1.
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We still have the milkman, from 'local' farms. As if Stafford is local to Solihull! It generally lasts a week.
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We still have the milkman, from 'local' farms. As if Stafford is local to Solihull! It generally lasts a week.
My milk is still delivered in glass bottles Dickie is yours.
I've had my cousin from Cheshire here and he was astounded to see the glass bottles. :D
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Yup still glass bottles. We have the option of plastic, which are cheaper, but Mrs DM is old fashioned and quite likes the idea of the glass bottle!
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Yup still glass bottles. We have the option of plastic, which are cheaper, but Mrs DM is old fashioned and quite likes the idea of the glass bottle!
I do too.
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My wife orders a large container of skimmed milk from Sainsbury's. I also drink Alpro including a chocolate one.
For years we had milk delivered but they went to just 3 times a week and then stopped delivering.
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Just drank a glass of whole milk cold and creamy straight from the fridge.. Nothing better.
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When I first came to live in my present village in 1975 I used to go to the local farm with a small milk can and buy milk straight from the farmer. After the farmer died the farm no longer had cattle I had to start buying it in Supermarkets, it is mostly sold in one litre cardboard containers, not plastic. Raw milk is still available from farmers but nowhere nearby. I loved the taste of milk straight from the cow.
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I have had milk straight from the cow once when staying on a farm as a child and helped milk the cows.
I remember it was very creamy. Or seemed so.
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Doesn't it have to be pasteurised nowadays?