Not the kind of wedding present I wanted

[andrewducker]

Coming back after a week away, to find this in the fridge:


Not shown: dead flowers, the _other_ off milk, and the saucepan that had been left with about 3mm of water and rice starch in it, which is apparently a perfect breeding ground for fungus.

(Avoiding the tidying up by posting photos of milk on my journal? I don't know what you mean...)

Comments

[fub.livejournal.com]

Welcome back -- I hope you had a lovely time.

And hey, you made cottage cheese! Love that stuff on a bagel with crispy bacon. ;)

[nwhyte]

Here's Doonesbury from 31 years ago, to cheer you up.

[andrewducker]

All of the cards, with the money/vouchers/etc still in them, are in a rucksack. I am currently hoping it hasn't slid out into a big pile at the bottom...

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

We just found our wedding cards (hopefully without money/vouchers/etc still in them) in a box on top of one of the bookshelves. I think they may have been breeding!

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I call milk left in the fridge "cottage cheese" since I've come back to Ardrishaig so often and found it there.

Oh, and congratulations, again.

[andrewducker]

Thank you!

I shall not be spreading it on toast...

[snarlish.livejournal.com]

Dibs on the cake!

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I meant to comment at the time. Julie looked gorgeous.

(Like the mix of milk and old cake BTW. We threw away our top tier after about 8 years - I think it was probably still edible but no one fancied trying).

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

Nothing says 'welcome home' like off milk and mouldy pans :)

Hope you enjoyed your break away!

[andrewducker]

Yes! Lots of dogs and board games!

Now writing up the wedding. Which is 500 words so far and we haven't got to the actual wedding bit...

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

That strikes this American as a remarkable milk container.  One-pint bottles of milk are available here, but I think they're usually more-or-less cylindrical. One-quart and half-gallon (two-quart) ones are more common, tall and four-sided. The shape you show -- pretty much cubical -- is typical of our one-gallon milk containers. I know British/Imperial pints (especially of beer) are dauntingly large, but ... ummm... I'm pretty sure not as large as American gallons.

(I've been in the UK only once, for about a month (12 years ago) and didn't have occasion to buy or even look for containers of milk, other than what appeared on the tables of B&Bs in the morning. And I never quite understood the difference, with beer, between "Pint" and "Pub Pint" -- the contents of glasses of both were always ... better than American beers, at least, and usually excellent in what I thought of as an Absolute sense... as was the milk in B&Bs.)

[andrewducker]

It's a standard Imperial Pint, which is 568ml. Wikipedia tells me that a US pint is 473ml, or about 15% smaller, which fits with your experience!

British milk bottles traditionally look like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dairy_Crest_Semi_Skimmed_Milk_Bottle.jpg

But milk bought in supermarkets hasn't come in bottles in an age, it comes in containers like the one above (1pt) or here (2pt):
http://www.packaging-gateway.com/projects/nampakplastic/nampakplastic1.html

I assume that those shapes are easier to pack, and so more efficient for the supermarkets. And lighter, too.

[andrewducker]

Oh, and sadly I've never managed to acclimatise myself to beer, so I can't personally attest to its quality. I've heard good things of lots of it though, and my favourite local bar keeps winning awards for its real ale, so it's a shame I can't quite get into it!