Glass Bottled Milk

[exploder321]

Ingles milk is not cheap at all... I am lactose intalerante, so i don't drink it too much, but we only use 1% and thats hard to come by now...
Bi/Lo isn't cheap either (Greenville, SC)..
We used to have a Food Lion that had all the odd ball stuff (Like Cream of Rice, Fresh Start, etc) and they where always cheap...

 

[sudsdudeshane]

Toggleswitch~

Mom now lives in Kings Park and Dad is in Lake Havasu City, AZ..I am in Orlando..<ugh>!..Boy, do I miss the simple things of NY...Newsday,buttered 7-11 rolls,egg sandwiches at the deli..and Shop Rite's can can sale! I have to order my Levy's Jewish Rye bread and RedPack tomatoes from Gristedes online.
Orlando hasn't quite caught up yet...=(

 

[wishwash]

Glass Bottled Milk

I too, love the glass bottled milk! I wish it was still available! When I was growing up in Indiana, I vividly remember the little square aluminum box that sat on our porch. You would put your empties in the box and the milkman would replace them with fresh bottles the next morning. Don't get that kind of service anymore!

 

[exploder321]

I found milk in glass bottels at an upscale non chain store here while looking for decent yeast... $4.95 a quart... OMG.... This is the best milk ever... God, the 20 something year olds of today just don't know what they've missed out on....

 

[rinso]

My father owned a grocery store, so we didn't have home delivery of milk. I do remember getting milk in little 8oz bottles at St. Anthony's School. They were delivered to the front foyer every morning by Rowland's dairy and placed directly in front of, and on, the radiator, where they sat until lunch time with sunlight shinning in through the windows on them.

Sister Mary Physicala Abusa would make us drink no matter what culture had become nurtured in it. To this day, I never did develop the liking for delivered bottled milk that the rest of you experienced.

 

[dalangdon]

Stoops are everywhere!

My mom (born in Omaha, and resident of Council Bluffs, Iowa since 1942 or thereabouts) has always called the front porch of our house the "front stoop". In fact, just tonight she was telling me about all the leaves on "the stoop"

I never saw glass-bottled milk (outside of movies and TV shows) until I moved to Seattle, but we had the same Robert's Dairy delivery guy from my earliest memories until I went away to college. By that time, we were the only ones in the neighborhood still getting milk delivered, and my Mom felt so bad about telling him we didn't need him anymore. It turned out that he was happy, as his old truck had a hard time getting up our hill (my hometown is quite hilly, and we live on the highest hill)

I used to buy the glass bottled milk here in Seattle, but I would always forget to return the bottles for deposit (and the deposit was hefty) so I got out of the habbit. When I moved out of my apartment, I took ten or so empty milk bottles in, and got quite a nice little payment for them.

 

[toggleswitch]

Dan:
Thanks. Who knew? *LOL*

Shane:
For me its a good bagel with a schmear and a glass of NYC water (from the mountains). Of course outside of NYC I miss the pace and want to slap people into 78 rpm or at least 45 from their usual 33.3 or 16! Of course regional accents are interesting too, but being from here, where just about everyone is a foreigner or a child or grandchild of one, we ALL have accents. I really don't hear them anymore.

Amazing to me also is the amount of gold worn ouside of my area. Here it will be snatched away! We also don't decorate with too much gold or natural (in color)wood.

Best way to get mugged:
Look UP and gawk at the skyscaprers, open a huge map, carry a vieod camera in a huge case and generally act as if revolving doors and escalators are new inventions. *LOL*

oh and touch the subway seat with your hand attempting to wipe it. Then go have a slice of pizza with your hand. SMART!

No offense intended or implied towards anyone. I'm just sayin'!

 

[exploder321]

I wouldn't make it in NYC...
The revolving doors would be bad enough..Never been in one

The milk i obught was soo good.. Plan to get more later

 

[toggleswitch]

You would too make it. Watch you wallet. Pay attention and don't give money to stanagers. Be alert as if you life depends on it. It just might. (Did we scare you yet? LOL).

Revolving doors: Hint:

It's a world made for right-handed people. Enter from the right side, push slowly and hold on for the ride. the handle will pace you. The thing revolves couter-clockwise (anti-clockwise for you Brits). Even if this was unknown, the handles with which to hold-on are located only on one side. This would be the first clue. (How's that for sarcastic and sardonic? *LOL* Ducks and runs.)

Ok (hanging) Chad, now we know where to take you and what to see when you come visit NYC. *LOL*

 

[toggleswitch]

Ok I have another story to tell. I used to work on the 78th floor of the Empire State Building which is something like 110 stories in height. (Yes that is how we spell "storys" {floors] here).

It was a Saturday in the winter cold. The tourist elevator (lift) and the tenant elevator were COMBINED! (UGH YUK EW!)I was not in the mood to be in the office on my regular day-off.

So I am ascending to my office when two toothless hicks with overalls, flannel shirs and mohegans start chatting me up.
It was a man and his wife/daughter/cousin, or all three at once, proabably

(It's WAY TOO f---ing early for this, ok?)

~Y'all work in this here tall buildng?
*(Hold me down I'm going to vomit) Yes sir, I do.
~Every day?
* Monday through Friday, usually.
~ I don't know how y'all survive in this here vertical city.
*It's what I know. (Wow, I think to myself, they teach the word 'vertical' in the third grade. Impressive!

After a few minutes of this baloney (it's a few minutes to get to the top), I get an idea. Armed with a plan, I begin to act agitated, and search though my pockets. I was looking for a mint, but I coudn't resist.

~What y'all looking for mister?
*SH-- I left my F---in' pistol on the kitchen table again. G-d Damn it! Oh I'm sorry did you say something?

I'm not sure why, but there was silence the rest of the way up. IMAGINE? The stereotype is all NY-ers are violent, aggressive, rude, mean and carry heat. (Well four outta five ain't bad!)

Of course, I was sure to say "Thank you for visitng our city and I hope you enjoy your stay" as I stepped off the elevator. Can't be considered cold and rude, can we? *LOL*

http://www.esbnyc.com/index2.cfm

 

[toggleswitch]

And BTW, this is the only city in the country (as far as I know) where if someone threatens to commit suicide by jumping off a tall building the crowd would actually shout "JUMP,JUMP, JUMP". (jsut dont mess-up my commute).

Do you think anyone cares? Get a grip. At least a nice new rent-regualted apt will become available. LOL

You are one in 8 million. NEXT!
(ducks and runs)

 

[exploder321]

ROFLMAO...

Thanks for the tips on the revolving doors.. I might be headed to new jersy in may of next year and new york is on mist...
I keep my wallet in my rf pants pocket, near something else as i have lost 7 or so in my life (yes i am absentminded)i also keep my cellphone there, so i can feel them..Keys go in the other pocket.. I doubt someone would take my wallet with out me feelin it..

Sounds like your new found friends are from down this a way... I frequently get asked where i was raised, because i have a norther accent (listen to me saw cough-fee, not cawfee)

I wish i could find the hanging chad joke thing i used to have... I loved it...

Then again my answer to a few was " well at least i am a still a hangin and not a flattened chad"

 

[exploder321]

How did we manage to get off the topic of milk????

Does any one know the diffrence between mile in a clear bottle vs the yellow bottles? This has always baffled me..

 

[sudsdudeshane]

exploder321~

supposedly milk in the yellow plastic containers protects the flavor and nutrient content of the milk..Personally, Nothing beats a fresh cold glass of milk from a glass bottle. For those of you that have never tried milk in glass bottles, try it..there is now going back to plastic...

 

[sudsmaster]

As I recall, some B vitamins are destroyed by exposure to light. So that's the reason why milk cooler boxes on porches used to be made of insulated metal - the metal will block all light.