MILK TASTER

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3809, 16 September 1936, Page 7

MILK TASTER

A NOVEL FORM OF EMPLOYMENT Miss Margaret Page, an attractive 24-year-old brunette, of St. Mary Magdalene Street, Brighton, is engaged in one of Britain’s most novel jobs. She spends her life sipping for a living. Hers may be described as a “one-girl industry,” for she is the official milk-taster to one of the largest dairies on the South Coast—the Brighton Co-operative Dairy. Mr D. Patrick, foreman of the dairy said that every morning 6,500 gallons of milk arrive at the dairy, in about 650 ten-gallon churns, which come from different country farms. A sample of milk must be tasted from each churn. If the taster finds that the milk is all right it is bottled. If it tastes at all peculiar the churn of milk is sent to the laboratory. Miss Page said she starts work every morning at 6 o’clock. She described her milk investigation method as “a sip, a swallow and a taste.” Directly I get home I want to get right away from milk. My favourite drink is coffee, but not too much milk in it.” Miss Page said that in spite of drinking all this milk, she always had a good appetite, especially for lunch. “In the last three months,” she added, “I have put on eight pounds in weight."