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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts) Mon Aug 18, 2014, 06:23 AM Aug 2014

Glass of milk

In the 18th century, milk was carried through the streets in open pails. Milk would come with "spittle, snot, and tobacco-squids, spatterings from coach wheels, the spewing of infants, and vermin plopping into the milk pails."-description provided by Tobias Smollet.

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Glass of milk (Original Post) My Good Babushka Aug 2014 OP

that was when they dumped sewerage out of windows into the street as well lululu Aug 2014 #1

lululu

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1. that was when they dumped sewerage out of windows into the street as well

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Mon Aug 18, 2014, 07:34 AM

Aug 2014

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