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Less beans in your cooking can fix that
Back in the middle of the last century they even home delivered potato chips (crisps). Big 1-pound cans of greasy starch & salt delivered right to your door on a weekly basis. (it was a different time
)
Note: I have a vague memory of larger cans too. Perhaps 3 or 5 pounds?
And if you let yourself believe fables and cartoons, there were even storks that home delivered babies.
Ah, Charles Chips! The cans still exist, and they are a delightful greasy indulgence. I don't know anybody who delivers them though...
https://charleschips.com/
Milkman comes over twice a week to the neighbors house. Picks up last weeks glass bottles and leaves the fresh ones in the fridge. I do believe we could get cheese and eggs too. Small town advantage, and the processing center is just on the edge of town.
...do they still have Milk Floats in the UK?
...those leather wheeled mail carts have made a bit of a comeback here in Portland OR.
I remember not only having milk delivery, but juice delivery as well. We also received coal deliveries for the old furnace the house had.
There was also a fellow who sharpened knives who made the rounds in the neighbourhood during summer with a pushcart which had his sharpening/grinding gear on it.
You can buy Charles Chips at the Kroger where my kids work. Perhaps I should ask them to buy a can or 2? Would make our snack habits greener. Less bags in trash, we can reuse or recycle the cans.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/milkman-seen-big-demand-glass-14171433
Link is to a newspaper article and a video
I believe they do, but they're a rarity and I can't remember the last time I saw or heard one (they have a very unique sound, with the whirr of the float combined with the clink of bottles whenever they go over a bump in the road).
I do miss them and in some ways can't fathom how something once so commonplace can almost completely disappear without my noticing. Not all my memories of them are tinted with rosy nostalgia, though. There was one early morning in 1987-ish when my ex-husband was headed off for work, with a colleague in the passenger seat beside him. They got to the bottom of our road and were stunned when a full milk bottle came flying through the closed rear window behind them, thrown by a local milkman who was leaning from his float as he drove by, bad-mouthing my ex-husband's driving. The window was repaired pretty quickly, but no amount of scrubbing could get the smell of rancid milk out of the car. We kept the car for a couple of years after, and I'd swear people knew we were coming from three streets away during the height of every summer :)
...somewhere in my freebie archives I have a model of a Milk Float.
...nice. Some of our natural food markets still sell milk in glass bottles, but it's more expensive just like most organic foods here.
I can actually remember before the electric floats we used to have horse drawn ones,
I also remember walking up past the milkman one day and the horse was in a funny mood and grabbed my shoulder because I had walked too close to him and hadn't offered him a carrot.
The milk delivery here in Chicago is in glass bottles, At least I assume so the company sells glass bottles in groceries. I'd think it would be a big selling point. No plastic waste and glass doesn't have any dodgy chemicals leaching out of it.
My mother still remembers when the milkman came around with churns and people took a jug out to be filled (which didn't keep well). I think this was either before the war or when they were evacuated to Suffolk early in the war.
There's a NSFW picture on the internet showing a rabbit behind a chicken. That's how Easter eggs are made.
There's a company in NY, Byrne Dairy, who used to have milkmen. They stopped deliveries by 1977 according to Wikepedia so way before I moved there. I have bought their milk in the same types of glass bottles though. You can still get the milk in glass bottles at their store. Pay the deposit once and you just keep returning your bottles and get a new one. I don't know why the milk tastes so much better in those glass bottles but they do.
We used to have a company in WV where I grew up with milk delivery. The last time I remember seeing any milk deliveries there was the early 80s. I worked for an older couple who got daily deliveries of buttermilk. Older couple who used buttermilk in everything. It tasted awesome in buttermilk biscuits.
They didn't stop that long ago. I was on the set of the first Transformers movie and they'd had several Charles Chips trucks brought in just so they could smash them up on camera. (one of many crazy wastes of money on that film, but that's another story.) And they still delilver them, they just do it online and let UPS and Fedex do the delivery. https://charleschips.com/shop/ ;
On the other hand, something they now deliver in the Houston area is Doctors. When I had a sprained muscle in my leg last year, I discovered that there's a company here that sends a doctor and an assistant in a van fittled with a mini-medical lab to your house, and my insurance treats them like one of those stand-alone Emergency rooms, so it's just a $70.00 co-pay.
WHen was the last time you heard of Doctors making housecalls?
When I first moved to Texas in the 80s, all of the major soft drinks were available in these giant half-gallon glass bottles that even came in six packs... this was in addition to the standard giant 2 liter plastic bottles. The problem was that the glass ones had a hefty deposit on them and they weighed a ton, so we always had two or three of them rolling around in the trunk. Eventually everyone stopped using them in favor of the lighter but more expensive plastic ones.
When I was in my mid teens we were still getting milk delivered (as well as eggs, cheese and butter) and I'm in my 50s now (semi-rural PA, US). Now I just get milk delivered along with the rest of my groceries. We have Peapod and they deliver, well, everything. LOL. Because of my spinal stenosis, it's a huge help :). A few years ago when I actually went to the store for the last time, pushing a cart around the store was getting exceptionally painful. We also have Walmart, but you have to pick it up and they don't deliver (yet), and Instacart, who will deliver from a bunch of different places. Instacart is more Uber for grocery pick and delivery. LOL
Laurie
About two days ago!
I opened a letter from my health insurance company entreating me to sign up for their in-house examination program. Supposedly they send a person to your home to get a general idea of your health and environment. Probably not a doctor and I'm sure it helps some people in difficult situations. The catch is that they only do it once a year and only by appointment. So, when I know in advance that I'm going to be sick I'll make an appointment and clean the house before they come. 
We have locums that make house calls
If it wasn't for Instacart, I'd probably be living on cold cereal half the time. There are just too many weeks where I don't have the time to go shopping, but Instacart has all my favorite items listed in a special "favorites" section so I can knock together an order on my lunch break and have it delivered whenever I want. The best part is that you can have groceries delivered anywhere Instacart services, so I've had them delivered to hotel rooms while I'm on vacation and traveling on business, to my office and to my Mom's house when she was sick and unable to drive.
The last time I can remember getting milk delivered was in the late 1960s. they used to leave it in a little tin box by the front door, but we lived in New Mexico, so you had to get up early to get or you ran the risk of getting cooked milk.
...back when I was still young (crikey seems like aeons ago) we used to go to the local A&W stand on the Milwaukee lakefront to get a one gallong jug of their great creamy (still made with sassafras root) root beer. You paid for the jug and the root beer on the first purchase and after that only had to pay for the root beer as there was a refundable deposit on the jug. Unlike sodas today that are artificially carbonated, the root beer was brewed just like beer so it had a natural carbonation which gave it that whipped creme like head which lasted almost to the bottom of the glass. Just thinking about makes thirsty for an ice cold mug again but what they make today is a mere shadow of what it used to be.
We use Instacart and similar, and sometimes I feel some amorphous guilt about it.
And then I go to the grocery store and I’m reminded of how I have to deal with random jerks and I’m surrounded by food I’m not supposed to have.
yeah, delivery is nice.
Our milkbox was actually built right into the house. Anybody else have one of those? Just an 18" x 18" (I get to use Imperial because we hadn't switched to metric back then
), with one latched door on the outside and a second one in the inside. Just open the inside door and leave the empties and tokens in the box the night before, and get up the next morning, open the door and remove the filled ones to the refrigerator. They used tokens so miscreants wouldn't come around and loot the boxes if you left cash. The only downside to the system was in the winter. If you didn't get to the milk soon enough the next morning, the cardboard stoppers would be sitting atop this curved column of frozen milk rising majestically above the milk bottle neck.
...I'm fortunate to have a major market only a few blocks away and another a little bit further down the road. I also shop at ethnic and speciality markets which often have better prices than the major ones on certain ingredients I use. For example there is one where I can get a can of coconut milk for my curries, or rice noodles for my Pho that charges half or less less than what the major markets do, sometimes for the same brand.
The part I do not like about home grocery delivery (besides the extra charge) is not being able to select exactly what I want or look over items. I mean if I need an exact weight of say meat poultry or fish, or bulk items like spices & such (which are less expensive than those little jars) that is what I want, I don't want less or more. I also like to check the condition of what I intend to purchase before it goes into the trolley. For example, do those green onions appear to be wilting or slimy looking, is that tomato too soft and look like as if it is on the verge of spoiling, is that Anaheim pepper all soft an wrinkled, or is that piece of round steak looking a bit brown on the edges? Yeah, I'm a bit of a picky shopper, something I inherited from my mum.
We have a vet on wheels here. Very convenient when one of our chickens had a broken toe! Icecream trucks also still drive here during summer. Other stuff like toiletpaper or garden soil are distributed door to doorby local initiatives such as the soccer or badminton clubs to generate some extra income.
My mum uses a vet on wheels as her fur baby Oscar is horrible for traveling. Do not think of holding him while wearing a good or favorite shirt or he will rip it to shreads. He is a good boy except when he is not on the ground.