February 04, 2004

Got Milk?

fpi_girl.jpg So the entire city is swept clean of homogenized milk. "La Dorna" milk, the milk of our choice, has disappeared from the shops. Nothing at Billa, nothing at the Selgros, nothing at our local Nic supermarket -- for two weeks now. The only milk you can buy at the moment is fresh, non-homogenized milk, mostly low-fat.

Kids need milk and kids need whole milk, so that's not so good. We usually buy milk in bulk, 12 liters of whole milk and 12 liters of low-fat milk every week. We drink and eat lots of milk, as you can see -- Alan, cereal, coffee, it adds up. We like homogenized milk because of food safety and because we can buy it in bulk.

Now we have to buy fresh milk every day which is annoying. It also comes only in these wobbly plastic bags which have to be emptied into a pitcher. We have these bags in Germany too but we also have special containers in which those bags fit. I asked for those containers at various supermarkets but got blank looks. Apparently I was asking for something really weird.

Reasons? Nobody seems to know. I don't think La Dorna went belly up -- I should have heard about that. Maybe one of our Romanian readers can enlighten us. Oh, and if someone knows a source of red La Dorna milk, I'd be grateful for a pointer.

Posted by claudia at February 4, 2004 07:55 PM
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Carrefour Orhidea said (by phone) that they finished it. People from Metro couldn't find the answer in 5 mnutes.. so I gave up.
Still searching... :)

Posted by: Anca & Misha at February 5, 2004 10:01 AM

In my neighbourhood, a small super market has 3 boxes of Blue Dorna and a shop assistant from another supermarket told me that this milk dissapeared from the market and I won't find it anywhere. She thinks that they (Dorna people) are preparing a bigger price for this product.
I found it online on emania.ro , online supermarket with free home delivery in Bucharest. I sent them an e-mail but they replied that the product is not on stock (they don't have it yet). Why don't you try ARO milk.. or.. another brand.. same style as Dorna? Fresh milk you can find also packed in the box. It is named Brenac if I remember well.

Have a nice day!
Anca

PS: by the way.. LaDorna milk had some problems last year in September.. http://www.curentul.ro/curentul.php?numar=20030901&art=37582 (they had to take off the market about 20.000 boxes in several cities!)

Posted by: Anca & Misha at February 5, 2004 12:36 PM

Hmmm... How about Parmalat Milk ?

(I think it can still be found, even after their latest financial scandals)

Posted by: Bogdan at February 5, 2004 06:52 PM

Hey Anca,

Thanks for looking around for the milk, that's awfully nice of you! As you can read, I bought Aro milk at the Metro.

If you ever hear what happened to La Dorna, I'd be interested!

Claudia

Posted by: Claudia at February 5, 2004 09:28 PM