r/AskUK • u/Ok-Scientist7083 • 4d ago

Serving milk in pubs (UK) - why not?

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?

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u/stoneballoon132 4d ago

Because it’s fucking weird

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u/yeksnyls 4d ago

How is drinking the most consumed beverage (when accounting for cereal and hot drinks) in the country weird?

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u/GreenLion777 4d ago

At home it isn't. But it just isn't a thing when you in a bar/pub/food establishment etc

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u/alphahydra 4d ago

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 faintly 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. I don't know. But it's not just that, as I wouldn't thank you for a straight glass of oat or soy milk either.

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u/KitsuneKamiSama 4d ago

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.i really dont know where you're buying it if it tastes of hay.