Three Litre
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Post by Three Litre on Nov 20, 2019 19:50:09 GMT
Six pints!! Frank Haskins drinks six pints of milk a day, forty two per week!! And to no effect, apparently. I just rewatched this episode and this is one of the most extraordinary claims ever made by a character in the Sweeney
And what is the milk supposed to signify?
Haskins seems to be suffering from a cold and seems to expect that six pints a day will cure all ailments. In reality I believe that milk creates more phlegm and is the worst thing to drink when suffering from a cold.
Apart from putting it onto cereal and into tea and coffee does anyone still drink glasses of milk? I've always thought it was pretty weird drinking another creature's infant's food source.
Back to Haskins, it's interesting how his character evolved over the series, he's a complete by-the-book slightly sickly wimp in the first series and yet by the end he has his own informers and goes out on raids etc.
I think the implication is that he suffers from indigestion because of the stress of the job, I seem to remember seeing some medicine in one episode. However six pints is mad!
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