Serving milk in pubs (UK) - why not?
Posted by Ok-Scientist7083@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 389 comments
The first drink I had in a pub was milk. I love drinking milk. I now drink it for the protein and calcium. I don’t particularly like fizzy drinks so when I’m driving on a night out, I’d rather drink milk.
Why don’t pubs sell it as a drink?
UziTheG@reddit
It's ordered as a joke but makes drunk people throw up so it's a bad joke
tropicalhotdogdays@reddit
And the carpet will stink for weeks.
Farscape_rocked@reddit
You say 'not very profitable' but if you're charging postmix prices (let's say £4 a pint) then that's a pretty good markup given milk is around £1.50 for four pints.
UziTheG@reddit
Even at 4 quid its profitability is still a bit wank (and I don't think you could price it much above 2.50). There's added labour (need to go to fridge to get bottle and pour), wastage (spills, going bad), it's material cost is still 10x above say Coke, costs of drunkards chunning. And I doubt you would sell enough to make any of this worth it.
Farscape_rocked@reddit
How much do you think postmix costs once you've factored in the equipment, gas, and syrup?
It doesn't sound like you have any idea of costs at all, or what people are prepared to pay. You can get a 2l bottle of cola for signficantly less than milk and people pay £4 for a pint of it in a pub.
And you're talking about milk like it'd be mad wastage. The vast majority of pubs have milk because tea and coffee will be drunk there even if they don't sell it, they don't put milk on the menu because there's no demand for it. The biggest factor in ordering milk at a bar is that there's unlikely to be a button for it on the till.
UziTheG@reddit
10x was a bit wild from me yeah, maybe 3x.
As for how much people are willing to pay, can't imagine someone dropping 4 on a milk to pair with their 12 quid meal, which is what I'd imagine the most likely ordering case to be, maybe 2.50. I doubt someone will walk into a pub for a chat and a milk, which is why 4 quid for a coke is acceptable.
Farscape_rocked@reddit
That's what OP is telling you they want.
PM-me-your-cuppa-tea@reddit
If any of my friends see this comment they'll know this is my reddit account, because I'm the only person I've met who thinks this.
But I'm a chunderer when drunk, and genuinely the only guaranteed way to avoid vomming that I've ever found is drinking milk. I know I'm seemingly alone on this, and I'm not encouraging anyone else, but it's worked 100%.of the time for me, and if we're getting a drunk Maccas I'm getting the carton of milk from the kids menu.. Unless the milkshake machine is working!
No_Conclusion_8684@reddit
You are my people
PM-me-your-cuppa-tea@reddit
There's two of us!
Icysadness-24@reddit
Three
Zaganoak@reddit
Four. I haven’t drunk milk for a decade but when I was a teenager sneaking out to party, chugging half a litre of milk on the way home sobered me up and meant I didn’t get a hangover somehow. I don’t remember where the idea came from but I got away with it 100% of the time. If I didn’t have milk after a party - I would stink of booze and get a hangover and be caught out by my mother.
thescamperinghamster@reddit
Five! Nothing better than cold milk when pissed. Plus it's really good for rehydrating.
lxgrf@reddit
Short shelf life combined with limited demand make it an unappealing offering.
hitiv@reddit
plus if spilled it stinks more than anything!
tropicalhotdogdays@reddit
Hadn't considered this, but yeah this has got to be a major factor. Even if their was an actual demand for the stuff.
If I was a landlord, no matter how posh the pub and how much I could massively over charge for it. Just not worth the risk.
ezprt@reddit
Honestly, /thread.
And if you’re still really hankering after a glass of milk in a pub, you have to think outside the box. It’s highly likely there’ll be some milk in a fridge somewhere for staff/landlord brews, so just offer up a quid or two for a glass and you’ll probably be sipping on the white stuff more often than not.
AutoPanda1096@reddit
Yet many places will do a latte with fresh milk. I've had plenty of "proper latte" in a pub.
Honestly, we have to reopen the thread!
FehdmanKhassad@reddit
easy what with people modifying the menus these days just ask for a latte no coffee. and no steaming
Frodo34x@reddit
Unsteamed babyccino
IAmTakingThoseApples@reddit
Thanks!!! Most places will serve coffee / milky drinks during the day. And also a lot of cocktails call for milk.
Milk is cheap and surely they are getting through many bottles a day, way faster than the shelf life. In fact I'd go as far as to say chances are it's gonna be fresher than the milk you have at home due to this!
PierreTheTRex@reddit
I'm sure there are a lot of pubs with milk for customers that want a cup of tea.
tropicalhotdogdays@reddit
I'd just assume they were off their nut and kick them out.
PublicPossibility946@reddit
Yes , you don't want your pub filling up with Milk louts.
pelicanradishmuncher@reddit
“Jesus Christ! their bones are at the optimum density in relation to their age.”
“Get the fuck outta my pub you calcium quaffing oaf!”
CodeToManagement@reddit
Add to that it’s harder to store too. Nobody wants to buy a pint of UHT or whatever so you get fresh milk which has to be stored cold. Everything else you can buy in bulk and store in crates in the cellar but milk has to be refrigerated.
tropicalhotdogdays@reddit
'limited demand'... slight understatement perhaps.
pockets3d@reddit
Lots of places sell coffee and tea so would have milk.
iAmBalfrog@reddit
The fact Greggs sells Sausage Rolls doesn't mean they'll sell me raw puff pastry, yes, the ingredients exist, but the demand for just milk, on it's own, in a pub, is limited
crab--person@reddit
But Greggs shops won't have raw puff pastry anywhere, they get the sausage rolls in pre-assembled. Pubs that sell coffee will have milk. It won't be on the menu, but I'm sure most pubs that have milk will sell you a glass of milk if you really want one.
Zarniwoop7@reddit
Not necessarily. 'Spoons will sell you a coffee, but it's out of a machine with packaged condensed milk, they don't use fresh milk.
BabyCornelius@reddit
You can order a glass of milk at spoons. Have done it plenty of times when ordering a child’s meal.
Dreadpirateflappy@reddit
Greggs never have raw pastry, Most pubs nowadays will have milk for certain drinks.
So that's a bit if a rubbish analogy
running_on_fumes25@reddit
Yeah like who the fuck goes to a pub and orders a pint of milk
Dreadpirateflappy@reddit
me... hate alcohol, and don't particularly like fizzy drinks.
If milk is on the menu at a restaurant I will get it.
Kistelek@reddit
Someone with acid reflux if they drink or eat too much beer.
running_on_fumes25@reddit
Then the pub isn't the place for you.
Kistelek@reddit
Tell my friends and family that. I’m old enough to remember when asking for a coffee would get you thrown out so maybe suggesting milk isn’t so wide of the mark. If they allow kids in they could offer milkshakes to increase volume.
Fherier@reddit
People who've recovered from throat cancer. I know someone who, due to the scarring from the throat, finds it painful to drink fizzy drinks or anything acidic. Plus, lots of things taste unpleasant now.
Albert_Herring@reddit
Literally the first thing that tasted nice after radiotherapy blasted my taste buds was a pint of porter. Never went anywhere near milk (although I've hated drinking milk since before Thatcher took it away, and honestly never even thought of it).
Fherier@reddit
It's not advised to drink alcohol during or after radiotherapy for many reasons but if it worked for you then it worked for you.
I just don't get why people are making out drinking milk in a pub makes you an alien from out of space. I've ordered glasses of milk from lots of pubs and never had a problem.
Albert_Herring@reddit
Yeah, I'm sure it works for many people. And given that most pubs sell tea and coffee these days I assume most will have milk they can sell you even if it's not on the menu.
I doubt alcohol was optimal but anything that got calories in was way more important at that stage (a couple of months after finishing radio); I was getting about 800 a day in as many Fortisips as I could force down, and I'd lost about 30kg.
Fherier@reddit
Watching it happen to someone else is horrible enough so I can't imagine what it's like to go through the treatment.
Yes, that's what happened to my father. Three years later and my father is unable to eat a lot of food and drink. He still has the protein shakes but it doesn't help when he has zero appetite and forgets to eat.
Albert_Herring@reddit
Commiserations. It's hard for carers and family, with even less agency than the patient themselves. My wife lost almost as much weight as I did through worry and sympathetic not-eating, and my eldest dropped out of university. I've always been conscious (to the point of survivor guilt) of being extremely lucky with my cancer/treatment/recovery, which ultimately left me in better physical and mental condition than I was before it. It's different for everybody. There are still a few things (mostly sweet stuff) that don't work for me any more, but I was ok with mostly relatively bland stuff after a year, and pretty much back to an only slightly changed diet in two. Stuff is likely to improve but it's unpredictable and in fits and starts.
Look after yourselves and good luck.
running_on_fumes25@reddit
Right, thats awful.
But it only accounts for 2000 people a year in the UK, many of whom are over 60. I'm 42, used to work in a pub and have spent a lot of time in pubs all over the country. Unless these people are all congregating in one place I've never seen anyone over the age of 5 drinking a glass of milk in a pub.
Whilst I'm sure there might be a handful, it seems like you're trying to make out that it's a common occurrence, which it isn't.
Also, OP isn't suffering from throat cancer.
Fherier@reddit
You asked, "Who the fuck goes to a pub and orders milk?" I answered your question.
Come on, if you worked in a customer facing job then you know ordering milk in a pub is the least weird thing that's happened.
nomadic_weeb@reddit
Weirder things do happen but ordering milk in a pub is still incredibly weird
Fherier@reddit
Then I'm weird 🤷♀️
Reverend_Vader@reddit
OP's a McPoyle
No-Bill7301@reddit
Not sure i buy that - most pubs have coffee machines nowadays and hence always have milk. They also serve food usually, and milk is used in a fair amount of cooking.
tiptoe_only@reddit
Takes up a lot of fridge space too and is risky in terms of food hygiene etc.
A lot of pubs these days do tea/coffee though, so maybe they could offer it.
bsnimunf@reddit
Quite expensive baseprice as well. There used to be an alcoholic milkshake from new Zealand but they couldn't make it work because the baseprice of milk in the u.k. was higher than in New Zealand.
Sgt_major_dodgy@reddit
Mudshake was one of the earliest alcoholic drinks I can remember drinking, if I recall it was actually pretty nice.
Affectionate_You_858@reddit
It was amazing
Affectionate_You_858@reddit
I used to love mudshakes!
teerbigear@reddit
Great now I've gone a rabbit hole of investigating milk prices between UK and NZ. I asked chatgpt and it was in hearty agreement that NZ was like half the price.
But then I saw this post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/s/topZ9BoEG
Which suggests that 3L of milk cost $6.70 ish five months ago. That's £2.98 at today's exchange. 6 pints of milk from Tesco, our biggest supermarket, costs £2.70. And that's 3.4l.
Woolworths $6.75 or £3.01 or £1/l https://www.woolworths.co.nz/shop/productdetails?stockcode=282768&name=woolworths-milk-standard
I was going to look at Pak n save but they don't let us foreigners on the website lol. Chatgpt hilariously states that it would cost $13.20.
Tesco £2.70 or 68p/l https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254957550?srsltid=AfmBOooPCEu39e5M-5pGwhwfQMJyeEDsbJfc-IEnJ5_OESmZNF-VMM7j
Asda do it for £2.30! https://groceries.asda.com/product/whole-milk/asda-british-milk-whole-6-pints/27657
Maybe our supermarkets treat it as a loss leader.
To get back to the point, milk is much more expensive than, say coke (maybe 13p a litre) but £1.36 for a pint of beer and they're up for that.
They don't carry milk because no-one wants it, and certainly no-one is drinking more than a pint.
I wonder what happened with mudshake. I guess it would have worked if there was enough demand for it. I bloody love a milkshake but I'm not about to drink a boozy one in the pub. But Bailey's exists so it's not like we're nationally against dairy booze...
BryOnRye@reddit
Maybe don’t use ChatGPT for research.
teerbigear@reddit
Thank you for your useful input.
GourangaPlusPlus@reddit
It was more useful than what you got from chatgpt
teerbigear@reddit
Yes
bsnimunf@reddit
I remember Mudshake disappearing about twenty years ago so you probably need to consider whole sale milk prices twenty years ago.
teerbigear@reddit
Unless we're discussing.......the return of Mudshake!
Farscape_rocked@reddit
Nah.
It's £1.50 for four pints. So a pint of milk costs the pub less than the alcohol duty on a pint of stella.
Cost isn't an issue.
bsnimunf@reddit
The duty on a pint of stella is £21.78 per litre of pure alcohol. Pint of Stella is 0.568 litres at 4.6% so .5680*.046=0.261 litres of alcohol and 0.0261*£21.78=£.057. So duty on a pint of stella is about a third of he base cost of milk. Some pubs will sell you milk I think Wetherspoons used to offer it with kids meals.
Farscape_rocked@reddit
Your first calculation comes out at 0.261 and your second starts with 0.0261. You're out by a factor of ten, the duty on a pint of stella is 57p (only I think the rate is £18.76 because it's draft beer - the final table here).
themcsame@reddit
To add to that, if it is on offer (I.E tearoom by day, cocktail bar by night), it's usually criminally expensive so you wouldn't want to order it even if it were on offer
Farscape_rocked@reddit
Why are you in a pub if this bothers you? Literally everything they sell in a pub can be bought cheaper in a supermarket. You'd alwayS be better off nipping to a nearby shop and just buying a bottle of whatever stuff you're after yourself.
SignificanceTop9306@reddit
"U H T!!! U H T!!! U H T!!! U H T!!!"
lxgrf@reddit
Ah, the worst of all possible worlds
SignificanceTop9306@reddit
If they don't serve you milk, whip out a little baggy of powdered milk, and proceed to snort it and chase it with water to mix it in the back of your throat. Delicious and edgy.
sharpied79@reddit
If you drink enough of it, when you grow older, you will be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley 😉
Positive_Wiglet@reddit
Who are day?
BritishDystopia@reddit
Milk contains fat and fat makes your glassware all smeary and gross. Anything used to serve fat containing drinks should be hand washed.
Positive_Wiglet@reddit
Fat and pus from udders. Cow milk is around 1% pus
PatTheCatMcDonald@reddit
ERM.... I'd much rather it was machine steam cleaned.
Hand washing limits the temperature you can wash glasses at.
BritishDystopia@reddit
Yeah of course but then the machine either needs draining,washing and refilling which would take 30 mins to get hot again, or else there will be fat residue which will smear the glasses. Commercial grade Glasswasher fluid is far less severe than dishwasher fluid for obvious reasons (chemical taint to your drink), and is not designed to combat fats.
PatTheCatMcDonald@reddit
(shrug) OK, maybe cleaning the glass is a factor in the reasoning why draught milk isn't available as a regular pub drink.
No profit margin if it's served hygeinically, compared to beer. For a variety of technical reasons.
BritishDystopia@reddit
If i had regulars who liked it I would simply serve in a disposable cup.
Positive_Wiglet@reddit
Milk (esp on its own) is for infant humans and animals. Get weaned.
MrsLibido@reddit
You are an adult mammal. Not a baby cow. Don't people ever stop and think about the dairy propaganda that got them brainwashed into drinking the milk of other species as grown adults?
iamscrooge@reddit
Chicken nuggies aren’t natural adult mammal food either. Do we really need to be brainwashed to consume things that we didn’t evolve to?
MrsLibido@reddit
Absolutely. The dairy industry literally spends millions on marketing campaigns, paying researchers to "testify" and lobbying every year. This heavy promotion to culturally normalise consuming cow's milk creates a cultural default.
Cow's milk is falsely tied to imagery of health and family from early childhood. We are taught it is essential for growth and healthy bones, school programs back in the day created daily routines around the consumption of cow's milk, even government guidelines reinforced it as a basic health need. This all resulted in people being brainwashed to believe consuming it is beneficial to us.
Decades of ads promoting cow milk consumption as normal, healthy, wholesome and linking it to things like athleticism, motherhood, morality. This repetition of positive messaging unconsciously ingrained the belief that cow's milk is essential and natural (and morally superior to alternatives).
I don't think chicken nuggets are a good comparison to the normalisation of cow's milk. One is a quick to serve convenience food, the other needed an insane amount of propaganda to become culturally normalised in the west.
iamscrooge@reddit
Both are things that humans would never eat in nature but our body is perfectly capable of processing.
One is healthy for us.
One is not.
But under your logic, we should eat chicken nuggies and avoid milk?
MrsLibido@reddit
That's not my logic at all and wasn't even implied in my comment. You are the one who brought up chicken nuggets and I said it's not a good comparison because both have been normalised for different reasons which I explained. Neither of the two are healthy for us. You're trying to use a false equivalence. Natural = good, unnatural = bad is not how nutrition or health works. I'm not arguing we should only eat foods that we can find in nature without any form of processing.
iamscrooge@reddit
So you agree milk is healthy for us, you just don’t like the propaganda?
MrsLibido@reddit
It would help if you read the comments you're responding to
iamscrooge@reddit
I did.
Honestly - of all the bowing to food lobbies the government does - the horrible food standards enabling nasty low quality products full of unnecessary chemicals that proliferate supermarkets that other countries don’t tolerate … and you’re moaning because of propaganda to drink milk?
MrsLibido@reddit
I'm just so confused right now. Of course I talk about milk under a post about milk. What?
iamscrooge@reddit
The topic’s about serving milk in pubs. Nothing to do with propaganda.
MrsLibido@reddit
And I brought up the very relevant fact that someone even having a thought like this stems from decades of aggressive propaganda. What's the point of pretending like you want to have a discussion just to not even read the responses you get and then end up telling me I'm off topic? You must be incredibly bored.
iamscrooge@reddit
I did actually give you the benefit and read your responses … and now I won’t get those minutes of my life back again. Thanks.
This is not a symptom of propaganda.
This is a symptom of:
“I used to be able to get something I enjoyed in a place that was convenient to me. I was wondering why.”
You want to talk about propaganda - how about the normalisation of drink culture?
A bar full of people punishing their livers with low quality drinks and you don’t bat an eyelid - but someone wants to drink something else … something that’s actually healthy … and you can’t resist posting your manifesto?
MrsLibido@reddit
Cow's milk is not healthy for humans. But good job reading the responses of someone you talked at 4 hours after having the actual "conversation". I'm very proud of you.
iamscrooge@reddit
But beer is?
MrsLibido@reddit
When did I say that?!? You know multiple things can be unhealthy at the same time, right? The fuck.
iamscrooge@reddit
You’re moaning because a guy wants a pint of something nutrient rich and non toxic while everyone around them is poisoning their lover with alcohol - and you think that person is the one who has fallen to propaganda.
“The fuck”
Radiant_Pudding5133@reddit
Because it’s weird as fuck?
Ok-Scientist7083@reddit (OP)
Could be…
Maximum_Scientist_85@reddit
Perfect way to start a night that ends with the old Ludwig Van
Did_OJ_Simpson_do_it@reddit
No ultraviolence, please.
Foetus_Eating@reddit
A bit of the old in and out?
Scr1mmyBingus@reddit
I’ve never done you any harm my brother.
keg994@reddit
Viddy well, little brother
Elongulation420@reddit
Perfect, a night down the Korova Milk Bar followed by a bit of The Heaven Seventeen
GeordieAl@reddit
Bit of the old in-and-out
thoway44@reddit
Ah yes, a bit of the ol’ ultramilky before heading out for some of the old ultra-violence. Nothing gets the night going like a cold pint of semi-skimmed and a haunting stare.
winch25@reddit
And a bit of the old in-out-in-out with a devotchka.
No-Mechanic6069@reddit
Rather nice to have the “plus”, mind.
fookreddit22@reddit
First thought
BuzzAllWin@reddit
Same was my first thought, then my second was u/ok-scientist7083 sounds like some kind of pervert what hasnt been introduced to white russians
DeathOfNormality@reddit
They do in pubs that serve food.
At least in Scotland anyway. Source, my dad has to have a glass of milk with any meal, and almost every pub that serves food we've been to does this. Including spoons and green king ones, but we all know the independent pub food is the best.
Ewendmc@reddit
Back in the 70s there used to be milk bars in rural areas of the UK.
Ewendmc@reddit
Being lactose intolerant this would literally make me shit myself.
Ok-Scientist7083@reddit (OP)
I drink lactose free milk but yeah, I get you!
SuperSpidey374@reddit
They do sell it. I found this out when my mate asked what drink I wanted for his round, and I jokingly said milk before giving my real answer. He came back with a pint of milk. I was impressed.
geoffs3310@reddit
Pubs might not sell it but a lot of bars do because they use it for cocktails.
stoneballoon132@reddit
Because it’s fucking weird
Ok-Scientist7083@reddit (OP)
Sometimes would rather have wine but not when I’m driving! It maybe weird now but all mammals were reared on it
devcmacd@reddit
There's a reason psychotic villains are always shown drinking milk in films
tropicalhotdogdays@reddit
Please attempt to order this in a standard Uk pub.
OptionalQuality789@reddit
Do you still require rearing?
bababababoos@reddit
Stoppp 😂
Pooter1313@reddit
😂😂😂
MrsLibido@reddit
Babies are reared on the milk of their own species because milk contains different compositions based on the needs and environments of the specific species. Just like cats aren't reared on rabbit milk and dogs aren't reared on rat milk, humans shouldn't be reared on cow milk. Are you proposing the pubs serve human breast milk?
AdThat328@reddit
Cows were reared on cows milk...
Trebus@reddit
Stick to your guns, top cat. I drink 10+ pints of it a week, milk is great.
I don't think I'd want it in a pub though, for me , milk has to be served cold, imagine getting it in a warm glass. Eugh.
disastrousgreyhound@reddit
All mammals are reared on their own mothers milk and all other mammals lose the ability to digest milk after they’re weaned. Humans are objectively weird for some of our population being able to digest milk into adulthood. We’re also the only species that regularly drinks the milk of another animal!
KitsuneKamiSama@reddit
I mean by that logic a LOT of things are weird to drink.
tropicalhotdogdays@reddit
Especially Carling.
yeksnyls@reddit
How is drinking the most consumed beverage in the country weird?
running_on_fumes25@reddit
Its weird that you dont think going to a pub or bar and ordering a glass of milk is weird
alphahydra@reddit
As an ingredient in something else, that's one thing. As a straight drink on it's own, that's somehow different.
I know it's stupid, because I'll have it on cereal and in tea and as the basis of cheese and any number of other things (I'll even drink a white Russian on a night out if its on offer, even a milkshake at a push) but yeah, the idea of just slaking my thirst on a big malty, creamy, faintly hay-tasting glass of neat cow's milk straight from the jug turns my stomach a little bit.
It doesn't have the qualities of a refreshing drink to me, and, not that I judge, but on the rare occasion I do witness another adult chug down a milk, I find it pretty off-putting.
Part of it might be, without any other flavours in the mix, the animal gland juice origin of it tastes really obvious and in-your-face in a way that isn't as apparent in other foods. But it's not just that, as I wouldn't thank you for a straight glass of oat or soy milk either.
KitsuneKamiSama@reddit
I love milk as a drink, I don't really see the problem people have with it at all, its just creamy... like drinking full skimmed isnt that great but semi or full fat is nice.
GreenLion777@reddit
At home it isn't. But it just isn't a thing when you in a bar/pub/food establishment etc
VehicleWonderful6586@reddit
YodaShagsDarthVader@reddit
Why not? Because it's a fucking mental idea
beattheodds2@reddit
The Mcpoyles are here.
slappykerplunk@reddit
I’m fucking pissing myself at this being the only reasonable comment
YodaShagsDarthVader@reddit
There's actual people in this thread saying they go into pubs and order pints of milk. What on earth?
Drunkgummybear1@reddit
I am partial to a malibu and milk. Though I appreciate I can't get it everywhere and if I do order it, I expect people to do that head tilt. A white russian is also a top tier drink.
SMTRodent@reddit
I like ameretto and milk
Petcai@reddit
I like that too! Everybody gives me that head tilt too, I used to come home from night shifts and have a pint of milk and malibu at 6:20am in bed.
Brandy and chocolate milk is another great one.
Drunkgummybear1@reddit
The amount of times I've managed to convince people it's actually really nice is great too lol. Haven't tried brandy and chocolate milk before! Have done it with whiskey before which was quite nice though.
tropicalhotdogdays@reddit
Semi-skimmed please luv.
Second_Guess_25@reddit
Oat milk on on the rocks please 🥛👍
The_Blip@reddit
One choccy milk please guv. Hold the silly straw.
GourangaPlusPlus@reddit
FantasticWeasel@reddit
I'd like a pint of bitter and a pint of bitty please barman.
Attention_waskey@reddit
They often do if you request. It goes from the coffee and tea making supplies and bartenders ask you 3 times if you are sure. Now a sexy little twist- I sometimes ask to add half an inch of baileys or Amarula or Cointreau in the glass and top it up with milk. Please let’s make it more recognisable in pubs. 😉 Once I had been to pub with a few rugby guys and first 3 rounds were on them asking for this sort of drink in turns😂 Bartender really wanted to see who’s idea it was in the end
PM-me-your-cuppa-tea@reddit
SillyArtichoke3812@reddit
Milks grim, not sure how it ever became socially acceptable to drink it? why not drink sheep, pig or even dog milk same concept.
Sea_Enthusiasm_3193@reddit
I ordered a pint of milk in a nightclub once because they wouldn’t let me have a cup of tea on the dance floor. Semi skimmed :(
pgasmaddict@reddit
Back in the day brandy and milk was a rich alcoholics tipple. The milk kept the brandy from the ulcers was kinda the theory I think.
pgasmaddict@reddit
A pinta milk goes down like silk.
ginaperks@reddit
Because it’s fucking strange mate
JasperCarrots@reddit
Every pub I've ever worked in has milk for coffees so if you wanted a glass you could order it, no one ever did though other than for the occasional child with a meal
National_Parfait_450@reddit
You're probably the only person who would order it
WolfApseV@reddit
I remember as a barman being asked for milk once. Fortunately we were a pub restaurant and served tea / coffee too so it was an easy albeit unusual request to fill.
No harm in asking.
baldeagle1991@reddit
I saw a Ted Lasso's kid drinking milk in the pub on the show and thought it was pretty weird.
That said, if parents asked, we usually did give it to them for the same price of a cordial. We pretty much always had some in the kitchen.
fuckyourflymo@reddit
What? You're the only person who wants to drink a glass of milk at the pub and you want all pubs to serve it just in case you turn up? Get tae fuck.
__life_on_mars__@reddit
I like those little mini vegetable pizzas from the bakery section at Lidl. Why don't pubs sell those??
BlueMilkshake33@reddit
if pubs serve tea and coffee which many people take with milk then why not serve a glass of milk if they have it in anw?
Mattyc8787@reddit
Most pubs that serve tea and coffee give you them little UHT sachets
BlueMilkshake33@reddit
I get tea at pubs a lot and thats never been the case for me
Mattyc8787@reddit
Regular pubs or chains? I find chains will have real milk due to them having coffee machines etc
BlueMilkshake33@reddit
Both. I've only ever seen those creamer sachets in hotel rooms.
PapaJrer@reddit
Maybe in 1997. Most coffee serving pubs will have a cappuccino machine these days.
Elliminality@reddit
Also children are allowed in most pubs and drink milk. Lots serve it and this thread is stupid.
nomadic_weeb@reddit
Exactly this. Like I love munching on wasabi coated peanuts, but I'm not gonna expect that to become a standard bar snack because I know I'm the only fucker that's gonna buy em
Serious_Escape_5438@reddit
Yeah, there are lots of things I personally enjoy at home but I understand others don't so don't expect to find them in pubs or restaurants.
HahaLady1@reddit
I just couldn’t imagine going to the pub and seeing someone drinking a pint of milk 🥛
Individual_Wallaby25@reddit
Drinking the fatty secretion from the teat of a different animal is kind of grim.
I say this as an ex dairy herd manager.
But over the years it's become similar in my mind to perhaps drinking kangaroo cum.
It's just a yucky idea now.
Ok-Train5382@reddit
Good thing you’re a vegan then
Individual_Wallaby25@reddit
I'm not a vegan. Or a vegetarian.
Our family has two meat free days every week. My wife is a vegetarian.
I was just simply expressing a personal sort of disgust I have when I over think on it.
Appropriate-Dig-7080@reddit
Yea it’s grim. I genuinely feel a bit sick every time I see people talk about drinking milk.
PlaneWar203@reddit
It's fucking foul.
If people really liked it they would drink milk from more animals, people are just indoctrinated and don't realise how disgusting it really is, and I'm sure you're more than well aware of how much blood and pus they're drinking. The last time I drank milk it tasted of steak and was slightly pinkish, I'm certain I drank some exploded abscess. Never again.
Individual_Wallaby25@reddit
Yes. Mastitis, if not spotted will be putting blood and pus in. Shit will frequently get sucked in too. Milking parlours are filthy by the end of a session.
The milk gets tested frequently though and there's a cell count limit you shouldn't exceed.
This was over 20 years ago though, and things may have changed on testing. I have no idea though.
Own_Divide262@reddit
apparently spoons do it
BeachtimeRhino@reddit
Ask for a virgin White Russian? Or a milky coffee with no coffee or water?
BudgetNo6357@reddit
Every pub I’ve worked in will give you a glass of milk if you ask for it, granted every pub I’ve worked at has had a coffee machine.
AdnyPls@reddit
Guy threw a pint of milk at me in my local.
I thought, how dairy!
Starlinkukbeta@reddit
They did, we had a pub nr Hitching, that served milk from a pump. Ice cold.
fezzuk@reddit
If you ask for a pint of milk at a pub they will give you it if they have it
Probably not a weather spoons.
Ambitious-Sun-8504@reddit
Having been a manger of a hotel, and restaurant. It’s because it’s expensive as f*** to stock. It’s bloody annoying to keep tabs on, it’s shelf life is short, and it has extremely low demand, even when you’re serving teas and coffees.
godstar67@reddit
I recall it being tried as an on tap offering in 1984 and failing hard. There were four pubs in my hometown tried it and didn’t sell any. I imagine the line clean was unpleasant. I had a pub for 8 years from 2009 and was asked for milk once for a nonagenarian who had been brought out for a lunch away from her care home by her three kids.
turtleship_2006@reddit
I don't know if all of them have it, but I went to a spoons near my uni with some of my uni mates on the last day of the group project, and of uni this year. It was my first time in any pub, and it was late and I was hungry so I ordered a small pizza meal from the kids menu. It came with a banana and, for 70p extra, a glass of milk.
ds-ds2-ds3@reddit
Cause pretty much no one orders it. It probably isn’t in the till etc. if they do hot drinks they more than likely have access to milk. Are you finishing yourself refuses milk? Or not seeing it advertised
CaptainVesta@reddit
A group of 12 of us once ordered a round of milks at Wetherspoons on the app. Barman came over and asked if it was a joke (but at 40p a pop on the kids menu, it was an enjoyable round)
ambadawn@reddit
Same reason they don't sell pints of brake fluid; there isn't demand for it.
ryskwicpicmdfkapic@reddit
Creepy
writers_block_@reddit
Surely they have some in stock for white Russians?!
DrHydeous@reddit
Pubs generally don’t do cocktails.
RhinoRhys@reddit
Lager & lime please
Sorry mate, we don't do cocktails ere
DrHydeous@reddit
Not even a white wine and soda for the lady?
Willsagain2@reddit
But do you do food?
Yes. Cheese & Onion or Salt & Vinegar.
KilmarnockDave@reddit
Not many white Russians allowed in the country these days, or any other Russians for that matter
CodeFoodPixels@reddit
Because we're not all in the McPoyle bloodline
Lamicio@reddit
In a Spoon it is possible to order a glassof milk. It will cost you 70p
wehttamman@reddit
Check this guys hard drive
AzzTheMan@reddit
Milk is weird. Breast milk, but from another animal. Weirds me out.
PapaJrer@reddit
Weird compared to, say, fruit and veg left to rot for months or years in a sealed container of water?
AzzTheMan@reddit
That is definitely weird, which is why I do t eat rotten fruit or veg! Not sure if you're getting at something specific though?
MajikChilli@reddit
They'll be talking about beer, cider or wine
AzzTheMan@reddit
Yea I got that. But when you brew something it doesn't rot (unless that's the desired effect). I'm just being a bit of a knob to prove a point I think.
MajikChilli@reddit
Nah, prove that point. Drinking milk as an adult is weird as fuck and wanting to order a pint of it at a pub should see jail time
SpinyGlider67@reddit
You sound udderly in denial
First-Mistake9144@reddit
Made a right tit of himself there
preaxhpeacj@reddit
Milk is so disgusting
RonLondonUK@reddit
It's not on the menu but my local Irish pub, sells me a pint for £3.95
curioussandbored@reddit
they do - normally on the kids menu, greene king nearly always have a glass of milk on the menu
LAcasper@reddit
Because the last thing you'd want when sweaty drunk people are pushed together in a dark sweaty room is glass of milk.
WeirdBeard94@reddit
What are you, an American?
Ok-Scientist7083@reddit (OP)
Is that a bad thing? (But no, I’m not / nor would I like to be.)
WeirdBeard94@reddit
Depends of the type of American you are. But Americans love drinking milk, a glass a meal, at least my assumption of Americans sees them like that.
JGalKnit@reddit
Probably because it would go bad before they sold it all.
carboncopy404@reddit
I miss when we used to call people peadophiles for their egregious food and drink choices.
MoonRoover@reddit
ive tried jager and milk in a bar once. Very strange but surprisingly not awful
solarflares4deadgods@reddit
Wetherspoons do if you ask nicely. Especially for pregnant ladies on curry night.
ManicPixiRiotGrrrl@reddit
if I saw someone drinking milk in a pub I would be unsettled
MJsThriller@reddit
Weird time for a milk renaissance
drplokta@reddit
Because people know what milk costs, which makes it hard to charge £4 per pint for it in a pub.
Accomplished-Bus8295@reddit
Ruins the pint glass for
Metori@reddit
Because only serial killers drink milk in pubs.
Subsyxx@reddit
I mean, they must have milk because they offer tea/coffee with lunch...
Dedward5@reddit
Who doesn’t like to go out and have a pint at lunchtime.
Confuseduseroo@reddit
They do - but only the stout kind.
01000010-01101001@reddit
Too many fights‽
VapeForMeDaddy@reddit
I like a glass of milk at home, think you might be part of a very small minority requesting it at pubs though - but hey, ask enough at your local they might start stocking some..
stehendo@reddit
Surely most pubs have milk. Most serve tea and coffee there's days.
audigex@reddit
Restaurant/gastropubs yes
Most traditional pubs, at least where I am in the North West, don’t
My mum asked for a cup of tea at a pub recently and the landlady went upstairs to their flat to make it…
RentTechnical3077@reddit
Bless her that she did it.
Paracosm26@reddit
I would have been happy to do the same, provided I was asked nicely. 😊
audigex@reddit
I'm just glad we weren't immediately thrown out and barred
The look on her face was priceless though, I don't think she'd been asked for a cuppa in a long time. It's very much a "Pint of best, please Gail" kind of pub, and 99% of the time that's only said out of politeness because Gail already has their drink half poured as soon as she saw a regular coming through the door
joeparni@reddit
Yeah but if it's a pub with like a POS system they may literally not be able to charge for a glass of milk
Farscape_rocked@reddit
Run it through as a postmix, the stock difference won't show.
60sstuff@reddit
We do as it’s in the till as “glass of milk” but it’s mainly for kids
minadequate@reddit
My dad often buys a pint in the supermarket to have with a sandwich when everyone else is having a can of coke or whatever. It doesn’t appeal to me but anywhere that serves tea and coffee should also let you buy a milk.
KebabRacer69@reddit
You don't go to a pub to drink milk, weirdo.
Crommington@reddit
Honestly i think if i went in my local and asked for a milk I’d either get my head kicked in at least openly mocked out of the establishment
NotSmarterThanA8YO@reddit
Must be an absolute shithole.
Slothjitzu@reddit
Who wouldn't mock some absolute fruitcake ordering milk at a pub?!
AcceptableCustomer89@reddit
Lighten up, it's a joke
Emitime@reddit
I imagine from the pubs point of view they don't want milk either directly or indirectly ending up on the floor.
Kvark33@reddit
It's socially unacceptable. If I am round at someone's house I normally ask for one, just to gauge their reaction. They normally do a second take then uncomfortably say ok.
Adept_Astronomer_656@reddit
alexwhit80@reddit
I remember as a kid the local greasy spook had a sticker on the windows advertising “ice cold milk”. Not milkshakes just milk.
rickefc25@reddit
Malibu and milk. Tastes like a Bounty. You are all welcome
tylerlovatt@reddit
When I went to Benidorm my hotel had some kind of cocktail with chocolate milk in, it was great I wish I could get it over here
slimboyslim9@reddit
It’s more expensive than other soft drinks (which cost pubs pennies) and a pain to keep in large quantities; goes bad quickly if not refrigerated. I also love milk and would drink it in similar situations if it were available.
Kinitawowi64@reddit
You called out the big one - the markup on postmix soft drinks is insane. When I was in the hall bar at university, they said it was more expensive to clean the glass than it was to fill it up with Coke.
I can't imagine it's easy to turn a profit on a pint of milk.
orange_fudge@reddit
That’s no longer true - postmix syrup is much more expensive. These days it’s close to the cost of a cheap pint to serve.
It also doesn’t consider the cost of equipment rental and CO2. The whole setup for serving a soft drink is quite pricey.
And then they have to wash your glass which, as you rightly point out, also has a cost.
Kinitawowi64@reddit
This was between 1998 and 2001, so admittedly a while back (the most expensive pint we sold at the time was Guinness, which was £1.40). Every first year (it was one of the few halls in Manchester that encouraged people to stay on for subsequent years) had to do at least one shift behind the bar during their time; the only guy who refused to do it was also the only first year whose reapplication was rejected.
But yeah. Back then it was a lot cheaper than seemingly it is now, which might be why so many bars and pubs have switched to selling overpriced tiny glass bottles instead of postmix systems.
orange_fudge@reddit
Yeah literally last century. Things have changed a lot since the days of £1 pints!
The cost of CO2 has gone up, the syrup is more expensive and the drinks distributors have realised that there’s money to be made locking pub landlords into a subscription model on equipment.
Also, little tins/bottles also allow you to stock a wider range of mixers in lower quantities. Postmix only gives you a few choices.
Vehlin@reddit
I would like to try and disabuse you of the notion that soft drinks cost pennies. The price of postmix syrup had gone up so much that after equipment rental and CO2 it’s on par with a pint of shit lager (Carling, Fosters).
You’re not making GP on your postmix if you’re selling for less that £3.50 a pint.
slimboyslim9@reddit
I must be going on old or mid- information then. I’d read that it was by far the biggest profit margin in all of the service industry! But this is starting to make less and less economic sense - it’s about £2-2.50 for 2L in a supermarket. Must be cheaper at trade rates. Why would pubs even bother using premix instead of just bottles of the stuff pre-made?
RuudVanNistelrooney@reddit
This is such a great use of ‘disabuse’, such an underrated and underused word. Anyway, sorry, as you were.
GrandVizierofAgrabar@reddit
Agree, this hasn’t been true since pre pandemic
loveandpeaceandunity@reddit
Lots of baddies drink milk in films. Thinking Christoph Waltz as Hans Lands in Inglorious basterds. (French farm scene nr beginning of film)
Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No country for old men.
Jean Reno as Leon in Leon. Not an archetypal baddie but he is a contract killer "five grand a head, no women, no kids"
benDB9@reddit
Une verre du lait!
sleepingjiva@reddit
Spoons does.
Willsagain2@reddit
Probably not much call for it. One of the old boys who used to prop up the bar in my uncle's local used to drink whiskey and milk. I thought they were winding me up, but apparently it was a thing. Never met anyone else who drank that. Lots of bars/pubs serve coffee etc, so they have milk available, but maybe not in the quantities required for folk to neck it by the pint. If they stocked sufficient for that, then be chucking away a lot of milk every few days.
SpinyGlider67@reddit
Could get a cow
SwingyWingyShoes@reddit
Milk is a weird one, if you order things with milk you get no reaction. But if you just want some milk youre seen as a weirdo, probably more so in a bar. Best bet is just to take some in a thermal flask.
MrsLibido@reddit
Same logic as not wanting to eat the anus of a pig but enjoying it ground up in a hotdog
SpinyGlider67@reddit
Having that much milk around women with their breasts on show would change our national culture for the worse and you know it
fleetwoodcat@reddit
UK McPoyle spotted
Glunark2@reddit
It's so damn hot, milk was a bad choice.
Electronic-Industry4@reddit
AlexMC69@reddit
Milk is my go-to non alcoholic drink, but 50% of the times I ask for a glass in a pub or restaurant they don't even have the option configured on their till touchscreen, so I frequently end up getting it for free... after an odd look, some cursing and an occasional "like babies drink?"
BigfatDan1@reddit
When I was younger, my friend and I used to order a pint of amaretto and milk in Wetherspoons, it tastes great!
ThiccNewsAt9@reddit
Look mate, i love myself some milk at home. Regularly have with my dinner, but if i came across anyone in a pub setting about pint after pint of the coo juice… i and i’m 99% sure everyone else would assume that this creature is not to be trusted and head for a pint elsewhere lol
MLMSE@reddit
Because you would be the only customer.
azbod2@reddit
Just ask for a virgin white russian. You wont get in trouble and they will know exactly what you mean.
preaxhpeacj@reddit
Drinking a glass of milk as a grown adult is weird behaviour
BrawDev@reddit
As much as I know, alcohol isn't a drink that necessarily cures a thirst. Milk is double bad for that.
Also, talking to anyone 30 minutes after they'd had their bedtime milk is like talking to a cheese factory.
radiowithryan@reddit
I used to regularly drink coffee as I was always the designated driver
Morris_Alanisette@reddit
They do. Have you ever asked? Any pub that sells coffee will give you a glass of milk if you ask.
Brilliant-Figure-149@reddit
"give" or sell?
Morris_Alanisette@reddit
Pubs generally sell drinks rather than giving them away.
Interesting_iidea@reddit
OK homelander
existentialjoe@reddit
You’re an adult you weirdo.
mil0b88@reddit
I guess it depends on the pub, some round here do coffees and lattes. I'm sure they'd do a mug of cold milk instead of steaming it for a coffee. Still pretty odd, think I'd rather pretend I was having a coffee instead of sitting there with a pint glass of milk.
Sharktistic@reddit
Imagine going to a pub and asking for a glass of milk, as an adult.
Thestickleman@reddit
Except for you who wants to drink milk at a pub.....
No-Photograph3463@reddit
Well you can get milk stouts anyway so i guess milk is the next natural evolution.
stevop86121@reddit
Cheaper to buy a pint of it in supermarket or corner shop...
Traditional-Idea-39@reddit
Imagine going for a drink with your mate and they come back with a pint of milk 🤣
farmpatrol@reddit
OP you may want to head over to r/milk - Great sub!
12Keisuke@reddit
are you a serial killer? or maybe a cereal killer
dinkidoo7693@reddit
If a pub sells hot drinks like coffee then they’ll have milk, if not its a sort shelf life and its not worth it
DropDeadDigsy@reddit
If I’m sat at the bar and you walk in and ask for a pint of milk I’m leaving.
Marzipan_civil@reddit
If it's a pub with a coffee machine, they'll have milk. Or if it's a cocktail bar they might have milk too. Otherwise the shelf life is probably too short
weesypeesy@reddit
I walked past a scenic picnic area yesterday. Saw an old man sitting facing away from the view, drinking a pint of milk straight from the carton.
People who drink milk are children or psychopaths. Sorry, it's a fact.
HalfAgony-HalfHope@reddit
Moss, is that you?
Sergeant_Fred_Colon@reddit
Most pubs don't have a milk license.
Live-Enthusiasm5422@reddit
No profit
No-eye-dear-who-I-am@reddit
As long as it's not contained by anti-fart bovare, I'd be all for it 🥛
kiradax@reddit
I work in a pub and I'd gladly serve a glass of milk!
A good metric would be that if a pub has a coffee machine they will have milk.
If they don't do teas or anything they're not likely to have it as it won't get used & will go off.
Mattyc8787@reddit
I’d say most pubs I’ve been in that serve hot drinks only have the little UHT sachets it’s rare I’ve seen fresh milk.
Pint of UHT would be foul.
HarMonocles@reddit
A lot of pubs serve coffee these days, and will happily sell you a glass of milk for a small child during the day. Others have pointed out the many reasons they won't serve you a pint of it as an adult on a night out.
uk451@reddit
I’ve always been able get milk at the pub.
Perhaps if you ask for your forth pint of milk they might get difficult.
NotSmarterThanA8YO@reddit
I find it really weird that all the top answers are going along with OP's premise that you can't get milk in pubs, either they're AI or aliens.
LittleSadRufus@reddit
Yes I never have issues getting the kids a glass of milk. Usually they have milk for people who order coffee etc.
I guess less family friendly pubs maybe don't even do coffee.
NotSmarterThanA8YO@reddit
"Coffee with milk? We don't do cocktails here"
FidelityBob@reddit
It was tried once.. Sales were too low and it doesn't keep.
EldritchCleavage@reddit
I like ice cold skimmed milk as a drink. I have never wanted to order it on a night out though.
MattyLePew@reddit
Jeez OP, that’s a weird thing to be desperate for.
Are you a baby cow by chance?
Alex_Plisko@reddit
Psycho behaviour
Indigo-Waterfall@reddit
When I worked at a pub we served milk. It was mostly for children but no reason an adult couldn’t order it…
BarracudaUnlucky8584@reddit
Oh how I’d love to see someone order a pint of milk
mebutnew@reddit
Found the dairy industry spokesman
HaniiPuppy@reddit
If you drink a decent amount of alcohol, then a tall glass of milk, the milk pretty much immediately curdles in your stomach and comes back out the way it went in.
lukeyboyuk1989@reddit
Are you a McPoyle?
misterala@reddit
I love a glass of milk with a cookie or a slice of cake, but this Succession quote from Roman still always tickles me:
"You know who drinks milk? Perverts and kittens, that's who."
Karloss_93@reddit
I love drinking milk, to the point I feel no shame buying a 1 pint carton from the shop on my lunch break and drinking it from the carton like it's a bottle of pop. Was once sat outside a Tesco drinking my milk and a homeless bloke with a can of special brew caller me a minger for drinking it lol.
Even still. I wouldn't dream of ordering a pint of milk in a pub!
Airborne_Stingray@reddit
Are you perchance 3 toddlers in a hat and trenchcoat
NorthernSoul1977@reddit
Milky milky...
HailToTheKingslayer@reddit
datguysadz@reddit
What on earth
Cliffoakley@reddit
In the 1970's (around 77/78/79) both milk and draught standard Lucozade were sold on draught in many pubs in the Northwest (I am from Wigan). The Lucozade draught was long before the 'multi brand hose type thing that is in the pubs today. I can specifically remember buying a pint of draught milk at the Berni Inn Chain of pub/restaurant.
misterbooger2@reddit
We are a BYOM society I'm afraid
Superspark76@reddit
Milk is a short life product, any pub would have to have enough demand to be able to justify the wastage from stocking it, one or two glasses a night wouldn't justify having to carry it.
You have also got the issue of spillages, which are common in most pubs milk unlike almost every other drink doesn't just spill, it spoils and stinks very quickly. The only solution is deep cleaning of carpets and furniture.
plant-strong@reddit
Yes, and why don’t they serve a great big glass of gazpacho in case I turn up and want gazpacho? I drink it for the vitamins. I don’t like fizzy drinks and prefer gazpacho, so pubs should serve gazpacho.
domalomalom@reddit
I drink an industrial quantity of milk and guinness. My local is happy to serve both thankfully.
Chemical-You-9650@reddit
They certainly used to. I remember having it as a child if we went in a country pub after dog walking at weekends. Used to sometimes come in a glass that said "ice cold, nice cold, milk'. Funny the things we remember.
I then progressed into appletiser 😂
DevilishlyHandsome63@reddit
I saw some Nurishment cans in a bar recently,a bar known for people being off their nut quite regularly,would that do?
doc1442@reddit
FYI milk is quite a poor source of both protein and calcium. Milk industry has being lying to everyone for decades, read the label.
Mossy-Mori@reddit
Bar staff here. One late Friday night, as i was cleaning the ice well, a guy came up and asked my colleague for a glass of milk, but he was speaking quietly and mumbling. Now, we work in a rotational craft beer place so it's quite common for the current taps to have weird names, after a couple of tries I lifted my head and said, "are you asking for a glass of milk?". Politely ofc, trying to help. He said, "yeah..... you know... like a white Russian, but without the alcohol." Wtf lol As if we're so bartender-coded we cannot compute any drink without it being framed as an alcoholic beverage. So weird. Anyway turns out what we had was off so he was shit out of luck.
Outrageous_Jury4152@reddit
Mills overrated, too much can cause estrogen problems and most humans by default are lactose intolerant. Also too much does the opposite for calcium absorption but you keep drinking that cow tit milk son.
JoeDaStudd@reddit
Most humans are lactose intolerant, however most Europeans aren't.\ Thousands of years of being herders lead to Europeans developing lactose tolerance.
Outrageous_Jury4152@reddit
Seems legit.
JoeDaStudd@reddit
Google Lactase persistence.\ It was natural selection for humans living in herding cultures.
The UK has one of the highest, if not the highest level of lactose tolerance in the world
tropicalhotdogdays@reddit
Seems legit
tropicalhotdogdays@reddit
Lunacy...
SwordTaster@reddit
Unless said pin also serves coffee or makes food that includes it as an ingredient, I can't see why they'd have milk on hand. Milk isn't exactly popular as a beverage for adults when out, and many pubs aren't exactly kid-friendly, so why would the pub want to spend the money stocking something so very perishable and yet so unpopular? If they do coffee then sure, you may be able to sweet talk some milk out of them, unless they have those tiny little UHT milk pot things
Potential-Hope-2394@reddit
Try Malibu and milk!!
Sparkly1982@reddit
Malibu and Banana nesquik changed my life
Correct_Low6793@reddit
Serve this in the pub I work in - mainly the South African rugby contingent. Those boys can drink!!!
No_Conclusion_8684@reddit
THANK YOU
Attention_waskey@reddit
Adult milkshake 🤓
jimmyjammy6262@reddit
Always thought this
Kimbo-BS@reddit
I'm sure pubs would be plenty happy to get in some cheap milk and put a huge margin on it... if anyone was ordering it.
The answer to your question is: lack of demand.
Ok-Scientist7083@reddit (OP)
As I sit here enjoying a tipple (of the white stuff - and you thought it was a shop), it occurred to me the glasses end up in more of a mess. I suppose pub glass washing machines can handle it.
cornishpirate32@reddit
Are you a criminal?
txakori@reddit
OP, are you a cat?
Ok-Scientist7083@reddit (OP)
Not in public
ProperTeaIsTheft117@reddit
Nothing to do with answering you but you're an absolute hero and you've saved my hungover Friday morning.
Bought milk on the way home from the pub and I'd just forgotten it in my bag until your post popped up linking those 2 concept together.
Thank you for letting me have a good cuppa tomorow. I'd give you an award if I wasn't so stingy
Ok-Scientist7083@reddit (OP)
You’re v welcome! See I have my uses, even if it’s weirding people out and being your personal remember-all
space_coyote_86@reddit
It's perfect material for one of the old John Smith's you're barred! adverts.
mdzmdz@reddit
Wetherspoons sells it.
char11eg@reddit
There’s sort of a couple reasons, I suppose.
From working in a pub, milk is a hard thing to track the stock of. It has a very short shelf life (shorter for a pub than your kitchen - has to be discarded even if still okay after a couple days by food safety regs), and so most of every carton opened has to be discarded.
And even when unopened, it only lasts a week or two.
Where I worked, we only ordered it in for coffees - and in a few years of working there I don’t think I was asked for a glass of milk once. But that meant we only had a few litres of it on site at a time, mostly. Someone having pints of it would drain what we had very quickly.
Of course if someone had asked for some for a kid or something, I’d have given them it… but probably not for a guy to drink pints of, lol.
So, basically, pubs don’t keep enough of it on site to keep up with someone drinking a lot of it, and not enough people want to drink it for them to stock more.
If you want a still non-alcohol thing to drink tho, guinness 0 is pretty good and non-fizzy - it’s my go to in that situation for the same reasons, and most places have it these days haha.
hallerz87@reddit
Because there's no demand. Who goes to a pub to drink milk?
Scruffybob@reddit
Yeah, nice try mate.
You know we can see your post history right?
Obviously just another blatant push from Big Milk.
I'm a survivor of the 'warm milk and straw years' of the 70's primary schools.
Luckily Thatcher came along and allieviated us from total calcification.
There's enough division in this world right now that I think it's quite frankly irresponsible to promote such a diatribe.
I'm probably just arguing with yet another cow bot.
Scruffybob@reddit
My local sells the 10ml UHT milk sachets for 10p each.
£5.68 a pint but that is London prices
ThinkAboutThatFor1Se@reddit
£7 pint of milk would probably put people off
Azuras-Becky@reddit
I know Beefeaters do milk as my nephew is like you and had always got one. I would suppose it varies by chain/pub.
spidertattootim@reddit
Because it's very, very unusual to want to drink milk in pubs.
ZeroZer0_@reddit
Speak to your landlord I’m sure if they knew you were coming in they would add it to the til and make sure it’s stocked. Otherwise I’d imagine they keep enough for hot drinks only and the amount you use versus someone drinking straight glasses of milk would be largely different.
Most pubs where I am don’t really do hot drinks either
Physical-Cod2853@reddit
it’s just….. wrong innit
No_Doubt_About_That@reddit
Reminds me of a cocktail bar I went to in Amsterdam. One of the drinks had a milk base.
Important_March1933@reddit
What’s happening to this country
yearsofpractice@reddit
Practical reasons not to stock it: specific effort needed to stock it, perishable and low demand
Reasons I too wish they did: I love a glass of milk, am recently sober, will occasionally get heartburn and I take extreme joy in irritating the kind of people who would get irritated by someone drinking milk in a pub.
GotAnyNirnroot@reddit
Generally I like to have hit my nutritional goals, before I head to a pub for the evening.
So I can't relate to wanting to top up my calcium levels, with the boys.
Wibblejellytime@reddit
Always available in the pub I worked in, but that was 30 years ago so maybe things have changed.....
Dangerous-Pair7826@reddit
In Ireland they do and have done for years
confuzzledfather@reddit
I'd smash a milk and a few teaspoons of Nesquik powder on a hot summers day!
RhinoRhys@reddit
Every single pub I've worked in for the last 17 years had sold milk. If they sell coffee, they'll have milk.
Doowrednu@reddit
Pubs that have coffee machines sell milk. I guess I don’t go to many pubs with coffee machines.
AgentSufficient1047@reddit
I've asked for it before several times due to heartburn
SamMacDatKid@reddit
EuroSong@reddit
I’ve ordered a half pint of milk in a pub before. They charged me as if it were Coke.
Quality_Cabbage@reddit
Back in the eighties, the busy city centre pub that I frequented served milk. I bought a pint of it once or twice, when I was pretty skint and spending my meagre funds on just one alcoholic drink seemed pointless.
chickengenes@reddit
it expires quicker and not many people ask for it so it would just be a waste of money
WoodSteelStone@reddit
I've often asked for a glass of milk in a pub and have never been refused..
EVRider81@reddit
Not much demand for it in licensed premises. I liked that coffee was an option in some places when I was in Germany.. Maybe visit hotel bars where there'd be the option of milk for the breakfast setup?
mm_2840@reddit
They serve it in spoons - source: playing the spoons “game”, I have sent friends a glass of milk on occasion hehe
LastofAcademe@reddit
I imagine if they sell tea or coffee and you asked they'd sort you out a glass of milk.
No-Baby-417@reddit
I won't lie, if I was out and I seen some fella casually dead pan a glass of milk amongst drinkers... id be very afraid.
Snoo-84389@reddit
I'd be 100% up for a pint of ice cold milk in the pub!
Top idea 🥛
EngineeringPutrid302@reddit
If you want to look like Hans Landa from inglorious basterds then go ahead. Not sure he’s the sort of character I’d want to be emulating personally!
Immorals1@reddit
Every pub I've worked in has/would if asked.
geeered@reddit
Have you asked? Most pubs will have some milk and any that do lattes etc will probably have enough they can serve you as much as you want.
AlexLorne@reddit
I was at a wedding reception at a venue which did not serve White Russians. But they did serve coffee and tea, which came with milk. And they did have vodka. And they did have Kahlua.
It took some convincing to get them to sell me a shot of vodka, a shot of kahlua, and a “glass” of milk, which we all knew they had.
Dry_Action1734@reddit
Mine does 🤷🏻♂️
Ok-Scientist7083@reddit (OP)
What area is this?! I’m visiting
Seafood_udon9021@reddit
I’ve only ever asked for it once in a pub and they were happy to serve it, though had to make up a price! (I was pregnant and HAD to have it).
KeyserSoze0000@reddit
You seen the price of a pint these days?
BamBammr7@reddit
I dont think many people drink it so wouldnt be profitable
Mental_Body_5496@reddit
Some do of they sell coffee !
Ice cold my kids love it 😀
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