I remember getting milk at primary in the Sixties. It was a welcome mid-morning ritual and it came in a triangular pack. There must have been a straw too but I don't recall that.
It must have been full-fat milk with all the cream mixed in, which I would struggle with now, as I'm very funny about anything floating in milk these days.
I imagine the mid-morning shot of milk was a Government-backed scheme to strengthen bones and teeth and create a nation of George Bests and Virginia Wades.
It didn't work on me as I was and remain the most unsporty person you are ever likely to know. My milky energy boost will have been absorbed into my pent-up angst at being segregated from the girls at playtime. I was quite the flirt even then, but alas, in our Victorian redbrick school reminiscent of a workhouse, the girls had there own playground with a posse of nuns between them and the boys' yard!
Still, I enjoyed the milk and wonder if it really did help our generation's bones and teeth?
What do you think?
Yes. We had a bottle of milk in the early sixties. Milk monitoring duties were allocated
ReplyDeleteHmmm. Maybe we had bottles first and packs later Khusru too. Packs sound like the late Sixties, maybe 1970 even. As for monitors, yes, that rings a bell. What did they monitor? Who wasn't finished?
DeleteWell Woodsy, I WAS a Milk Monitor!
ReplyDeleteWe were responsible for collecting and distributing the milk (only ever in small 1/3 pint bottles at my school) to the kids in class.
I loved milk, but a few children didn't (usually the ones from the poorest families, unfortunately) so, rather than waste it, we Monitors were allowed to have the spares ourselves and give it to our mates. I was 'quids in' milk wise.
Mish.
A milk monitor no less, the cream of the crop! Well done Mish. We owe you, all us baby boomers, for the strong teeth and bones we have!
DeleteSluuurrrppp! Yes we had school milk in the 1/3 pint bottles (till Maggie Thatcher,milk snatcher). We took it in turns as milk monitors, fetching it in from outside the classroom door, sharing it out and putting the empties back outside. Paper straws were available (but were generally used to fire paper pellets at others. I think thrre were a couple of bottles of OJ or milk of a different sort (instead of silver top it had blue and white check pattern? Or red and white stripes?)
ReplyDeleteha ha, great milky memories Timmy. Maggie Thatcher, Milk Snatcher! I howled at that!
DeleteI was one of those weirdo kids who didn't like milk so I got the OJ (orange squash, I remember) instead. Red foil tops! At my primary school, the 1/3 size bottles were supplied from a small dairy farm about half a mile down the hill.
DeleteYes, I remember the OJ Charlie. Very tasty and always cold!
DeleteBack in the Seventies' Finland, milk was a fixture at school lunch and came in a white plastic 2 dl cup, sealed with an aluminium lid. You did not have to remove the whole lid, just open a little bit and drink like from a sippy cup.
ReplyDeleteIf the school ended with a sweaty gym class, us boys we used to make a tour by the school kitchen, where we were treated to extra doses of that refreshing cold drink. When our gym teacher eventually found out, he was fuming!
ha ha, great fun that Arto, you cheeky gym boys with milk tashes!
DeleteI remember school milk in the 60s! I used to carefully twist the bottle caps off which gave me a tiny metal frisbee that I could make fly by spinning it between my index and middle finger!
ReplyDeleteLittle frisbees! Love it Looey!
DeleteYep we had the milk in triangular cardboard "tetra paks" here in Australia. In summer it often wasn't refrigerated properly so got warm. Urghhh! I disliked milk in any case so avoided it regardless.
ReplyDeleteCheers, Tony
Those tetra paks ring a bell Tone. Milk is an acquired taste! Ice cream is better!
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