I never understood why milk was delivered to my house as a kid. This was so random
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What’s not to like about getting fresh milk delivered every day? We still do.
Also, before supermarkets people did their shopping on a more day-to-day basis, plus not everyone had a large enough fridge to store a week’s worth of milk.
Householders could also specify how much milk they wanted delivered – often via a note put into the empty bottles. Great if you have guests, or are planing to bake tomorrow.
For the same reason it is currently delivered to our house. The main advantages being that it means you don’t run out (there’s always more coming tomorrow), its always super fresh, it supports our local farm and you can recycle the glass milk bottles it comes in.
What? You can still get milk delivered to your house.
What!? That stopped being a thing in like the early 70s where I’m from. I’m 41 and NEVER had milk delivered. In fact there wasn’t even an option for that. Where did you live?
We thought it was funny, when everybody in the house was from the future so we just kept em there forever, and sometimes people noticed, so they would make fun of em. The apoxy residence. Ha. So then the ones that know- we ain’t that bothered us and made it look like someone was bringing milk to the house. But it wasn’t. It was alcohol:(
I live in Boulder, CO, in the city basically, not like rural. We get our milk delivered, it’s awesome. Pretty sure they will deliver to most of the Denver metro area. Super fresh, supports a smaller/local dairy farm, comes in reusable glass, doesn’t cost much more (if any), and the taste is *consistent*- I feel like grocery store cartons always taste different from one to the next, even if they’re the same brand. Also, milk is cumbersome and bulky/heavy when you’re grocery shopping, it’s nice to have it just right at the doorstep!
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[This was still in use on my street in the late 1950’s](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e2/a0/02/e2a002c88166647a24bf66b59dd7d7a3.jpg)
I grew up in the 80s in NYC. No one I knew got milk delivered to their homes. We all went to the market and bought the cartons. I remember seeing some old sitcoms like The Brady Bunch or something like that where they got glass bottled milk delivered to them by a milk man and I thought that was wild.
What the hell. I grew up in Buffalo in the 80s, and my parents said milkman deliveries were pretty much nonexistent by the mid 60s.
Also: Ugly Kid Joe – Milkman’s Son 🙂
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