Do you have this among your childhood memories ?

Yes, few yrs at the end of the era wonderful time of home deliveries. The cream would be on the cap. What a treat your Dad buying you coco milk. Wonderful memories💟Hiking I found an old bottle I put flowers in it...

Yes and in the winter they used to freeze and the cream would push the tops off. 🤗

Yes. As a child, our milkman was called Fred. He delivered very early, so I only saw him on Friday evening when he'd call for his payment. When Fred retired, Gary was out new milkman. I was in my early teens then and used to take my dog for a walk before school so id see Gary doing his round. But, our dog wasnt very friendly so Gary wouldn't come into our garden to put the milk on the step so Dad strapped a small crate to the fence post so Gary could pop the bottles over the fence!!
I remember the milk freezing and pushing the silver caps off in the winter and the birds pecking through the caps to get to the cream.
My mum would never buy super market milk. She always said she didn't want to do the milkman out of his job.

Into adulthood actually. A cousin was our milkman into the 90s. When he stopped we stopped. My sister still has deliveries though

The cream seperated to the top and would try and be first to rise so that I'd get to pour on my corn flakes! When we had deliveries I remember the taller bottles as shown right below.

Yep! Yet didn't last very long where I lived. They brought them in metal crates. The crates mom was always trying to get. 😁

I remember seeing milkmen in cartoons and my parents giving their memories

I've been watching Father Ted - which is a really funny and irreverent Britcom and this happens to be about the "Milkman" which made me think of this post! I hope someone watches and likes this - it's good stuff...

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Yes as a memory, but not really in the past. We have a local company that's been delivering to us, so my kids grew up with it as well. They kept up with the old billing style: I have a line of credit with them, and I settle at the end of the month.

Yes, but I don' t remember because I was too young :)

I only know that our milk in Latvia was so utterly pure, if you left it on the counter, it literally would turn into buttermilk. Yeah. Amazing right :D

There is a co-op grocery store in town that i go to occasionally. They have local, organic milk, in glass bottles. I buy a bottle when i go. I like the quart sized bottles. They are great for fresh juice🙂

The closest that I come to these drinks was a chocolate soda called chocola!

Yes, we actually had a milkbox outside the front door, and the bottles were put inside it.

Yep....and in a cold spell we’d have frozen milk and /or cracked bottles.

Yes, we had a daily milk delivery on an electric van and they also used to sell orange juice, butter and cheese. We asked the milkman to put a stone on the top of the bottles he left outsise the door to stop the bluetits from pecking at the foil lids to get at the cream on top.

Oh yes, the milk man....and the insulated contraption on the porch where he put milk and eggs and sometimes cheese. There was a clip inside the lid where Mom put a note telling him what she needed and the milkman would leave the bill. She would leave money in an envelope with the money. Funny how that worked and nobody ever tried stealing the money.

While I don't remember bottles of milk being delivered, I do remember cartons of milk, cream, butter and other stuff being delivered to our home by Sun Valley Dairy.
They gave us an ordering device to put in our front window, showing the items we wanted delivered the following day.
(The milk & cream tasted so fresh)

Yes. In electric vehicles like this one

Yes, the sound of them being delivered. Early childhood there was the clip clop of horses. I hated that milk because the sun would sometimes make it go sour, and I didn't like milk without chocolate or something in it anyway.

Yes. It was raw milk and the birds used to peck the tops to get the cream. The milkman didn't get to us till after everyone had gone to work or school. After a day on the doorstep it was well on the way to being sour. I think it's maybe why I never really liked milk.

Yes, I remember having milk delivered to the house in the early morning. I also remembering breaking a few milk bottles when I threw the morning paper onto the porch.

Oddly I don’t

Yes, and we used to have a bakery that delivered bread and pastries too every week, sometimes the milk froze in winter if the delivery was too early and the little waxed cardboard cap would pop out, stray cats loved it! 🤪

In London we rarely saw this bit my grandparents used to have milk delivered...
It was a tradition they loved.
But in the recent years like 15 years or so no. It got very expensive.
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Didn’t have it delivered that I recall but we lived less than a mile from a dairy farm. My aunt and uncle had cows and made their on butter also so yes it was around.

Until we moved to the country we had milk and bread delivered, and if I was good mom would buy me a cupcake from the bread man. We also had mail delivered twice a day.

{@bijouxbroussard] oh yes here in the united kingdom it was a common site to have a milkman put a pint on your door step each morning

Yes, funnily someone started a delivery dairy here about 15-20 years ago - we signed up, but they only lasted about 3 months...

I remember getting milk delivered in bottles. I also delivered milk in bottles for about five years.

Yes. The bottles were bigger though and we got them at the farmers market took the empty bottles back for discount on new bottles.

*edited * i just realized they were on the doorstep. 🤣 I never got the milk delivered but that would have been cool.

No, it was always 2%milk in plastic gallon jugs.

Yes we had the glass milk bottles delivered to our house when we lived in Montreal

i used to help the milky on the weekends delivering earning extra money ,

No, but in the 80's my mom got milk delivery in cartons for awhile.

Indeed and I can still almost taste the cream at the top of the bottle 🤤

Nope, just a cow.. 🐮

Yes,in glass bottles,left on our front porch.

No we got ours right out of the cow. Lol

Barely. I was only 3 or 4 years old when it stopped.

I do. Our milkman put the items in an insulated box at the front door. AND he arrived in a horse drawn milk truck! The dairy had the horses and they knew the routes so they continued until the horses wanted to retire. I remember feeding the horse and the milkman giving us big chunks of ice in the summer.

I do not.
We lived in the way out.

yup..brought by the milkman

No but i would love the bottle.

I've never had it delivered

Never heard of it. Sorry.

A little before my time

Is that milk? Looks cool

No. The only thing I remember being delivered in bottles and left outside the door, is when we lived in Germany the second time. It was a fizzy lemon flavored beverage, that had a rubber stopper and those metal parts on the side.

Yes. Here in Oz the bottles looked more like the top pic. They held one imperial pint and after 1974, 600 ml. Magpies used to peck holes in the foil lids and help themselves if you were too slow to bring them inside.

No