TINNED MILK
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sra,-In your issue of December 2nd you say "unfortunately the poor always prefer milk from a tin to milk from a dairy." Why do you libel the poor in that way ? It seems so very strange to me that the last thing the " wise " people think of is price or the relative cost of things when giving advice to the poor. The fact is milk from the dairy is far too dear. It is all very well to give the poor lectures about food values, and shout to them to "drink more milk," but unless milk is cheap the poor cannot buy.
You must know that dairy milk very often goes sour between breakfast and tea time. This happens where good pantries are available. In poor homes it is often " turned " before midday. Then liquid milk is difficult to carry about. The workman finds a tin much handier as well as much cheaper. It is convenience plus cost that govern the poor and not that they prefer tinned to fresh liquid milk. These facts apply, of course, to other foodstuffs as well.-! am,
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