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guess most of the users of Accyweb now buy their milk at supermarkets and other outlets , I buy mine by the gallon (1 us gallon = 6.66 British pints) sorry but i think its easier for most Accy web users to visulize what an imperial pint looks like than a liter ;), anyway ......I got to thinking how many of you miss the pint bottles with the cream at the top ..........I'm at the age now where I am supposed to drink/use "low fat' products so I buy the 2% fat milk and it's crap.....but looking at the stuff on display in the dairy case I wonder how many kids today have never enjoyed the joy of pressing down the tin foil cap on the milk bottle and slurping up the cream on the top of the milk and then getting into bother by your Mum because the milk is 'wazzy" because you had supped the top of the milk . ;)

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I have just worked out that I use that much per week for just me -seems like a lot but I love the stuff. I buy all my food in bulk once a fortnight in order to get free delivery, so my milk has to be UHT. I dont scrimp on the flavour - has to be 'full fat' - I just cut back on other fats in my diet to compensate.

There is nothing to compare with 'gold top jersey' we had as a 'little treat for the weekend' -yummy

I make my own probiotic (yogurt type) drink with milk. Just at the moment I am trying it with UHT goats milk.
The main drawback with the old bottle/doorstep deliveries was keeping the birds from pecking the tinfoil tops to get at the cream.
Before that (1940s) I remember deliveries by horse and cart and the milk being ladeled from a churn into the jugs on doorsteps and having little squares of cloth weighted with beads sewn on the corners to keep the dust and birds off.
Milk is more hygenically sold nowadays and that is a good thing about modern food processing. My brother suffered from a TB infection of the gland in his neck for a long spell of his childhood, which was due to consuming 'raw' milk -ie. in the days before herds were inoculated.
We have at least one ex dairy farmer who posts here - we may get some more interesting old info from him

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thanks for the post Margaret , now I'm a bit confused , I allways thought pasturization involved boiling the milk to kill any 'bugs' and therefore mixing/combining the cream with the milk (no cream on top) hopefully the farmer/milkman can tell us if its possible to get pasturized milk with the cream on top. :confused: :confused:

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Poor little Tits.:(

I used to enjoy watching them pecking through the foil lids, and stealing the cream of mext door's milk bottles, once I'd brought our's safely in.:D

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The milk that caused my brother's illness was unpasteurised 'raw' milk
Defra, UK - Animal health & welfare - TB in cattle
fact file bovine TB
I recall that in the early 50s herds began to be vaccinated and farmers declared their herds to be TT (tuberculine tested)
I haven't tried to buy raw milk for 'donkeys years' -dont know whether you can still buy it. Like you I miss the cream top - but perhaps its safer that way.

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The wife insists we have skimmed milk its like coloured water
do you remember the little bottles of milk we used to get at school (showing age now) silver top
also before we where married me and 3 friends used to go camping a lot and we allways went to the same farmer as in exchange for helping out a bit he would give us free eggs and milk the milk was that fresh it was still warm from the cow great.

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exactly, its wazzy , is this a lancashire term ?

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i use skimmed milk!, whats wrong with it?....LoL...
i hate full fat milk its too creamy for me, eee i remember when you could get gold top, i dont see it now! is it still available?

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ER no taste
but after drinking it for years i have got used to it
but miss the cream off the top of the milk:)

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same ere, thats probably why..lol but had a little sip of proper milk as some people say, and i didnt like it, hey well, at least im getting my calcium, more in skimmed than normal yer know;)
:rolleyes:

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You just can't stop talking about Tinks can you. :rolleyes::D:D

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in the same boat as mick here:rolleyes: paris gets semi-skimmed n i have got used to it,lol its minging.

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we used to get bottles of steralised milk
with the metal caps
if you added water to it you got more for your money
so me mam said

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My mum used to say that floating tea leaves were vitamins
It aint neccessarily so (Gershwin)

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it was at a time when we had to believe
what our parents told us

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Wazzy = weak flavoured, i.e. watery

You can still get milk from a milkman you know and it has the cream on top just like it always has. I also find it amusing that even full fat milk can be legally sold as a low fat product as teh definition of low fat is under 5%. Full fat milk has a combined content of 4%, Semi Skimmed is ~2% and IIRC Skimmed is 0.5%

I used to like raw milk as well but you can't get it anymore. Jersey milk is also still available.

Supermarkets sell Homogenised milk where the cream has been spread throughout teh milk equally, probably due to how they package it one 4pinter would be all cream and another all 'wazzy' :D Pasteurisation does not mix the cream such taht it will not seperate out again on its own.

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I only drink milk in tea and on cereal,never on its own.I don't like full fat,creamy milk so I use skimmed.I can't stand the smell of the full fat stuff.When you use that in a brew you can smell it as soon as you put the cup near your face...ugh!

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Sorry too old to remember.....You seem well read on the subject so I will leave it to you :p

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We used to get green top from our milkman it would be solid cream on the top used to spoon it out and then mum would shout at me!!! Now i get semi skimmed delivered 3 times a week. If I run out in between i buy the silver top or sterilised milk from the shop. Steri's nice in coffee. When we used to be on hols in ireland and was up at my cousins used to get fresh milk straight from the cow - still warm!! That was nice.

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I have used skimmed milk for years, so I am used to it. I never drink the stuff........and only have a spash of it in tea....if i have cereals (which isn't often) I pour hot water on and then again just a splash of milk, OK I know I am odd...just don't like milk....never have liked it and used to give my school milk to my best friend.
Like Lilly, I can smell full fat milk if it is in tea...and it is horrible.

When I go away on hols i drink my tea black because most places have either full fat stuff or the semi skimmed stuff.

I don't mind cream in a cake or on a trifle.

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I hated that stuff, my mum used to buy both I think that was to stop us drinking all of the fresh milk!! There was no danger all the sterilised would get drunk, it was awful!!:eek:

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Cant stand full fat milk it stinks. Always smells off to me. If there was only milk to drink then I would die of thirst. It's rank.
I only have a splash in mi brew and on cereal it's got to be warm. Wouldn't drink the stuff at play time at school.
My Nan used to get steri milk when it got down to the last bit in the bottle used to put my finger in the top and shook it till it frothed up to make frothy coffee.

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When spug was down i sent him to buy a pint a milk seeing as he'd made so many brews - he came back with a pint of steri and a pint of normal!!! Typical bloke dont know what to buy!!!:D:D:D

If i make a drink of hot chocolate though its got to be full fat milk. Tastes nicer!!!

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I always buy semi skimed now, When we were kids we had steralised milk , you took the empty bottles back to the shop for 2d,,,,,,I think it would be too sickly now...

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When I was a child and used to stay with my aunt in Northumberland she believed it was her mission in life to "build me up". I was a very thin child and auntie believed I couldn't really be healthy (I was - and always "on the go"). She invariably bought Jersey milk and I got the cream off the top spooned on to my breakfast cereal or porridge. I was almost force-fed cream, butter, eggs, honey etc. but never got any fatter. All it's done is give me high cholesterol. :(

I only buy skimmed milk and only use it when I make porridge and have a drip of it in tea. The only time I miss full cream is when I make a rice pudding so I cheat and add condensed milk which thickens and sweetens it in one go. I like my rice puddings thick and creamy with a good nutmeg skin on top.

Ooh, I'm hungry now. :D

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Many moons ago I used to work in a bakery. The milk used to come in kitts (is that how you spell it?), metal cases that held a few gallons. When they'd been in the fridges for a few hours, the cream used to form on the top. It was great to put on your cereal in the mornings. ;) It must have been almost pure cream. :D

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Tripe and onions cooked in full cream milk with salt and pepper is excellent.

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Sorry can't help you there, born and brought up in lancashire and have never heard the term.

Have drank semi-skimmed for years, can't stand the taste of full fat milk, and as for skimmed milk that just tastes like water.

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yes, wazzy is a lancashire term and it means 'like wazz (urine)'
Just thought I would share that with you all.

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That's what wazzy means. Watery.:D:D

Sorry, I should say that's what I always took it to mean. I've just seen Margaret Pilkington's last post. It seems it means something much more horrible...ugh!

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Ah , now that also helps to explain why my Grandad used use the word to describe the beer in various pubs.
Thanks Margaret for helping to keep the lancashire dialect alive , karma on its way

:D :D

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That term must only have been used in Clayton.......never come across that before. Church was always more sophisticated than Clayton?

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I stayed in a cottage on a working farm in Cornwall last year. The farmers wife left us the usual tourist clotted cream, scones and jam as a welcome gift. There was also a jug of unpasteurised full cream milk straight from the cow.

Being used to tasteless supermarket milk, kept chilled, I'd forgotten what room temperature real milk tasted like!

I was talking to her a couple of days later and she told me that it was illegal for her to sell it but she was allowed to give as much away as she wanted. Needless to say I refilled that jug every day of my stay..Heaven

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We would refer to any 'Dodgy ale' as Gnats P......................:eek:

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Have you never heard anyone saying that they are going for a 'wazz'....well, perhaps not...but when i was younger......that was what going for a wee was called....maybe some of the newer euphemisms have taken over :)

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Well, Royboy......I am not sure that it is used anymore....and in any case I am an 'incomer' to Clayton....I have only been here 41 years! :)
Think perhaps another twenty and then I might just have made it as a local.

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That must have been a very polite ladies term, perhaps never heard it because they would'nt tell us anyway :D:p

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I think that cream on top of milk is mingen, my mother in law gets milk in the mornin and sometimes when i used to make a brew, the cream used to splash on my brew so now instead of pouring it on my cup i pour the first bit in sink and then on my brew, arghhh

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Oh Royboy, it wasn't the ladies who used that euphemism...we always went to 'powder our nose'...it was the chaps who used that term, and many others which were much less polite.

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I told you.......more refined in Church and Ossy.....It was going for a 'slash'

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And you call that refined ????? 'Pointing Percy at the porcelain'...perhaps....going for a 'slash'...I don't think so :)

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Or perhaps try shaking the bottle before you open it? :rolleyes:

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One woman we worked with liked the milk top creamso much she used to come to work early to grab it for her brew, but we used to get one of the night shift men to turn the bottle over. That cured her.:D

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we had steralised when i was a kid,,, [i liked it then but i wouldent dream of buying that sort of milk now],,,,
if we ran out ...we would open a tin of condensed milk it was like syrup.....
[....nowadays its semi skimmed ,its good for everthing.....

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That condensed milk was like sxxt but it was good on bread, it made a change from Lard Dripping and salt.

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i remember it made good treacle toffee