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21. How about blue milk?

Sun Nov 10, 2019, 08:19 PM

Nov 2019

When I was a kid, my Mom and I would walk to the dairy carrying bottles (we didn't have a family car). At the back door in the alley in the evening, they would dump the blue milk. It was white but tinted blue. It had something to do with the cow's diet. It was considered unsellable and they would dump it in a drain behind the dairy. If we used our own bottles, the guy would let us fill our bottles for free.

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Do any of you old timers still shake the carton of milk before pouring? [View all] demosincebirth Nov 2019 OP

Did you drink raw (nonpasteurized/nonhomogenized) milk? I can't imagine homogenized milk hlthe2b Nov 2019 #1

I literally shake everything before pouring! FM123 Nov 2019 #2

I usually wait to shake it off until I'm done. pangaia Nov 2019 #30

Absolutely snowybirdie Nov 2019 #3

Nope, us kids weren't supposed to shake the bottle. Yonnie3 Nov 2019 #4

Not only that but I scrape the wax off the carton and use it on my moustache. dameatball Nov 2019 #5

Carton?? SCantiGOP Nov 2019 #17

Lol about the mailman. Those guys get around. The OP said "cartons"....:) dameatball Nov 2019 #25

Oh, it was cartons SCantiGOP Nov 2019 #32

Great story. yonder Nov 2019 #31

no Skittles Nov 2019 #6

When I was very little I_UndergroundPanther Nov 2019 #36

You must have lived in a cold climate. trof Nov 2019 #44

No iamateacher Nov 2019 #7

Never! elleng Nov 2019 #8

Guilty. I was raised in the country and we had our own cows, so shaking was second nature. Arkansas Granny Nov 2019 #9

still do Timewas Nov 2019 #10

do you make butter in a blender? dixiegrrrrl Nov 2019 #11

Yes we do Timewas Nov 2019 #24

When my mom got fresh milk, she would pour it into OregonBlue Nov 2019 #37

Always have Dave in VA Nov 2019 #12

You got it! demosincebirth Nov 2019 #41

I shake the milk cuz I like the air in it. LakeArenal Nov 2019 #13

Choc. milk, 2 drops of vanilla, whizzed in a blender dixiegrrrrl Nov 2019 #48

Yes. Mmmm. LakeArenal Nov 2019 #49

Nope SonofDonald Nov 2019 #14

Me, either customerserviceguy Nov 2019 #38

I'm 60 SonofDonald Nov 2019 #39

I remember milk being delivered though nt SonofDonald Nov 2019 #40

Used to tell my first wife that her milk needed to be mixed before breastfeading. n/t 5X Nov 2019 #15

Funny demosincebirth Nov 2019 #42

No Lunabell Nov 2019 #16

Yes... 2naSalit Nov 2019 #18

When I was in elementary school -- until 1951. Millburn, N.J. 3Hotdogs Nov 2019 #19

By cracky, I do. democratisphere Nov 2019 #20

Lol grantcart Nov 2019 #29

How about blue milk? Midnight Writer Nov 2019 #21

Definitely. Had a lot of fresh milk from grandparent's dairy farm. Supposedly homogonized milk Hoyt Nov 2019 #22

Not a smoker, but I've been told they do it to pack down the tobacco. unblock Nov 2019 #34

Yep. Makes it smoke smoother and longer. More uniform. trof Nov 2019 #45

I have been using almond milk and have not until... recently read on the carton question everything Nov 2019 #23

Well I didn't know that. thanks. trof Nov 2019 #46

No, but I remember my parents getting it delivered to our house and put in the milk-box outside. JoeOtterbein Nov 2019 #26

Guilty. It's some kind of muscle memory, must be. WheelWalker Nov 2019 #27

Yup, I do it without thinking. demosincebirth Nov 2019 #50

Carton? Lol pangaia Nov 2019 #28

Always have shaken the carton. Just a habit from demosincebirth Nov 2019 #43

Nope..... fantase56 Nov 2019 #33

I'm not exactly an old timer I_UndergroundPanther Nov 2019 #35

In summer the milkman would give us chunks of ice out the back of his truck. trof Nov 2019 #47

Sure. If it rattles, I don't drink it. rickford66 Nov 2019 #51