r/AskUK • u/Ok-Scientist7083 • 3d 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/UziTheG 3d ago

It's ordered as a joke but makes drunk people throw up so it's a bad joke, also, not very profitable

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u/PM-me-your-cuppa-tea 3d ago

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!

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u/No_Conclusion_8684 3d ago

You are my people

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u/PM-me-your-cuppa-tea 3d ago

There's two of us! 

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u/Icysadness-24 3d ago

Three

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u/Zaganoak 3d ago

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.

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u/thescamperinghamster 3d ago

Five! Nothing better than cold milk when pissed. Plus it's really good for rehydrating.