Milk Bar - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• In the movie Strictly Ballroom, Fran's family runs a milk bar in Australia near a railway. The milk bar was built for the film and was not operational. While filming the movie, health inspectors showed up and demanded to see their papers.

• A milk bar was featured in the fictional show Cow and Chicken in which the title character, Cow, was put to work singing in a "seedy milk bar" and her performance mimicked a run-down lounge act. The bar served at least milk and ice cream, though most likely it was not meant to reflect true milk bars.

• In the video game The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, there is a milk bar named Latte in Clock Town that serves milk from the Romani Ranch, a local farm in the land of Termina, though it seems to be hinted that the milk represents alcohol, as children weren't allowed in and people would come to drown their sorrows.

• In the XTC song "This Is Pop", the opening line to the song is 'In a Milk Bar, and feeling lost'.

• Christopher Craig and his "gang" (Vincent and Terry) spend a great deal of their spare time hanging out in a Croyden Milk Bar in the movie Let Him Have It.

• "Montrose Gimps it Up for Charity" by Kenickie contains the lyrics: "Do you fancy/Accompanying me to the milk bar?"

• The Korova Milk Bar is an adult establishment in the novel and movie A Clockwork Orange, where patrons are served milk laced with drugs.