Talk:Milk bar

Comments 2004-2006
Is a milk bar the same as a malt shop? &mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gbleem (talk &bull; contribs).


 * What is a Malt Shop? :) Robertbrockway 00:03, Dec 9 2004 (UTC)

What was the name of the people that worked in the milk bars in the 50's ? It is something like "soda jockey" or something similar. &mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.72.134.44 (talk &bull; contribs).


 * I've never heard that expression used in Australia before. I'd say they were referred to as "the lady/man who works at the milk bar" ;-) Cnwb 05:37, 2 December 2005 (UTC)


 * No specific term. Maybe sales assistant? Asa01 23:44, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Context
The context in this article is not clear, where are these milk bars? Clues suggest that this usage occurs in England and Australia. I think thet are the same as what is known as a dairy in New Zealand and a cafe or tea room in South Africa. If so something could be said about them. &mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by Htaccess (talk &bull; contribs).

South Australian milk bars
Growing up in SA in the 70's and 80's we never used the term Milk Bar. I recently saw a photo of a Milk Bar in Adelaide. This was located next to the Ernsmith Electrical shop. The photo was dated 1960. Does anyone else know of SA milk bars? My kiwi friends always called their places a Dairy. In SA we called similar shops a Deli (delicatessen). Shops which were less like the interstate Milk Bar were known as Contintental Delis. Ozdaren 10:12, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Dated term?
"It is a dated term and is not commonly used". This is completely inaccurate, at least in Victoria. It is frequently used.

In WA it was superseded by "deli" although I remember milk bars being called that in the 1970s. Grassynoel (talk) 12:47, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

Majora's Mask
In "in popular culture," shouldn't the example of the Milk Bar in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask be presented? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.171.65.79 (talk) 00:06, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Majora's Mask was why I searched Milk Bar on Wikipedia. From the context of this article though, they are two completely different things. This article is about something akin to Convenience Stores in the US. In the game, it's a bar that serves milk instead of alcoholic beverages. Therefore, it really has no relevance to this article.Peaceoutside (talk) 21:13, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Korova Milk Bar
I removed the reference to A Clockwork Orange and the Korova Milk Bar, as I believe it has no relevance to the article. I am only guessing, but I think Burgess probably took the term from the Eastern European "milk bars" in certain communist states (because Nadsat, the language in the book, was based mainly on Slavic languages). Just guessing but I bet the person who put the reference in was guessing that the name was derived from the Australian concept -- and guesses aren't the sort of thing that belongs here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.193.178.201 (talk) 01:24, 6 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Just guessing … and guesses aren't the sort of thing that belongs here.
 * Never before have I seen an editor so succinctly explain their own faulty reasonong. Weeb Dingle (talk) 03:39, 20 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Perhaps no relevance to milk bars per se; but very relevant to cultural references. I was very surprised not to find the Korova at least mentioned in this article.


 * Nuttyskin (talk) 14:25, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Over-emphasis on Australia?
This article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-12038590 states that milk bars started in the United States, and that the first example in Wales opened in 1933, which is a year before the first example of the use of the name cited in the article (though the first English examples seem to be 1936). The fact that the name remains in common use in parts of Australia, when it has fallen out of ordinary knowledge in other parts of the world, doesn't mean that it was a uniquely (or even mainly) Australian phenomenon. I don't have the time or inclination to do the research, but it seems to me that there's a much wider story to be told here. Ghughesarch (talk) 00:04, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Not distinctly Australian but since its usage is most rife there, there is more to say about the term. Nothing unique about it anyhow since a "milk bar" usually refers to a general compact store. The Big Hoof! (talk) 06:48, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Anyone from there can write what it means in their country :) Grassynoel (talk) 12:48, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

Katoomba
Image for usage,, needs top part crop where green line shown. Quality not good, though. JohnsonL623 (talk) 11:46, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Music hall
Theres a song relating to the UK Milk Bars  "Let's have a tiddley at the milk bar" - Nellie Wallace, 1936. I have no idea how to add this as a reference to the article. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cetx8HddRKs

82.7.152.107 (talk) 19:09, 15 June 2015 (UTC)