A West Cumbrian dairy has created special edition bottles in support of Helen Skelton.
Moos on the MOOr, a do-it-yourself milkshake vending machine service run by Donaldson’s Dairy in Cleator Moor, has designed special bottles in support of Helen’s Strictly Come Dancing appearance.
The bottles went on sale last Thursday before her first appearance on Strictly, and people have gone wild for them.
Pol Donaldson, co-owner of Moos on the MOOr and the designer of the bottles, said: “Helen’s actually a friend of mine, I know her through my son and daughter-in-law but her dad has also visited as part of the farm, so we’ve known her for a while, she’s lovely, just absolutely lovely.
“We just felt really inspired to create them because of that and the fact that she’s Cumbrian. They’ve been selling really well, people have gone crazy for them, I think she definitely has a lot of support from people in Cumbria. We’re big fans of Strictly, our whole family love it and we’re really rooting for Helen.”
After the success of her bottles for Helen, Pol said that more themed bottles were on the horizon as Halloween approaches, with the next lot of special edition bottles set to go on sale from October 1.
Pol added: “People are going wild for the bottles in general, people are coming from down south to get Helen’s bottle so we’re going to start numbering them because we’ve noticed people are collecting them.”
She plans to keep changing the bottles every year, so each special bottle will only be available for a limited time at a limited amount.
Moos on the MOOr first opened back at the start of the summer holidays this year and has been flooded with customers since then. Throughout the holidays, Pol said they had queues every day.
Pol says their busiest days are Mondays when their flavours change and 6am when they have a morning breakfast rush.
They’ve had everything from Biscoff to Bounty for flavours, and towards Christmas, they also plan to introduce coffee and hot chocolate machines using their own milk.
Pol added: “We love the fact that people are appreciating the milk, a lot goes into it, what the cow’s are fed gives it a distinct flavour and we really like that people appreciate what we’ve always appreciated, there’s a big feel-good factor in people coming to us locally.”
“We normally farm behind closed doors with people drinking it not knowing it is ours and it is nice to have people coming to the farm where they can see the cows in the shed at night and they can see where there milk comes from.”
The farm has been owned by the family since 1955, making them second generation farmers. Pol’s daughter, Amanda Sibbald, who co-owns Moor on the MOOr also lives on the farm with her two boys and she now works their full time.
Pol said: “We’re really pleased with the whole thing and how far it has gone, it’s gone better than we ever imagined. We want to bring out more themed things as the year goes by, we just think it’ll be really nice for people.”