#87 Milk (Part 1)

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Comedy, History, Education

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🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Oh What A Time! is back for 2025 and this week we’ve got an episode we’ve been promising (and threatening) for a while: milk! Whatever happened to milk bars? What’s the history behind milk alternatives? Plus, we’ve also got lots on the humble milk float.

And all this chat of milk bars got us thinking: has there been a greater loss to the high street than Wimpy? (And after a quick google, a new question: who even knew Wimpy is thriving?!). If you’ve got anything to add, you can email: [email protected].

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to episodes of Oh What a Time early and ad-free.
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0:20.2	Hello and welcome back to Oh, What a Time. It's 2025 and this is a history podcast that asks very valid historical questions such as the one my wife suggested to me, which is that she asked me, why do you think, you know when people died, you would pop a coin over people's eyes on their corpse?
0:40.5	Now, I said, I think that was, isn't it to like pay the ferryman?
0:44.5	She said, no, she thinks it was like a rumor started by funeral directors so that people would, in mourning, would leave coins on the corpse of the deceased, that they could then
0:55.1	steal prior to burying them.
0:56.7	Okay.
0:57.2	I would counter that, Sophie.
0:59.4	In that case, why have they suggested the penny?
1:02.1	Why wouldn't they go with the £2 coin for the ferryman?
1:06.4	I have a different solution.
1:08.1	Based on our holidays, the three of us went on holidays corn all over the new year. Yeah. And the three of us saw the same thing, a different solution. Based on our holidays, the three of us went on holidays' corn all over the new year.
1:12.2	Yeah.
1:12.8	And the three of us saw the same thing,
1:14.4	a dead dolphin on the beach.
1:15.7	Oh my God, yeah.
1:16.6	We did.
1:17.5	Yeah.
1:17.6	And it had its eyes put up.
1:19.4	As did all our children.
1:20.7	Yeah.
1:21.2	Very real.
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