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As the title. Do you have a milk jug?
Here at home we just pour from the plastic bottle the milk comes in. As a child we always used a milk jug. I remember a blue and white horizontally striped one and a couple of Jersey cow shaped ones, souvenirs from family holidays to the Channel Islands. Am I fallen middle class?
Lol, I was just about to ask if the answer to this determined your class... then read your last sentence. 👍😁
Anyway... Pretty sure we just poured from the bottle.
We have a fancy stainless one.
... but not for milk.
Mrs Reeksy is brilliant at breaking things (by her own admission) so after breaking two pyrex measuring jugs in a year, just recently she decided a stainless milk jug would be harder to break.
But... is said jug used on the table, as an attractive container from which to dispense milk? Silver top I hope.
Do you have (and use) a tea cosy as well? 🙂
Ti one here obvs therefore presume upper middle or lower upper
Yes despite not having bought any milk in close to 40 years
As a child - yes.
Not now.
(We do have a teapot and tea cosy but tea is always made with a bag in the mug. Coffee is made with a Chemex vase thing)
No milk jug. We don't buy or use milk.
Do have two gravy boats though...
Ti one here obvs therefore presume upper middle or lower upper
How frightfully bling. Working class done good, say I.
We’ve a milk jug that came as part of a set, and a couple of gravy boats.
No
Many years ago as a student nurse I was pushing the tea trolley around the ward giving patients tea. the ward sister came up to me and said " why is there a milk bottle on the trolley, should be in a jug, would you do that at home? Errmm - yes?
I do have a silver gravey boat tho
Yes several and a few gravy boats. My wife despairs when we have visitors and I put the milk in the cow gravy boat.
It just seems apt to me. Although the milk does come out the wrong end.
We have a milk jug which only gets used when the wife has her posh friends around for afternoon tea or something (she went to a private school, so most of her old friends are posh)
We also had one when I was a kid, but it wasn't due to us being posh - kind of the opposite really. The neighbouring farm was dairy back then, we were arable and sheep so we used to get our milk from the neighbours. They'd dunk a mini aluminium churn straight into the big vat thing where the milk was kept prior to collection. This was great for carrying milk across the fields, but it wasn't a practical receptacle to pour from at the table or kitchen worktop so it went into a milk jug.
Thanks for posting this question, it has reminded me of simpler times.
Yes we do, somewhere. Living in Ireland with an Irish wife, tea is important ( Father Ted esque). It is only ever dusted down when family groups appear as it is easier to just let people help themselves from a tea pot (we have 2!) and add their own milk/sugar to taste rather than trying to remember who takes their tea what way (milk first or second, just a drop of milk or a huge glug etc).
We have three milk jugs and two teapots - one normal sized and one giagantic.
The whole family (6) drink tea and we have frequent visitors too so tea is hardly ever made by the cup.
We use tea cosies as well. It's amazing how long a pot can stay hot under one.
No. But I do have a butter churn...
We also had one when I was a kid, but it wasn’t due to us being posh – kind of the opposite really. The neighbouring farm was dairy back then, we were arable and sheep so we used to get our milk from the neighbours. They’d dunk a mini aluminium churn straight into the big vat thing where the milk was kept prior to collection. This was great for carrying milk across the fields, but it wasn’t a practical receptacle to pour from at the table or kitchen worktop so it went into a milk jug.
I would be surprised if this wasn't the reason milk jugs are a thing. Decanting from urns to the jug from a cart.
when sitting to the table to eat then yes milk jug, if just making cereal then straight from the bottle
Yep. A small blue floral pattern china one. I think because our fridge is not in the kitchen but down the steps in a larder it is easier to bring the small jug than a 4 litre plastic container from the fridge. Plus if you forget to put it back in thundery weather you only lose a small amount rather than the full bottle.
We had them as kids (partly because we produced our own milk from the goats we kept) but more I think because we eat breakfast at the table as a family each day. My parents still use a milk jug, but they still eat breakfast as a meal together.
Nowadays, like most folk I suspect, breakfast is a grab it when you get up meal, usually eaten solo. (We do still eat an evening meal as a family at the table however).
There are a couple of small jugs somewhere that can be used if we use a teapot- but this is pretty rare tbh.
We also have multiple stainless jugs for steaming milk onthe coffee machine - not sure if that counts
Tesco provide a free one each time we buy milk. Works well.
Not seen a milk jug since working on dairy farms as a kid where the milk had come pretty directly from the cow.
Don't have a gravy boat either but
Although the milk does come out the wrong end
Suddenly I want a gravy boat that looks like a cow is laying a pat when you pour 😀
We do - but it's only used for artisan double cream to be poured on desserts* at dinner parties.
(*Nigela desserts obviously!).
Yes - a small one. It's only used when we have a few folk round as then we can let them all choose their own milk quantities for their tea and coffee.
As someone who drinks loads of milk, no jug here.
Hmm. No milk jug, but two teapots. No gravy boat but do have a butter dish and a sugar pot. And a bunch of ramekins that are still unused (wedding gifts from 37 years ago).
As a kid, yes. My parents still produce one when they have "guests".
We may have one, but not used as a milk jug.
Milk is poured out of the bottle the milkman brings every other day into a Motta stainless steel jug to froth the milk for my daily flat white.
Yes, but it's only ever been used as a vase.
Pour straight from the (glass) bottle.
Absolutely. Do you eat with a carving knife? Right tool for the right dose of milk in the right drink!
What you should ask is how often do you wash it once it's emptied?
I had no idea that they existed!
Yes, she's called Daisy 🐄🐄
What you should ask is how often do you wash it once it’s emptied?
If someone could point this out to my father please. *boak*
My parents use one, and it really annoys me, as it tends to sit on the side, in the sunshine, all day getting topped up.
I've never had sour milk but I just don't understand why they don't just get the milk out of the fridge each time, though given the amount of tea or coffee they drink that probably adds up to a lot fo fridge doors being opened / closed.
Its not so bad at their house, as its their 'rules', btu when they come to visit and they get 'confused' spending 10 minutes opening every single cupboard looking for a milk jug, that they're going to leave on the side, next to the fridge.
We do have a milk jug, but it is strictly only for use when taking a pot of tea, on a tray, upstairs to enjoy in bed on the weekend.
For foaming milk for coffee-based drinks?
We have two. Whole milk and semi-skimmed.
Disappointed at the lack of puns and innuendo 🙁
I think we might have a glass/crystal milk jug somewhere, some family heirloom passed down. Never been used, not even sure why we have it!
What's this milk we have soya it comes in a carton, maybe this thread should be merged with the middle class thread.
We have a Cornishware measuring jug that comes out for milk jug use only when the other half's parents visit. Is also used for stock and gravy.
Disappointed at the lack of puns and innuendo
A fellow 'Carry On' fan?
comes in a carton
Me too, that'll teach them to steal my milk at work!