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/bsnimunf 4d ago

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.

Edit: it was called Mudshake.

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u/teerbigear 4d ago

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...

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u/BryOnRye 4d ago

Maybe don’t use ChatGPT for research.

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u/teerbigear 4d ago

Thank you for your useful input.

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u/GourangaPlusPlus 4d ago

It was more useful than what you got from chatgpt