Milk

[scared55]

Bet Scared55 has UHT milk over there....( he's just jealous!!!)

Yes, you are right, Nicos. We do have UHT milk in the shops here, just as you do in UK. We also have fresh milk in the shops here, full, semi-skimmed and skimmed just as you do in UK.

The only dairy product we haven't found here is Clotted Cream, and as a south Devonshire boy, I would love to get some. It is, after all, the only foodstuff known to man that is more than 100% fat!

KK

[moggssue]

Only yesterday I was reciting a story to my OH about being stuck behind a milk float that morning (no, I know, not a very interesting story!!) and his 12 year old son asked me what a milk float was ........ sign of the times??

[Headfry]

A glass of milk.....always as kids we could drink big glasses of ice cold milk, never think to do it now, why?

[scared55]

A glass of milk.....always as kids we could drink big glasses of ice cold milk, never think to do it now, why?

It's because the Powers That Be have decided it's not good for us! Don't worry - give it a few years and they will find, as they do about most things, that they have been talking garbage.

KK

[Nicos]

Only yesterday I was reciting a story to my OH about being stuck behind a milk float that morning (no, I know, not a very interesting story!!) and his 12 year old son asked me what a milk float was ........ sign of the times??

Send him over here..ours wakes us up every morning between 4 and 6 am!!!

[Alison]

Ours comes past about quarter to 5 every morning, have been getting milk delivered by him for about 3 months now. Only heard him a couple of times and still not seen him. It's like magic, the full ones appear and the empties disappear!

[moggssue]

Milkmen seem to be a dying breed here, such a pity. For some reason, milk was never delivered until after everyone had left for work so was sat out in the sunshine (well, okay, outside!) until peeps returned home at the end of the working day, so everyone gradually stopped using them and they didn't seem to get the message that they need to deliver earlier. Oh, and 12yr old has no problem waking himself (and us when he stays) at the crack of dawn already!

[HeyWayne]

Lifestyle change has definitely got something to do with it. I'd love to have our paper and milk delivered, but a) I don't have time to read a paper other than at weekends (and that's not guaranteed), and b) we don't use enough milk to warrant delivery (we buy two pints a week and hardly ever use that).

[moggssue]

I think you're right Wayne. I used to have a paper delivered every Saturday, and threw half of it away unread the following Saturday when the next one arrived because I never got around to reading it. Now I use the internet news sites during the day instead, when I can snatch a few minutes. We use maybe 4 pints of milk a week, but prefer to buy it fresh than have it stand on the doorstep all day in the sun, or risk it disappearing down the throat of a local 'youth'! Modern life has changed so many habits.

[dexterdoglancashire]

Showing my age now boys and girls! I remember in the infants class at school having a little bottle of milk to drink each day. Do they still do this, or is it "not good for you anymore"? Bernie aka DDL

[zazen999]

I thought Thatcher stopped all that nonsense. We used to make cottage cheese from ours every now and then!

[yoanbob]

warm school milk put me of full fat milk for life!

[Polly Fouracre]

Send him over here..ours wakes us up every morning between 4 and 6 am!!!

Ours arrives at about 3 a.m. and not in a nice quiet milk float but a deisel van.And folk used to mutter about my cockerel!!

[TPeers]

We must get through about 14 pints a week on way and another - but I don't use the milkman.

Apart from the time of delivery - which isn't a problem - it's the cost! A pint from the supermarket is 2/3rds the cost of a pint from the milky. I worked out it was costing over £75 a year for the delivery when I still need to go to the supermarket anyway. It seemed pointless.......

[Tracey]

We have 14 pts of milk delivered by dairycrest per week. It's more expensive, but I thought glass bottles may be more environmentaly friendly than plastic as they can be reused. I do wonder, though, what sort of chemicals they use in the bottle washing process.