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@hazardwarning The milk situation here is much like your UK experience : a race to the bottom with two major supermarkets leading the charge with "$1 milk" being their home brands in one-litre packages.
Packaging tends to be one & two-litre (sometimes three-litre) PET bottles and one & two-litre waxed paper cartons. UHT is also quite popular. Back in April one of the big milk companies slashed the price paid to their producers, which didn't help things at all. Since then, there's been a campaign by shoppers to buy the non-supermarket brands and the naughty milk company has joined forces with one supermarket chain to produce a "Farmers Fund" milk, which is a regularly-priced two-litre bottle of which 40 cents per unit goes to provide produces in difficulties with grants between $5000 and $20,000.

Since 2000 the dairy industry was deregulated & now farmers can pasteurise & bottle their own milk for sale completely independently of the major milk companies & supermarkets. Just 8 days ago, the son of a former schoolmate released his farm's Jersey milk at a Farmers' Market.

// @thrrgilag @larand @indigo

@larand Indeed it would.

// @jmreekes

@thrrgilag Poor you. Consider this: it's only in the last nine months that it's been possible for Amazon to even consider shipping stuff here to Australia.

@jmreekes (@)morrick is considering it, too.

@gtwilson A properly overbrewed stocking tea is never under-caffeinated.

@gtwilson Deliberate pun or otherwise?

// @larand

Woke up with another gastric reflux issue, a minor one that's responding to a Hong Kong-style "stocking tea" fix.

I love the little quirks in American English. For example, over here we say 'shopping centre' while in America, it's 'shooting range.'

@matigo HP all the way.

// @hazardwarning

While checking out the produce at a cheese maker today, I observed they had some imported cheeses available as well as their own. Spanish Manchego sheep-milk cheese was one offering, but it stayed unpurchased, as I can get a bigger wedge of it for ½ their price by shopping at Aldi.