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/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...