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Is "milk run" no longer used?
By: Cairn terrier Date: September 14, 2025, 9:32 am
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With the milkman not making deliveries for the last 60 years or
so, has the expression "milk run" fallen out of use? I thought
it was still in regular use, and everyone would know what it
was, but this article treats it like it's foreign; like a
literal translation from Norwegian:
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/business/energy-environment/norway-electric-plane-green-energy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.l08.Km_l.RNB_0G8v7i5S&smid=url-share<br
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#Post#: 346627--------------------------------------------------
Re: Is "milk run" no longer used?
By: farmgirl Date: September 14, 2025, 9:56 am
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[quote author=Cairn terrier link=topic=3739.msg346625#msg346625
date=1757860349]
With the milkman not making deliveries for the last 60 years or
so, has the expression "milk run" fallen out of use? I thought
it was still in regular use, and everyone would know what it
was, but this article treats it like it's foreign; like a
literal translation from Norwegian:
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/business/energy-environment/norway-electric-plane-green-energy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.l08.Km_l.RNB_0G8v7i5S&smid=url-share
[/quote].
I was not aware that “milk run” referred to deliveries by a
milkman and I’m old. I always thought it referred to the
railway - local runs with frequent stops rather than express
trains.
Last I heard there was still milk delivery here and there,
including in my area. It’s more a farm to table type thing -
knowing where your milk comes from and very local. I have’t
checked lately to see if it’s still an option.
Also
#Post#: 346641--------------------------------------------------
Re: Is "milk run" no longer used?
By: Cairn terrier Date: September 14, 2025, 10:47 am
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[quote author=farmgirl link=topic=3739.msg346627#msg346627
date=1757861809]
[quote author=Cairn terrier link=topic=3739.msg346625#msg346625
date=1757860349]
With the milkman not making deliveries for the last 60 years or
so, has the expression "milk run" fallen out of use? I thought
it was still in regular use, and everyone would know what it
was, but this article treats it like it's foreign; like a
literal translation from Norwegian:
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/business/energy-environment/norway-electric-plane-green-energy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.l08.Km_l.RNB_0G8v7i5S&smid=url-share
[/quote].
I was not aware that “milk run” referred to deliveries by a
milkman and I’m old. I always thought it referred to the
railway - local runs with frequent stops rather than express
trains.
Last I heard there was still milk delivery here and there,
including in my area. It’s more a farm to table type thing -
knowing where your milk comes from and very local. I have’t
checked lately to see if it’s still an option.
Also
[/quote]
Interesting. Wikipedia says it could be either:
HTML https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_run#:~:text=Originally%20from%20United%20States%20Army,i.e%20Highway%201%20in%20Vietnam).
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Re: Is "milk run" no longer used?
By: Talitha Date: September 14, 2025, 10:53 am
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According to Merriam-Webster...
[quote]milk run
noun
: a short, routine, or uneventful flight
Etymology
from the resemblance in regularity and uneventfulness to the
morning delivery of milk
First Known Use
1943, in the meaning defined above
Recent Example on the Web
"Across the Mediterranean and Caribbean, milk runs will always
the driving force
of summer and winter charters."
—Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 30 May 2025[/quote]
So it's idiomatic and seems to still be current usage.
I love learning more word/phrase origins, so thanks.
The article was interesting, too.
💚
🐸
#Post#: 346645--------------------------------------------------
Re: Is "milk run" no longer used?
By: acl-ny Date: September 14, 2025, 11:36 am
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Ha! I always thought it had to do with a person running out to
the store to get milk because they ran out.
‘Oh, the milk went bad, have to make a quick milk run to the
store.’ Maybe followed by ‘need anything while I’m there?’
😊
#Post#: 346648--------------------------------------------------
Re: Is "milk run" no longer used?
By: MidwestmikkiJ Date: September 14, 2025, 12:04 pm
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[quote author=Cairn terrier link=topic=3739.msg346625#msg346625
date=1757860349]
With the milkman not making deliveries for the last 60 years or
so, has the expression "milk run" fallen out of use? I thought
it was still in regular use, and everyone would know what it
was, but this article treats it like it's foreign; like a
literal translation from Norwegian:
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/business/energy-environment/norway-electric-plane-green-energy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.l08.Km_l.RNB_0G8v7i5S&smid=url-share
[/quote]
My understanding of milk run is that it was the trains that
collected the milk from small farm towns and brought to the
larger cities. The train was called a milk run because it made
frequent stops at these tiny places.
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Re: Is "milk run" no longer used?
By: northbayteky Date: September 14, 2025, 1:07 pm
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[quote author=MidwestmikkiJ link=topic=3739.msg346648#msg346648
date=1757869462]
[quote author=Cairn terrier link=topic=3739.msg346625#msg346625
date=1757860349]
With the milkman not making deliveries for the last 60 years or
so, has the expression "milk run" fallen out of use? I thought
it was still in regular use, and everyone would know what it
was, but this article treats it like it's foreign; like a
literal translation from Norwegian:
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/business/energy-environment/norway-electric-plane-green-energy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.l08.Km_l.RNB_0G8v7i5S&smid=url-share
[/quote]
My understanding of milk run is that it was the trains that
collected the milk from small farm towns and brought to the
larger cities. The train was called a milk run because it made
frequent stops at these tiny places.
[/quote]
This explains why I've never heard of it. For 1 thing, the dairy
farms are not far. And there aren't a lot of trains around
here. The milk was delivered by truck to stores. We did have
delivery to our home for a while.
Like [member=31]acl-ny[/member] it meant to run out for milk to
us.
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Re: Is "milk run" no longer used?
By: MidwestmikkiJ Date: September 14, 2025, 1:43 pm
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[quote author=northbayteky link=topic=3739.msg346656#msg346656
date=1757873245]
[quote author=MidwestmikkiJ link=topic=3739.msg346648#msg346648
date=1757869462]
[quote author=Cairn terrier link=topic=3739.msg346625#msg346625
date=1757860349]
With the milkman not making deliveries for the last 60 years or
so, has the expression "milk run" fallen out of use? I thought
it was still in regular use, and everyone would know what it
was, but this article treats it like it's foreign; like a
literal translation from Norwegian:
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/business/energy-environment/norway-electric-plane-green-energy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.l08.Km_l.RNB_0G8v7i5S&smid=url-share
[/quote]
My understanding of milk run is that it was the trains that
collected the milk from small farm towns and brought to the
larger cities. The train was called a milk run because it made
frequent stops at these tiny places.
[/quote]
This explains why I've never heard of it. For 1 thing, the dairy
farms are not far. And there aren't a lot of trains around
here. The milk was delivered by truck to stores. We did have
delivery to our home for a while.
Like [member=31]acl-ny[/member] it meant to run out for milk to
us.
[/quote]
I think milk was trucked from farms directly to the creameries
by the time I was born - at least in my part of Minnesota. We
had a creamery in town which is now long gone.
My Dad though used to refer to the local trains as milk runs
because they stopped so often. By the time I was in school, so
late 50s, passenger service stopped to our town. After that all
the trains were freight. For a long time we had lots of them
hauling grain from Montana and the Dakotas or iron ore from the
Iron Range to ships in Duluth.
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Re: Is "milk run" no longer used?
By: kkt Date: September 14, 2025, 1:54 pm
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[quote author=Cairn terrier link=topic=3739.msg346625#msg346625
date=1757860349]
With the milkman not making deliveries for the last 60 years or
so, has the expression "milk run" fallen out of use? I thought
it was still in regular use, and everyone would know what it
was, but this article treats it like it's foreign; like a
literal translation from Norwegian:
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/business/energy-environment/norway-electric-plane-green-energy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.l08.Km_l.RNB_0G8v7i5S&smid=url-share
[/quote]
I knew what it was.
But then, at least one dairy in my neighborhood still delivers
milk bottles.
#Post#: 346688--------------------------------------------------
Re: Is "milk run" no longer used?
By: pamelaaos Date: September 14, 2025, 5:17 pm
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I'm going to see if any of the farms here deliver milk. If they
do, I have an antique milk box on my front porch (as well as a
large Borden milk can) for decoration, so it could come in handy
again! LOL!
The last time we had milk delivery was when I was in 4th grade,
and the milk box I have on my front porch looks like the one we
had then.
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