Re: I can remember when...

From	felix <me@nothere.biz>
Newsgroups	aus.tv, aus.computers
Subject	Re: I can remember when...
Date	2016-01-13 16:32 +1100
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On 13-January-2016 2:23 PM, Xeno wrote:
> On 13/01/2016 1:45 PM, felix wrote:
>>
>> ... drinks in glass bottles had a screw top that could easily be removed
>> because it wasn't made of light aluminum and pressed on by machine. it
>> was actually screwed on and so could be screwed off relatively easily.
>
> Don't recall them. We had milk delivered to our door and ladled out of 
> a milk churn. The cows were milked first thing and the milk delivered 
> to our door still warm. Pasteurisation? Not back then! We moved from 
> that delivery method to bottles with foil tops. You even had to return 
> the bottles for, get this, reuse! Still have 2 or 3 of those bottles 
> out in the garage somewhere. They show very visible signs of having 
> spent many, many hours rattling around in a milk crate.

yes. I have one somewhere too that I found. they always were a bit 
scratched up weren't they. did you also get milk delivered to your 
school in half pint bottles in crates that were left sitting outside in 
the hot sun until the bell rang? nothing like a drink of warm milk on a 
hot day! not!

>>
>> thought I would start a thread. anyone else got any? how about this one
>> for the old codgers..
>>
>> I can remember when milk and bread were delivered door to door.
>>
> Yep, the local baker had a van for that.
>

and came to the door with a basket of bread so you could choose what you 
wanted. no sliced bread either then I think. ahh... the good old days! :)

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