Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Tracer, that sounds like a mob front tbh

i thought milk delivery had to do with freshness - getting it from the farm to the dairy to your door asap. can imagine the appeal of that lasting even after electric refrigeration.

Our house was built in 1946, and by the side door, which opens into the kitchen, there is one of these things for the milkman to make deliveries. It has a corresponding door inside the house so you didn't have to go outside to retrieve the delivery. I need to see about having it removed and bricked up, because all it does is bleed heat out of the house in the winter.

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newspapers and milk, the consumables with the shortest shelf life

by law milk is pasteurised now so I'm not sure it makes much of a difference. and i expect it's coming from the same dairies that supply supermarkets anyway. also not that fresh when it gets loldelivered at 8:45, after you've left for work. a little milk safe in the wall sounds perfect actually, particularly if it were insulated!

Ice was also delivered of course.

Not in the UK afaik.

When I was a kid in the 70s in Glasgow there was a guy who sold fruit door to door, I called him the Bananaman coz he carried a string of them around his neck, like the stereotypical "Onion Johnnies" of old. There was also a van that sold fish & meat that came round our street once a week - more importantly it sold crisps that were gulp not one of the usual 3 flavours, blowing my childish mind.

Did you have the ginger van?

naw but did have an icey, had a painting of the Fonz down the side haha

Spot of googling reminds me it was Alpine they used to sell - but it was more of a lorry than a van and it was not just a Scottish phenomenon.

- i thought it was "brass tax" until only a few years ago

like let's get down to talking about the tariffs on various alloys. seems serious

you still get the once a week fish van in scotland

I somehow only realized that the Vincent Price Dr. Goldfoot movies were a Goldfinger thing a few days ago

damn Will, that's a good one

lol thanks you know it's a good one when you convince yourself that the mistake is, in fact, better

like the time i had an argument with someone about "play it by (EAR/YEAR)" and she gave me very good, self-made-up reasoning for why year makes more sense (you're not planning 20 years in the future, only, like, 1 year, so it's more improvised)

it should be the other way round, we have just started a daily delivery and having milk magically appear on your doorstep every morning >>>> trudging to a supermarket to pick it up.

how small are the containers that you need a new one every day?

traditionally in britain it would be a pint of milk. with the amount of cups of tea you get through plus your cereal that would definitely be done by the end of day with any sort of household with more than 1 person

Which is why people often had more than a pint delivered.

i get 4 every Monday, they last a week. (i guess because of the aforementioned pasteurization?)

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-drinka-pinta-milka-day-1958-advert-from-the-british-national-milk-23661414.html

plus an extra for the Humphreys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphreys_(Unigate)

milk in tea, disgusting savages

we had milk delivered when I was a kid: there was a wire carrier with room for six bottles, and you'd just put out as many empties as you wanted replaced (or a note for the milkman if you wanted more or less)

it was magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen, not Pica pica)that pecked through the foil if you waited more than 2.7 seconds to go up to the street to get it

We have milk delivered. Fucker comes at 3.30am and practically drives into our house. And I don't drink milk.

My embarrassing latecomer thing is only relatively recently realising that Denmark wasn't, in fact, an island and was very actually joined to Germany.

milk run in lanarkshire in my day was always done by a few working class school boys, driven by an adult. the boys who would jump out of the (constantly open) backdoor of a transit van and quickly dash out in different directions depositing the milk for the street like a commando raid before jumping back in and speeding off. i only really ever saw it happening when i was out early doing a paper round

you still get the once a week fish van in scotland

I discovered a weekly fish van delivering to some houses near my work (in England) one week on the way home, and tried to find out where he delivered to and when (like, do you come near my flat? or do you come here at a regular enough time that I could pick something up here instead?) and the guy was incredibly rudely unhelpful, so fuck a fish van tbh, or that one anyway

as a child I was fascinated by my gran's milk-bottle basket with a little spinny-arrow dial you set to the number of bottles you wanted

Not only have I never had milk delivered, but I've never even seen a milkman. Not even in another town.

My grandfather used to deliver Sealtest, and my family still has 1,000 of those old red cartons stored away everywhere. But he was driving a truck to the grocery store.

We used to get propane delivered? I once had an encyclopedia salesperson come to the house? No, sorry. I've got nothing to beat this milkman business.

had to look up Sealtest. new one to me

I've never looked it up either. Here's one I was shockingly old before I learned:

Go out and tell your neighbors not to buy Coca-Cola in Memphis. Go by and tell them not to buy Sealtest milk. — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking in Memphis on April 3, 1968

Well. Makes sense now that my grand-dad worked for Sealtest. Anyone want a red milk crate?

I only know from elementary school milk cartons which milks were bad in carton form and which were good

and we have one local dairy where the cottage cheese has a distinct taste and some people apparently freeze a bunch of it when they live elsewhere to hoard

I do recall goldtop milkbottles with cream in the top few inches. Nan's house had those in the 70s, and if you were lucky she'd let you have the cream for your cereal.

All milk used to separate like that, to some extent. But they started homogenising milk sometime in the 80s I think so you don't get that now.

We get milk delivered weekly from this farm and it is non-homogenised and has a 'creamy top'.

creamy tops here too, sometimes you have to shake it for a minute before it will pour, or stick a knife in. or get our 3 year old daughter to stick a spoon in and eat it all.

fattening her up to eat after Brexit, good plan

My partner tends to scoop off and save the cream separately (in the freezer) for making yoghurt and things with.

I somehow read the word 'brain' in your username and somehow substituted it with 'cream' there

Our house was built in 1946, and by the side door, which opens into the kitchen, there is one of these things for the milkman to make deliveries.

T rex and triceratops had several million years between them. JUst learnt that. Assumed they were contemporary cos that's the way they keep getting shown I thought.

they did co-exist

but Stegosaurus was about 80m years earlier

Reading about dinosaurs as an adult when my kid got way into them was kind of mind blowing, I had no idea that we lived closer in time to some common dinosaurs than they did to each other.

Also I love that Spinosaurus, which I'd never even heard of until two years ago, is like a top- or second-tier dinosaur now, it's like not watching a show for a while and coming back and there's a new character that everyone just accepts as part of the gang.

They coexist on my son's pyjamas and that's all the evidence I need

Also we say diplodocus differently now apparently

I somehow read the word 'brain' in your username and somehow substituted it with 'cream' there

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

Creme de Krakow

Catching up on all the new dinosaur information from the last 30 years was one of the fun unexpected side benefits of having kids

I mean

My partner tends to scoop off and save the brain separately (in the freezer) for making yoghurt and things with.

haha, OK, that's different.

Guys, the zombie craze is so last year.