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milkbar
similar to corner store / convenience store: Could you walk down to the milkbar and purchase a loaf of bread? Compare convenience store, deli, mixed business.
Editor's comments: Milkbar has slightly different meanings in differnt regions. In some areas a milkbar is a shop selling milk-shakes and hamburgers, whereas in other areas is it equivalent to a corner store. Which is it in your area?. [A similar problem occurs with "deli", which see]
Contributor's comments: Milk Bar is called a deli (delicatessen) in SA.
Contributor's comments: I suspect this is an Australia-wide term. It's popular in Qld, and also very popular down here in Melbourne.
Contributor's comments: Upon moving to Tasmania from South Australia as a primary school aged child, I discovered that if I wanted to buy lollies etc. I didn't go to the deli anymore - no, I had to go to the Milk Bar - so I think the area where this term is used extends beyond Queensland!
Contributor's comments: Used Throughout Victoria as well.
Contributor's comments: I lived in the Western Suburbs of Sydney for 18 years and the corner shop was always referred to as a milkbar by my family and friends.
Contributor's comments: As I understand it, also very common in Victoria, but I'm from Perth. Not used in WA - prefer deli over here.
Contributor's comments: I grew up in country NSW and Sydney suburbs and a Milk Bar was a milk bar, there they sold milk shakes, soft drinks, ice cream sodas and lollies - never bread. There was a high counter on which you lent whilst your mikshake was being made - if you were tall enough. Generally it was for non-alcholic drinks as opposed to the bar in the pub.
Contributor's comments: I think of the milk bar as a shop selling milkshakes and hamburgers. We would stop at the milk bar after school in Sydney's north and west during the 70s. I could usually only afford potato scallops or a bag of chips.
Contributor's comments: Known on King Island (well the one we had in Currie) in the 50s & 60s as the cafe.
Contributor's comments: In Melbourne in the 60s the "milkbar" was the little corner chop where you bought newspapers, bread, milk, mixed lollies and most importantly, icypoles.