Do you remember free milk at school ?
By Traceyjayne
@Traceyjayne (8997)
United Kingdom
March 17, 2026 12:15pm CST
Okay, so I am going back over 50 years now, but when I was at school we used to have free milk every day.
It was in little glass bottles and a silver foil lid, that we had to poke the straw through.
I loved it.
It was ice cold when we had it in the morning.
If there was any left at the end of the day and it was brought round the classrooms I was always first with my hand up for extras.
I still have a drink of milk every night before I go to bed.
Milk is one of my favourite drinks.
Do you remember the free milk at school ?
Do you still drink milk today ?
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@lovebuglena (49997)
• Staten Island, New York
5h
I remember little cartons of milk. I stopped drinking milk, but I have half-and-half with coffee which has milk in it. I would buy goat milk, but it’s very expensive. Maybe I’ll make an exception and buy regular milk and buy some chocolate chip cookies to go with it. I don’t really drink milk by itself.
@lovebuglena (49997)
• Staten Island, New York
5h
@Traceyjayne I found it a bit odd that the only thing you could get to drink for free was milk. Milk and hamburgers don’t particularly go well together.
@Traceyjayne (8997)
• United Kingdom
4h
@lovebuglena 50 plus years ago here we didn’t really have burger places. It wasn’t the sort of food we had at school either.
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@DaddyEvil (170192)
• United States
4h
We had small cardboard cartons of milk at school. I can't drink real cow milk now. I'm lactose intolerant. If I drink "milk" or eat it with cereal, I prefer almond milk.
@Traceyjayne (8997)
• United Kingdom
4h
Almond milk is hood. I also like oat milk. They make pea milk now too ….have you tried that ?
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@DaddyEvil (170192)
• United States
4h
@Traceyjayne Yes, Pretty bought pea milk and it tasted weird and curdled when I tried to cook with it.
@Traceyjayne (8997)
• United Kingdom
4h
@DaddyEvil I thought it tasted weird too. I had loads free but I gave it to my friend for the food bank. I never tried cooking with it.
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@Traceyjayne (8997)
• United Kingdom
4h
I love milk ….i don’t think enough people drink it in todays world !
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@xFiacre (14381)
• Ireland
3h
@traceyjayne I remember it well and with fondness. When I eventually became minister of a Church when I was about 32, on the first Sunday I stood up in the pulpit and right in front of me was my P1 teacher and I could see her supervising the milk.
@LooeyVille (86)
• United States
5h
I remember it being three cents. I don't remember free. That was in grade school. Then in high school we had chocolate milk or iced tea options and it was 35 cents.
@Traceyjayne (8997)
• United Kingdom
4h
There was a time when the milk in schools had to be paid for….it was 1p a day. Now it is free for all children from 3 years to 7 years old.
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