Do you remember milkmen?

Yup!

My city grandmother had one of these milk doors so the milkman could leave the milk and she could retrieve it without going outside.
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The milkman used to leave our milk outside on the porch and in the winter we had to get it before it froze and the cats had a treat, LOL!!!

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We still have one local dairy that sells milk in glass, no home delivery though.
 
We had the "milk box" on the front porch, an insulated metal box. Mom would leave a note to order what she wanted; he would leave the product. Some milkmen also dealt in eggs. The jugs were heavy glass with a paper cap.

I can't remember when my mother started buying milk in the store instead.

Remember back in the 70's when they experimented with selling milk in plastic bags? I bought a plastic pitcher-like thingie that you set the bag down in and somehow pulled the spout on the bag through. I can't remember exactly how it worked because I decided I didn't like getting milk that way. I don't think the concept lasted long.
 
I remember when the milkman had a horse and cart and the milk was in bulk. Customers left a tray on the front door step with a billy can and a note. The milko would ladle a pint or quart into the billy and it would be taken inside and placed in the ice chest. The iceman also delivered the block of ice daily to the front porch.
 
Here in the UK there are still some milkmen in business, though I suspect fewer each year! They used to leave it by your door here. About 20 years ago they started to deliver bread, butter and a few basic groceries, I suppose to make their businesses more viable, but they fade, as does so much else with so called 'progress'.
 
I definitely remember the milkman-my grammar school best friend`s dad was ours-but mostly we all loved our "donutman"...errrr,breadman. He would park on the street outside of our junior high school every day and open the back of his truck,roll out the shelves and ohhhhhh,the aroma!!!!
 

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fuzzybuddy said:
Yup, a guy in a white suit would walk right into your kitchen. He'd open the fridge and put milk in it. He'd walk out. If you were home, he'd say "Hi".
I can't believe how trusting we were back then.
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I remember the common milk-man from the 60's and 70's!

We never had milk delivered, but there were neighbours that did, and regularly, so seeing the milk truck around our neighbourhood was a daily affair, and all of us kids knew the driver's name.
 
I remember the milkman. My dad made our first milk box out of wood and then we got the insulated kind.
On occasion the milkman would add something extra to our order in the hopes that my mom would pay for it on our next bill. There would be a container of heavy cream ,cottage cheese or some other dairy product that we never used or ordered.
She hated this because she would then have to listen for him to arrive in order for her to give him back whatever he had left the day before. In the winter she would just put it back in the box with a note saying she didn't want the item.
She said she didn't care if it froze or not. He shouldn't have left it in the first place.
 
jujube said:
Remember back in the 70's when they experimented with selling milk in plastic bags? I bought a plastic pitcher-like thingie that you set the bag down in and somehow pulled the spout on the bag through. I can't remember exactly how it worked because I decided I didn't like getting milk that way. I don't think the concept lasted long.
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You don't have bagged milk in the U.S.?
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as i said...the only bagged product i'm aware of is creamer bags for machines. no milk though. to my knowledge.
 


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