WOTD – Milkman
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For years our family had a milkman who came by to deliver milk and dairy products. He would come by our house early in the mornings, and leave our milk on the porch. I’m guessing my mom would leave a note on what to leave each day, probably in one of the empty milk bottles we were returning.
There would be several glass bottles of milk, sometimes butter, and cottage cheese. I don’t know what else. But one time I remember cottage cheese came in these promotional thermal cups that we could collect a whole set. I liked those cups a lot.
I don’t know when we stopped taking milk from the milkman. Maybe they stopped home delivery, or my parents just got milk from the store on regular grocery days. They used one dairy company, but my grandma used a different one who brought a different brand of milk.
Ours was called Bell Dairy, and said Quality Checked with a red check mark. My grandma’s was Borden’s, and had the Elsie the cow and family as their mascot. Ours left the order on the porch, and hers would just come right into the house to put the milk in her refrigerator.
So funny to think about this which happened so long ago.
But then, we ourselves had a milkman deliver milk, when our kids were little. I think that dairy was called Pinehurst, or something like that. We didn’t have them that long though. The kids thought it was fun.
Now it’s common for people to get groceries delivered again. We haven’t, but I hear it’s a choice we could use.
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This is one of my weird photos. It shows a gallon of milk (plastic jug/blue top).
What makes it weird is that it is outside in taxi & valet parking breezeway at the Dallas/Ft. Worth airport!
It was just sitting there on a pedestal, right by the street. No one was around to claim it.
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“No Milk Today” by Herman’s Hermits
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