17 thoughts on “Was it For This?

    1. Odis

      Yes as I understand it, the daily ration has a third of a pint. Until Maggie Thatcher (the Milk Snatcher) scrapped it, in the early 1970s, when she was the Education Secretary, in the Ted Heath Conservative government.

      1. Ultach

        I was a milk monitor. Milk was available in schools throughout the UK, including northeast Ireland, not just England.

        1. Odis

          Then you would be in a position of authority to comment on the size of the ration and the design of the bottle.

          1. Ultach

            I am, thank you. And in my pudgy four and a half year old paws the bottles were MASSIVE! So yeah, a third of a pint, probably. And we didn’t have labels but we did have those foil caps that you could either push down with your thumb or stick a straw through whenever the budget stretched to such extremities. Ahh, the seventies, constant damp, tobacco smoke and emotional repression. And power cuts. And brylcreme and BO. The odd rap of a ruler over the knuckles for not knowing the gifts of the Holy Spirit or the fourth sorrowful mystery. Happy days.

  1. Don Pidgeoni

    You guys are missing the picture. We should be more concerned that buying old milk bottles is a thing that humans do now.

  2. Spaghetti Hoop

    Milk bottles were re-used and were ideal vessels for milk. I can never understand why Tetra Pack was deemed a suitable replacement when it simply goes into landfill.

    1. Sinabhfuil

      Because State inspectors at dairies repeatedly found snails had crawled up inside the empty washed milk bottles stored outdoors, according to my milkman; he may of course be a storyteller…

  3. Kieran NYC

    I still had milk bottles in my school in the mid/late 90s. Sixth class even got the cushy job of collecting them at the gate and bringing them in to the fridge. Could drag that out to 20mins out of class.

    Was the strangest substance. Both horrendously watery and somehow lumpy at the same time.

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