Talk:Milk bottle

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collectors item Only old ones presumably, since there must be millions in circulation?--JBellis 18:06, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Milk delivery is pretty rare here in America but modern Christmas decorated bottles are collectable. Rmhermen 23:43, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

At my local dairy, they have PLENTY of the half-gallon glass containers, but they have stopped offering cream in the pint bottles because they can no longer purchase them from anywhere. So, at least some sizes of milk bottles are now rare. --Mdwyer 23:07, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

rare in America? I have three local dairies to choose from, and I'm in a modest size city. WBardwin 04:03, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

I live in a metro area of population 5.5 million and am only aware of two dairies which deliver in the entire area. Rmhermen 14:03, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

perhaps the difference is an intensely urban environment. I'm only 10 minutes or so from one of the actual dairy farms -- the suburbs are creeping closer but they are still operating. In an larger urban area, I would expect transportation costs to outweigh the other advantages to home delivery. WBardwin 21:15, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

There is a story around here that they used to only use a foil cap to cover the milk. However, neighborhood birds discovered that they could easily pierce the foil and drink the first inch of milk from the top of the bottle. In response, they added a cardboard circle. This cardboard circle became central to the kids game of Pogs. My dairy now uses plastic caps that are color-coded based on the product. --Mdwyer 23:07, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

It is certainly true that tits learn to peck through the foil tops (although I think they only like full cream or better). In the UK it became fairly commonplace to leave a small board outside which Milko would place across the top of the bottles. Rich Farmbrough 11:11 17 May 2006 (UTC).

Yes, in the UK, Blue Tits did somehow learn that they could peck through the foil top to get to the cream at the top of the bottle inside. It was often cited as an example of anumal learning. Since homogenised milk became the norm in the UK (1990s?), meaning that the cream no longer floated to the top, I believe that they no longer do it. --JBellis 10:50, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Isn't the decline just as likely to be a result of the decline of doorstep milk delivery in Britain? When I was little, in the late 1970s, the vast majority of people had milk delivered in glass (blue-tit friendly!) bottles. I believe the figure is now only about 20%. 86.132.137.65 05:31, 10 February 2007 (UTC)