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With Earth Day coming up tomorrow, it's a good time to think about greening up your life. Enter: Manhattan Milk; the company delivers farm fresh, organic milk straight to your doorstep...so you don't have to walk 10 feet to the corner bodega.
Sure, the idea has an old school charm to it, but it's the milk itself that's enticing -- it comes from "pasture roaming, free-grazing cows," and is produced with "no antibiotics, no added growth hormones and no dangerous pesticides." The whole dairy section of the food pyramid is provided by this present-day milkman as well -- along with your skim, 1%, whole and chocolate milk, the company also offers cheese, eggs and yogurt.
While Manhattan Milk is on an eco-friendly mission, using recyclable bottles (free of charge), the delivery method itself isn't very green. The milkmen have their own trucks, presumably refrigerated to keep the product at its freshest -- but New Yorkers are used to consuming milk that has stood unrefrigerated for a questionable amount of time. So, until Green Bottle is available at every bodega, or bike delivery is possible -- which is the lesser of the two evils?: Plastic composite milk cartons which don't biodegrade for 5 years (or plastic which never biodegrades), or having a truck releasing carbon dioxide emissions deliver your dairy? [via Daily Candy]
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The "Milkman" was code for something else at my last job...
Jen Carlson's posts read like a fahsion magazines. If you add the catchphrases "did you hear the latest!?" or "this is the latest craze!" to all her posts I think you'd get what I mean.
If they delivered goat milk, I'd be in heaven.
Do they just leave the milk on your doorstep? How does that work in West Harlem? Someone in my building is sitting in their living room right now, wearing my coat, eating my organic jello, and looking at a print of a cartoon that was sent to me, all because the Fedex guy felt free to leave all three items on my doorstep when they were delivered to be without requiring a signature!
:)
YEAH! $4.89 per quart! Definitely not Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens or Staten Island milk!
Not sure how this benefits city dwellers.
Where I come from we had "milk chutes" where the milkman could deposit the jugs. These little cubbies had doors to the inside as well, so se could retrieve the jugs without going outside.
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Um, organic jello?
Yeah, organic jello -- ever hear of mad cow disease?
(And yet gelatin is so good for brittle fingernails, unlike the vegan substitute in the vegetarian jello sold at Whole Foods.)
I suppose I should be happy someone is enjoying the all natural benefits of eating it right now. Mazeltov to that person!
You can buy Ronnybrook at most grocery stores...isn't that the same thing??
gelatin comes from (says wiki): pork skins, pork and cattle bones, or split cattle hides.
TASTY!!
Sounds very wholesome and unwasteful to use all those remaining parts of an animal. Especially if it's organic. I'll eat it. (If it gets delivered to me, and not stolen!)
As long as Heather Mills isn't running the company...
Umm, the milk you buy at the bodega needs to be delivered by a truck too? And No. 5 is clearly a time traveler from the 50's
I never understood the obsession with organic products. All that means is fewer people in the world get to eat. The premium (slight or not) on organic foods prices out millions and millions of people around the world from eating anything.
But how does it compare with Patrick Farms? I really don't care about "organic." But I hate this white-colored water supermarkets try to pass off as "milk" nowadays, even the so-called whole milk.
i just hope this guy doesn't deliver it.
In Canada, they have milk in plastic pouches. Slightly more ecofriendy than plastic jugs.
Makes me wonder if it would work in NYC. Someone would probably pop them all.
as long as I don't have to enter a bodega with the smell of fried beans and have to hear salsa music I'm all for this.
yes, but does it have vitamin R?? ^_^
I think there were in home milk deliveries in NYC during the mid sixties. I know we had it.
bottles of milk were left in a brown shopping bag
they were never stolen but those were different times.