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12th February 2021

Post reblogged from Kontextmaschine with 28 notes

kontextmaschine:

One of my favorite facts is that historically, commuter rail is a byproduct of the milk trains that were going from the countryside into the city each morning anyway

You still occasionally hear “milk run” for a remunerative but routine-and-unchallenging-to-the-point-of-trivial task. That was the milk run.

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  3. plum-soup reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    Milk is the foundation of human society everything can be traced back to milk
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  5. eurydices-ghost said: when I was little I thought the saying “run of the mill” was actually “run of the milk.” with this context, it actually makes sense.
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    You still occasionally hear "milk run" for a remunerative but routine-and-unchallenging-to-the-point-of-trivial task....