s/o Schwanns Delivery - Other food delivery from childhood?

leeny , was that the Helm's Bakery? We had that in So. Cal. They came by and their trucks had wooden drawers. They weren't really a delivery company, more of a mobile bakery, kind of like the ice cream man. You just kind of knew when they were coming and waited outside for them. We also had an Asian food truck that came down the street once a week and sold Asian ingredients and foods out of their truck.

I know there was milk delivery too. Our neighbors got it, but we didn't. And of course pizza. But they stopped delivering pizza to our area when things got bad. The street I lived on wasn't bad (very little police activity) but the surrounding area was bad. So, no more pizza delivery.

ETA - leeny - I had to google it and I remember Chicken Delight because of their slogan - "Don't cook tonight, call Chicken Delight"! We never ordered from them though.

We had milk delivery.  My parents still have the metal box outside their house that people use if they are dropping off something and my parents aren't home.  We also had a guy deliver eggs (we called him The Egg Man ).

Then there was The Bread Man - his truck seemed to have bread products  (and candy if I remember correctly). Does anyone remember a brand of bread on the east coast back in the 1970's (maybe they are still around?).  They had red/yellow on their bag and always used Peanuts characters in advertising.  Mill... something?  I hate when I can't think of a name that I should know.   

 I am thinking there was some kind of chip truck like Charlie's chips?  It seemed like the packaging/tins were yellow with brown.  But this one might be a figment of my imagination.

when we lived on base in Cyprus there were vans that came around the base housing - one had groceries (dry goods and candy - I remember the sherbet lollies), one was a greengrocer's, and of course, the ice cream van...

when we moved back to England, we had a milkman - he delivered milk in the glass bottle - I loved licking the foil (with the cream) and other dairy products and eggs. We had a cold larder in that house (and a loo in a shed in the yard - it was older base housing that was scheduled to be torn down shortly after we moved out)

Once we moved to the States, I don't remember food delivery but I do remember going with my Granny to buy eggs at the egg farm - brown eggs - and hearing on the radio 'brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are good'. But my dad worked for a while for American Frozen Foods and then Primetime Foods - the first delivered to residences and the latter was aimed at corporations. He was a salesman not a delivery man though.

No delivery here now except the the postman/UPS/Fed-Ex...not even pizza

Yes that is it! Thanks!! I kept saying Millbrook in my head but it didn't sound right.

My childhood was devoid of almost all delivery services. Too rural I guess. It was a 20 mile drive to Kansas to the closest pizza place.
When I went to the big city to see my grandparents there was an ice cream truck. Papa made sure to always have a stash of quarters when I was there for an afternoon treat. But that was the only thing I experienced personally until I was grown and learned about pizza delivery.

My mama called him the Charlie Chip man -- I guess she was on a more familiar nickname basis. Ha!

I grew up in the 70s-80s in Brooklyn, so we could have almost anything delivered, including groceries (and of course, the newspaper- I had a crush on the paper boy and liked when he came to "collect"). The groceries, paper, and all food deliveries-pizza, burgers, etc. were delivered on bikes.

We also had trucks that made regular rounds- the fruit truck, 3 ice cream men, the knife sharpener truck, and the rides- half moon and others.

We had lots of door to door salesmen too- vacuum cleaners, encyclopedias, insurance, light bulbs and smiley face sponges.

Most regular shopping was done at individual stores- the bakery, the fruit and vegetable market, the butcher, the fish market, the Italian deli, etc. Even clothes were shopped for on specific stores- the socks and underwear at a little store, school uniforms at Ideal iniforms, the 5&10 for school supplies, and all the little stores on the Avenue or highway for 90% of our needs. The malls and department stores were only shopped at for Christmas shopping really.

That all changed drastically when we moved to the suburbs in the mid 80s.

Maria