Did Calgary ever have milk men?

[Locke]

Originally Posted by NSFL

Putting on pants, brushing snow off the car...

I know!! Arent Pants the worst?

but then you try and go to the store for milk, cookies, sausages, a 'party-sized' bag of pork rinds (thats really only big enough for one person), cigarettes, ecstacy, hookers and blow without pants and everybody gets all bent out of shape....

Then you ask for condoms and they give you a weird look, like you're the crazy one.

Have you seen this hooker?

You'd want a condom that was lead-lined if you were ploughing that field, but hey, you cant be picky.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by fotze

For $29 per week, organic express will deliver a box of vegetables and fruit to your door.
http://www.organicexpress.com/vHome.lasso

Does that include the ass kicking you give them for being wussies?

Hold on Mr. Deliveryman, I'm going to acupuncture you good!!

I had a brief vision of Hank Hill passing in front of me....good...hes gone now...

[Drunk Skunk]

Originally Posted by 4X4

I can understand the appeal of a delivery service. I like my veggies but I don't eat them regularly because I'll run out and it'll be two or three days before my urges completely overtake me and I go to the grocery store. So then I'll buy a bunch of produce and then eat almost only greens for a week until they're gone. Then its a strict meat and canned diet for a few days until I go to the store again.

If I had someone bringing me a big bag of the pre-washed lettuce and some peppers and whatnot, I'd eat well 6 days a week. Sundays will always be caeser sunday as long as I'm a football fan.

So far today I've consumed ~10 oatmeal cookies, 1 can of peaches, 6 beers, 1 can of coke, 1 Gibsons on the rocks and 2 smokies with mustard and ranch. Salad is not in the forecast.

Now I want cookies and milk as well as peaches. I need to stop reading the internetz when I haven't eaten all day

Originally Posted by NSFL

Putting on pants, brushing snow off the car...

That would be why I'm not actually satisfying my cookie and milk, and now peaches, urge. It's much too cold out, and I'm much too comfortable, to put on pants and scrape the ice off of the car.

Anyone want to drive down to Moline and bring me some sundries? I'll give you a dollar

[4X4]

Haha. Peaches are a necessity in my cupboards. I gauge my next grocery run by the presence of peaches and chili in the can cupboard (or rather the lack thereof).

[blankall]

Originally Posted by NSFL

You don't make it sound very appetizing. But that might have something to do with the term powdered orange juice. Brings to mind powdered milk.

That was actually the wiktionary definition. Defintely doesn't sound very appetizing though. It is no YOP... do they still sell that?

[NSFL]

Originally Posted by Locke

I know!! Arent Pants the worst?

but then you try and go to the store for milk, cookies, sausages, a 'party-sized' bag of pork rinds (thats really only big enough for one person), cigarettes, ecstacy, hookers and blow without pants and everybody gets all bent out of shape....

Then you ask for condoms and they give you a weird look, like you're the crazy one.

Have you seen this hooker?

You'd want a condom that was lead-lined if you were ploughing that field, but hey, you cant be picky.

No kidding, and those pants with the buttons are the worst!

And people these days, hmpf. What? People can't go out with no pants on?

Originally Posted by Drunk Skunk

Anyone want to drive down to Moline and bring me some sundries? I'll give you a dollar

$1.50.

Originally Posted by blankall

That was actually the wiktionary definition. Defintely doesn't sound very appetizing though. It is no YOP... do they still sell that?

I think they do, or at least some sort of drinkable yogurt for sure.

[Drunk Skunk]

Originally Posted by NSFL

$1.50.

Done! I'll even pay you in Canadian currency, not the under-priced paper we use down here

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

Oh yeah, Super Socco was the bees knees. There was also Super Socco gum, IIRC.

And milk in bags -- the first thing I think of now when I think of a bag of milk is all the fun/trouble you could have with it. It never even crossed my mind to do anything with a bag of milk other than drink it when I was a tyke. What a wasted opportunity.

You can still buy milk in bags in Ontario. In fact, when I moved to Calgary, I was confused as to why it wasn't available. I still have a couple of the plastic jugs that the bags fit in, but now I use them to water the houseplants.

EDIT - apologies for not reading page 2 and realizing others had commented on milk in bags. I was just so excited about it.

BTW, did you know you can freeze the milk-in-bags? Handy, that, being able to keep a bag of milk in the freezer for emergencies.

[Barnes]

We always had milk delivered in bags in Montreal. They used to put them between our screen door and wood door and in the winter, you would forget and they would freeze or the milkman wouldn't prop them up and shut the door on the bags.

Ah the jugs for the bags too. Remember the little cutting thingamajiggy you clip to the side?

Speaking about delivery, in Montreal we would get together on the weekends and call an independent pizza joint and they would pick up beer and cigarettes if you ordered a certain amount. It was great when we were underage.

[NSFL]

Originally Posted by Barnes

We always had milk delivered in bags in Montreal. They used to put them between our screen door and wood door and in the winter, you would forget and they would freeze or the milkman wouldn't prop them up and shut the door on the bags.

Ah the jugs for the bags too. Remember the little cutting thingamajiggy you clip to the side?

Speaking about delivery, in Montreal we would get together on the weekends and call an independent pizza joint and they would pick up beer and cigarettes if you ordered a certain amount. It was great when we were underage.

My uncle used to own a take-out place and we'd use a delivery service when we needed deliveries done. And I remember one of the delivery guys telling me once how the customer had asked that a couple beers be sent with the order. And when the delivery guy got there, he found out that it was some pimple faced teenager with an abnormally low voice who had made the order. So instead of giving the kid the beers that he had picked up, he gave him the jug of orange juice that he had bought for himself and kept the beers. So that underager wasn't as lucky as you guys.

[icarus]

Originally Posted by Locke

Milkmen seem to be going the way of Pirates.....

Why, just the other day I saw an eyepatched, peglegged milkman make some poor lactose-intolerant scalliwag walk the plank out the back door of his moving moomobile.

[bigtmac19]

Way back in the 80's when we lived there, we lived in Acadia and we had a milk man and a milk door.

Loved that.

[Morozee]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

A sort of fruit juice blend, largely with artificial flavouring. Heavy on the citrus flavour to mask the prune content.

You can still get it in the Maritimes apparently. This is the modern packaging.



The old school cartons had a kickass Warner Bros. Roadrunner look-alike on the carton.

Ingredients: Water, sugar, concentrated orange juice, concentrated apple juice, apricot puree, citric acid, prune syrup, orange pulp, modified corn starch, canola oil, flavour, sodium citrate, colour, sodium benzoate, ascorbic acid.

Holy crap, I forgot all about that stuff. I remember my mom buying us that stuff as a kid in the 80's. Back then BEEP juice came in a white carton with red writing on it. I don't think there was a Roadrunner on it at that time though. Holy flashback... haha

[tete]

Aaah Beep. Now that's a flashback to my childhood. I'd equate it to the modern-day Sunny D - super sweet, sugary, orangey goodness. I remember getting it as a 'treat' at the Safeway in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba every six months or so.

As for milk, no milkman where I grew up, but I remember going and getting a gallon of unpasturized milk from neighbours who owned a dairy farm every week or so.

[Locke]

What kind of ###### thought it would be a great idea to name their product "Beep"?

[Ironhorse]

Good times... especially when one would roll out of the fridge, and suffer from a containment breach...

[ricosuave]

LOL I had forgotten all about milk in a bag and Beep!

[greyshep]

Wow, I remember the days of home milk delivery.

We had a milk chute in the home I grew up in. Used to be the convenient place for mom to leave a key to the house when we were in school too.

I still recall the funny sounds when the milk man was shuffling items in and out of the chute early in the morning. We used Palm dairies home delivery.

Seems so bizarre now building a wooden box at the back of your home so some stranger can gain access into your house.

I wonder if my old house still has the chute at the back, or if someone has covered it up.

[Temporary_User]

Originally Posted by NSFL

Putting on pants, brushing snow off the car...

If you are ever in the need of some milk, I deliver!

[LIP MAN]

Originally Posted by 4X4

We used to get milk, yogurt and... wait for it.... BEEP. All was delivered by the milkman.

BEEP!