Why don’t they serve full fat milk?

[Esceptico]

Something that annoys me is that in general the coffee shop chains eg Costa, Pret, Starbucks, etc serve semi skimmed not real milk. It took me a while to figure this out. I much preferred the coffee at two local independents but thought it was wholly down to better coffee until I realised that the chains were using semi skimmed. For me full fat milk takes some of the bitterness away and gives the coffee a more rounded taste (I don’t add sugar).

If people want to have semi or skimmed milk that is fine but why is it forced on me? What is worse is that in many places they don’t even have full fat so you can have soya or oat or coconut but you can’t have real milk. A small thing but still bloody annoying.

[anonymous-user]

Supply and demand.

Most people don't want it so they don't buy it.

Simples.

[craigjm]

All to do with calories and trying to be more “healthy” Starbucks stopped serving whole milk back in 2007 and I guess the others followed or went first

[21TonyK]

Completely agree OP. A good coffee shop is worth finding and its a shame the chains don't give you the option.

Not sure if its still the case but the restaurant chain Bistro Pierre used to use full fat.

[LordGrover]

Most offer cream. Is that proper full fat cream or one of the perceived 'healthy' alternatives?

[davek_964]

I always assumed that when people asked for "skinny latte" they were getting semi-skimmed. I guess that normal is semi, and skinny is skimmed then?

[craigjm]

davek_964 said:

I always assumed that when people asked for "skinny latte" they were getting semi-skimmed. I guess that normal is semi, and skinny is skimmed then?

Yep

[Nickbrapp]

They do, they options at Costa are full fat or skimmed. Not semi skimmed option.

[Esceptico]

craigjm said:

All to do with calories and trying to be more “healthy” Starbucks stopped serving whole milk back in 2007 and I guess the others followed or went first

That is such bullst though given that pretty much everything else they peddle is full of fat and sugar

[craigjm]

Esceptico said:

craigjm said:

All to do with calories and trying to be more “healthy” Starbucks stopped serving whole milk back in 2007 and I guess the others followed or went first

That is such bullst though given that pretty much everything else they peddle is full of fat and sugar

Indeed

[Esceptico]

keirik said:

Supply and demand.

Most people don't want it so they don't buy it.

Simples.

What is the choice if by default you are given semi? When I buy milk at the supermarket there is still a big section of full fat milk so not everyone has switched to semi.

[Bill]

My wife's gone off her occasional mocha since she realised it was as calorific as a meal.

[craigjm]

Nickbrapp said:

They do, they options at Costa are full fat or skimmed. Not semi skimmed option.

Not any more. Full fat milk is only in their flat white range. All the rest is semi and skimmed as an option . The stealth move happened mid 2018

[ReallyReallyGood]

One of the reasons Starbucks US is much better than the UK is the half-and-half (half cream, half semi I think). I think it's considered the healthy option in the states

[Condi]

Not just coffee shops, look in the fridge at work and its all green top milk.


fking annoying when I run out of blue top and have to borrow someone elses, but it does stop people stealing mine.


Ironically a lot of the whales will eat an entire cake in an afternoon, do no exercise, then insist on green milk because its healthier....

[craigjm]

Condi said:

Ironically a lot of the whales will eat an entire cake in an afternoon, do no exercise, then insist on green milk because its healthier....

Just like you see them eating a giant KFC bucket with Diet Coke

[RizzoTheRat]

Random statistic.

People that drink a pint of full fat milk per day are less likely to have a heart attack.


This is because a large proportion of people who have heart attacks already know they're in a high risk group and don't drink a point of full fat milk per day.

[Esceptico]

Condi said:

Not just coffee shops, look in the fridge at work and its all green top milk.


fking annoying when I run out of blue top and have to borrow someone elses, but it does stop people stealing mine.


Ironically a lot of the whales will eat an entire cake in an afternoon, do no exercise, then insist on green milk because its healthier....

This. My work provide milk for tea and coffee: semi, skimmed and soya but won’t provide full fat, even though there will often be cakes and biscuits brought in and the average BMI in the office is probably 30!

[Quickmoose]

Isn't full fat milk a low fat drink anyway? 4%....?
I think people get all up themselves about it because milk is a product which is fundamentally fat (and water)…. if only the public interrogated the rest of their food so thoroughly...

[eybic]

I really enjoyed the Costa Millionaires Shortbread Latte around xmas '17, when I asked where it was last year I was told they stopped doing it due to the sugar tax Give people the choice for fu%^s sake, I don't mind paying more for sugar but let me have the option please.