History Main / LactoseOverLiquor

* In ''Film/{{Sidekicks}}'', Chuck Norris drinks milk... [[MemeticBadass which automatically means milk is awesome.]]

--> '''Station Master''': *as his co-workers lead him out of the saloon like he's drunk* I want to ''dieeee....''

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* In ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'', Obelix drinks goat's milk when he's DrowningHisSorrows. He has beer at other times, but since he DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength, he doesn't want to be upset ''and'' drunk.

** In "The Pony Express", the new recruits for the Pony Express are forced to drink milk in the saloon since their contract forbids them from drinking alcohol. This gets them mocked by the members of the Pacific Railway (the Pony Express' main competitor). Their leader, the station master, even forces William Russell, head of the Pony Express, at gunpoint to drink a bottle of whiskey. In the comic, he actually drinks it, while in the animated adaptation Luke shoots the bottle. In both versions, Luke then gets back at the station master by forcing him at gunpoint to drink a bottle of milk.

* ''Series/TheITCrowd'': In "The Final Countdown", Moss becomes part of an exclusive club for those who make it through eight episodes of the titular game show ''Series/{{Countdown}}''. The club is full of stereotypical {{Nerd}}s showing off their [[ALadyOnEachArm arm candy]]. Moss, who is known for his [[{{Adorkable}} awkwardness and dry wit]] drinks milk rather than alcohol, attesting to his vanilla lifestyle.

* ''Series/TheITCrowd'': In "The Final Countdown", Moss becomes part of an exclusive club for those who make it through eight episodes of the titular game show ''Series/{{Countdown}}''. The club is full of stereotypical {{Nerds}} showing off their [[ALadyOnEachArm arm candy]]. Moss, who is known for his [[{{Adorkable}} awkwardness and dry wit]] drinks milk rather than alcohol, attesting to his vanilla lifestyle.

* ''Film/{{Catwoman|2004}}'': The infamous film adaptation has Creator/HalleBerry pouncing, meowing, and [[SexyWalk sexy walking]] through Gotham city. In one scene, she goes to a club and orders a White Russian without ice, vodka, or Kahlúa. Even the bartender seems amused when he ends up getting her the drink, which is just straight-up cream.

* A comic of ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons'' focusing on Moe's tavern starts with Wiggum ordering a glass of milk. It's then [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when Wiggum reminded Moe what he actually meant, as "milk" was part of a [[SpySpeak series of code names]] under which he ordered his drinks.

* Barnaby Jones, from the show Barnaby Jones, was a somewhat elderly private eye who always ordered milk in bars and restaurants, usually to the disbelief of the criminals he chased.

* ''Film/{{Catwoman|2004}}'': The infamous film adaptation has Creator/HalleBerry pouncing, meowing, and [[SexyWalk sexy walking]] through Gotham city. In one scene, she goes to a club and orders a glass of milk (because of her [[CatGirl feline inclinations and behaviours]]). The bartender smirks and gives her one.

But some characters will do just that. They could simply be TheTeetotaler, too young to imbibe alcohol, not in the mood for a stiff drink, or suffering health maladies that would make alcohol a problem for them. Whatever the case, they have ordered milk.

If the character is sufficiently {{Badass}}, they won't suffer needless harassment for their order. Compare AgeStereotypicalFood for the "childish" association.

Asto why bars might actually have milk available, some cocktails, such as White Russians, use it.

* ''Anime/GalaxyExpress999'': Tetsuro, looking for information about Count Mecha, orders milk at the bar on Heavy Melder. Though laughed at by the other patrons, the bartender tells Tetsuro he'll drink with him. Later, when Tetsuro is trying to retrieve his Cosmo Dragoon from some rough customers at the bar, Captain Harlock shows up. He, too, orders milk, but this time, no-one is laughing, and he forces it down the offending android's throat.

** The UrExample is when the Phantom goes to town in the guise of Mr. Walker, to extract information. He will invariably visit the grungiest bar in the seediest part of Morristown and order milk. Nobody ever mocks him for it... more than once ("It is good for the bones" [starts breaking bones]). And they will always have a bottle handy. The Phantom'' is teetotal, which appears to [[LegacyImmortality go in the family]].

-->-- '''George McFly''', ''Film/BackToTheFuture''

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* ''Anime/GalaxyExpress999'', Tetsuro, looking for information about Count Mecha, orders milk at the bar on Heavy Melder. Though laughed at by the other patrons, the bartender tells Tetsuro he'll drink with him. Later, when Tetsuro is trying to retrieve his Cosmo Dragoon from some rough customers at the bar, Captain Harlock shows up. He, too, orders milk, but this time, no one is laughing, and he forces it down the offending android's throat.
* Badass giant robot pilot Van of ''Anime/GunXSword'' has as his drink of choice... milk. He does have an excuse, however - he CantHoldHisLiquor worth a damn.

* The UrExample is when ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'' goes to town in the guise of Mr. Walker, to extract information. He will invariably visit the grungiest bar in the seediest part of Morristown and order milk. Nobody ever mocks him for it... more than once ("It is good for the bones" [starts breaking bones]). And they will always have a bottle handy. The Phantom'' is teetotal, which appears to [[LegacyImmortality go in the family]]. \\
He is at one point revealed to have a drinks cabinet filled with 300+ years' worth of various vines and other spirits that have been gifted to the Phantoms over the years, still unopened because neither he nor any of his forefathers have ever touched any of it. His [[DrinkBasedCharacterization trademark drink]] is milk--which, no matter how seedy the bar he walks into is, they always have a bottle of somewhere. \\
His now college-aged daughter Heloise is apparently continuing the tradition, with an amusing side-story detailing her college roommate's spectacularly failed attempt to drag her into a GirlsNightOutEpisode, where her offer to buy her a beer was met with a completely straight-faced "I am not even in the mood for milk". Then a random Guy got grabby and a BarBrawl started and she kicked their asses and she said that the next evening would be spent studying for their exams. \\
A 2020 story had Her Father Kit Walker (The Phantom) visit her together with her mother Diana Walker, and they and Heloise and her Roomate Kadia went out for dinner. And it is casually shown that while all four of them was given Wine to dinner, both Kit and Heloise is shown covering their full glasses when they are offered a refill by their waitor.

** In "The Tenderfoot", Luke deduces a bartender is teetotal by the fact he has a glass of milk [[spoiler: and [[SpottingTheThread therefore]] that he hasn't, as he claimed, been drinking from the bottle of scotch behind the bar, and the one man who ''does'' drink it [[FakingTheDead isn't really dead]].]]
* In ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'', Obelix drinks goat's milk when he's DrowningHisSorrows. He has beer at other times, but since he DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength, he doesn't want to be upset ''and'' drunk.

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* ''Film/AlienNation'' is something of a subversion, as the alien Newcomers ''can'' get DrunkOnMilk...or, in their case, spoiled milk.
* In ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', George is about to approach his crush Lorraine at the MaltShop. He needs LiquidCourage and heads over to the bar to order ... chocolate milk. In this case, it's probably intended to indicate the relative wholesomeness of Hill Valley in 1955 and/or the fact that George is a somewhat wimpy dork.
* ''Film/Catwoman2004'': The infamous film adaptation has Creator/HalleBerry pouncing, meowing, and [[SexyWalk sexy walking]] through Gotham city. In one scene, she goes to a club and orders a glass of milk (because of her [[CatGirl feline inclinations and behaviours]]). The bartender smirks and gives her one.

* In Film/TheThreeStooges short ''Punchy Cowpunchers'', after Moe and Larry order their shots at the bar, Shemp orders a milkshake. When a cowboy at the bar spits out his drink in disgust, Shemp adds "''... with sour milk!''".

-->'''King:''' ''(to the barman)'' Milk.
-->'''Bystander:''' Cow's milk, or mother's milk, monsieur?
-->'''King:''' How about your sister's? ''(cue BarBrawl)''

* In one of the adventures in ''Literature/IncognitoMosquitoPrivateInsective'', the protagonist goes into a tough bar and orders a glass of milk. Realizing that it's a conspicuously un-tough drink order, he quickly adds, "Make it a double -- and serve it in a dirty glass."
* Milk is the favorite drink of Archie Goodwin, the title character's right-hand man in the Literature/NeroWolfe series. While he's not a complete teetotaler, the milk preference does subvert the hard-drinking private eye stereotype.

** In ''Literature/MenAtArms'', when most of the Watch are drowning their sorrows in beer, the exceptions are Detritus (whose differing metabolism means he gets drunk on molten sulphur) Nobby (who's gone for an UmbrellaDrink), and Carrot, who orders milk. Carrot being Carrot, nobody questions or makes fun of this. (In [[Literature/GuardsGuards his previous appearance]], he'd tried a shandy (half beer, half lemonade) and hadn't liked it.)

* BA Baracus, the resident ScaryBlackMan from ''Series/TheATeam'' is a strict teetotaler and only drinks milk. This might be intended to indicate [[BruiserWithASoftCenter his softer side]]. The preference usually goes uncommented-upon because the rest of the team is used to it after all this time (enough that drugging it is one of their methods of choice for sedating BA in case they need to fly).

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* ''Podcast/WoodenOvercoats'': Rudyard strongly dislikes alcohol. Eric remembers this and offers him his preferred beverage of milk when the entire cast goes out drinking at the end of an episode.

* WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons: At the beginning of ''Wags to Riches'', an executor reads a will explaining the qualities of the dog who will inherit his late master's fortune, and as he reads, Spike acts out those traits in hopes that he will be the lucky dog. When the will mentions that the dog must be "sober", Spike appears uptight and holding a cup of milk... but when it also mentions that he should also be "one of the boys", and Spike immediately drowns himself in beer.

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* Crossing into DrunkOnMilk, In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' episode "Psycho Therapy", Daria convinces her father that milk will calm him down, and his copious drinking of it is treated like an addiction.

* In ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', George is about to approach his crush Lorraine at the MaltShop. He needs LiquidCourage and heads over to the bar to order ... chocolate milk. In this case, it's probably intended to indicate the relative wholesomeness of Hill Valley in 1955 and/or the fact that George is a somewhat wimpy dork.

* ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'': Puss in Boots and Donkey go to the Poison Apple (a tavern on the outskirts of the city), where Puss drinks a large glass jug of milk.

** In ''Literature/MenAtArms'', when most of the Watch are drowning their sorrows in beer. The exceptions are Detritus (whose differing metabolism means he gets drunk on molten sulphur) Nobby (who's gone for an UmbrellaDrink), and Carrot, who orders milk. Carrot being Carrot, nobody questions or makes fun of this. (In [[Literature/GuardsGuards his previous appearance]], he'd tried a shandy (half beer, half lemonade) and hadn't liked it.)

** In ''Literature/EqualRites'', Esk, an eleven year old girl, orders a goat's milk at a seedy tavern, and the bartender is about to say they don't have any, when he realises that something about the barrels behind him suddenly doesn't feel right...

* In Asterix, Obelix drinks goat's milk when he's DrowningHisSorrows. He has beer at other times, but since he DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength, he doesn't want to be upset ''and'' drunk.

** In "The Tenderfoot", Luke deduces a bartender is teetotal by the fact he has a glass of milk [[spoiler: and [[SpottingTheThread therefore]] that he hasn't, as he claimed, been drinking the bottle of scotch behind the bar, and the one man who ''does'' drink it [[FakingTheDead isn't really dead]].]]
* In Asterix, Obelix drinks goat's milk when he's DrowningHisSorrows. He has beer at other times, but since he DoesntKnowHisOwnStrength, he doesn't want to be upset ''and'' drunk.