Soviet milk and dairy products. Along the waves of our memory: milk and dairy products of the USSR

Milk in the Soviet Union was made from milk. There was sour cream in the sour cream, kefir in the kefir, and butter in the butter. And the milk also turned sour. In 1-2 days. And it turned out to be yogurt. My mother used this yogurt to make amazing pancakes.

Every schoolchild went for milk. After school, we very often went shortly before the end of the lunch break to the grocery store or the Milk store. There, they stood among other schoolchildren, young mothers with strollers and pensioners, waiting for a fat saleswoman in a stale white robe to open the doors of the store. Then everyone rushed to the departments.

In our city, during the lunch break, grocery stores usually brought fresh milk, bread and some other products. Therefore, when the store opened after the lunch break, it was often possible to buy everything specified by the parents. Moreover, it’s fresh.

This was more than relevant for milk and dairy products. After all, that milk actually turned sour very quickly - within a day. And if it had been standing in the store for half a day or a day before, there was a high probability that it would go sour by the morning, or even by the evening.

I still remember those delis. With several departments. Each department sold its own product groups. Many stores were equipped with universal cash registers. They were needed. After standing in line, pay for the goods, naming the department, the product and the price for it - for example - milk, a half-liter bottle of milk and a jar of sour cream - 65 kopecks. Cashier on a huge triangular looking cash register knocked out a check that had to be handed over to the saleswoman in the department. To do this, you had to stand in a queue of the same people with checks. It was worse if the department sold goods by weight. After all, first you had to stand in line - small or large. Then they wrote out the weight and price for you on the piece. Then go to the cash register, there’s a line there, get a check, and then line up again at the department. Smaller stores did not have such a system, and everyone there simply stood in line at the department. There were also self-service supermarkets - similar to today's markets. There, goods were paid for at the checkout when leaving the hall.

Dairy store. Behind the glass you can see those same cash registers with women knocking out checks for departments

By the way, dairy products were often stored in dairy departments and stores in metal mesh boxes. Empty containers were then placed in them at glass collection points. When a milk truck was driving down the street, the rattling of these boxes in it could be heard from afar

Basically, all liquid dairy products in the USSR were packaged in glass containers, which were then washed and handed over at special collection points for glass containers or directly at the dairy store. A half-liter milk bottle cost 15 kopecks, a liter bottle cost 20 kopecks, and a jar of sour cream cost 10 kopecks. The price of the bottle was necessarily included in the price of milk or kefir. In the photo there are samples of milk containers: on the left and right - 0.5-liter bottles, in the center - a liter milk bottle. On the right bottle there is a plastic cap, which could be bought at a hardware store for closing milk bottles

There were no labels on the bottles. The label was on the lid. These bottles were closed with caps made of soft foil. different color. The name of the product, date of manufacture, and cost were written on the lid. To open the bottle, you just had to press down. thumb hands on the lid - it was easily recessed a little inside and the lid was removed. Silver cap - milk (28 kopecks for 0.5 liters, 46 kopecks for 1 liter); dark yellow – baked milk (30 kopecks); green (or turquoise) – kefir (28 kopecks); silver-light green striped - low-fat kefir; blue (or purple) – acidophilus; purple (or pink) – fermented baked milk (29 kopecks); silver with a yellow stripe - sour cream (35 kopecks); pink – sweet kefir drink “Snowball”; yellow-silver striped for cream; blue for honey kefir drink “Kolomensky”; light brown for chocolate milk

In addition to bottles, milk was sold in triangular bags with a capacity of half a liter. Their peculiarity was that they were brought to the sales floor in large aluminum pallets or plastic boxes, and when there were few packages left in the pallet, it was clear that the pallet was covered in milk. The fact is that these bags had a stubborn tendency to leak in the corners. But it was convenient to place them, and it was convenient to drink directly from the bags, cutting off a corner

Already at the very end Soviet era dairy containers began their transformation. First, liter bottles disappeared. A year or two later, liter tetra-packs began to appear instead of the traditional half-liter milk bottles. The packages were not thrown away. They were washed, cut off at the top, and used for whatever purpose - for storing bulk items, for growing seedlings in early spring on window sills...

Sour cream was sold in 200 ml jars, all under the same foil cap, or poured from large metal cans, poured into the jar you brought with a large ladle

A special product was butter. When I was a child, there was almost always a line behind him. Especially when they brought butter packaged in the usual packs. There were several types of butter - butter and sandwich. The sandwich had a lower fat content. But in terms of its composition, it was much better than today's spreads offered to us under the guise butter. Loose butter cost 3 rubles 40 kopecks per kilogram, and a pack of butter cost 72 kopecks

Another iconic dairy product in the USSR was condensed milk. Children's favorite treat. They drank it straight from the can, punching two holes with a can opener. It was added to coffee. It was boiled directly in a closed jar to be eaten boiled or used for cake. It was the most valuable currency in the pioneer camp

There was also concentrated milk. Theoretically, it had to be diluted, but it was a special relish to drink it undiluted, punching two holes with a knife

At that time milk was also sold from barrels. Apart from the color and inscription, milk barrels were no different from barrels of kvass or beer. And the queue for them was shorter than for beer

Well, how can we not remember the children’s favorite treat – milkshake. In my city, the best milkshakes were made in the Donuts cafe near the Oktyabr children's cinema. And after the show the cafe was always filled with children.

They also made the most delicious ice cream from milk.

Milk and dairy products occupied a fairly significant place in the diet Soviet man. Porridge was cooked in milk. Noodles and horns were cooked with milk. They simply drank milk from a glass, like we drink juices today. They also drank kefir, fermented baked milk, acidophilus... For breakfast, my mother often served cottage cheese with tea. Cottage cheese was used to make casseroles and cheesecakes, curd babka and dumplings with cottage cheese. I don’t remember yoghurts or their like. But we ate sour cream from a jar with a teaspoon. It was very tasty. And for dessert there were kefir drinks and children's cheese for 10 kopecks. It was small and incredibly tasty

“Milk in the Soviet Union was made from milk. There was sour cream in the sour cream, kefir in the kefir, and butter in the butter. And the milk also turned sour. In one or two days. And it turned out to be yogurt. My mother used this yogurt to make amazing pancakes.

Every schoolchild went for milk. After school, we very often went shortly before the end of the lunch break to the grocery store or the Milk store. There they stood among other schoolchildren, young mothers with strollers and pensioners, waiting for a fat saleswoman in a stale white robe to open the doors of the store. Then everyone rushed to the departments.

Post sponsor: Apartment for an hour. Rent/rent an apartment for daily rent! Source: Zhzhurnal/dubikvit In our city, grocery stores usually brought fresh milk, bread and some other products during the lunch break. Therefore, the store that opened after the lunch break often made it possible to buy everything specified by the parents. Moreover, it’s fresh.

This was more than relevant for milk and dairy products. After all, that milk actually turned sour very quickly - within a day. And if it had stood in the store for half a day or a day before, the likelihood that it would turn sour by the morning, or even by the evening, was high,” says Vitaly Dubogrey.

1. I still remember those grocery stores. With several departments. Each department sold its own product groups. Many stores were equipped with universal cash registers. In them you had to stand in line and pay for the goods, naming the department, the product and the price for it, for example: dairy, half-liter bottle of milk and a jar of sour cream - 65 kopecks. The cashier was knocking out a receipt on a huge triangular-shaped cash register, which had to be handed over to the saleswoman in the department.

To do this, you had to stand in a queue of the same people with checks. It was worse if the department sold goods by weight. After all, first you had to stand in line - small or large. Then they wrote out the weight and price for you on the piece. Then go to the cash register, there is a line, get a check, and again in line at the department. Smaller stores did not have such a system, and everyone there simply stood in line at the department. There were also self-service supermarkets - similar to today's markets. There, goods were paid for at the checkout when leaving the hall.

2. Dairy store. Behind the glass you can see those same cash registers with women knocking out checks for departments.

3. By the way, dairy products were often stored in dairy departments and stores in metal mesh boxes. Empty containers were then placed in them at glass collection points. When a milk truck drove down the street, the rattling of these boxes in it could be heard from afar.

4. Basically, all liquid dairy products in the USSR were packaged in glass containers, which were then washed and handed over at special collection points for glass containers or directly at the dairy store. A half-liter milk bottle cost 15 kopecks, a liter - 20, a jar of sour cream - 10 kopecks.

The price of the bottle was necessarily included in the price of milk or kefir. In the photo there are samples of milk containers: on the left and right - half-liter bottles, in the center - a liter milk bottle. On the right bottle there is a plastic cap, which could be bought at a hardware store for closing milk bottles.

5. There were no labels on the bottles. The label was on the lid. Such bottles were closed with caps made of soft foil of different colors. The name of the product, date of manufacture, and cost were written on the lid. In order to open the bottle, it was enough to simply press the cap with your thumb - it easily sunk a little inside, and the cap was removed.

Silver cap - milk (28 kopecks - 0.5 liters, 46 kopecks - 1 liter); dark yellow - baked milk (30 kopecks); green (or turquoise) - kefir (28 kopecks); silver-light green striped - low-fat kefir; blue (or purple) - acidophilus; purple (or pink) - fermented baked milk (29 kopecks); silver with a yellow stripe - sour cream (35 kopecks); pink - sweet kefir drink “Snowball”; yellow-silver striped - for cream; blue - for honey kefir drink “Kolomensky”; light brown - for chocolate milk.

6. In addition to bottles, milk was sold in triangular bags with a capacity of half a liter. Their peculiarity was that they were brought to the sales floor in large aluminum pallets or plastic boxes, and when there were few packages left in the pallet, it was clear that the pallet was covered in milk. The fact is that these bags had a stubborn tendency to leak in the corners. But they were convenient to place and convenient to drink directly from the bags, cutting off a corner.

7. Already at the very end of the Soviet era, dairy containers began their transformation. First, liter bottles disappeared. A year or two later, liter tetrapacks began to appear instead of traditional half-liter milk bottles. The packages were not thrown away. They were washed, cut off at the top and used for whatever purpose - for storing bulk items, for growing seedlings in early spring on window sills...

8. Sour cream was sold in 200-ml jars, all under the same foil lid, or poured from large metal cans, poured into the jar you brought with a large ladle.

9. A special product was butter. When I was a child, there was almost always a line behind him. Especially when they brought butter packaged in the usual packs. There were several types of butter - butter and sandwich. The sandwich had a lower fat content. But in its composition it was much better than today's spreads offered to us under the guise of butter. Loose butter cost 3 rubles 40 kopecks per kilogram, and a pack of butter cost 72 kopecks.

10. Another iconic dairy product in the USSR was condensed milk. Children's favorite treat. They drank it straight from the can, punching two holes with a can opener. It was added to coffee. It was boiled directly in a closed jar to be eaten boiled or used for cake. This was the most valuable currency in the pioneer camp.

11. And there was concentrated milk. Theoretically, it had to be diluted, but it was a special relish to drink it undiluted, after punching two holes with a knife.

12. At that time milk was also sold from barrels. Milk barrels, except for color and inscription, were no different from barrels of kvass or beer. And the queue for them was shorter than for beer :)

13. Well, how can we not remember the children’s favorite treat - a milkshake. In my city, the best milkshakes were made in the Donuts cafe near the Oktyabr children's cinema. And always after the show the cafe was filled with children.

14. They also made the most delicious ice cream from milk.

15. Milk and dairy products occupied a fairly significant place in the diet of Soviet people. Porridge was cooked in milk. Noodles and horns were cooked with milk. They simply drank milk from a glass, like we drink juices today. They also drank kefir, fermented baked milk, and acidophilus.

Every schoolchild went for milk. After school, we very often went shortly before the end of the lunch break to the grocery store or the Milk store. There, they stood among other schoolchildren, young mothers with strollers and pensioners, waiting for a fat saleswoman in a stale white robe to open the doors of the store. Then everyone rushed to the departments.

In our city, during the lunch break, grocery stores usually brought fresh milk, bread and some other products. Therefore, when the store opened after the lunch break, it was often possible to buy everything specified by the parents. Moreover, it’s fresh.
This was more than relevant for milk and dairy products. After all, that milk actually turned sour very quickly - within a day. And if it had been standing in the store for half a day or a day before, there was a high probability that it would go sour by the morning, or even by the evening.

I still remember those delis. With several departments. Each department sold its own product groups. Many stores were equipped with universal cash registers. In them you had to stand in line and pay for the goods, naming the department, the product and the price for it - for example - milk, a half-liter bottle of milk and a jar of sour cream - 65 kopecks.
The cashier was knocking out a receipt on a huge triangular-shaped cash register, which had to be handed over to the saleswoman in the department. To do this, you had to stand in a queue of the same people with checks. It was worse if the department sold goods by weight. After all, first you had to stand in line - small or large. There they wrote out the weight and price for you on a piece of paper.

Dairy store. Behind the glass you can see those same cash registers with women knocking out checks for departments
Then it’s time to go to the cash register again to get a check, and then again to line up at the department. Smaller stores did not have such a system, and everyone there simply stood in line at the department. There were also self-service supermarkets - similar to today's “markets”. There, goods were paid for at the checkout when leaving the hall.
By the way, dairy products were often stored in dairy departments and stores in metal mesh boxes. Empty containers were then placed in them at glass collection points. When a milk truck was driving down the street, the rattling of these boxes in it could be heard from afar

Basically, all liquid dairy products in the USSR were packaged in glass containers, which were then washed and handed over at special collection points for glass containers or directly at the dairy store. A half-liter milk bottle cost 15 kopecks, a liter - 20, a jar of sour cream - 10 kopecks.
The price of the bottle was necessarily included in the price of milk or kefir. In the photo there are samples of milk containers: on the left and right - 0.5-liter bottles, in the center - a liter milk bottle. On the right bottle there is a plastic cap, which could be bought at a hardware store for closing milk bottles

There were no labels on the bottles. The label was on the lid. Such bottles were closed with caps made of soft foil of different colors. The name of the product, date of manufacture, and cost were written on the lid. In order to open the bottle, it was enough to simply press the cap with your thumb - it easily sunk a little inside and the cap was removed.
Silver cap - milk (28 kopecks for 0.5 liters, 46 kopecks for 1 liter); dark yellow - baked milk (30 kopecks); green (or turquoise) - kefir (28 kopecks); silver-light green striped - low-fat kefir; blue (or purple) - acidophilus; purple (or pink) - fermented baked milk (29 kopecks); silver with a yellow stripe - sour cream (35 kopecks); pink - sweet kefir drink “Snowball”; yellow-silver striped for cream; blue for honey kefir drink “Kolomensky”; light brown for chocolate milk

In addition to bottles, milk was sold in triangular bags with a capacity of half a liter. Their peculiarity was that they were brought to the sales floor in large aluminum pallets or plastic boxes, and when there were few packages left in the pallet, it was clear that the pallet was covered in milk. The fact is that these bags had a stubborn tendency to leak in the corners. But it was convenient to place them, and it was convenient to drink directly from the bags, cutting off a corner

Already at the very end of the Soviet era, dairy packaging began its transformation. First, liter bottles disappeared. A year or two later, liter tetra-packs began to appear instead of the traditional half-liter milk bottles. The packages were not thrown away. They were washed, cut off at the top, and used for whatever purpose - for storing bulk items, for growing seedlings in early spring on window sills...

Sour cream was sold in 200 ml jars, all under the same foil cap, or poured from large metal cans, poured into the jar you brought with a large ladle

A special product was butter. When I was a child, there was almost always a line behind him. Especially when they brought butter packaged in the usual packs. There were several types of butter - butter and sandwich.
The sandwich had a lower fat content. But in terms of its composition, it was much better than today's spreads offered to us under the guise of butter. Loose butter cost 3 rubles 40 kopecks per kilogram, and a pack of butter cost 72 kopecks

Another iconic dairy product in the USSR was condensed milk. Children's favorite treat. They drank it straight from the can, punching two holes with a can opener. It was added to coffee. It was boiled directly in a closed jar to be eaten boiled or used for cake. It was the most valuable currency in the pioneer camp

There was also concentrated milk. Theoretically, it had to be diluted, but it was a special relish to drink it undiluted, punching two holes with a knife

At that time milk was also sold from barrels. Apart from the color and inscription, milk barrels were no different from barrels of kvass or beer. And the queue for them was shorter than for beer))

Well, how can we not remember the children’s favorite treat – milkshake. In my city, the best milkshakes were made in the Donuts cafe near the Oktyabr children's cinema. And after the show the cafe was always filled with children.

They also made the most delicious ice cream from milk.

Milk and dairy products occupied a fairly significant place in the diet of Soviet people. Porridge was cooked in milk. Noodles and horns were cooked with milk. They simply drank milk from a glass, like we drink juices today. They also drank kefir, fermented baked milk, acidophilus...

For breakfast, my mother often served cottage cheese with tea. Cottage cheese was used to make casseroles and cheesecakes, curd babka and dumplings with cottage cheese. I don’t remember yoghurts or their like. But we ate sour cream from a jar with a teaspoon. It was very tasty. And for dessert there were kefir drinks and children's cheese for 10 kopecks. It was small and incredibly tasty

Why was the milk in triangular bags? July 11th, 2017

Someone else remembers, and someone often saw such triangular milk bags in retro posts and topics dedicated to the USSR. This is quite a rare occurrence for “non-Muscovites”. For example, I saw my parents once bring such milk from Moscow. Agree, very interesting and original form. Probably not very convenient to transport and handle.

So how did such an original milk package come about? How did you even come up with this?

This is the version the blogger told a_nalgin :

In the late 1930s, the famous popular science magazine "La Science et la Vie" burst out with an April Fool's article about the mysteries Egyptian pyramids and unusual properties of regular tetrahedra. Quite in the spirit of the time, I must say. After all, it was in those years that the French chemist and mystic Jacques Bergier told on the pages of specialized publications that bovine blood placed in a reduced cardboard copy of the tomb of Cheops did not coagulate, and the meat remained fresh for an unusually long time. And at about the same time, a certain M.A. Bovey argued that in exactly the same tetrahedrons, oriented to the cardinal points, the corpses of small animals do not decompose, but are mummified.

The authors of the article in “La Science et la Vie” had a lot of fun with people’s faith in such quackery. They reported, in particular, that sleeping in a regular tetrahedron rejuvenates, the razor blades inside it self-sharpen, and milk does not turn sour. They laughed and forgot.

But this number a few years later caught the eye of the Swedish inventor Eric Wallenberg, an employee of the Åkerlund Rausing laboratory, who was inspired by the idea of reducing the losses of milk traders. In 1944, the prototype of a tetrahedron-shaped cardboard packaging first appeared. And six years later, AB Tetra Pak was born, whose branded packaging is for a long time became a Tetra Classic® cardboard pyramid.

A huge advantage of such packages was the minimum waste during production and its almost complete automation. The base - soft cardboard combined with polyethylene - was rolled into a cylinder, the junction of the opposite ends was thermally welded, then milk, kefir or cream was poured inside, after which the machine made two more thermal seams and cut off the finished package, which safely fell into a special container. No complications and almost no losses.

True, everything further on the way to the buyer was not so technologically advanced. One of the significant disadvantages of tetrahedron bags was the absolute impossibility of packing them tightly into rectangular boxes. Therefore, special hexagonal containers were used to store dairy products packaged in pyramids. But this led to an unreasonable increase in transport and storage costs - air had to be transported and stored to a large extent.

And then it turned out that milk in pyramids sours in almost the same way as in any other package. That is, there were no rational reasons to remain committed to this packaging, despite its ease of production.

As a result, Sweden already in 1959 began to abandon Tetra Classic® milk tetrahedrons.

It seemed the company had no choice but to leave the market. But its director, Ruben Rausing, was able to sell his technology Soviet Union. They say that an old article from La Science et la Vie played a role in convincing the Soviet ministers. However, they may have fallen for the apparent cheapness of production.

And the second, very long, life of triangular milk cartons began. They were used in the USSR for almost 30 years, until the mid-1980s.

They write that their quality was quite average. The pyramids often tore and leaked. Although they say the bottles were not beating at all less. Trade habitually wrote off losses as cost. Such bags were also inconvenient to carry and store. In general, cost-effective production ultimately resulted in rather burdensome consumption. Of course, on the scale of a huge country, all this was a trifle.

But there was interest in buying unusual bags for residents of distant regions :-)

By the way, a week ago it turns out that a hurricane demolished the mystical Pyramid of Hunger:

From a powerful gust of wind, the pyramid should have folded inward, says Alexander Golod. “But she just fell on her side.” Despite its large mass, its structures were weakened (it is made of wood covered with fiberglass). Luckily no one was hurt. Our security was instructed in this regard and in advance, literally 5 minutes before the fall, took all visitors, there were several of them, out into the street. Our building collapsed on an ostrich farm located nearby, but everything turned out well there too. The pyramid fell on one of the ostriches, but fortunately he survived.

Hunger, according to him, is not too worried about what happened, since he himself soon intended to demolish the old version of the pyramid and build a new one in this place, this time a major one, 2.5 times higher than the previous one.

In general, I used to think that this was for weight loss or some kind of pyramid. But it turns out that this is the name of the person who built it.

The Pyramids of Golod are structures designed by Russian engineer Alexander Golod. They belong to the so-called " energy pyramids", which in occultism are considered converters or accumulators of some unknown to science "bioenergy".

A distinctive feature of the Hunger pyramids is that in them the proportion of the golden ratio is applied to the ratio of the diameters of neighboring balls, successively inscribed in a regular tetrahedral pyramid. By doing this condition the ratio of the height of the pyramid to the side of the square at its base is ≈ 2.058, and the angle between the faces of the pyramid is ≈ 27.3°, which gives it a characteristic pointed appearance.

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Along the waves of our memory: milk and dairy products of the USSR

Source: Zhzhurnal/dubikvit In our city, during the lunch break, grocery stores usually brought fresh milk, bread and some other products. Therefore, the store that opened after the lunch break often made it possible to buy everything specified by the parents. Moreover, it’s fresh.

2. Dairy store. Behind the glass you can see those same cash registers with women knocking out checks for departments.

8. Sour cream was sold in 200-ml jars, all under the same foil lid, or poured from large metal cans, poured into the jar you brought with a large ladle.

11. And there was concentrated milk. Theoretically, it had to be diluted, but it was a special relish to drink it undiluted, after punching two holes with a knife.

12. At that time milk was also sold from barrels. Milk barrels, except for color and inscription, were no different from barrels of kvass or beer. And the queue for them was shorter than for beer

14. They also made the most delicious ice cream from milk.

For breakfast, my mother often served cottage cheese with tea. Cottage cheese was used to make casseroles and cheesecakes, curd babka and dumplings with cottage cheese. I don’t remember yoghurts or their like. But we ate sour cream from a jar with a teaspoon. It was very tasty. And for dessert there were kefir drinks and children's cheese for 10 kopecks. It was small and incredibly tasty.