Do any of you remember the good old days when as children we had school milk at morning break !! and very often in winter it would be popping its top with frozen milk !
Remember it well Beryl and the half of a broken scissors to make a hole in the top for a straw. We are so lucky up here with a run of beautiful sunny days.
This was before the days of Elf & Safety Nonsense. No keeping it in the Fridge, no matter how warm it was.
And it was considered an honour when it was your turn to be Milk Monitor, so that you could carry the heavy crates with glass bottles in around the various school buildings to each of the classrooms.
Far too dangerous to be allowed these days. Lol.
Wondering Beryl, did your infants school like mine, have a sausage machine, hidden behind the door in the big hall. It was rumoured that was where they made the gristly sausages that came with the school dinners, from naughty pupils.
Those were the days when teachers were allowed to wage physiological warfare against the pupils.
@markp Thank you for all your wonderful reminiscing !! Talk about the health and Safety !! the icy milk was brought in and the crate was put to thaw either on top of the metal guard in front of the open fire in the infant room or by the large metal rads in the other rooms ! No Sausage machines in my school as far as I know !! but a cane and a slipper !!
Isn't that wonderful to see that again Beryl? You haven't lived until you have had cream off the top of the bottle with slithers of ice in it on your porridge!
I certainly do, but in the summer it was disgusting. We have milk delivered to the door still support the local farmer, it tastes so much better thank supermarket milk.
Well remembered Beryl and with sour milk in the summer. I also remember the blue tits pecking through the lid to get at the milk when it was left on the doorstep.
Yes, I also remember the bluetits pecking off the milk bottle tops to drink the cream on the top. Does anyone remember cream on top of the milk? They were the days!
What a blast from the past, we do not even have milkman around here, and I cannot remember the last time I actually saw the milk frozen and popping its lid.
Oh goodness, this certainly does bring back memories!
I remember the teachers would put the crates of milk by the stove to thaw out the milk and by the time we came to drink it, it would have gone off. No question of refusing to drink it, either. Uggh!
You've certainly evoked some memories here Beryl! Mine too! @dulciknit 's memories of crates next to the fire and warm sour milk are familiar to me too.
We had the same deal in NZ but was more memorable for the warm/hot milk in summer .. I was bought up on a dairy farm so milk like this was not a treat.. Milk in Schools has just been reintroduced back into our school but is Longlife milk and my Grandkids say it is 'yuk'..
@julzmaioro I totally agree with your grand kids -- nothing is more revolting than long-life milk ! I was bought up in the Welsh countryside and never tasted long-life milk until my adult life when I came to teach in Shropshire -- I would rather be without milk than use the revolting long life variety !
Oh Yes indeed, our teacher used to bring the bottles in and put them by the stove (yes, the stove in the classroom, coal fired) to warm up a bit before break time. The boys used to make really long slides down the playground, which nowadays would surely be banned by elf 'n safety.
Fantastic shot, jolly didn't realise it was that cold this morning, we obviously didn't have it as cold as you. I was put off milk at school when it used to come in warm in summer and icy in the winter!
I remember school milk very well. 20 of us ended up in isolation hospital with dysentery after an incident with contaminated school milk at our school Christmas party when I was 7 years old.
I remember those days in Malta, too. I think they still do it today for the little ones. Our milk was never frozen and there was a lot of waste because it was abundant.
I remember it well, I used to love it when frozen, we also had them milk tablets when the milkman could not get to the school in very bad conditions...
And it was considered an honour when it was your turn to be Milk Monitor, so that you could carry the heavy crates with glass bottles in around the various school buildings to each of the classrooms.
Far too dangerous to be allowed these days. Lol.
Wondering Beryl, did your infants school like mine, have a sausage machine, hidden behind the door in the big hall. It was rumoured that was where they made the gristly sausages that came with the school dinners, from naughty pupils.
Those were the days when teachers were allowed to wage physiological warfare against the pupils.
I remember the teachers would put the crates of milk by the stove to thaw out the milk and by the time we came to drink it, it would have gone off. No question of refusing to drink it, either. Uggh!