Milkman delivery

[finesse_r]

Does anyone still get milk delivered to their residence in glass jars? I was a small boy the last time I saw that service.

 

[SamV]

Oberweis dairy still has home delivery. Chicago, Saint Louis, Indiana, and Michigan, I think. You can check their website to make sure. Very good products. We don't have delivery service, but will go to their stores for ice cream and some other treats. The local supermarkets carry their products too. All in glass bottles. I see their delivery trucks occasionally.
It seems what is old is new again. Who doesn't offer delivery of some sort today? I was surprised to see an offer for delivery in McDonald's the other day. Really?? Is that because of the legalizing of pot now? People have the munchies?

 

[Colonel Daddy]

On another slant. My wife had blond hair as a child, now brown. I had brown hair as a young man tho my beard was red. When the boys came along (they were 11 mo's 20 days apart) both had red hair. I got so tired of nosey people and having to give them lessons in our recent genealogy, I just started saying "they got it from the milk man". Or, "they got it from my wife's first husband. Yup, I got slapped a few times :lol: Wife dye her hair red for a few years.

 

[powder smoke]

Milkman would pull in the driveway always dripping water from the ice melting in the truck. Nice man always gave the kids a piece, treat on a hot summer day! Oh ya them
milk boxes on the door stoop, can't forget them! He was a hall lanky man we named him Mr. Greenjeans From Capt. Kangaroo! We also had a breadman deliver ever couple days. ps

 

[Bull Barrel]

+1on Oberweis. I have a store in walking distance.

 

[coach]

I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve seen milk in a glass bottle. I do remember the home delivery and cream popping out the top of bottles sometimes when it was cold.

 

[Ale-8(1)]

Way back then, some houses had little doors beside the main back door that opened into a small, insulated compartment large enough for some bottles and perhaps some butter, etc. There was a matching little door inside the house to retrieve these things. Handy.

 

[Robb Barnes]

We never got milk delivered since we had milk cows but instead had a working refrigerator on the back porch where we put gallon jars of milk for customers to stop by and pick up. They’d leave money in a jar and take their order of milk. As long as we had a milk cow or two I always knew I had something to do each morning and evening!

 

[Bull Barrel]

You can't do that any more! The safetycrats will swoop down and arrest you for selling raw milk. It all has to be over processed and stripped of nutrients.
Not being political only stating facts.

 

[gramps]

Heating milk to 165 degrees then rapidly cooling it (pasteurizing it) is over processing milk? How does that strip nutrients? I had milk goats in the 90’s. Raw milk was good, but pasteurized milk lasted longer in the fridge. Plus it was the first step in making cheese. My grandparents got milk delivered. Grandma had a special ladle that would just fit inside the milk bottle, and she made “skim milk”! She used the cream to put over cake(whipped cream), and other recipe’s
gramps

 

[Fox Mike]

As a young man I worked for Greenspring Dairy. I was out on the road by 0330 each morning. The company delivered milk, ice cream, and bread. It was "interesting" work. There were some very friendly customers on my route. . . very friendly.

 

[Acorn]

As a young man I worked for Greenspring Dairy. I was out on the road by 0330 each morning. The company delivered milk, ice cream, and bread. It was "interesting" work. There were some very friendly customers on my route. . . very friendly.

Seems like there’s more to the story than you’re letting on!

 

[Bull Barrel]

Milk is process quite a bit before we get it.
My brother used to work at the Kroger dairy when it was here in STL and his friend worked at the Pevely dairy.
First thing is most of the cream is removed. Ever wondered why they are Vitamin D? Its all but removed. Pasteurization does remove bacteria and enhance the life but heat is an enemy of milk.

I used to build beer pasteurizers 40 years ago.

 

[GLASSMAN]

Oberwies delivers in my area. From what I hear, good milk but a bit pricey.
We had milk and Linco bleach delivered to our house when I was a kid. I remember
accidently breaking a gallon milk bottle and worried that the milkman wouldn't leavr anymore milk.
I have a Modern Dairy metal milk box outside my shop door for folks to leave notes and whatnot in.

 

[Fox Mike]

As a young man I worked for Greenspring Dairy. I was out on the road by 0330 each morning. The company delivered milk, ice cream, and bread. It was "interesting" work. There were some very friendly customers on my route. . . very friendly.

Seems like there’s more to the story than you’re letting on!

Suffice to say that this is a "family" forum.

 

[any ruger]

Still get mine delivered in glass bottles from a local Dairy. Northern MN.

 

[Acorn]

As a young man I worked for Greenspring Dairy. I was out on the road by 0330 each morning. The company delivered milk, ice cream, and bread. It was "interesting" work. There were some very friendly customers on my route. . . very friendly.

Seems like there’s more to the story than you’re letting on!

Suffice to say that this is a "family" forum.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XiVGSaYXpqo
How did you escape?

 

[Fox Mike]

Acorn; The first part of that video wasn't too far off from one of the customers. I was laughing about this post and was telling the wife about this particular 'lady'. I never knew what to expect from her, as to what she would or wouldn't be wearing, when I went to her back door. :shock: :shock:

 

[smoke-eater]

Haven't had milk or bread deliveries in this area since the 1960's. I lived about a mile from the elementary school, and would usually walk there. In bad weather, either the milkman or the Bond Bread driver would take me to school. Innocent times. Can you imagine parents letting their kids get a ride from someone like that today?

 

[Daveboone]

you can still get milk in the glass bottles at the local Byrne Dairy around here. I still see the old insulated milk boxes outside peoples houses, but honestly don't remember milk being delivered in the area probably since the early 1970s at least. Much later than that we used to see the old Charlies Chips home delivery guy, or the dry cleaning pick up.
Now that I think of it, I am almost surprised there isn't still a snack food home delivery service? maybe a niche mail delivery service for favorite snack/comfort foods?

 

[Bull Barrel]

Door Dash and similar services are becoming popular for those who get the munchies at night.
A local grocery chain offers free curbside pick up or delivery for a fee.

 

[Jeepnik]

I grew up on dairies, and my father was the milkman. He was also redheaded. Truth be told by the time I reached high school every time I saw a cute girl with bright red hair I wondered if I should date her.

 

[RoninPA]

I can remember the milkman (on very cold days you didn't want to forget to get the milk out of the milk box lest it freeze), the bread man and the Charles Chips man. Our bread man was Stroehmanns Bread, along with various cakes/pies/pastries, and Middleswarth potato chips. Charles chips came in a nice big can that you swapped out when you got a fresh batch.

There is a local dairy that has a store that you can get white and chocolate milk in glass bottles as well as OJ, orangeade, lemonade, and iced tea (both sweet and unsweet). They also make a GREAT orange/pineapple ice cream (not sherbert).

Frank, when I read your first post I thought to myself "Frank, don't go there"

 

[Mike J]

I don't think anyone does that around here now. My Grandfather worked for many years for Atlanta Dairies delivering milk. Before that he worked on a dairy milking cows. My Dad worked for Atlanta Dairies for a while too but it was before I was born. I remember Granddaddy coming by to see us in the milk truck one day. I was thrilled & he gave us a carton of chocolate milk. I think I was about 5 or 6, not sure.

 

[Bayouhunter]

1972 while in 6th grade in Catholic school on the Bayou. Sister Ann gave me a daily chore and the key to the Convent go pick up the milk out their box on the front step and bring it inside place in the refrigerator. I always wondered why she chose me we didn’t along that well. I had the job until I told some of the other kids about the good sister’s inventory of booze next to their kitchen. I was out sick one week and the job went to another guy who managed to drink some of their inventory and get caught. End of good thing!