More recently it has been in plastic bottles. The milk has changed along the way as well and recently there has been milk advertised as being permeate free.
We have just discovered a local farm that is producing Jersey Milk. It is sold unpasteurised from the Farm and pasteurised in local shops. It comes in 1 litre glass bottles that are returnable and has a screw top lid. It also tastes good.
nice that you found that type of milk, I know when I lived in mangawhai there was a farm producing the same type. I well remember glass bottles, in my childhood my mother use to get us to put out the bottles at the letterbox usually with coins in them for the delivery guys to pick up. Those were the days.
ReplyDeleteThe milk is sold at the farm at Kawakawa.
ReplyDeletewhen I was a child, we had our own farm milk.Then at primary school, in bottles with a cardboard top, and a hole for the straw to go through . Then came bottles, and now plastic. Soon we will all be back to glass or cardboard .And down here the supermarkets are stopping plastic bags at the end of August. BYO on a different scale,and a grand idea.
ReplyDeleteWe had those bottles at home in England as well. It has all gone full circle.
DeleteMilk as it should be! In the late sixties I lived in the Western Isle, Scotland. The old couple next door kept a cow, she taught me how to milk her, the reward being a jug of frothy fresh milk straight from the cow. It was delicious.
ReplyDeleteAn hour's drive and we could have it straight from the cow.
DeleteLucky you! I buy Lewis Road milk from the supermarket. It's very good milk, but it doesn't come in glass bottles. I remember glass bottles very well.
ReplyDeleteWe have Lewis Road milk in our supermarket as well. What I like about this milk is the fact that it is local and that the bottles are re-usable.
DeleteIf we had stayed with glass milk bottles in the same way that we did years ago, perhaps the oceans would now not be so full of clutter from plastic. I recall biscuits being scooped up and put in brown paper bags, sugar went in blue paper bags, bacon and cheese was wrapped in greaseproof paper.
ReplyDeleteI agree - so much comes ready wrapped in plastic these days.
DeleteDeliveries have been hanging on here, just...and glass bottles are slowly returning.
ReplyDeleteOne farm half an hour's bike ride from here now has a vending machine open 12 hours a day and sells the bottles . They've opened a cafe as well with home baking and its exceeded their expectations
That sounds good - fresh milk AND home baking.
DeleteAll things taste better in glass.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely, and better for the environment.
DeleteNice to hear you can buy milk in glass bottles again. So much nicer taste, I agree, except for that warm school milk in days gone by
ReplyDeleteawful memory of 1957 winter, a crate of small milk bottles, frozen, placed over the radiator in nursery school to thaw...and the consequent horrible taste!!
DeleteYes, school milk was not the best.
DeleteI'll bet that that unpasturized milk in the glass bottle tastes very good, indeed!
ReplyDeleteIt is delicious and has a lovely layer on cream on top.
DeleteI hope they charge a decent price for it too. The silly price of milk has put loads of farmers off milking; they weren't even covering costs. I would happily pay twice what I'm now paying for decent milk.
ReplyDeleteIt is more expensive than the "run of the mill" milk but worth it.
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