Continuing to use up the eggs that I have, and pursue this study, yesterday I had 3 eggs, and my blood sugar level this morning was 120, which supports the findings that eggs, even though they are low carb, and high in chromium; nonetheless increase blood sugar level. Today I plan to eat 2 eggs, and I expect to see my blood sugar lower tomorrow morning.
Realizing that the egg might just be the source of my diabetes, then it suggests that eggs might cause the same problem for others, and research supports this, so I thought I would look into the history of egg consumption, which in western culture is often tied with the history of home milk delivery.
A milkman is a person who delivers milk in milk bottles or cartons. Truck drivers who transport milk from a farm to a milk processing plant are also known as milkmen. Raw milk is picked up daily, or every other day.[1]
Milk deliveries frequently occur in the morning and it is not uncommon for milkmen to deliver products other than milk such as eggs, cream, cheese, butter, yogurt or soft drinks.
Originally, milk needed to be delivered to houses daily since the lack of good refrigeration meant it would quickly spoil. The near-ubiquity of refrigerators in homes in the developed world, as well as improved packaging, has decreased the need for frequent milk delivery over the past half-century and made the trade shrink in many localities sometimes to just 3 days a week and disappear totally in others. Additionally, milk delivery incurs a small cost on the price of dairy products that is increasingly difficult to justify and leaves delivered milk in a position where it is vulnerable to theft.
In some areas apartments would have small milk delivery doors. A small wooden cabinet inside of the apartment, built into the exterior wall, would have doors on both sides, latched but not locked. Milk or groceries could be placed in the box by a milkman, and collected by the homeowner.
In various countries
In recent times, British, Irish, and other European milkmen have traveled in an electric vehicle called a milk float, except on rural rounds. Earlier, milkmen used horse-drawn vehicles; in Britain these were still seen in the 1950s. In parts of the U.S., they continued at least into the 1960s. In Australia the delivery vehicle was usually a small gas or diesel engined truck with a covered milk-tray. In hotter areas, this tray is usually insulated.
In the United States and Canada, houses of that era often had a "milk chute" built into an outside wall, a small cabinet with a door on the outside for the milkman to place the milk bottles, and a door on the inside for a resident to retrieve the bottles. Thus the milkman could deliver the milk without entering the home, and the resident could retrieve the milk without going outside. While rare, milk delivery does still occur in the United States. In 2005 about 0.4% of consumers had their milk delivered, and a handful of newer companies had sprung up to offer the service.[2]
New England virtual dairy history
From Dairy to DoorstepThe Oberweis story,
how it began, fills the gaps left in the above histories.
In 1915, Peter J. Oberweis found that he had too much milk so he began selling it to neighbors. In essence, the family dairy business that now spans almost 100 years had begun.
The Oberweis family has been delivering milk to homes since 1927 when Peter bought a half partnership in the Big Woods Dairy.
It appears that egg delivery was part of milk delivery, and home milk delivery in the western nations became common from about 1920 on.
