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whistleman

remember these?!

my dad keeping em.

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MrDuck · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 8:56 am Post subject:

Funny how they look about the same everywhere

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ItSteams · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:03 pm Post subject:

oh yes , from the better years

The Denying Dutchman · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:31 pm Post subject:

I remember my grandmother buying bottles of vla (a dutch desert) from the mobile supermarket. (Those were the days, when the supermarket came to you!)

And because of the fact that Dutch are sparing we also invented the "flessenlikker" to not waste any vla left in the bottle.

This guy thinks the "flessenlikker" or "flessenschraper" as he calls it is a piece of genius.

http://merguezfrites.blogspot.nl/2006/02/flessenschraper.html
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boxman · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 4:10 pm Post subject:

We still get ours in bottles they turn up on the doorstep every other day

loose nut 45 · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 4:19 pm Post subject:

angus · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 4:49 pm Post subject:

I certainly remember similar bottles. The slender type with aluminum foil caps were the kind we had. The milk wasn't homogenized so all of the cream was at the top. The starlings knew about that and if you left the bottles on the doorstep long enough they'd peck through the foil and help themselves to the cream.

Amusing to remember but was rather annoying to all (at least to all non-starlings) at the time

Stilldrillin · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 5:13 pm Post subject:

I remember milk bottles sealed with a push in, cardboard disc.

The school milk bottles were the same, with a small perforated ring, to push the straw through.
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MooseMan · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 5:37 pm Post subject:

angus · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 6:11 pm Post subject:

Stilldrillin · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 7:37 pm Post subject:

I was milk monitor, when the school bottles changed to foil caps.

Was allowed to use teacher's penknife, to pierce the caps, for straws.

Such responsibility..... At 8yrs old!

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scorpion2nz · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 7:44 pm Post subject:

aahh 1 pint milk bottles and 1/2 pint cream .

OLD school ground jokes us country kids asked the townies

Q = why was cream dearer than milk ??

A = because it is harder for the cow to sit on the smaller bottles .

OK OK I will leave now and forget the rest of them
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L E Jay · Steam fanatic Joined: 29 Mar 2010 Posts: 1234

We still have foil topped 1 pint bottles delivered by electric cart to our door 3 times a week.

Actually you can get quite a few things from the milkman these days, that occasionally they have good offers.

My all time favourite thing that they deliver is compost.
https://www.milkandmore.co.uk/OA_...%3fsection=10108&beginIndex=0
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scorpion2nz · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:47 pm Post subject:

L E Jay · Steam fanatic Joined: 29 Mar 2010 Posts: 1234

As long as lunch is a quick roll in the flower bed who could complain at that.
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