Looking For Bread and Milk? Not On Bread and Milk Road, or Street

VERNON-COVENTRY, CT — In anticipation of this weekend's predicted snowy, icy mess in Connecticut, frantic folks on Facebook have already begun querying, "Did you stock up on bread and milk?"

Why those items? Accuweather.com reported, "It appears that New Englanders can take credit for the purchasing of milk and bread prior to the storm. It was the monumental blizzard in 1978 that trapped many in homes for weeks that gets at least some credit for the current tradition."

If you're traveling in Tolland County, you may come across a pair of street signs bearing the words "bread and milk" in two different towns, about five miles apart from one another.

Bread and Milk Road is located near Valley Falls Park, south of Interstate 84 off Bolton Road in Vernon, while Bread and Milk Street is a 2-mile segment of Route 31 in Coventry, beginning at the Tolland town line and ending at Route 44.

The ironic thing is you can't buy bread and milk on either of those roadways. The only resident of the Vernon road is the Belding Wildlife Preserve, while no stores exist on the Coventry route; the closest thing on that stretch is Twin Hills Country Club.

Written by Tim Jensen and Chris Dehnel

Photo credits: Chris Dehnel (Vernon); Google Maps (Coventry)

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