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gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8916
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 11 4:58 pm Post subject:
Calon Wen started doing this in the 90s if I remember rightly.

Midland Spinner

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 2931
Location: Under a green roof

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 11 5:03 pm Post subject:
My sister used to work for a farmer who packed jersey milk in bags like this. I remember one Christmas morning she came back home with a huge bag full of bags of jersey milk, the only problem was that we didn't have the proper jug!

windyridge

Joined: 03 Oct 2010
Posts: 2732
Location: Up the garden from Henry

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 11 9:36 pm Post subject:
Guernsey and Jersey used and discarded this system many moons ago. I am really suprised anyone is introducing them again. One of the problems was the packs leaked in storage. If a pack was dropped it sometimes exploded everywhere. Very messy

cir3ngirl

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 4846
Location: Cirencester

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 11 9:56 pm Post subject:
Tescos do it as well but only in one of the 3 shops they have here. Which mean I can only get a bag if I can get a lift to almost out of town store

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 11 7:15 pm Post subject:

Midland Spinner wrote:

My sister used to work for a farmer who packed jersey milk in bags like this. I remember one Christmas morning she came back home with a huge bag full of bags of jersey milk, the only problem was that we didn't have the proper jug!

Who was this? (the Jersey herd, I mean)

Dee

Joined: 14 Jan 2010
Posts: 34
Location: North Lincs

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 11 9:24 pm Post subject:
I get organic milk delivered in bottles to my doorstep. Easy peasy...

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8916
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 11 9:40 pm Post subject:
lucky you! Where are you?

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 11 10:10 pm Post subject:
I get my milk brought to the school bus stop . It's raw milk straight from the farm that the farmer's wife brings along when we drop the kids off for school.

Bulgarianlily

Joined: 01 Jun 2008
Posts: 1667
Location: South West Mountains of Bulgaria

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 11 10:37 am Post subject:
I remember thinking this was a good idea when I saw it used in Canada in 1967. What has it done, hopped slowly on one foot backwards across the atlantic?

BadgerFace

Joined: 25 Mar 2009
Posts: 915
Location: Sussex

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 11 11:05 am Post subject:
When I lived in Somerset during the 70's - 80's the milk from the local shop came in bags, we had a funny oval shape blue plastic jug that the bag fitted in. I seem to remember a few exploding bags on the kitchen floor - the dogs liked them !

Midland Spinner

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 2931
Location: Under a green roof

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 11 12:02 pm Post subject:

Rob R wrote:

Midland Spinner wrote:

Who was this? (the Jersey herd, I mean)

I don't think I ever knew the name of the farm or the herd, it was yonks ago and I was still at school.
We lived down in Kent at the time, and AFAIR the farm was somewhere like Ivy Hatch, but she only worked there for a short time.

catbaffler

Joined: 31 Mar 2009
Posts: 937
Location: Barry

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 11 12:07 pm Post subject:

BadgerFace wrote:

When I lived in Somerset during the 70's - 80's the milk from the local shop came in bags, we had a funny oval shape blue plastic jug that the bag fitted in. I seem to remember a few exploding bags on the kitchen floor - the dogs liked them !

I lived in Bristol during the mid 70s and have similar recollections though sadly I lacked the canine cleaning assistants

Ginkotree

Joined: 26 Jun 2008
Posts: 2956
Location: south west wales

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 11 10:16 am Post subject:
Remember these from days gone by too..not something that caught on for long as much mess...love having milk delivered to my door and hope my milkman does not retire ..

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46207
Location: yes

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 11 2:23 pm Post subject:
never seen one ,how odd

Kenworth

Joined: 04 Apr 2011
Posts: 855
Location: Michigan

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 11 5:06 am Post subject:

We had this in our high school in the mid '70's. If I remember correctly, the bags didn't have a specific spot for the straw to be inserted.

The only milk in bags that I know of now are what are in large bags that are for restaurant use. They are set in a crate and the crate is inserted in a cooler. They have a nipple on the bag that sticks out of the cooler. The nipple is snipped and some type of locking divice at handle on the outside controls flow.

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