"Kay" wrote in message
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In article , Nick Maclaren
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It lasted for quite a while after the war where I was, because the
fresh milk was unsafe (seriously so). Heat-dried milk lasted until
at least the 1960s in the UK, and there was a period when free-dried
was the expensive alternative.

By the time I started school in the late 50s we were on fresh milk. It
used to be delivered at about 4am, so in winter was well frozen by the
time the teachers arrived. They then ranged the 98 milk bottles along
the heating pipes, and by break time we were treated to warm milk (with
that yukky boiled milk taste) with a solid centre ;-)
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Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

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I can well remember when they first introduced small bottles of milk for
shoolchildren.
At morning "playtime" we first drank our milk with a straw before rushing
out to shout and run about like mad things in the schoolyard.
I always used to start with the bottom of the straw-end at the top of the
milk drink then luxuriate when it reached the half-inch of cream at the
bottom. It tasted like cream 'nectar.'
I won't speak of the politician who finally stopped free school milk for
chidren because it had socialistically inspired benefits.
Doug.
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