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Post by Moose on Apr 4, 2014 18:16:09 GMT
For no reason at all this morning I woke up thinking about milk in bottles, that used to be delivered right to your doorstep .. usually at about four in the morning . Do these things still exist still ... milk in glass bottles and milk float deliveries? I guess it's not considered economical
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Post by Kye on Apr 4, 2014 18:16:37 GMT
What are milk floats?
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Post by Moose on Apr 4, 2014 18:54:01 GMT
Very slow moving vehicles which milkmen used to deliver milk. You probably know them as something else
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Post by Kye on Apr 4, 2014 19:30:25 GMT
Trucks? I thought you were talking about milk shakes!
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Post by Moose on Apr 4, 2014 19:39:40 GMT
lol no.
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Post by Kate on Apr 4, 2014 21:38:57 GMT
There are still milk floats where I live, although sadly the milk isn't in glass bottles. Although it wakes people up early, I think it's nice and quite traditional
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Post by tangent on Apr 4, 2014 22:55:42 GMT
My church used to have milk delivered by a milkman on a weekly basis until he made an improper suggestion to one of the members.
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Post by jayme on Apr 4, 2014 23:28:36 GMT
My grandpa was a milkman. He worked on the dairy, milking the cows, but he also was the delivery guy.
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Post by Kye on Apr 5, 2014 0:18:44 GMT
When I was little we had a horse-drawn cart for our milk delivery. I used to go and pet the horses when I was near the dairy. This was not in the country but in town.
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Post by Kate on Apr 5, 2014 7:22:02 GMT
My grandpa was a milkman. He worked on the dairy, milking the cows, but he also was the delivery guy. That's really interesting, Kye. I have (once) milked a cow and found it rewarding but challenging- I'm not sure if you're supposed to squirt some milk directly into your mouth, but the other milkers were doing it, so I gave it a go
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2014 7:31:25 GMT
We have never had milk delivered in Germany, at least to my knowledge. Frank's parents still get it, though. They buy additional milk in the supermarket, though.
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Post by Miisa on Apr 5, 2014 8:41:18 GMT
Never experienced a float. And we don't have milk in glass or plastic bottles at all, not sure we ever did. Milk is always kept away from light here, as it is thought to change the taste.
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Post by tangent on Apr 5, 2014 9:28:47 GMT
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Post by JoeP on Apr 5, 2014 15:43:55 GMT
I haven't seen a milk float in Britain for ages.
Pretty sure there weren't any in South Africa.
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Post by Moose on Apr 5, 2014 17:42:48 GMT
I suspect that the South African climate would not be conduicive to keeping milk fresh in bottles for long. Steve, couldn't they have just found another milkman, rather than scrapping the service?
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Post by Alvamiga on Apr 5, 2014 18:19:01 GMT
There is a service round here at least called Milk and More. They don't come so early, but they deliver (as the name suggests) milk and also other products such as Bread. They still use milk floats. I'd have gone for this picture!
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Post by Kate on Apr 5, 2014 19:56:05 GMT
Is that where he puts a brick on the peddle and he sees women in the "nip"?
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Post by Moose on Apr 5, 2014 20:54:17 GMT
that's the one
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Post by tangent on Apr 5, 2014 21:24:00 GMT
Steve, couldn't they have just found another milkman, rather than scrapping the service? I don't think there are any other milkmen. We didn't scrap the service, Pat now gets the milk each week from the supermarket.
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Post by juju on Apr 6, 2014 13:51:47 GMT
Hehe, I was thinking of that Father Ted episode, too! Before we moved to Wales we lived in a village where there was a milkman who did his rounds on his float. Trouble was, by the time he got to us it was usually after 9 and everyone had left the house. This meant the milk was standing out all day - it never got stolen because it wasn't that sort of place (I didn't even lock my doors) but it meant it went off really quickly. In the end I was forced to cancel and buy it at the supermarket.
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Post by Moose on Apr 8, 2014 18:39:54 GMT
Does anyone else remember going out to get milk and finding that birds had been at it and pierced the silver top?
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Post by tangent on Apr 8, 2014 19:10:23 GMT
Yes
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Post by Moose on Apr 8, 2014 19:23:11 GMT
an making butter using non homogenised milk..
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Post by Alvamiga on Apr 8, 2014 19:47:30 GMT
My dad used to make cheese from the milk when it went on the turn.
Used to have fights over who got the top of the new bottle of milk, too.
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Post by Moose on Apr 8, 2014 20:00:13 GMT
uuum yeah lovely in cereal
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Post by tangent on Apr 9, 2014 11:25:17 GMT
You can buy non-homogenised milk?
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Post by Alvamiga on Apr 9, 2014 13:49:24 GMT
It's done as a matter of course these days. It seems there has been a decline in the population of Blue Tits since milk deliveries stopped being done in the foil-topped bottles to most houses.
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