Milk bottle tops

biker - the crust that formed when it had been in the fridge for a day or so (if it got the chance!) - lovely!

biker - the crust that formed when it had been in the fridge for a day or so (if it got the chance!) - lovely!

We used to have sugar butties!

yogagran my hubby was only talking yesterday about how he loved condensed milk! he used to take a tin to the pictures with a spoon...apparently he took lid off day or so before to orm a crust!!! (he is a lot older than me ) lol

Condensed milk - one of my favourites, it still is! It was a treat to be allowed to finish off the tin. For a while it was also available in tubes and we used to take these to school with us sometimes.
Condensed milk sandwiches - anyone else have those. I suppose we were active enough in those days to get away with things like this

I had most of those things, Virol, Minadex,cod liver oil and malt, hated them all. Then mum would give me a teaspoon of butter dipped in sugar to take the taste away!! Or, my favourite, condensed milk, yum.
I can't have got much of it as I still have all my own teeth!

Syrup of Figs - ugh!!!

Bagitha No, managed to avoid Bengers! Does anyone remember Robaleen (was that how it was spelt?). It was malty, had a special long spoon and was sticky and gorgeous! It was kept on the sideboard and I often sneaked an extra spoonful!

Was anyone else given Bengers Food drink (revolting) when they were ill? Hated the stuff. A piece of dry toast and water would have been preferable.

Here in NZ, as a child we were given Lanes Emulsion by the spoonful! It was very thick, very white and very vile. Large bottles (like flagons) were kept under the kitchen sink and we kids despised the stuff. Maltexo malt was good though, very drippy off the spoon if you weren't careful.

It never had this effect on me!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9QNiVjVxgs

Harrigran, it was a thick creamy-white liquid that tasted indescribably horrible, and was supposed to build you up (?!)

If you never encountered it as a child, be glad.

I remember that after having scraped the ice off the bedroom window and hurriedly dressing, finding the milk bottles on the doorstep. The top half had turned to ice and the foil cap was sitting on the top! Winters were colder then!
I always loved milk and used to run home from school in the summer and drink a whole pint straight from the fridge.

What is Scott's emulsion jingl ?

Yuk! I'd forgotten about that - disgusting!

Scott's emulsion. [horror]

Minadex tasted orangey - nice; Virol yukky! Dad used to bring us orange juice in bed in the morning. Well, the butler went off to the war...

You can still get Minadex. When my DC were young I used to give it to them too when they had been poorly. Full of iron and vitamins, did the job beautifully.
Virol - lovely, big spoonfuls straight from the jar. My brother & I used to sneak into the larder where it was kept in a huge jar on the tiled floor and steal a few spoonfuls!
My Mum used to say that the orange juice went very well with her gin....

Yuk, Minadex I remember that, it was disgusting. Also Parish's Food if you were sick - it was even more disgusting than Minadex and made you feel even more sick!

I was given Minadex as well - it was in a brown bottle and tasted orangey. My mother used to stand over me at bedtime until I'd taken it!

And that orange juice that was concentrated for Vitamin C? I liked that but not the codliver oil, so my mum put the oil on top of the orange juice....sounds awful to me now, but I would drink it that way then!

Later I had codliver oil and malt, and my sister had Virol - don't know why.

Virol! That was definitely yummy but syrup of figs definitely wasn't! I didn't have cod liver oil at my school - and that was one thing even my mother didn't thrust down my throat, thankfully. I enjoyed being milk monitor - a feeling of power!

Spoonful of malt YUM and spoonful of rosehip syrup too double yum

I remember the Christmassy foil tops I enjoyed my school milk and was very upset when Margaret Thatcher snatched it from me . It was reinstated later but I never forgave her . My Godmother commented recently I was so traumatised I have never been right since !!

Virol, YUMMY - perhaps I'm a little odd though, I loved the syrup of figs too.