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Seagull said:
The tins were always opened with a Tennants beer tin, "top-end". spanner....this instrument gouged out a triangular coupon which had to be bunged to prevent access of cockroaches and various other Beasties.

These tins were breached with a couple of dings with a sturdy meat skewer.

Just some old memories.
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Are yes, I remember it well, and still use the triangular "spanner".
We used to sell a plastic triangular spout that you could put/jam in the hole to make pouring easier.
As evap was used for cups of tea it needed to last longer, so a smaller hole with the skewer or a nail slowed down it going off, and could be blocked off with matchstick or similar. I still use a matchstick in the salt cellar to keep it dry.
 
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As a kid, a condensed milk sandwich was a real treat. I got to carefully scrape out the tin after mother had used most of the contents, with a tiny bit left for me to scrape out, and spread it on the mother's pride bread and butter. Yummy!
If I need the condensed milk made into caramel, I buy the ready made caramel version...saves on exploded cans and messy sticky ceilings :)
 
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Keith_Beef said:
I thought that was just a Lenny Henry/ Birmingham/Jamaican thing... never knew it was more widespread...
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Yep hampshire girl here, with hampshire grands and parents both sides.
I think it was a wartime thing.
I know both my grans and parents used to keep a can for emergencies and make up pints of milk from it if needed.
Also, normal milk was often boiled if the weather was hot to preserve it a bit longer, especially in the summer, as we didn't have a fridge, just a galvanised bucket and cool water, covered with a wet tea towel, to aid evaporative cooling in an outside larder, just outside the back door, on the north side of the house.
It realy works, but decant into glass bottles as especially half empty plastic ones float too much!
 
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At sea, "condensed', was known as 'Conny Onny' ,but I can't recall who it was made by...I think it had a pale blue label.

Pale blue labels I recall, and I seem to remember it was Nestle at that time ( late 1960's) at least in Union Castle is was.
 
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Keith_Beef said:
Mleko is the Polish word for milk. Is there another word on the tube that could be the brand name? SM Gostyń, maybe?
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It has on it Mleko Gostyńskie is Pol-glish for condensed milk, and has SM Gostyń on the cows apron, which is the brand in his country, doubtful the cow is in the Masons though.
There are many flavours and its popular on waffles so they say.
Our guy Raffal here will go on all day if i ask him something, and never mention cabbages to them.
 
A few points if I may ...

Condensed milk is wasted on, or in puddings, in tea, or even in coffee. What you do is take the top off tin with a 'proper' can opener and then have-at it with a spoon 'till it's all gone ! (Have to admit it though, it is ruddy good in coffee ;) )

The cans with the blue label were, I believe, Fussells. My old dad used to swear it was better than Nestle or Carnation. I grew up in (well, above and behind) a High St shop that my mother ran and we stocked both types for that very reason.

Falstaff .. So YOU are responsible are you ? ! I used to poach rabbits from the ground where MK Shopping Centre now stands. I knew every field and hedgerow that surrounded it by about 2 miles.
Last month I GOT LOST trying to drive to a place that has been there since Doomsday, that I have been visiting for at least 50 years, and all because Milton ruddy Keynes has not only stolen the land but the flipping roads as well !

:lol:
 
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Yes, 'twas I. Guilty as charged.
It was genuinely a lovely bucolic bit of quiet countryside, overflowing with rabbits and wildlife. Then we literally covered it with new roads, houses and the great unwashed population overflow from London and midland cities.
Now a few years later and I don't recognise it myself and also get lost.
 
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" The cans with the blue label were, I believe, Fussells. My old dad used to swear it was better than Nestle or Carnation. "

Saw that in Merchant Ships too. White and blue label with Butterflies on..:)
 
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saxonaxe said:
" The cans with the blue label were, I believe, Fussells. My old dad used to swear it was better than Nestle or Carnation. "

Saw that in Merchant Ships too. White and blue label with Butterflies on..:)
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I rather suspect it was present on the Navy during WW2 too. Dad was in the Navy in the war, and looking back I think a good few of his preferences and habits were born there.
 
I've been unable to find any supporting research, but I'm pretty sure it was standard issue in WWII to the navy/military because of the difficulty in keeping dried milk dry/transportable/economical usage size.
Even now the quantity of dried milk in a container is a lot more than you would want to reconstitute in one go. Troops/sailors unlikely to have the time or facilities to do so on any active service.
I do know that soldiers used to like having the condensed milk tubes, as they could use it sparingly as a treat. (as explained to my brother by Lofty Wiseman on a course).
 
I see Carnation do a caramel version now. There are 3 types in our Sainsbury’s Local, but I think one was evap.
 
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