So gossip magazines would be free to snap the Streatham girl buying her daily pinta, but could not publish the princess with hers.
An extra pinta a day for my Wheetybangs is called for I believe, nothing a like a good breakfast to get you set up for the day.
Forty years ago free milk was seen as an essential part of school life, but today only 10 per cent of primary school children enjoy a daily pinta.
Mr Stokes explained that German families do not have milkmen to deliver their morning pinta so TV bosses were keen to explain the custom to their viewers.
Dairy farmers receive just 8p at the so-called ‘farmgate’ for every pint of milk they sell, whereas consumers pay an average of 36p for their daily pinta.
Mornings will never be the same again in Rossendale - but milkmen Jack Schofield and Derek Worthington will finally get a lie-in after delivering their last pintas.
This has been as much a part of British life as the cup of tea cooled by the doorstep pinta.
He and his dad relied on a horse and cart to take the early morning pintas to a rural community.
Supermarkets will not pay farmers here a realistic price for the milk they produce, even though most of us couldn't price a pinta any more than we could a gallon of petrol.
Do the EU people know that in Italy some locals actually order, rather proudly, a pinta rather than a newspaper?
The supermarkets are squeezing them, and dairy farmers were protesting last week over the price of a pinta.
Come fair weather or foul, the people of Milnrow and Newhey have always been able to rely on Dave Ainley for their daily pinta.
‘Drinka pinta milka day,’ and ‘Go to work on an egg.’
You can't keep a good milkman down - and Ronnie Swinbank has been leaving Hellifield people's daily pinta for 71 years.
Who doesn't whip into Waitrose to pick up a spare pinta rather than add a ‘please milko one more please’ note to the doorstep - in fact, how many people still get milk delivered.