In the 1960s, on the street where I lived, i.e. Cheng Yan Place, I remembered very vividly that every afternoon at more or less a fixed time, an Indian man would traverse the street on-foot from the Queen Street side towards Victoria Street. Always with him were his 2 cows, one brown and the other white. He was a street dairy (also daily) seller.
If you wanted to buy some milk, he would stoop down and milk it straight from the cow for you. He would then bottle the milk into a glass bottle right in front of your eyes. Now how could you get milk fresher than that, brown cow?
The hygiene practices of this Indian man were questionable. Why, I didn’t think he ever bothered to clean up the bovine poo that the 2 cows left on the street every now and then. Even if he did, I didn’t think that he bothered to wash his hands after that. That’s why I never bought any milk from him, haha.
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Was that your picture, Victor? Or from the archives?
Posted on March 6th, 2006 at 5:35 am
Wow! i didnt know that in the olden days, milk are being done this way! Really amazed me! And it seem super cool!! =D so, does the milk taste any different than the milk now?
Posted on March 6th, 2006 at 6:30 am
Ivan, yes I confessed that I swiped it from National Archives PICAS website without permission and without paying for it. The events in the post happened when I was at a tender age and couldn’t afford a camera. But now, I am at an age when I am fully aware of the consequences of my actions – I have infringed copyrights, haven’t I? Erm… what’s the penalty hah?
Posted on March 6th, 2006 at 6:36 am
Now that brings a whole new meaning to freshness guaranteed man!
And you get to watch the whole process, which i somehow can draw the warped link to present-day process of waiting for that cup of bubble-tea.
How different things were then! =)
Posted on March 6th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Hi simpsonROXS!, I don’t know how the milk from the cows tasted because I never bought any milk from that man. I guess it must have tasted more ‘cowish’ than processed milk. Even today, I still see an Indian man delivering fresh goat milk, I think, in PET bottles to my HDB neighbours. This man rides a bicycle and his cows are nowhere in sight.
Posted on March 6th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
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