The milk fairy

Lemoncurd

Curry_Queen wrote:

I guess this will all depend on where you live and whether your milkie delivers local farm milk or from a large dairy like Dairy Crest or the Co-op for example. If it's the latter then the milk is from exactly the same sources as that you buy from the supermarket.

This was what I was wondering, we have Express and Dairy Crest so both large companies. I too was brought up on a farm spending the first 20 years of my life living on a dairy farm and until years later couldn't stomach shop bought milk as it just tasted foul compared with "straight from the cow". Now I've just been numbed to it as my family could no longer scrape a living in farming following the huge drops in milk prices. We used to be involved with the delivery round for a linked farm and once they started having to pasteurise all the milk for that even that didn't taste anywhere as nice as the completely fresh milk.

Curry_Queen

Lemoncurd wrote:

This was what I was wondering, we have Express and Dairy Crest so both large companies. I too was brought up on a farm spending the first 20 years of my life living on a dairy farm and until years later couldn't stomach shop bought milk as it just tasted foul compared with "straight from the cow". Now I've just been numbed to it as my family could no longer scrape a living in farming following the huge drops in milk prices. We used to be involved with the delivery round for a linked farm and once they started having to pasteurise all the milk for that even that didn't taste anywhere as nice as the completely fresh milk.

Ahhh yes, it all changed when they brought in the pasteurisation rules, although I seem to remember that my parents were still getting farm bottled green-top milk delivered until fairly recently, may even still do but I've not been up there for a few years, so I'm not sure how wide-spread that is or what the exact rules are as it's a long time since I've been involved in any of it.

Many of the original farms I worked on are no longer there now either, well not as working dairy farms, which is a huge shame ... bleeding governments :mad: