I forgot to listen properly when my market manager said “Yes! We’ll have fresh pasteurized milk every day!” What he really meant was “Yes! We’ll have fresh pasteurized milk delivered here every Monday or Wednesday whenever the dairy man remembers it and even then he’ll only bring 5 tiny containers and if you don’t pounce on them, they’ll be gone and since I don’t operate by capatalist ideas of supply and demand and recognize that you are the demand and I can make a fortune being the supply, I’m not going to order any extra. Good luck with that.”
That’s right. There was milk for a few days until I bought it all. Now there’s none. I’m back to the boxed kind.
My Honey Loops are weeping.
The mab Blab 
Lydia
So sad! Maybe you could hide capitalist charts and graphs in the fruit bin. The market manager will find it, have an epiphany, and keep fresh milk in stock at all times! 🙂 Or you could freeze the fresh milk, and only bring it out on special occasions….
KarenD
Does milk freeze?
Papa Steve
My mother used to try and freeze milk, buying it when it was on sale, and then putting some in the freezer. The problem was, when you thaw the milk out, it goes bad on an accelerated basis. So a perfectly good container of milk degenerates to that “ewww, this is bad, taste it” state in a matter of hours, rather than days. Maybe that is why I am not a huge fan of dairy to this day.
mab
Yeah, freezing won’t work. It changes the chemical properties of milk.
One bright item of news: I went to the big Wal-Marty store yesterday & they had good milk. So, I bought two huge containers. Take that, Market Man!
Ms. Dickinson
Ah, life on the other side of the ocean. Amazing! I now appreciate the fresh milk in my refrigerator.
Lydia
My in-laws used to freeze milk all the time when they had two growing boys in the house. Then again, with two growing boys, once it was opened, it didn’t last long. It does change the properties (it’s no longer homogenized: ie, you have to shake it up), but other than that I think it’s fine. Still, it will always be better fresh!