TOT Condensed Milk Brands

[Tim+]

More-ish is good. The biggest problem with all gels and other high energy foods is losing the appetite for them during an event.

Tim

[mark.bluemel]

I think my father's grocers shop (early 1960s to late 1970s) sold Fussells.

[Tim Streater]

Event? Event? What's one o' them? I'm talking about sitting on the

*sofa* and gobbing it down.

[Jimbo ...]

Is there anything you do like? ......

[Jimbo ...]

best sooked out of a tube .....

[Andrew]

Lidls sells it under their own brand name.

[Andrew]

Probably not. I Opened a 12 yo 'emergency' tin recently and it had turned into a foul tasting yellowish jelly. I presume the milk protein will eventually denature and you don't know what has leached out of the tin.

[The Other John]

Bin it is then! I'll open it to recycle the tin and see what's happened to the contents.

[Marland]

Proved quite useful a few weeks back when our milkmen could get to us due to the snow,possibly he could not get to his depot as it is 20 miles away. Eventually we got to our nearest small town but no normal milk was to be found ,many people were having a grumble. Quick look at the cooking section of the only supermarket ,a CoOp and there plenty of condensed milk on the shelf. Purchased a couple and once home diluted some with water and used it . Sweeter than normal milk especially for people like us who don?t take sugar in tea or coffee but better than nothing, excellent for the porridge which I usually sweeten with honey and it made a nice rice pudding.

GH

[Marland]

Mr Pounder Esquire

Were there no old timers who had been with grey Funnel line who would have been familiar with the drink called Kai made from chocolate flaked off block and melted with hot water or steam ,that then mixed with condensed milk and often more sugar. A staple amongst those on an open bridge on convoy duty in the North Atlantic.

Aren?t you in your mid or late sixties? 44 years ago would put you somewhere in your twenties to thirties.

Seems young to have qualified for a chief engineers ticket.

GH

[Bob Eager]

My father was in the Royal Marines, and by the 1960s the term Kai seemed to have been extended to any form of cocoa distributed 'in the field'.

[Adrian Caspersz]

With bread ...

[Graeme]

In message , Marland writes

Not the same as 'real' milk in tea, I agree, but the sort of stuff that every home should have for unforeseen circumstances. Our mothers and grandmothers knew that, but with the easy availability of anything and everything, any time, something many people have lost sight of today. We always keep stuff like that, tinned soup and other tinned stuff, just in case. Not going to last long in the event of WWIII, but for ordinary domestic mishaps, like deep snow or illness, a perfect solution.