Eeeeuwh… what about refrigeration? Is the bottle sealed? What about pasteurization and adding all the stuff?
We have cows and steers, goats and chickens. There is nothing better and tastier than fresh, unaltered, hormone free food. We have less colds, flu and allergies than our NOB food-munching friends.
Fresh is coming back very slowly NOB, but because of it not being humongous agribusiness it is more expensive. Americans have been use to cheap food for a long time, if you see how all that stuff is made it would convert you pretty fast.
Fresh milk still warm, you are a lucky fellow.

Tancho beat me to the punch. Whenever I describe bucolic experiences like this to my friends up north, they turn them into botulism experiences. The safety-security-mindedness that drove some of us south is easily outed. Thanks for continuing to serve up the reasons we are here.

I love these pics! My suegro was “El Lechero” for many, many years. He too would wake at dawn and drive 20-30 minutes to El Rancho to milk his cows. He then loaded the tarros de leche in the back of his truck. He would make many stops on his way home to sell the fresh moo juice. But he still had plenty of milk to sell to the neighbors.

To answer Tancho’s questions, no refrigeration was necessary. The tarros keep the milk cool enough for transporting it back to town. Once the people buy their litros de leche, they take it home and boil it, then use it for whatever they want.

My mother-in-law was famous for her cheeses and panelas that she made with leftover milk.

Cool pics, Calypso.

“A Mexican Milk Truck Fuels Up” – good one!
love the pics, too!

Around here, it’s dairy cow country. Housewives take a plastic container to their nearest relative who has lactating cows, than walk back up the street carrying the open pail. (What? Don’t they have lids around here?)

I have had Arroz Con Leche made with fresh, local milk, and it was riquísimo.

I don’t drink it, so I don’t buy it.

The neighbor lady has some nice eggs for sale. I’ve never bought any from here, as I prefer the consistency of supermarket eggs. She is noted as well for her ribald humor, so I hesitate to ask her to sell me “her eggs”. Some eggs I bought a few days ago at Bodega Aurrerá were slightly “off”, and I threw them out.

Saludos,
Don Cuevas

PS: If you have ever gotten behind a herd of cows slowly ambling down the road, you would seriously hesitate to ever again consume a dairy product.
And eggs! Don’t even THINK about where they come out of.

Gee Don, thanks for your thoughts on animal anatomy!

In Mexico, every Mexican knows that ALL raw milk, direct from the cows, has to be boiled, and then refrigerated to keep one from getting sick after drinking it.

It is raw, unprocessed, and very rich in greases, so all of us suffering from high cholesterol should stay away from it.

Since I wrote my joking comment, I bought 6 huevos from our neighbor lady. Those were standup eggs, if a little small for the money (2 pesos each). Beautiful yolks, and the whites stayed in a nice disk when I fried them. Tasty, too.

But it is true, getting stopped on a country road behind a herd of mucky cows makes you reconsider eating their rich and tasty milk products.

(It hasn’t stopped me from enjoying them, as I can disassociate the animal from the final product.)

Saludos,
Don Cuevas

Don Cuevas – I totally understood your humor and had no problem with it – following anything down the road that was defecating probably would not inspire your taste buds.