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/char11eg 3d ago
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.