The new Dublin Milkman service is offering to deliver a loaf of freshly baked bread from the Bretzel Bakery, 1 litre of Milk (full fat or low fat) and 1 copy of The Sunday Times in a “nice covered wooden box” every Sunday morning to your door for €6.
An attempt to revive a much missed ‘community’ service or a scheme to cash in on the laziness of the Dublin bourgeois? My feelings are divided.
Their website states that they do not charge for delivery and make the enticing argument that they deliver straight to your door and their “product offering” (i.e. the bread) is of a much higher quality than Tesco, Spar or the like.
In time, they hope to expand their range of goods and offer “bacon, sausages, black pudding, white pudding, freshly squeezed orange juice, freshly ground coffee, croissants etc..” and also start delivering on Saturday mornings with The Irish Times.
If your living more than 10mins walk from your nearest shop or if you find any walk tough (due old age or an disability), this service may genuinely help you. Or indeed if you have a fondness for the Bretzel Bakery but live too far away to get your fix. But if you don’t fit into any of those three categories, maybe you should just get off the couch.
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‘community’ ? mighn’t community entail getting out of the car and walking to the shops for the milk, bread and newspaper? Then meeting neighbours and fellow shoppers and engaging in genuine conversation. There’s very, very little community left in Duberlin
It’s incredible how few people in Ireland both urban and rural wouldn’t walk the length of themselves. A quarter mile walk with the children for some messages is greeted with shock and horror. And no it’s not the old or in-firm that I’m talking about but those under 50 y o (women worse than men…. while I continue with my generalizations).
Bretzel…….. just trying to get some business from couch-bound, lazy Boomers. I’d love to ask for a delivery substituting The Sun to see their pompous reaction as I’d counter their stereotyping.
The Bretzel……. Dublin’s premier authinetic bagel producers??? I remember a young one from Galway thinking that she was very urbane and cosmopolitan eating a bagel soomthered with butter and waffling on about how Dublin was SOOO COSMO DURING THE NOUGHTIES. Then the New York girl got some healthy porridge and retorted about the-beef-to-the-heels Irish young ones ?!?!?!
My vote is “a scheme to cash in on the laziness of the Dublin bourgeois”
Rupurt Murdoch must be delighted. They make a big deal on the website about it been ‘irish’ milk but obviously they don’t envisage any resistance to it been a non irish owned newspaper.
Good choice of bakery though.
Niall, amen.
Can’t beat the Sunday stroll to the local shop. To be honest, I see little of my neighbours beyond those right next door either side and little beats nothing.
I dread the day we order the weekly shopping online, I really do!
another loss over time is the gardening. As you walk from my house down to the end of the road there’s hardly a single green-grass garden left……. they’re all paving blocks and pea-gravel for parking the numerous cars. ( I wouldn’t mind but there’s sufficient street-parking on my road). Anywayyss back to my gripe……. no one’s out there doing any gardening so no one can have a neighbour pass by and say “good morning, well kept grass, nice daffodils.. by the way did you know……..” like what a proper community used to do. My front garden (including grass area) has the same dimensions since it was built 50 y ago…. porbably the last on the street (and it’s bleedin staying that way).
While I’m at it……. working mothers means day care and after school classes for the children. No children sent outdoors to play with the neighbours children. Once we were sufficiently supervised (minimally intrusive) there was no better way of making friends for life. Nowadays Duberliners have moved towards play-dates with like minded parents.
Another pet dislike….. SUVs and the soccer moms who drive them. Our mothers walked…….. with bags of groceries and therefore didn’t need pilates or yoga.
DFallon, I’m all for shopping on line but there’s a time and a place for everything. I buy books online, items from abroad which are good value for money and items which “come delivered in a plain unmarked envelope”. The day I buy the weekly groceries (milk, bread & newpaper) is the day that things have gone too far and I’ll hand in my spine.
I’m on a roll….. what else do you want me to ramble on about…………. here’s question ?
When was the last time you got onto a politician about a local concern / complaint ?
When was the last time you spoke to your priest?
When did you last speak to one of your old 2ndry school teachers?
Do you know the name of any staff at your local shops (pubs not included)?
What percentage of your local shops are Irish/local -owned as opposed to international conglomerates etc?
How far do you have to travel to get a loan of something for work around the house (DIY equipment, ladder, wheelbarrow)?
“The years have made me bitter,
the gargle dims my brain
…… makes a city of my town”
“When was the last time you got onto a politician about a local concern / complaint ?”
Mary Harney or Paul No-Go Gogarty? No thanks! I’d rather fix the pothole myself!
I actually noticed one of those little milkman ‘clock’ things in someone’s window in town the other day, so the traditional milkman is still in business. Kind of makes this schele seem even more ridiculous. I wonder if they still deliver the milk in glass bottles.
Niall, I love your insane rant, especially the bit where you blame “working mothers” for kids not playing outside. Ha! And yeah, it was much, much better when our mothers had to hike to the shops and back, carrying heavy bags of groceries, wasn’t it? Jaysus, the state of them these days, with their yoga and the like. They should stick to looking after their kids and carrying and fetching for their husbands, shouldn’t they? That’s plenty of exercise for the likes of them!
Also, what’s a “soccer mom?” And, what are “Boomers?” I don’t remember Ireland ever having a post WWII baby boom caused by returning servicemen, do you? Between your crypto-conservative rant and your American turn of phrase you sound like a Fox News pundit. But with more ellipsis…
Anyway, I think getting a fresh loaf of bread and some milk and a paper delivered to the door on an Sunday morning sounds deadly. I remember when we used to have milk and the paper delivered to our house every day, and I don’t particularly remember anyone being up in arms about the “loss of community” then.
Hike !?! because they always located the local stores outside of the locality.?!?! Nah my mother used love going to the shops and meeting (and walking with, to and fro) the short distance with the other mothers. Chatting with neighbours, building social circles and, God forbid, socialising.
“soccer mom”…….. google it. Boomer….. those of a boom times (not necessarily born then tho) ie residuals from the Celtic Tiger excesses but I guess you knew these two already, you just wanted to have a go and included these two terms. Fox News… nah fairly liberal.
Papers & milk in the morning will obviously (from the above posting) lead to loss of ability to accept posting by those with different opinion like Simple Si
Mr Cowell, while you’re at it google the word ….. neologism.