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To: harpygoddess

“The milk man”

Milk used to be delivered to your front door.


15 posted on 05/05/2016 5:20:18 AM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: Ditter

Why does little Johnny look like the milk man?


35 posted on 05/05/2016 6:00:37 AM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase
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To: Ditter
Milk used to be delivered to your front door.

In glass bottles, with little cardboard stoppers and a pleated, heavy paper cap. He'd leave them in an insulated, galvanized sheet metal box.

55 posted on 05/05/2016 6:36:02 AM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: Ditter

In the winter, the milk would freeze and push up the paper top with a cylinder of frozen milk.


105 posted on 05/05/2016 8:46:21 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: Ditter
Milk used to be delivered to your front door.

Still is. I get mine from the milkman every Monday.

200 posted on 01/05/2020 1:16:54 PM PST by hoagy62 (America Supreme!)
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