Milk+Bars

=Milk Bars= You hear the words milk bar and what do you think? Did you think of something related to a candy bar? Or even a bar atmosphere that serves milk in fancy bottles with curly straws? That's what I thought too. Krakow is known as the "birthplace" for these restaurants. The first milk bar opened in May 1948 and instead of serving meals, like you would see now, they actually did serve milk. The government originally started milk bars to get people to stop drinking mass amounts of alcohol and drink milk as a substitute, but the idea for these restaurants changed over time. After selling only milk for a while, milk bars started selling dairy products like yogurt and cottage cheese. Poland had a large surplus of dairy and that's why foods that had dairy in it were on the menus at these restaurants. Adding on to the milk and dairy products, milk bars produced omelettes or pierogi and other flour based foods. Modern day milk bars are cheap and quickly served. Similar to the idea of McDonald's here in America. Things such as plates, forks, spoons, and knives are disposable. Many say that these milk bars aren't the cleanest but lots of people still go to eat there because of how inexpensive the food is. But it's near the end for milk bars as some people say. Most recommend going to a milk bar as soon as possible before they disappear!