Milky-milky (Lord help you if you remember that)

[hirez]

After the mental wossname in finding the name of Davenports brewery last night

[Aside: I have no real idea if they were any use. Certainly, all seventies beer was horrible and the centre of horribleness was concentrated in the M&B brewery. I don't know what happened to 'Brew 11' but I hope it was a dreadful occurance that is even now spoken of in hushed tones. There was another one, but the name has thankfully slid snot-like from my brain. Courage AK hasn't though. ]

gurgled away, it left several questions standing there like surprised shipwrecks.

The first one is...

Milkbottles. I'm vaguely trying to find some documentation on the interwebnets about the economics of bottle recycling and what happened to Tetrapak cartons. Other than finding out that recycled glass is called cullet, Google just manages to point me at a succession of northern Californians going 'Plastic's bad, m'kay?' And yes I bloody know that I have my milk delivered by a bloke in an electric chariot who pitches up at stupid AM. At least I fondly imagine it's a bloke. I've never seen him (or her or it), I've just heard the rising whirr and clank that makes the place sound like an Ealing comedy or Norman Wisdom not-comedy-at-all-I-don't-care-what-the-Albanians-think. It could be Sharon Stone for all I know. Imagine that. Or a robot made up of an autonomous collective of toasters acting for the common good. Mind, anarchist toasters would probably want to keep the bottles in case of an Uprising or Civil Disturbance. I wonder if a Civil Disturbance (as opposed to the Uncivil sort) would be the start of the Chappist Revolution? Who can say?

Comments

[hamsterhotep.livejournal.com]

The Mystery of the Milk...This could require investigation...

And sadly I *do* remember "Milky Milky". I guess there really is no hope for me. That having been said, I probably still have more hope of redemption than a certain M. Khan.

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Certainly, all seventies beer was horrible and the centre of horribleness was concentrated in the M&B brewery. I don't know what happened to 'Brew 11' but I hope it was a dreadful occurance that is even now spoken of in hushed tones.

When I was a student in Coventry in the late 90s, Brew XI was in all the pubs that I studiously avoided. I suspect it's still going, unfortunately. Filty vile stuff that makes Courage taste like the holy pint of the Gods.

Milkbottles: are they re-cycled, or re-used? I was under the impression that the milkies would give 'em a quick rinse and then fill 'em up again, rather than smashing them into bits and making them into road surface....

[quercus.livejournal.com]

If you're not on first-name terms with your milkman, you're not coding hard enough.

Dawn, when the coffee turns white again.

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

I refuse to try to say "milky milky" as it screws my throat.

Bah, bring back proper milk bottles, not those horrible squat things. Next thing you know it'll be in litres.

Now I have Benny Hill in my head.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

[Grams: Yakkety Sax]

That must rattle with all them people running about.

[thepaintedone.livejournal.com]

...lovely.

[cutietrol.livejournal.com]

Beyond help here I think.

[augeas.livejournal.com]

LEAVE THE MEMORY OF CASK BREW XI ALONE! I remember it being reasonably palatable as I quaffed it at the surprisingly rural-looking Bell Inn at the top of Harbourne. It serves London Pride now, this is bad and wrong. Mitchells and Butlers are no more, Brew XI is now perpetrated at the Brains brewery in Wales. It's bad enough having the "Sons of Owen Glen Dour" pissing in Brum's water without them pissing in our beer. At least that stuff wasn't Ansel's.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

... You've reminded me: Springfield bitter. Ugh!

[augeas.livejournal.com]

Springfield _was_ M&B, not Ansells. I remember the hideous advert, with the fom rubber tankards going "Spring Spring Spring Spring....". Good old Banks'...

[edwards.livejournal.com]

See that John Peel? That's you that is.

Does anyone not remember Milky Milky? I'm sure the Colins of this world have it for office parties, along with "Two Armadillos" and if they're a bit older, "Loadsamoney".

Oh, and the thighrubbing from Vic Reeves.

I think I just scared myself with that mental image.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

"milky milky" is a TV thing ? (can't abide TVs)

I've only ever heard of it via John

Usually while he was rubbing Vic Reeves' thighs.

[edwards.livejournal.com]

Milky Milky is a British Student Comedy thing, from a TV show called "The Mary Whitehouse Experience" but undoubtedly based on the stand up acts of miscreants Punt, Dennis and Baddiel.

[malcygoff.livejournal.com]

This city still has milkmen?
I'm clearly in the wrong part... Not seen once since I was a nipper!

btw. After many years, I'd managed to erase "milky-milky" from my mind. All that hard work, ruined by a single post!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

We do up this end. Mind, Staple Hill is the land that progress forgot. (In a good way, I must add.)

Not that we live there, but the Staple Hill stasis field leaks a bit.

[lucifein.livejournal.com]

i say 'milky milky' a lot here, but it's wated on the americans, and trying to explain british humour to them to bring some clarity as to why 'milky milky' is funny, defeats the object and their intelligence. at least, my hubby has a better clue as hes been subjected to nearly a year of british classic comedy dvds. working my way through to the 'not the nine o'clock news' as i type. >;)