Bread and Milk deliveries

[Michael Alexander]

Prison issue bread, remember the big Letters CDM stamped on the side of the loaf?

[Carl Wrbka]

Anybody remember the baker back then? His name was Ernest Vetter. My parents were friends with him and his wife (I think her name was Sylvia??). They had 3 daughters Monika, Elizabeth and a younger one whose name I can't remember. They also had a son whose name also alludes me. He went to Centaurus before my time. We used to play together as kids and Elizabeth was my first true love.  :36_4_8:

After leaving OM they moved to Roodepoort. Sadly though, Ernest was killed shortly thereafter in a car accident. He always was a speed freak. I remember trips to the beach in his Audi 100, doing 180+ km/h on the road past the golf club.

[georg ruf jr.]

That's fast for that road....
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[Michael Alexander]

I was in a car going at about 175km.hr in the mist on that road at nights, I was;nt driving... stupid things you do when you're young..... really stupid.... Van TOnder...I think that was the guys surname.....   :emot186:

[bobbysmith]

does anyone remember when the milk came in a plastic pouch,who also rembers the condensed milk type things called pikkies,came in a triangular shaped packet,great tasting stuff

[georg ruf jr.]

Yep.
That was sweetened condencemilk and we kids loved it. My parents in law bring us simular stuff from Chechia because my girls love it. Wouldn't try it again.

[Carl Wrbka]

Isn't there a similar thing in SA called "Dirkie". I think it comes in a squeeze type tube. 

Who of you tried this when u were younger : Take a tin of condensed milk, put it in a pot of boiling water for 20-30 minutes, after it's cooled down the contents are magically transformed into caramel. Nowdays you can buy it ready made for cake icing etc. Us kids in OM had to still make it the old fashioned way.
The trick was putting the can in a pot of boiling water. We tried once by putting the tin directly on the stove, and spent the rest of the day cleaning the kitchen ceiling.  How were we supposed to know?

[georg ruf jr.]

lol

Yes, we loved the caramel.

[Rhona]

@ Carl -  :emot19: ah yes! the things we do as kids.........I remember once taking all the labels off the tinned food in the cupboard......never knew what you would get on your dinner plate; could be peas; beans; pears or mixed fruit - need I say that I was not too popular with my mom!!!

[georg ruf jr.]

What's it like with yow nowadays?? Still taking labels off?
:emot19:

[Rhona]

Mealtimes are always a surprise in my house Jnr.

[georg ruf jr.]

Do you kids eat at freinds???
:emot19:

[Carl Wrbka]

Did you guys also have to attend "Veldskool" during your high school years?

I remember we were dumped in the desert between Walvis Bay and Swakopmund with a compass and told to meet the teachers at point X on a map. All we had to eat was a tin of mystery food. They took the labels off a bunch of tins and made us choose one. I got a tin of apricot jam! When we complained later, they told us "What are you complaining about? You chose your own tin didn't you".

[georg ruf jr.]

You get people around here, that pay a hell of a lot of money to join in adventures of the kind. So feel yourself previlaged... You had it for free Carl. 

[Carl Wrbka]

It was part of our curriculum in high school. In Std 8 everybody was expected to attend a week of Veld School.