Ordering a pint of milk with your lunch/dinner - Unusual?

If you're eating anything that includes salty chips, there is literally nothing nicer than a pint of milk with a couple of ice cubes in it.
My mates all think it's pretty bizarre, as they tend to view meal times as another excuse to get a couple of beers in Way I see it, there's plenty of time for booze afterwards

Can't remember the last time I had a glass of milk! My ex used to drink gallons of it rank..Can't stand the taste! And tea and coffee weird I know...

Yoghurt87 wrote: »

It has the second best milk. Irish milk is great but Jersey milk is divine. I would drink it by the gallon.

Plenty of Jersey milk in Ireland. With my dairy farmer hat on keep up the good work ah boardies. Glad to hear a good number of ye appreciate the effort.

Drinking a pint of liquid produced by the mammary glands of a cow, necessary to feed and provide vital nutrients to young calves, with your dinner, is rather unusual. But in my opinion, it's no more unusual than eating the meat of a cow for your dinner, along with a pint of water.

Always seemed to be a GAA thing moreso than a culchie thing.

The only people I ever saw drinking milk with their meals were the same people who always had a hurl sticking out of their bag or who always had to leg it to football practice at 5 o'clock.

Nutritionally it's a bit insane unless you do quite a bit of training. There are more calories in a pint of milk than a pint of coke. It's nutritionally more complete, but if you drink milk by the pallet, you're as likely to become a fatty as if you drink a 2L of coke every day.

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Didn't we all get milk for lunch in primary school? Maybe the habit stems from that. And also, being a dairy country, it is cheap, plentiful and nutritious. And also perishable, so you may as well not waste it.

I don't think the milk in primary school was free
As a nutrition source, it's actually quite hard to beat full fat milk. It's got a lot of key nutrients. So as a food in Ireland, access to milk was probably key growing up because it's so cheap.
The current anti-everything food fads going around have demonised it a bit, but if you can get half a pint of milk per day into a child on top of their normal meals, you can basically stop worrying about most childhood nutritional concerns.
For adults, you need to be more careful, but it's still pretty good.

seamus wrote: »

I don't think the milk in primary school was free ...

Well, free at the point-of-use, IIRC.

There is nothing better when you wake up with a hangover than a big glass/cup of really cold milk! You can feel the coldness slipping down through your body, heaven

homemadecider wrote: »

I thought it was only children that drank milk with their meals. Apparently its children plus boggers.

What do you drink?

Love a pint of milk with a chinese they go together great and my face doesn't get burned off by the spiciness. Im about as city boy as you can get