Milk Man

Hollister11

Does anybody still have a milk man, that delivers every morning ?

i thought they were gone but started getting one again about 2 years ago.
we get the avonmore milk:) and after drinking that for ages when you taste a lidl brand the difference is amazing

BoJack Horseman

Not so much these days.

Fewer hairy babies as a result also.

Meathlass

We do.

The service started up about 2 years ago. It's all Avonmore products and presumably it's affiliated with them.

Expensive but worth it for the convenience

cruais

Our guys come by 4am every morning. it looks quite suspect.

They drive an old white hiace van with the booth up and a fella standing hanging out of the booth to jump out and deliver. Looks like they did a dairy raid.

donvito99

Milkmen Do It On Your Doorstep

mumo3

I have a milk man and the convenience its brilliant.. buts its much more costly.

Tokyo

Yup - have had a milkman in our area as long as I've ben alive. Used to deliver every morning, now it's 4 litres every two days.

chopperbyrne

Yeah, two litres every Monday and Friday.

nelly17

We had one but canned him a few weeks ago because its very hard to get the balance right of how much milk you need. We ended up with a stock pile. Also kept forgettng hed call on a Friday night looking to be paid nearly always didnt have cash in the house.

Convienient all right but more of a pain in the hoop in the end.

iDave

[Insert Pat Mustard reference here]

o1s1n

We don't really drink milk at all, let alone have a man dedicated to delivering it to us :pac:

Parents did for years when I was a kid, used to love drinking milk out of the glass bottles.

Tabnabs

We do, must be a hard way to earn a living in this day and age.

FullblownRose

Yes, there was no milk round for about 10 years here nut avonmore started delivering recently.
Ours also has a white van and delivers in early hours.
The local community page on FB put up a warning about a suspicious white van parking up around estates in the early hours. Sort of amusing tbh

Ciaran_B

What's the difference in price per litre of milk vs. shop cost?

Meathlass

Ciaran_B wrote: »

What's the difference in price per litre of milk vs. shop cost?

Think I'm paying €1.20 a litre with a sneaky 50c weekly delivery charge.

Don't know how much a litre of Avonmore is in the shops anymore.

FullblownRose

2.19 for 3ltrs in tesco (tesco brand- it's all milk) i just shop online with tesco instead now

syklops

cruais wrote: »

Our guys come by 4am every morning. it looks quite suspect.

They drive an old white hiace van with the booth up and a fella standing hanging out of the booth to jump out and deliver. Looks like they did a dairy raid.

Boot. Not booth.

Meathlass

FullblownRose wrote: »

2.19 for 3ltrs in tesco (tesco brand- it's all milk) i just shop online with tesco instead now

I prefer to support Irish farmers and get my milk from the Republic rather than Northern Ireland or elsewhere so I don't contend it's 'all milk'.

Cavet - don't know what's the origin of the milkTesco use.

Frank O. Pinion

Ciaran_B wrote: »

What's the difference in price per litre of milk vs. shop cost?

Your dignity.

FullblownRose

Meathlass wrote: »

I prefer to support Irish farmers and get my milk from the Republic rather than Northern Ireland or elsewhere so I don't contend it's 'all milk'.

Cavet - don't know what's the origin of the milkTesco use.

Tescos is also Irish. National dairy council aproved logo also.
I support local businesses too but not if it means paying over the odds which was the case with the delivery service unfortunately.

Meathlass

FullblownRose wrote: »

Tescos is also Irish. National dairy council aproved logo also.
I support local businesses too but not if it means paying over the odds which was the case with the delivery service unfortunately.

Agree that I'm paying a premium to get an Avonmore brand and get it delivered. Not going to get into an argument here about Tesco but I'm in a position where I can afford to pay a little more and get branded milk rather than the own brand stuff that the supplier takes a hit on. I appreciate everyone isn't in that lucky position.

Marks and Spencers say all their milk is 'Irish' but if you look at the label it actually comes from the north.

gouche

Meathlass wrote: »

Agree that I'm paying a premium to get an Avonmore brand and get it delivered. Not going to get into an argument here about Tesco but I'm in a position where I can afford to pay a little more and get branded milk rather than the own brand stuff that the supplier takes a hit on. I appreciate everyone isn't in that lucky position.

Marks and Spencers say all their milk is 'Irish' but if you look at the label it actually comes from the north.

So it is Irish then?

Meathlass

gouche wrote: »

So it is Irish then?

Yes it's Irish but the revenue that the suppliers (based in Northern Ireland) receive isn't going to help the economy in the Republic of Ireland so I'd rather support dairies (of which there are many) based in the republic.

FullblownRose

Meathlass wrote: »

Agree that I'm paying a premium to get an Avonmore brand and get it delivered. Not going to get into an argument here about Tesco but I'm in a position where I can afford to pay a little more and get branded milk rather than the own brand stuff that the supplier takes a hit on. I appreciate everyone isn't in that lucky position.

Marks and Spencers say all their milk is 'Irish' but if you look at the label it actually comes from the north.

Id buy Tesco milk by choice not through circumstance. I cannot discern any difference whatsoever as it literally all comes from the same source, is treated in exactly the same way etc. The only difference being the lettering on the labels.
As far as I know their milk suppliers are based in the RoI.
Each to their own

ElleEm

Unless they start delivering bread, and other midweek staples, I still have to go to the shop anyway so would never use one.

My boyfriend was ordering a take-away the other night and realised we had no milk, so asked if they sold any. They didn't, but they offered to go to the shop and get it for him. Handy!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Rural area and a daily milk delivery. Brilliant service.

somesoldiers

The OH signed up to one a couple of years back, was happy to pay a small premium to give a local lad a dig out and get some fresh milk delivered. 2 litres twice a week is all we signed up for but he delivered 2 lites a day.
Despite leaving him numerous messages he continued the daily delivery, by the end of week two I had a fridge full of 2 litre cartons and then he had the cheek to call looking for the money for the lot. I gave him a verbal boot up the hole and haven't seen him since

Truckermal

I am a milk man but work on the other side collecting the milk from the farmer's..

Ruu

Still around and have had one as long as I can remember, once a week delivery.

2 pints! 2 pints of milk!

Pumpkinseeds

There's a milkman locally and I see a lot of our neighbours are getting it delivered. I know this because the milk is sitting outside their front doors for most of the day, every day. We thought about getting our milk delivered and then thought about all the mice that our cats catch running around the neighbourhood and decided not to have it left on the doorstep.:D

nibtrix

I was considering it but happened to see the local guy delivering at around midnight one night as I was coming home late. Decided against buying milk that's going to sit on the doorstep for 7-8 hours.

gidget

We do, use to deliver Monday to Sat, with a double order of milk on a Sat, now only comes Mon, Wed & Fri. We used to also have a paper man & a bread man too.

Woshy

No, we've no milkman but I did give birth to a very, very hairy baby so got a lot of milkman/Pat Mustard comments in the hospital. My husband is now known as the hairy baby maker!

I'd actually like a milkman though, our toddler guzzles milk and my pregnant self can't get enough of it either and we're always running out.

Buona Fortuna

Nah - but we do have beer delivered.:D

Galwayguy35

No, I buy it in SuperValu.

I see Avonmore and Arrabawn milk there, it's very expensive.

kristian12

Yes we do but intend to stop in the new year because we pay well over the odds for the convenience. 6lters of full fat and 3ltres of slimline = €10.50 vs €6.84 from the local shop is a no brainer really.