Milk bottle tops

There was a girl in our class, called Irene Jepson, she was a tiny little thing, used to drink about 10 of those little bottles every morning, courtesy of all the people who hated milk! AND she stayed tiny!

I too enjoyed the small bottles of milk each day even when warmed in front of the stove. Mind you I liked pink custard and tapioca at school as well so perhaps I'm a bit of an oddball

I absolutely loved the school milk in its wee 3/4 bottle; I don't remember the Christmas foil tops though. When I had daughter No.3 and was in hospital for a week before she was born, we had to have milk at night and all the other Mums gave me theirs - no wonder I am so porky. Somehow, milk in a 2 litre plastic bottle doesn't have the same appeal as those little school bottles.

Our English teacher used to stand in front of the stove whilst reading to us, with her skirt hitched up at the back!

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I always hated milk, still do, but had to have it because my mother wouldn`t send a note. One morning, in 3rd year infants, something other than milk came up the straw and was crawling in my mouth! I screamed and spat it out, and haven`t touched a drop of milk since.

Never took school milk because I always loathed it. In the 1940s,cardboard disks with a hole in the middle were much in demand for making pom-poms. When my DSs were small I made bells for the Christmas tree from the foil tops by shaping them over the top of a lemon squeezer.

Ariadne you are right the smell of the milk was horrible as was the taste put me off milk forever.
Butternut I can recall the black pot-bellied stoves in the class rooms. they used to glow at the bottom and I was sure they would explode !

There was an old black pot-bellied wood stove in the middle of our classroom surrounded by little iron railings, and the milk bottles would be placed inside this to thaw. We ended up with an iced/ thawed mixture which was disgusting. I can still smell it......urgh.

The crates of little bottles were brought in and placed beside the fire in the classroom. The milk gradually thawed out, but like Ariadne said it tasted and smelled awful! There used to be a iron rail around the roaring fire in the classroom and there were always socks drying on it! Remember the straws were waxed and went flat while you were sucking the milk up?

The icicles in the milk and the tops popped of the bottles on the step when it was frosty. Even worse when the milk was warm in the summer. Urgggghh.

I sometimes get a bit of a sore thumb when taking the current lids off plastic containers. Thaw some ----> sore thumb.

Sorreee!

Does half-thawed milk have an odd smell? I'd never noticed that. I will do a sniff test next time I thaw some.

I'd forgotten about the foil cutouts, GMG. But, Jingl, I remember the smell of half thawed milk - ugh!

When the milk froze we convinced ourselves that it was ice cream.

Yes. I remember Christmas bottle tops.

And I remember cardboard ones (much earlier) that we pressed the middle bit out to put our straw through.

I remember that! Also, when we were in the infant class in the mid 50's, we were given the rolls of foil that had had the tops stamped from them (so it was only the empty circles that remained in the strip), and we made Christmas decorations from them. When I think about it, it's a wonder that none of the children cut their hands...