Talk:Milk delivery

message: I used to go to Britain as a child in the 80s and the milk was delivered. The owner of the house where I went would leave a note when she was leaving for a long time. There was also milk in supermarkets, but corner stores had the same milk that was delivered.
Still, there are three things I remember clearly:
* The empty bottles were always left at night for the milkman to pick up in the morning.
* Unlike any other milk I knew, the milk from the milkman was not homogenized and the cream would float at the top of the bottle.
* The bottles were closed with an aluminium foil capsule. The color of the capsule would indicate what kind of milk it was: whole milk (what in the US is often called. "Vitamin D milk"), semi-skimmed (with half the cream left in), or skimmed milk (what in the US would be called 100% fat free milk). The bottles were all glass and the same for each kind. There was also chocolate milk that had its own capsule color but that could easily be identified by its own color.
I actually came to this article to verify that the milk was indeed not homogenized and, hopefully, to find out why that was.
I don't know how to source this, and this might have been specific to where I was in England, in coastal Dorset, but I remember it very precisely.
Eje211 (talk) 16:13, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-homogenized milk 

message: Is this really a big problem? My family have had milk delivered since I can remember (30 years) and I think we may have had *one* bottle go missing in all that time! 86.132.137.65 05:34, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prone to theft? 

message: "Milk Roundsperson"?  Does anybody ever call these people this?  WP:MOS says to use the most common name.  And regardless, the "R" in "Roundsperson" should be lower case.  Corvus cornixtalk 23:14, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Name of this article

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
*Oppose. Wikipedia should always try to use gender-neutral language. Georgia guy (talk) 00:23, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: :Any additional comments:
Are there any Wikipedians who are opponents of gender-neutral language in English (not just at Wikipedia)??
:Gender-neutral language? Of course not. This particular term, however, is not in even remotely common parlance, so the article should be put back where it belongs at Milkman. --erachima formerly tjstrf 00:56, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

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thread_title: [[WP:FOOD|WikiProject Food and drink]] Tagging

message: " ... central figure in numerous milkman jokes."
O RLY? Who'd have thunk it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.229.235.38 (talk) 16:32, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Milkman Jokes

message: Is that rather graphic picture really necessary? 207.134.118.183 (talk) 08:14, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: Methinks something important is missing in this article: The history of milk men.
I doubt that milk was unavailable to common people in the UK in the Dark Ages as suggested by some articles.
91.51.207.57 (talk) 00:07, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Truly, this whole article is a little lacking.  There's a BIG "In Popular Culture" section, many of the references being to things that I'm not sure are really "popular".  That section is longer than the rest of the article.  What we need is more about the profession itself: More history as was said, statistics about numbers of people and geographic distribution of those employed as milkmen, mean incomes/education/age, information about the companies employing the milkmen (local grocery stores?, larger food distribution companies?), unions or associations for those so employed, etc.  The so-called "Popular Culture" references are fine, but let's try to stick to the subject! 65.0.192.41 (talk) 03:54, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of Milk Men? 

message: In a presentation I recently attended, a debator claimed that, in the UK in the 1970s, you could pay the milk man by leaving money in an empty bottle overnight - and nobody would steal it!  If this is true, then I suggest it be noted in the article, since this is a pretty foreign and curious concept as far as I'm concerned.199.212.11.97 (talk) 03:01, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paying the milk man 

message: For whom did the milkman work?  The paper pays the paperboy; the USPS pays the mailman -- was the milkman an employee of the local dairy farm?  A local supermarket (I know those were not common until recently)?  Was it just an independent contractor who would talk with the homemakers and agree to deliver to each of them on an individual basis? Deltopia (talk) 12:06, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who pays the milkman?