08-06-2021, 10:11 PM
(08-06-2021, 02:46 PM)MikeĀ Costigan Wrote: Bob, our local farmer delivered his milk direct from the milking parlourĀ this way in the early 1950s. Every few houses he would decant the milk from the churn into the pail, and each household would bring their own bottles or jugs to be filled with a ladle; the milk jug would be stored in the larder with a damp cloth over it. Eventually we got pasturised milk in bottles, by which time he had upgraded his transport to a brand-new A50 pickup and the Seven presumably went to the scrapyard.
How wonderful!.....and to think, at one point a certain remote unaccountable foreign power had demanded that UK milk was delivered to houses in refrigerated vans. This was an attempt by big diaries, who had pressured said alien organisation to impose the rule and so finish off small suppliers. It was only when it was pointed out that as milk had been delivered unchilled for hundreds of years and nobody had died as result, was the plan defeated.