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

kfallon · 25-04-2014 09:18AM

Doylers wrote: »

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

Milk with any curry dish, amazing!

Ever have coke to drink with a curry....absolute rank

rainbow kirby · 25-04-2014 09:23AM

kfallon wrote: »

Ever have coke to drink with a curry....absolute rank

Has to be beer with a curry.

Legs.Eleven · 25-04-2014 09:26AM

I think it's an Irish thing more than a cuilche thing specifically. My brothers used to drink pints of the stuff growing up and I'm from Dublin and as far as I'm aware, the one still living in Ireland still does. I haven't seen it anywhere else outside of Ireland though, even in the UK. I'm sure it has something to do with the good quality of our milk though; I'd vomit if I was made drink that UHT bollocks the continentals are partial to.

I was always brought up to believe a glass of (low fat) milk a day was good for you and my friend (who's a dietitian with years of experience and NOT a nutritionist) agrees. I'm not sure about pints and pints of it daily though.

danniemcq · 25-04-2014 09:37AM

kfallon wrote: »

What do you drink?

bottled water flown in on the backs of unicorns from a mythical spring high in the alps

bigSuzi12 · 25-04-2014 09:41AM

I'm from the city and always had the pint of milk with dinner growing up. Stopped doing it in my twenties tho. Can't remember why, maybe trying to lose weight. Always have water now.

Robson Lobson · 25-04-2014 09:42AM

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

I think it's an Irish thing more than a cuilche thing specifically. My brothers used to drink pints of the stuff growing up and I'm from Dublin and as far as I'm aware, the one still living in Ireland still does. I haven't seen it anywhere else outside of Ireland though, even in the UK. I'm sure it has something to do with the good quality of our milk though; I'd vomit if I was made drink that UHT bollocks the continentals are partial to.

I was always brought up to believe a glass of (low fat) milk a day was good for you and my friend (who's a dietitian with years of experience and NOT a nutritionist) agrees. I'm not sure about pints and pints of it daily though.

Nutritionally full fat is better for you though you should probably go easy on it as it's very high calorie.

Legs.Eleven · 25-04-2014 09:48AM

Robson Lobson wrote: »

Nutritionally full fat is better for you though you should probably go easy on it as it's very high calorie.

Yeah a pint of full fat milk is a huge amount of fat.

Gran Hermano · 25-04-2014 09:53AM

LordChessington wrote: »

Last grown adult that I have seen drinking a glass of milk with a meal was actually swedish.

I've had friends from Spain and Italy comment on how weird they think it is that Irish adults will drink a glass of milk with dinner.

Legs.Eleven · 25-04-2014 10:00AM

Gran Hermano wrote: »

I've had friends from Spain and Italy comment on how weird they think it is that Irish adults will drink a glass of milk with dinner.

That's because their milk is vile.

Joanne218 · 25-04-2014 10:38AM

Id have milk with every meal

jimgoose · 25-04-2014 10:40AM

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

That's because their milk is vile.

Yes, it is. I don't know how or why they put up with it.

awec · 25-04-2014 10:50AM

I love milk, but it isn't the same now that you can't get it in pint glass bottles from the milk man any more.

Used to come with just a wee foil top on it, and when you opened it there would be little bits of cream floating at the top. Proper full fat milk that tasted better than anything you can buy today.

Precious flower · 25-04-2014 10:55AM

I can't get over that that people think it's so weird to drink milk for dinner or breakfast! Seems so normal to me to drink milk for dinner and generally whenever I feel thirsty and don't feel like water.

I used to drink quite a bit growing up and I've cut down but to me it's the next best thing to water! Also, we never had squash or fizzy drinks in our house so it was either water, milk or orange juice. My mum told me the other day that my grandmother used to drink buttermilk by the glass full to quench her thirst!:eek: That stuff is rank! My dad would drink it too!

It's probably a country thing because they wouldn't have an access to any flavoured drinks growing up, certainly my parents never did, so they just had milk instead. I drank full fat milk my whole life, but I've heard after a certain age you should switch to low fat milk but it hasn't done anything to me in terms of weight gain or anything. All you hear now is how horribly bad milk is for you, but I could never give it up!:o

Dixie Chick · 25-04-2014 10:56AM

I love milk and one stretch of time where I had none I dealt with indigestion and acid reflux etc and it took me ages to link the two. I would never drink a pint of full fat though as would eb conscious of the calories and then the low fat and semi skimmed have loads of sugar in them. But I do, I love milk

Legs.Eleven · 25-04-2014 11:02AM

jimgoose wrote: »

Yes, it is. I don't know how or why they put up with it.

You can buy fresh milk here (and I do) but for some reason, it goes off quickly and can only be bought in supermarkets. They buy the UHT stuff because they only use it for cereal and coffee and it goes off quickly in the heat, so they need the long lasting stuff that can be stored easily and it's also cheaper.

jimgoose · 25-04-2014 11:08AM

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

You can buy fresh milk here (and I do) but for some reason, it goes off quickly and can only be bought in supermarkets. They buy the UHT stuff because they only use it for cereal and coffee and it goes off quickly in the heat, so they need the long lasting stuff that can be stored easily and it's also cheaper.

Unbelievable. It's the sodding Third World. That'd be fairly typical of a lot of Spanish, though - they'll put up with adulterated second-rate crap rather than spend a few bob giving the fridges the boot.

freedominacup · 25-04-2014 11:11AM

jimgoose wrote: »

Unbelievable. It's the sodding Third World.

It's probably caused by thermoduric bacteria. If milk plants at farm level aren't kept spotless and general hygeine isn't up to spec these buggers get in and they will not be killed by pastuerisation that's why your fresh milk isn't lasting. Processors here expect milk to remain fresh for upto 14 days from when the cow was milked but the hygeine standards are high and poor performance is penalised immeadiately.

jimgoose · 25-04-2014 11:21AM

freedominacup wrote: »

It's probably caused by thermoduric bacteria. If milk plants at farm level aren't kept spotless and general hygeine isn't up to spec these buggers get in and they will not be killed by pastuerisation that's why your fresh milk isn't lasting. Processors here expect milk to remain fresh for upto 14 days from when the cow was milked but the hygeine standards are high and poor performance is penalised immeadiately.

Mmm. We need to send a humanitarian mission over with a few 55-gallon drums of Chlorus fairly lively! :pac:

BraziliaNZ · 25-04-2014 11:28AM

Irish people are too f**king weird. Grown men drinking milk, eugh, makes me want to puke.

Knight who says Meh · 25-04-2014 11:33AM

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Irish people are too f**king weird. Grown men drinking milk, eugh, makes me want to puke.

And people with over the top food hang ups about absolutely hum drum common place foods are normal and not at all weird...

jimgoose · 25-04-2014 11:34AM

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Irish people are too f**king weird. Grown men drinking milk, eugh, makes me want to puke.

Low enough Puke-Threshold, haven't you! :pac:

Sheeps · 25-04-2014 11:43AM

Cant beat a pint of milk. Some places serve it with ice in it! That's weird.

Lapin · 25-04-2014 11:59AM

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Irish people are too f**king weird. Grown men drinking milk, eugh, makes me want to puke.

It's difficult for foreigners to get their heads around because only in Ireland is milk actually drinkable.

The shíte that passes for milk everywhere else wouldn't be let near any shop shelf in Ireland.

Rabies · 25-04-2014 12:03PM

Lapin wrote: »

It's difficult for foreigners to get their heads around because only in Ireland is milk actually drinkable.

The shíte that passes for milk everywhere else wouldn't be let near any shop shelf in Ireland.

I used to always have a glass or two of milk a day when I lived in Ireland.

Milk here is terrible. I've stopped having cereal in the mornings as well. Doesn't taste right.

Miss my Thurles milk

Sheeps · 25-04-2014 12:04PM

Last year I went to Belgium and it was so strange. They will serve you gourmet coffee and it is incredibly up market and probably the best coffee I've ever had, then they'll give you a bit of uht milk on the side to ruin the whole experience. They're mad for the uht milk on the continent.

jimgoose · 25-04-2014 12:04PM

Rabies wrote: »

I used to always have a glass or two of milk a day when I lived in Ireland.

Milk here is terrible. I've stopped having cereal in the mornings as well. Doesn't taste right.

Miss my Thurles milk

You don't miss the chalky goodness of the Golden Vale until it's gone, biy. :cool:

Ann Landers · 25-04-2014 12:06PM

pundy wrote: »

im from the city - and i do it all the time.

milk is delicious - especially when it's ice cold!

I would never drink a pint of milk, too much for me personally, but have to agree - sometimes a glass of ice-cold milk is just the thing.

Milk is lovely to have with pizza. Or when eating an apple, for some strange reason. Or with buttery toast. Yummy.

I used to work in a pub in Dublin where it was quite frequent for men (always men, never women) to have their meal with a pint of milk. If there was a gang, sometimes we'd get worried about the milk situation as a lot of milk would get used up!

I suspect these men were mostly not from Dublin.

Ann Landers · 25-04-2014 12:06PM

mike_ie wrote: »

[edit]Come to think of it, I'm fairly sure you could buy pint cartons of milk in the college canteen with your dinner.

Yep, still can.

maguic24 · 25-04-2014 12:12PM

seamus wrote: »

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.

Don't play GAA myself. My bf is a dub and he drinks pints of milk with his dinner too, he just never orders it when we're out for dinner unlike mise.

Legs.Eleven · 25-04-2014 12:43PM

freedominacup wrote: »

It's probably caused by thermoduric bacteria. If milk plants at farm level aren't kept spotless and general hygeine isn't up to spec these buggers get in and they will not be killed by pastuerisation that's why your fresh milk isn't lasting. Processors here expect milk to remain fresh for upto 14 days from when the cow was milked but the hygeine standards are high and poor performance is penalised immeadiately.

Jaysus that'd turn me off even drinking the fresh milk here. Yuck!

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

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