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#1 ·
Hello,
I've just been looking at another forum where some people are saying that's it's difficult to find fresh milk. I'm really surprised as I thought that that was a Spain 20 years ago scenario. I can find fresh milk in a bakery here and all supermarkets, big and small, no problem. I'm wondering if it's just a problem of finding it in the supermarket. Do you have fresh milk where you live? Do you have to go to a big supermarket to find it?
 
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#2 ·
Last time I looked I did not see in the one supermarket I use most locally but then I use so little milk I have not bothered searching. I did read some time ago that the spanish milk producers wanted to be able to sell from street machines like in France is it ? That way they can negotiate a better price.
 
#3 ·
Up here in Asturias we have no problems - but then we have the best cows in Spain chomping the lovely green grass of the pastures :D
 
#5 ·
I don't bother with it tbh. I bulk buy the longlife stuff. We have got used to the taste of the skimmed version. We use a lot less milk than we did in the UK because my kids don't really like the breakfast cereals here and I refuse to pay for the UK versions as they are so expensive!
 
#8 ·
Well as you probably know I prefer food in general to be as unmanipulated as poss, but will use both uht and fresh and skimmed and semi skimmed, so it's not a big problem for me either as there are at least 4 types that I can use. I was just curious. It seems that it might be a north south divide thing which is a bit silly in this day and age when all fresh milk is delivered in refridgerated lorries.
 
#9 ·
we do get fresh milk here - although 6 years ago it was hard to come by, so we got used to buying the long life stuff


in the summer when the tourists are here it often runs out by lunchtime in the supermarkets in any case
 
#12 ·
My OH occasionally gets a yen for fresh English milk & bought some yesterday

on the back of this thread I just I just used some on my Special K, just to see

it was semi-skimmed - just like the Mercadona long-life stuff we usually get





funny how your tastes change...................
 
#13 ·
It's funny in the UK we use loads of Fresh milk about 8 pints a week yet in Spain we tend to opt for the UHT stuff. We can get fresh milk in Eroski where we do our main shop but to be honest it really doesn't taste nice. Even the kids don't really like the taste so we generally use the UHT stuff. Ever so occasionally I'll pay the premium and buy imported Cravendale.
 
#14 ·
I reckon you get used to what ever over time. (Except Hornimans tea!!)I remember in WSM in the summer they used to sell a special kind of sterilized milk in a glass bottle, just to cater for the Brummies on their holidays 'cos that was what they used in Brummie land.
 
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