Why did they get rid of the glass milk bottles that the milkman delivered?

mikemac · 13-04-2011 1:15pm

Never had milk bottles here in the sticks

But we all got cartons of milk in school. I think it was subsidized (isn't milk subsidized anyway says you) at some ridiculously cheap price and you paid every term.
First person to school brought in the milk from the yard

It'd be frozen with blocks of ice some mornings.

Lauder · 13-04-2011 1:18pm

In my area (Dublin North Central), they stopped glass pint bottles around 2000.

Was for a multitude of reasons; mostly high cost of collection. But also, it became illegal for milk to be delivered in Pint sizes from 2004 - which would have required the replacement of all the pint bottles with 500ml or 1l ones which would have been a crazy cost.

Thank you Mr. European Union again!

Blisterman · 16-04-2011 1:39pm

Couldn't they just put slightly less milk in the bottles?

Mike 1972 · 16-04-2011 1:49pm

Lauder wrote: »

But also, it became illegal for milk to be delivered in Pint sizes from 2004 - which would have required the replacement of all the pint bottles with 500ml or 1l ones which would have been a crazy cost.

Thank you Mr. European Union again!

Its still perfectly legal to sell milk in 568 ml containers just like they do with beer

manarocket · 13-10-2011 9:50am

BUMP

I found a few of the old bottles special edition ones they did..... in me da's shed...ones from the 1988 Dublin millenium and other ones from the 1990 world cup
Would these be worth anything?

gbee · 13-10-2011 10:43am

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Its still perfectly legal to sell milk in 568 ml containers just like they do with beer

They backed up a bit alright ~ but remember our Government were like silly schoolgirls out to impress teacher so an recommendation from them became LAW here instantly.

We have our Miles Per Hour back, our Double Decker Busses and Milk Bottles

fran oconnor · 13-10-2011 11:20am

Milk has been sh!te since they done away with the glass bottle's, i don't drink tea or coffee myself and only use it on my cornflake's, but there was a time when i'd drink glass after glass of milk but not since the old glass bottle went.

mikemac · 13-10-2011 11:52am

We used to have dairy cattle on the farm

Bringing home a bucket of "raw" milk
Still warm

I hated warm milk :P

Probably illegal and against regulations to that nowadays....

wyndham · 13-10-2011 12:26pm

manarocket wrote: »

BUMP

I found a few of the old bottles special edition ones they did..... in me da's shed...ones from the 1988 Dublin millenium and other ones from the 1990 world cup
Would these be worth anything?

The World Cup '90 ones are worth about €250 to the right collector at the moment.

4leto · 13-10-2011 12:40pm

Wasn't it because of money.

Before they had to pay a milkman, maintain the truck or float and recycle the bottles.

Now they just deliver it to shops and their customer base in one fell swoop.

I liked the world better when there was milkmen, breadmen, paper rounds, rag and bone men, coal men and even insurance men,

Where did all those jobs go?

mikemac · 13-10-2011 12:43pm

Nowadays the lad knocking on your door is probably the TV license inspector

4leto · 13-10-2011 1:01pm

mikemac wrote: »

Nowadays the lad knocking on your door is probably the TV license inspector

Or Rumanian beggars or chuggers.

4leto · 13-10-2011 1:04pm

13-10-2011 6:46pm

fran oconnor wrote: »

Milk has been sh!te since they done away with the glass bottle's, i don't drink tea or coffee myself and only use it on my cornflake's, but there was a time when i'd drink glass after glass of milk but not since the old glass bottle went.

It's actually nothing to do with the glass bottles. Around the same time, most creameries began homogenising the milk. This disperses the cream in the milk rather than allowing it to rise to the top.

If you can get hold of unhomogenised milk then it should be just as good.

fran oconnor · 13-10-2011 7:00pm

Karsini wrote: »

fran oconnor wrote: »

Milk has been sh!te since they done away with the glass bottle's, i don't drink tea or coffee myself and only use it on my cornflake's, but there was a time when i'd drink glass after glass of milk but not since the old glass bottle went.

It's actually nothing to do with the glass bottles. Around the same time, most creameries began homogenising the milk. This disperses the cream in the milk rather than allowing it to rise to the top.

If you can get hold of unhomogenised milk then it should be just as good.

I didn't know that thanks, I did here from a friend that unhomgenised milk will soon be done away with over here. The government is to ban it for some silly reason.

gbee · 13-10-2011 7:04pm

fran oconnor wrote: »

I didn't know that thanks, I did here from a friend that unhomgenised milk will soon be done away with over here. The government is to ban it for some silly reason.

It's the unpasteurized milk will be banned, by default that's also unhomegenised

Judgement Day · 13-10-2011 7:50pm

No question about it, milk with about an inch of cream at the top, was great out of bottles. There are still many small UK dairies using bottles and I don't think we have seen the last of them - of course Ireland will be the usual 20 years behind the rest when bottles make their comeback. Like everything else in Britain there is a Milk Bottle Collectors movement http://www.milkbottlenews.org.uk/index.html and lots of interesting links to check out.

anto_daly · 13-10-2011 8:00pm

plain and simple , one man one jar(dont watch for your own good) that caused the relinquishing of the glass milk bottles. (please dont watch , please!) :L

Seve OB · 14-10-2011 12:07pm

manarocket wrote: »

BUMP

I found a few of the old bottles special edition ones they did..... in me da's shed...ones from the 1988 Dublin millenium and other ones from the 1990 world cup
Would these be worth anything?

How many of each have you got? I might take them off your hands

fran oconnor wrote: »

Milk has been sh!te since they done away with the glass bottle's, i don't drink tea or coffee myself and only use it on my cornflake's, but there was a time when i'd drink glass after glass of milk but not since the old glass bottle went.

Couldn't agree more. I used ta love the cream of the milk on my cornflakes in the morning, of evening for that matter!! Sometimes i sneak a dollop of cream over them to remind me of the good aul days! I still drink gallons of the white stuff but it really just isn't the same anymore.

Karsini wrote: »

It's actually nothing to do with the glass bottles. Around the same time, most creameries began homogenising the milk. This disperses the cream in the milk rather than allowing it to rise to the top.

If you can get hold of unhomogenised milk then it should be just as good.

I heard this on TV somewhere. Apparently it is some sort of law that they can't sell it through dairys, but you can sell it if you are a farmer.

Where the hell can us Dubs get some unhomogenised milk????

ejmaztec · 14-10-2011 12:14pm

This thread's so feckin old, that when I spotted a comment on the first page, I thought - "that's the kind of smart-arse comment that I would come out with"

You can guess the rest.:(

Seve OB · 14-10-2011 12:51pm

ejmaztec wrote: »

This thread's so feckin old, that when I spotted a comment on the first page, I thought - "that's the kind of smart-arse comment that I would come out with"

You can guess the rest.:(

I think you did actually come out with that re-constituted smart arse comment!!

14-10-2011 6:59pm

stevieob wrote: »

I heard this on TV somewhere. Apparently it is some sort of law that they can't sell it through dairys, but you can sell it if you are a farmer.

Where the hell can us Dubs get some unhomogenised milk????

I'm not sure you can anymore. The only unhomogenised milk I knew of was Lullaby Milk from Ardrahan creamery in Kanturk, Co. Cork. Apparently it's homogenised now.

jamesie_boy · 14-10-2011 7:05pm

And now to ride Mrs. O'Reilly!!

melekalikimaka · 14-10-2011 7:09pm

we have an italia 90 branded one somewhere

lcrcboy · 14-10-2011 7:54pm

In Limerick criminals realized that a person wasint home when the milk bottles were left out and not used, so they started targeting these houses, I believe this has happened in other parts of the world as well.

wotzgoingon · 14-10-2011 8:10pm

melekalikimaka wrote: »

we have an italia 90 branded one somewhere

i remember them. My aunty still has hers but we werent smart enough to keep ours.

im invisible · 14-10-2011 8:14pm

ejmaztec wrote: »

This thread's so feckin old, that when I spotted a comment on the first page, I thought - "that's the kind of smart-arse comment that I would come out with"

You can guess the rest.:(

yeah, came across a funny post, thought 'i must thank that' but i couldnt, because i already had, only one to thank it too

14-10-2011 8:15pm

melekalikimaka wrote: »

we have an italia 90 branded one somewhere

My parents still have it, they also have a 1988 Dublin Millennium bottle.

IR · 17-10-2011 9:26am

A company called Kelly's organic do pasteurised unhomogenised milk. They sell to some shops in Dublin as well as in Dublin co-op every Saturday. there are a couple of producers around Ireland doing this now and selling direct...
http://www.kellysorganic.com/
Its not in Glass though...

Also for the moment anyhow unpasteurised unhomogenised milk is also available, though the government is intending to ban this

19-10-2011 6:28pm

IR wrote: »

A company called Kelly's organic do pasteurised unhomogenised milk. They sell to some shops in Dublin as well as in Dublin co-op every Saturday. there are a couple of producers around Ireland doing this now and selling direct...
http://www.kellysorganic.com/
Its not in Glass though...

I just got some in The Hopsack in the Swan Centre, Rathmines. I'll check it out later.

Skerries · 19-10-2011 6:53pm

do you remember the sign you had to put in your window to tell the milkie how many pints you wanted?
I remember because of Chenobyl they gave us cartons of milk in school instead of the bottles because it was safer or something

Seve OB · 20-10-2011 1:53pm

Karsini wrote: »

I just got some in The Hopsack in the Swan Centre, Rathmines. I'll check it out later.

well what was it like??

I'm off now to try and get me some

- - update, tried Lillyput stores in Arbour hill on way home but they had none

Judgement Day · 20-10-2011 4:13pm

Skerries wrote: »

do you remember the sign you had to put in your window to tell the milkie how many pints you wanted?
I remember because of Chenobyl they gave us cartons of milk in school instead of the bottles because it was safer or something

I think you're off on a red herring about Chernobyl and cartons. When I was a kid you put out the number of clean empties and got back the equivalent number of full bottles.

Seve OB · 20-10-2011 5:09pm

Judgement Day wrote: »

I think you're off on a red herring about Chernobyl and cartons. When I was a kid you put out the number of clean empties and got back the equivalent number of full bottles.

I remember two ways to order. A plastic card a bit smaller than A4 in the window with a kind of clock thing on it, just point to the number you wanted and hey presto.

Otherwise, if it was broken or you wanted something extra like cream or eggs, you could stick a note in one of the empties you put out

20-10-2011 7:56pm

stevieob wrote: »

well what was it like??

I'm off now to try and get me some

It's like drinking cream!

Very creamy but quite nice.

vixdname · 20-10-2011 8:00pm

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

No it's called pasteurisation....:cool:

WRONG...The milk in bottles was also pasteurised to kill bacteria, the cartoned milk was "Homogenised"- The process where the cream is dispersed evenly throughout the milk and not just left float to the top like it did in the old glass bottles. :cool::cool::cool:

Poor Uncle Tom · 20-10-2011 8:07pm

Excuse me, all milk goes past-your-eyes before you drink it.......:cool:

vixdname · 20-10-2011 8:08pm

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Excuse me, all milk goes past-your-eyes before you drink it.......:cool:

Hahaha !!! Very Good !!!!

:D:D

Saila · 20-10-2011 8:11pm

Karsini wrote: »

It's like drinking cream! Very creamy but quite nice.

quoted for evidence

Seve OB · 20-10-2011 8:16pm

Karsini wrote: »

It's like drinking cream! Very creamy but quite nice.

Does the cream float at the top?

20-10-2011 8:35pm

Saila wrote: »

quoted for evidence

Perv!

stevieob wrote: »

Does the cream float at the top?

See for yourself.

Judgement Day · 20-10-2011 8:49pm

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Excuse me, all milk goes past-your-eyes before you drink it.......:cool:

Reminds me of these lyrics from Ernie by Bennie Hill.

They called him Ernie, (Ernieeeeeeeeeee)
And he drove the fastest milk cart in the west.

She said she'd like to bathe in milk, he said, "All right, sweetheart,"
And when he'd finished work one night he loaded up his cart.
He said, "D'you want it pasturize? 'Cause pasturize is best,"
She says, "Ernie, I'll be happy if it comes up to my chest."

Seve OB · 20-10-2011 9:04pm

Karsini wrote: »

Perv!

See for yourself.

If I was to tell you what that looks like I'd probably get banned from here!

gbee · 20-10-2011 9:32pm

Which reminds me! How many delivery vans [today] will follow you up the road as you do your rounds?

subscriber · 21-10-2011 2:31am

swingking wrote: »

Does anyone know why they got rid of the glass milk bottles that came to your door everyday?

Because you touch yourself at night..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W23LKD9Z1hw

flanum · 21-10-2011 5:22am

Amberjack wrote: »

I remember in nursery school (laye 70's) we used to collect the foil tops and they were sent off to orphanages in Africa or other 3rd world places. Anyone else do this?

why????

AlmightyCushion · 21-10-2011 5:26am

flanum wrote: »

why????

Just to rub in the fact that we had food and they didn't.

Mike 1972 · 21-10-2011 4:20pm

lcrcboy wrote: »

In Limerick criminals realized that a person wasint home when the milk bottles were left out and not used, so they started targeting these houses.

1) Buy double barreled shotgun (get free house in Limerick ?)
2) Leave milk bottles on doorstep and hide behind sofa
3) ?
4) PROFIT!

afatbollix · 21-10-2011 4:26pm

I get mine delivered in a glass bottle 3 times a week it's awesome..

Best reason to move to London if ya ask me..

bodhrandude · 21-10-2011 4:37pm

genericguy wrote: »

fcuked if i know cos i'm only a yunfla, but these days the milkman would probably be getting stabbed with the bottles for his money.

Not a grammar nazi here, love the way you pronounce young fellah, immediately I thought, Donegal accent, are you from Donegal?

Why did they get rid of the glass milk bottles that the milkman delivered?

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