Straight from the cow.

I've no particular views on milk - it's just white stuff that I put in my tea and coffee, but the news that the Foods Standards Agency has decided that the public should be given wider access to "raw" milk - i.e. unpasturised - has brought back childhood memories of milk being delivered to our house from a churn on the back of a horse-drawn cart.  I assume this was from a local farm and was the real stuff. Indeed my recollection is that "pasturised" milk was looked down on as an inferior, nasty-tasting product.  Mind you, my other recollection is that you had to drink it pretty quickly - in those pre-refrigerator days it went off very fast, particularly in the summer.