For those of us who still get milk from the milkman in glass bottles, the foil tops haven’t changed much.
* Silver = Whole
* Blue/Silver = Skimmed
* Red/Silver = Semi-skimmed
* Gold/Silver = Jersey
There is just now a Green/Gold for Oat milk.
So you don’t have to pay attention.
Gold = for the fancy occassions
Blue one = standard fare
Green one = alright in a push,
Red one = I’d rather put sparkling tonic water on my cereal, but thanks for the offer
Why do we need a YouTube video on why? It’s just so people can easily identify which is what, there isn’t any major conspiracy.
It’s to help non-milk drinkers (Like me) when sent to the shops for some milk.
‘Go get Semi Skimmed’
‘?’
‘Green’
Wrong question. Why do other places not have colour coded milk? 🥛
Really enjoying this guy’s videos and editing. Feels like old-school Tom Scott videos. Great vibes, making otherwise mundane things genuinely interesting.
The colours weren’t always standardised. More than once I got a bottle of green-labelled stuff that turned out to be skimmed milk. At least it wasn’t UHT.
I appreciate that he swapped between a red, blue and green shirt through the video 🤣
Well it’d be anarchy otherwise. We live in a rules based society. Ridiculous question.
Blue Cravendale makes the best froth when steamed.
Thank you, new Tom Scott; another banger
Great video – wonderful little bit of well researched trivia.
When I was a kid (I’m 52 now) everyone had a little wire container outside the door and the milkman used to put the milk into it so you could carry more than 1 pint indoors easily. Gone the same way as telephone boxes.
Crows used to peck at the foil covering the glass milk bottles left outside to get at the rich cream on the top.
I used to do a paper round in the 1980s and the milkman was often the only other person awake at the time so we used to wave to one another and if you were lucky you could buy a pint of orange juice cheap if you got to know them.
However, I still can’t drink any milk straight from the bottle/container – I’m from the generation who remembers getting milk for free at infant school (age 5-7) and I hated it as it would be left out so long without refrigeration. (Ditto beetroot in those light blue bowls.)
Spot the odd colour out – Red,Gold,Blue,Purple,Green,Yellow
For the same reason we have colour-coded crisps.
Because everyone I know is too weak to drink pure full-fat blue-cap whole milk just as God intended.
I always assumed it was due to a nefarious scheme to punish the colourblind
I think Chris Spargo’s videos are great and I’ve been actively recommending his channel to people, but I really wish he would stop with the jumpscare ads halfway through the videos.
I’ve noticed Map Men have started doing mid-video sponsors too, but they at least display a title card and cut to the ad rather than trying to awkwardly segue into it, which feels less disruptive. :/
Tom Scott looks weird. Maybe it is the hair dye.
Because we need to be able to tell which jug is skimmed milk so it can be avoided.
No the question is why Walkers doesn’t follow the colour coding for crisps. Green is cheese & onion, blue is salt & vinegar
don’t loads of countries have colour coded milk. the us also has colour coded milk it’s just the wrong way round
So funny that in the USA Red is usually Whole Milk and Blue/Green are usually skim.
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For those of us who still get milk from the milkman in glass bottles, the foil tops haven’t changed much.
* Silver = Whole
* Blue/Silver = Skimmed
* Red/Silver = Semi-skimmed
* Gold/Silver = Jersey
There is just now a Green/Gold for Oat milk.
So you don’t have to pay attention.
Gold = for the fancy occassions
Blue one = standard fare
Green one = alright in a push,
Red one = I’d rather put sparkling tonic water on my cereal, but thanks for the offer
Why do we need a YouTube video on why? It’s just so people can easily identify which is what, there isn’t any major conspiracy.
It’s to help non-milk drinkers (Like me) when sent to the shops for some milk.
‘Go get Semi Skimmed’
‘?’
‘Green’
Wrong question. Why do other places not have colour coded milk? 🥛
Really enjoying this guy’s videos and editing. Feels like old-school Tom Scott videos. Great vibes, making otherwise mundane things genuinely interesting.
The colours weren’t always standardised. More than once I got a bottle of green-labelled stuff that turned out to be skimmed milk. At least it wasn’t UHT.
I appreciate that he swapped between a red, blue and green shirt through the video 🤣
Well it’d be anarchy otherwise. We live in a rules based society. Ridiculous question.
Blue Cravendale makes the best froth when steamed.
Thank you, new Tom Scott; another banger
Great video – wonderful little bit of well researched trivia.
When I was a kid (I’m 52 now) everyone had a little wire container outside the door and the milkman used to put the milk into it so you could carry more than 1 pint indoors easily. Gone the same way as telephone boxes.
Crows used to peck at the foil covering the glass milk bottles left outside to get at the rich cream on the top.
I used to do a paper round in the 1980s and the milkman was often the only other person awake at the time so we used to wave to one another and if you were lucky you could buy a pint of orange juice cheap if you got to know them.
However, I still can’t drink any milk straight from the bottle/container – I’m from the generation who remembers getting milk for free at infant school (age 5-7) and I hated it as it would be left out so long without refrigeration. (Ditto beetroot in those light blue bowls.)
Spot the odd colour out – Red,Gold,Blue,Purple,Green,Yellow
For the same reason we have colour-coded crisps.
Because everyone I know is too weak to drink pure full-fat blue-cap whole milk just as God intended.
I always assumed it was due to a nefarious scheme to punish the colourblind
I think Chris Spargo’s videos are great and I’ve been actively recommending his channel to people, but I really wish he would stop with the jumpscare ads halfway through the videos.
I’ve noticed Map Men have started doing mid-video sponsors too, but they at least display a title card and cut to the ad rather than trying to awkwardly segue into it, which feels less disruptive. :/
Tom Scott looks weird. Maybe it is the hair dye.
Because we need to be able to tell which jug is skimmed milk so it can be avoided.
No the question is why Walkers doesn’t follow the colour coding for crisps. Green is cheese & onion, blue is salt & vinegar
don’t loads of countries have colour coded milk. the us also has colour coded milk it’s just the wrong way round
So funny that in the USA Red is usually Whole Milk and Blue/Green are usually skim.
Thanks, John Morris
Because it’s easier than colour coding the cows.
The Tom Scott we need.
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