When I was a kid I learned that UK at some point had daily milk delivery. That seemed silly. We here in the continental Europe buy milk in cartons from the store, like civilised people!
Milk on tap would qualify as return to such barbarism.
I thought it was so quaint but learning that the reason for milk delivery was due to a lack of pasteurization (and therefore very rapidly expiring milk), and how many people died by drinking unpasteurized milk quickly dispelled that thought process
When I was a kid I learned that UK at some point had daily milk delivery. That seemed silly. We here in the continental Europe buy milk in cartons from the store, like civilised people!
Milk on tap would qualify as return to such barbarism.
We still do daily milk delivery. Sadly much less common now, but there are still milkmen around.
Also, our daily milk comes in glass bottles with aluminium(?) lids - much more environmentally friendly than a plastic carton!
I thought it was so quaint but learning that the reason for milk delivery was due to a lack of pasteurization (and therefore very rapidly expiring milk), and how many people died by drinking unpasteurized milk quickly dispelled that thought process
Milk delivery was widespread into the 1970s in Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_delivery
I would argue that the UHT milk popular on the continent is the actual barbarism here.