Christmas milk bottle tops.

vektarman

One part I looked forward to every Christmas was the arrival of the Christmas tinfoil tops on the glass milk bottles, there was something about it that signalled the arrival of Christmas for me, does anyone remember those bottles?

lord lucan

vektarman wrote: »

One part I looked forward to every Christmas was the arrival of the Christmas tinfoil tops on the glass milk bottles, there was something about it that signalled the arrival of Christmas for me, does anyone remember those bottles?

Weren't they red with little holly details on them? It was great,in the days before the rampant commercialism of xmas they were the first sign that xmas was on the way.:)

vektarman

lord lucan wrote: »

Weren't they red with little holly details on them? It was great,in the days before the rampant commercialism of xmas they were the first sign that xmas was on the way.:)

They're the ones, it's amazing the way something small and simple can be just as effective as giant billboards and all the other commercialism of Christmas.

Run_to_da_hills

The birds would have ours pecked :mad:

vektarman

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

The birds would have ours pecked :mad:

HaHa, ours too! Jeez I'd forgotten about that.:)

lord lucan

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

The birds would have ours pecked :mad:

A small bit of plank and a word with the milkman saved ours.;)

The little rituals were great like shaking the bottle when you first opened it because all the cream had risen to the top. I miss milk in bottles,i swear it tasted nicer.:(

ctrl-alt-delete

lord lucan wrote: »

A small bit of plank and a word with the milkman saved ours.;)

The little rituals were great like shaking the bottle when you first opened it because all the cream had risen to the top. I miss milk in bottles,i swear it tasted nicer.:(

We were much more sophisticated, we had a premier dairies encrusted plastic yoke that went over them

Damn Homoginisation anyways!

vektarman

I had a quick look at the milk cartons while I was in the supermarket to-day, nothing Christmassy on them at all:(, then again, there was so much nutritional info on them there was no room for anything else.

Slightly OT, our milk was delivered by horse and cart in Cabra, the horse knew every house to deliver to and kept up with the milkman as he went from door to door, hard to believe now!

ghost_ie

I'd forgotten about the christmas milk bottle tops. They were as much a part of Christmas as Clery's window and the visit to Santa.

619C

You could also get the left over foil strips with all the holes missing from the local creamery.
We used to use them over seed beds to stop birds eating the seeds !!!

Bring back milk bottles - they talk about reduce reuse etc. today - milk bottles were always reused....

s_upergirl

Wow I'd totally forgotten about that!!Yeah milk definitely tasted much nicer from the bottle - I used to get the cream off the top on my breakfast coz my sis didn't like when the cream was broken up & floating around the bottle - hated when the birds pecked the top though:(

Son Of A Vidic

Memory lane or what, I remember visiting my Grandparents and they used to have those milk bottles & tops. The Milk was always gorgeous and creamy too.

WindSock

I loved those tops! I have an old milk bottle in the cupboard. MLB Milk Bottles Limited