Gothamist: The Milkman is Back

JacqueMehoff

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:48:04 -0500

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.

zodak

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:15:58 -0500

yes, but does it have vitamin R?? ^_^

babyhitler

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:31:29 -0500

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.

Pharmer

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:13:31 -0500

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.

zodak

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:53:12 -0500

i just hope this guy doesn't deliver it.

Spiritof76

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:45:47 -0500

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.

GOP

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:07:06 -0500

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.

the3rdbridge

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:52:57 -0500

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

1987porsche944

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:48:18 -0500

As long as Heather Mills isn't running the company...

cucarachita

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:37:10 -0500

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!)

tien mao

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:21:06 -0500

gelatin comes from (says wiki): pork skins, pork and cattle bones, or split cattle hides. TASTY!!

smitty

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:18:20 -0500

You can buy Ronnybrook at most grocery stores...isn't that the same thing??

cucarachita

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:02:41 -0500

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!

Atomische

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:52:09 -0500

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. ... Um, organic jello?

Reality Czech

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:51:36 -0500

YEAH! $4.89 per quart! Definitely not Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens or Staten Island milk!

cucarachita

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:46:53 -0500

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! :)

matty

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:22:46 -0500

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.

Neil Epstein

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:16:16 -0500

The "Milkman" was code for something else at my last job...