Santa Will Drink More than 5 Million Gallons of Milk This Christmas Eve

Whether it’s whole milk, 2%, eggnog or chocolate, Santa sure loves to drink the good stuff – real milk from real, hardworking dairy farm families.
Whether it’s whole milk, 2%, eggnog or chocolate, Santa sure loves to drink the good stuff – real milk from real, hardworking dairy farm families.
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With all his hard work delivering toys to an estimated 300 million kids this Christmas, Santa is sure to work up a hefty appetite. To quench his thirst, Kriss Kringle is relying on America’s dairy farmers to help produce his drink of choice – real milk!

According to the Dairy Alliance, approximately 86 million homes celebrate Christmas. If each household leaves one 8 oz. glass of milk out for St. Nick to enjoy, he will consume an estimated 688 million ounces of nature’s most perfect beverage.

This equates to:

  • 46,225,000 lbs. of milk
  • 5,375,000 million gallons of milk
  • Roughly 716 tanker-trailers full of milk
  • Enough milk to make more than 4 million lbs. of cheese or ice cream
  • Enough milk to fill eight Olympic-sized swimming pools 
  • A day's worth of milk from approximately 827,000 cows 

 

Whether it’s whole milk, 2%, eggnog or chocolate, Santa sure loves to drink the good stuff – real milk from real, hardworking dairy farm families!

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