It sucks because Oberweis stuff is soooooo good too. Their chocolate milk is the best I’ve ever had, but I also refuse to give that bastard any of my money.
My parents in Northern California had milk delivery into the 90’s…I don’t think they do now, though.
We get it (Union County, NC, just south of Charlotte) once a week from a local dairy farm. Glass bottles and everything. The milk is expensive but IMO, much better than supermarket milk. The whole milk tastes like cream, the 2% like whole, etc. The chocolate milk is like melted chocolate ice cream.
We get it, and have for about 12 years.
Mostly milk, but with 5 kids we go through a lot of it. Marginally more expensive than grocery stores, but if we don’t have to go in a grocery store and shop, it saves us money by not buying extra stuff. We have a great milkman.
You would think so if you looked on our front porch and saw the empty glass milk bottles that are usually waiting there . . . for us to return them to the store. We don’t get delivery, but the store carries milk from a local dairy that tastes soooooo much better in glass than plastic.
I’m not sure if they ever did it here in Australia, I imagine the summer temperatures aren’t kind to milk outdoors.
But they still do it back in my home town in New Zealand (Dunedin), though I never ordered any this way, and I don’t know if any of my family currently do.
We did used to when I was very young, in the tiny fishing village where I grew up, but we only lived two minutes from the local shop anyway, so there wasn’t much of a point to it and we eventually decided to pick it up by hand. We didn’t get door to door mail delivery anyway, so it made sense to do both things at the same time.
No delivery of anything, including mail. But we’re lucky! We only have to go half a mile to get to our post office box. Oddly, when we’d been living way out in the country, miles from anything, we did get mail delivery.
The local market has glass bottles of milk that we can purchase and then return, like Scarlett67 mentioned.
Actually, in my neck of the woods, if you want hormone-free milk, it almost evens out pricewise to have it delivered once a week. It used to actually be cheaper to have it delivered than to get hormone-free at the store, but the price of gasoline has gone up such that it costs slightly more per week to have it delivered now. Slightly more meaning $.50 more, and that is often offset by getting other dairy items from the milk man.
Still, in many areas getting it delivered is probably cost prohibitive. I’m just lucky it isn’t for us right now - I often walk home from the grocery, so having the milk delivered certainly takes some weight of my shoulders, in a very real sense.
Ferret Herder, Cluricaun, care to explain Mr. Oberweis’s political shortcomings? I just googled milk delivery in my area and Oberweis is what we get. I was thinking of trying it out, too. The only thing the Wiki article alluded to was his supporting a same-sex marriage ban, which I certainly don’t agree with, but won’t keep me from buying his milk. Besides, that shit won’t fly in this state.
My dad gets Absopure water delivered. My Grandma used to get Schwann’s ice cream. The water is a good deal, from what I remember. Schwann’s, not so much. I’ve never known anybody to get milk delivered before. Even my mom, who grew up in the sixties, is too young for that. It’s pretty cool that I can still get it delivered if I wanted.
I don’t, but my parents do, twice a week. They live in a suburb on Montreal Island, in the west end. I think it’s coming from the Sealtest dairy, not a local dairy farm. At least, I remember the milk being delivered in cartons and/or bags, not bottles.
Incidentally, both of us get mail delivery straight to our doors (I’m in the GTA).
We got daily milk in the 70s here. The milkman’s truck had a horn that went “MOO!” I haven’t seen milk delivery since then, but I know there are one or two guys still doing it, because occasionally they are the subject of the human interest story on the evening news, right after the weather report.
In my mum’s generation, there were butchers, bakers, “rabbit-ohs”, ice men, and others, along with the milkmen.
I still very occasionally hear the whistle of a paper boy with his yellow trolley, but I think that’s almost gone too.
When I stayed in central Saigon, I was amazed at the amount of stuff you could buy from your front door. There was somebody-or-other going past every five minutes with all manner of wares.
We still get milk and newspapers delivered, but milk delivery is much less common than it used to be, and I predict it will die out in a few years due to lack of demand.
Supporting a same-sex marriage constitutional amendment is sufficient for me. Plus in 2004 for a while he used his business’ ad during campaign season to tie into his political campaign, which he got fined for as it’s against the campaigning laws. Then there was his playing on fear over illegal immigration, which was topped with his infamous “fly over Soldier Field in a helicopter and claim that the illegal immigrants in a week would fill that stadium” campaign ad. Even groups that strongly want to limit immigration said the numbers were maybe a quarter of that. His ads in the recent congressional race vs. Foster didn’t seem very issue-driven and turned me off even further.
He’s also apparently no friend of the Illinois GOP leadership as IIRC they turned him down as a replacement candidate when Jack Ryan’s 2004 campaign imploded - unlike various others, he wanted the position.
It’s been a while since the 2004 and 2006 ads so I don’t remember the other ads or political issues presented (it’d be easier for me to pick out problems if he was an elected official currently, but he isn’t), but I do recall that he was just not a fit with my political outlook. I do tend liberal on social issues but when it comes to elections on the state or local level, my votes are usually split half-and-half between the two major parties. So I’m not biased against him due to his political affiliation.
My building is signed up with a local food co-op. You check off the items on their list that you want (it’s almost the same selection as your average supermarket), and once or twice a week they make their deliveries. We usually get our milk, vegetables and a few other things from them.
We get it delivered twice a week. IIRC, by law it has to be here before 5am to avoid the heat - not that it’s an issue at this time of the year.
Ferret Herder gave a great overview, but there’s one additional thing that Mr. Oberweis did that really burned me up, was when the dairy was caught with two illegal immigrants working there. To be fair there were from an employment agency and weren’t direct hires of the operation, but still, it’s wrong in my eyes to benefit from that workforce while doing all that you can to demonize it.
He may not be the worst progeny of the old money suburban families, but he’s still a slimeball and that’s enough for me.
Milk, no, though my parents used to when I was a kid (this would’ve been the 90s). Living in a fishing community though, there’s a guy up there that occasionally goes around selling fresh and smoked fish. So I guess you could say that they get fish delivered sometimes.
When you consider the weight/volume, and the amount the average household uses, it makes almost more sense to deliver soft drinks then dairy.
Ours gets delivered at about 2am. It’s rarely hot enough here for it to spoil in the morning anyway. We get Tetrapaked milk. We used to get milk bottles. I recall milk tasting better from bottles but its nearly 20 years since I’ve had some. I found it funny that many American areas don’t have milk delivery since IME Americans consume way more milk than we do. I never go to the store and buy a gallon of milk for example, usually a litre, maybe 2 at a stretch.
I live in NYC and use Fresh Direct to have all my groceries delivered, including milk from a local(ish) dairy. With no car, it got to be too much for me to carry two weeks of groceries home by myself, so Fresh Direct was a lifesaver.
Most grocery stores in the city will do delivery for a fee too.