Just wondering if anyone remembers having school milk every day at break time summer or winter (which was usually a bottle of ice ). Hated the stuff, great when you have an older brother who would casually walk over & drink mine as well (lactose intolerance). Got caught one day & was made to drink it (Alex saw dad in garden & told him what was about to happen). I had to drink a bit then, 🤢 🤑 🤮 . Never made to take it again. Chris
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I remember this when I was at primary school . Ours was a small cardboard carton and the teachers would take any leftovers to the staff room for their tea/coffee.
Don't think they have it now though 😊
Oh I do remember it Ilovebunnies, and there were times I loved it and times I hated it. Generally it was kept without refrigeration and was horribly warm when we got it, but in infant school, when it all iced up (winters were really cold then it seems), the bottles (1/3rd pint), were stood around the tortoise stove that was used to heat the classroom. It had a huge fireguard around it and the bottles were stood on that. I once drank mine with catastrophic effect as it came right back up again. I still remember it vividly! As you say, it was mostly 🤮🤮🤮😃
I had milk at morning playtime at infant school as well back in the 80s and then thatcher stopped it!
Maggir Thatcher, Milk snatcher, we called her!
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When I was at primary school a lad got told off because he said how he hated Mrs Thatcher!
I think most of the population hated Mrs Thatcher as she was a horrible vindictive woman towards the less fortunate in society.
She certainly was. My father wanted to dance on her grave, but he died first!
I was born in 1943, the small bottles of milk were to supplement children because of food rationing, which went on into the 1950s after WW2..... when in the junior school, during the cold winter months(and they were cold back then) our science teacher would pour the milk into large class tumblers and warm the milk over a bunson burner!
You were spoiled by that teacher!
Can remember the milk with their cardboard tops and also getting free orange juice for my children when they were little.
Yes I remember those sweet little bottles of milk that came in a big, metal crate. I was always keen to be chosen to be milk monitor of the day as it would be my job to put the straws in each bottle. I remember feeling quite important handing out the bottles to each pupil in my class.
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We did, a third of a pint in little glass bottles. In winter it was icy and in summer it had been standing in the sun for hours....grim. I'm actually allergic but nobody believed in "that nonsense" then so my eczema had a field day! !
I remember later on that it was quite funny because dad warned the teacher that it wasn't a good idea but nobody took any notice (our back garden adjoined the playground ). Dad got over the fence & took me home, because I was quite poorly I didn't go back to school until the following week . Happy days!!
Oh yes! Ice cold in the winter, and I'd stand around shivering and miserable (I've always felt the cold a great deal more than other people), willing the horrid silver tops to go away, but we had to drink it all up. I hated it then, but love it now! (not lukewarm, though; ugh 🤮)
We're real retro aficionados and looked for the little milk bottles online a while ago. Didn't actually buy any, though. Better sense prevailed 😏
Great memories!
I remember the 1/3 bottles in the 50s and 60s which most of the time were enjoyable and welcome, except in the summer when the milk was sometimes warm and the straws had earwigs in them which you nearly always found out in time before it entered your mouth. We got into the habit of blowing hard through straws or tapping them on the tables and watching the earwigs drop out. YUK! Sometimes, but not often, the milk was curdled because the extra bottles left over was given out the next day.
Hi there, yes I remember my primary school days and having a pint of milk at play time and I hated it as at home I would drink sterilised milk especially with my strawberry milk shake 😋
Yes I forgot about this. We had cartons and we were so glad when they introduced option of chocolate milk if our parents said it was ok. Super loved that!
Oh yes - remember it well - hated it . It was sour in the summer and frozen solid in the winter. Have never been able to drink milk since !! 😃
Reminds me of my experience at junior school. I was made to drink milk when I told them I was allergic to it. I promptly threw up over the teachers shoes! Never made to drink it again. x
Exactly the same as me. Had an even better experience at senior school this time with the headmistress, first cookery lesson we had to make toast & scrambled eggs & eat it, big mistake! No problem making it, eating it was another matter as I also have an allergy to eggs. The girls that knew me from infant & junior school took cover. Headmistress stood next to me & made me eat it (I had already told her I had a bad reaction to eggs). Started to eat it & next it was like a volcano erupting all over her. Parents were not happy because they had given a letter to headmaster from my GP saying what I was allergic to. Happy days. Chris
Yep. We're talking 50 years ago mind...
At least 50 years or in my case 60+ years
I remember this ,couldn’t drink milk as was allergic to it so used to revel at being a milk monitor ,just couldn’t bear the smell off the stale milk on the crates ! 🥛🍼🥛🍼
Dear Chris,
Yes I remember the free Milk, actually I Liked it. Wasn't it Margaret Thatcher, then Education Secretary, who abolished it? (Maggie Thatcher, Milk 'snatcher'). I later went to a boarding school where we continued to receive it, for a time. I recall our cook trying to make custard, by opening, seemingly 'Millions' of Third Pint bottles. (We had had to open some 'big' bottles, for Supper, the day before.)
If it wasn't for the Cost, and infrastructure/ logistical problems, it might be worth reinstating- especially to the Lower Income/ Free School Meal recipients. There are, a great many stories of, kind hearted, Teachers arranging 'Breakfast Clubs' for their pupils.... yes in the Twenty First Century!
Oh yes School days.... The 'unkind' Mr Priestman, the very 'lovely' Miss Roth- who did her 'best' to be Strict.... she really tried.... All before I was ten. (Not forgetting the Headmistress, Miss Swinburn (maybe 'born')- 'Rod Of Iron' sort handed out sweets, if you got it right.)
All a, very long, time ago.... and I won't 'dwell', too much, I'd put you all to sleep😴. Suffice, to say, yes I remember the Free Milk.
AndrewT
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