To be totally turned off by this?

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Went on a first date with a guy I met online last night, went out for dinner. When I got there I definitely found him attractive. However when it came to ordering drinks he ordered himself a glass of milk.

I've honestly never came across someone doing that in a restaurant and I just think it's really odd and really put me off him. I have tried to work out why this was such a turn off and I can't come up with a reason it just made me feel a bit yuck.

AIBU? It's just so odd on a first date I feel.

My American relative drinks glasses of milk with a meal.

On one first date with a guy we had literally just sat down with our drinks when his glasses suddenly broke in the middle and both pieces sat swinging, comedy style on his ears!

Then on our second date (!) we went to a McDonald’s drive-through where he pulled up next to a bollard and read our full order into it! (He was wearing old glasses coz his others were: see above🤣) I couldn’t speak for laughing!

Weve been happily married 20 years!

So I would say, give the poor guy a second chance 😂

I've quite often asked for glasses of milk for my DCs in restaurants and it's always been supplied perfectly happily. Sometimes on the house, sometimes for 50p a glass or whatever.

That is so funny.

Glad you trusted your instincts and carried on dating him. I bet he's lovely.

After a 3hr lane swim I used to go to Sainsbury's and buy a 750ml bottle of Jersey Milk - it's good for muscle repair - maybe he'd been for a run or down the gym earlier

If he was fine and normal and great I see no problems.it wouldn't trigger an ok because there would have to be other factors steering that way at the same time.
Otherwise I'd laugh along and say iv e never experienced thus before.

😂

I wonder if its to do with heart burn

Yup my brother comes in and does this.
I miss having glasses of milk by choice Now! I always used to as a child.

I'm sorry, but this is just hilarious haha

I don't know. Milk. Calcium, Strong bones......could be a good thing??

At least he won't have a beer belly!

There we go. More delightfulness. 😂

@IMissVino i thought the very watery squash and toasts in shloer was a Presbyterian wedding thing, but our most recent wedding was at a fairly posh hotel in the west ot the province, and included the watery orange. It was not Presbyterian. (The province was chucked in to annoy people who get annoyed at that description of the 6 counties of Ulster in Northern Ireland)

Milk makes sense with spicey wraps. He prob looked at the menu online before hand.

When visiting Ireland I have seen milk offered at lunches in restaurants. I have seen it as part of a 'meal deal' in supermarkets also. At the Royal Show (UK) years ago, there was an annual food stall selling Irish steak sandwiches and a pint of Irish milk. That was it.

There is rather a lot of grass and cows in Ireland. It has to go somewhere.

I once went on a business trip to a town in the middle of Holland and we went out for lunch and EVERYONE ordered milk. I was most perplexed.

Wouldn't bother me in the slightest. I can imagine if this thread was reverse gender the responses be very different and it be seen as a red flag that a man was so controlling.

Most people on a first date try and act a tiny bit sophisticated.

I really don't like drinking milk though so this is probably why I would not get it.

It’s a bit weird and I probably would have asked him about it in a jokey way, ‘’Do you have heartburn?’’ Or something.

Probably wouldn’t put me off on it’s own though if everything else was good. I think it’s such a trivial thing to be put off by to be honest.

Someone who has acid reflux / heartburn issues would be a definite turn-off.

Why!?

One of my good friends suffers with this, bless her. Constant worry about eating the wrong thing.. quizzing of waiters in restaurants ("are you sure there aren't any peppers in that salad", burping, bad breath and then the endless discussions of symptoms and triggers. No thanks!

Maybe he just likes milk. He will probably be put off somebody so boringly conformist that somebody drinking milk scandalizes them.

And he would hopefully have replied "Because I want to"

Milk is a drink and plenty of people drink it with meals.

YABU

I started drinking milk with meals when I was pregnant with my first... It was actually very pleasant and I still order it occasionally. The only reason I don't order it more often is because I like to order something that I can't get easily at home, (or just water) - rules out diet coke as well!

I don't know why it is unusual but it shouldn't be?