Do you know Wizard, I was just thinking about milk "in the olden days" yesterday. What prompted this, was my buying a plastic bottle of Jersey milk for my weetabix. I cannot tolerate a lot of cows milk, but although I know it is likely to make me feel really ill, I do have a little treat now and again ....and hope for the best.
Anyway, to me, its very disappointing. Not got that nice rich yellow colour (have they taken all the cream out?) and the taste is not as I remember. As a child, an elderly aunt who I visited every Saturday, used to have the milkman deliver one bottle of Gold top Jersey milk. It was a proper milk bottle. The cream was deep, the milk was yellow. I loved that milk. Every other day, Auntie had delivered a bottle of sterilised milk, with the cap you needed a bottle opener for - I hated that milk.
We had a house cow many years ago that was a Jersey. Oh that milk was yellow and rich, and out of this world.
My Grandad and uncle had a milk round in the 1940's/50's with a horse and trap going round the villages. They took churns, and ladies left covered jugs on the door step, and my uncles job as a youngster was to use the ladles to serve the milk. Cannot see them getting away with that nowadays, with all the hygiene rules, but in theose days, it was the norm.
We have one farm near us bottling his own milk still. But I notice he has gradually gone over to the plastic bottles. I am adamant that it does not taste the same as it did in the bottles.
At one time, you just got milk, now in the supermarket, there is such a vast array of choice, whole milk, semi, skimmed, soya, all sorts of things. Needless to say I only buy "proper" milk.