- "Rucklin! Where's my bantha milk?"
- ―Hype Fazon, to Jace Rucklin
Blue milk,[17] also known as Bantha milk,[18] was a rich blue-colored milk produced by female banthas. Sentients drank it,[16] and also used it in bantha butter,[11] blue bantha buttermilk biscuits,[13] blue-milk cheese,[14] blue milk custard, ice cream, and yogurt.[16] It was notably available on Outer Rim planets such as Batuu,[1] Lah'mu,[3] Lothal,[4] and Tatooine.[6] Cid's Parlor on Ord Mantell served a similar beverage that was alcoholic called Dark Blue Milk.[19]
During a lightsaber training session, the young Ezra Bridger had to protect himself as the astromech droid Chopper kept lobbing cartons of blue milk at him.[17] Luke Skywalker drank blue milk while he discussed the new droids, R2-D2 and C-3PO, with his aunt and uncle.[6]
Two establishments in Black Spire Outpost on Batuu, served blue milk or blue milk-based concoctions; Milk Stand sold blue milk and an alcoholic Blue Milk Cooler,[15] while Oga's Cantina served the non-alcoholic Blue Bantha.[12]
Behind the scenes[]
Blue milk first appeared in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, the first installment in the original trilogy of Star Wars.[6] Initially, there was a scene in which Beru Lars, played by Shelagh Fraser, was seen pouring blue milk into a jug in her kitchen. That footage, however, was left on the cutting room's floor.[20]
Mark Hamill stated the blue milk was "life-long milk" with "additives – they put blue food colouring in it – and it was really ghastly. Oily and sweet and euch! Triggered your gag reflex. But I said, 'Look – if they gave me blue milk, you bet I'm going to drink it on camera, because what other chance am I going to get?' So there's an indication that I'm an underrated actor – I gulped it and acted like I liked it without vomiting."[21]
The anthology novel From a Certain Point of View, celebrating the 40th anniversary of A New Hope, was first teased on social media on April 6, 2017, using the hashtag #OperationBlueMilk.[22]
The real-world Milk Stand found at Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge serves "blue milk," which is actually a frozen plant-based blend of coconut and rice milks that the menu describes as having "alluring fruity characteristics." The Disney's Hollywood Studios location additionally serves an alcoholic Blue Milk Cooler.[15] The real-world Oga's Cantina at both parks serves Blue Bantha, a non-alcoholic cocktail with a cookie.[12]
The 2020 non-canon video game expansion The Sims 4 Star Wars: Journey to Batuu includes blue milk as a drink sold to the player's Sims at the Milk Stand vendor in the Black Spire Outpost neighborhood. In the home neighborhood, it can be purchased as a quick meal from refrigerators.[23]
Appearances[]
Non-canon appearances[]
- Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars
- LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures — "A Hero Discovered"
- LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures — "Peril on Kashyyyk" (Mentioned only)
- LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures — "The Test" (Mentioned only)
- LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures — "The Storms of Taul" (Mentioned only)
- LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures — "Return to the Wheel"
- LEGO STAR WARS: Celebrate the Season — "Father's Day"
- The Sims 4 Star Wars: Journey to Batuu
- The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special
- LEGO Star Wars Terrifying Tales (In flashback(s))
- LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
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Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Star Wars Resistance — "Secrets and Holograms"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Star Wars Rebels — "Rise of the Old Masters"
- ↑ Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Faster"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
- ↑ Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook
- ↑ "Tales from Wild Space: The Heist" — Star Wars Adventures (2017) 21
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Star Wars Resistance — "A Quick Salvage Run"
- ↑ Star Wars Resistance — "The Mutiny"
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "But What Does He Eat?" — From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge — Oga's Cantina
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Pirate's Price
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Beru Whitesun Lars" — From a Certain Point of View
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge — Milk Stand
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Droids in Distress book
- ↑ The Rebellion Begins
- ↑ Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Rampage"
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, deleted scene featured on the Blu-ray edition.
- ↑ Mark Hamill teases Luke Skywalker's future after Star Wars The Last Jedi – and reveals what green milk really tastes like by Fullerton, Huw on Radio Times (April 4, 2018) (archived from the original on April 15, 2018)
- ↑ Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View Anthology Book Celebrates 40 Years of A Galaxy Far, Far Away on StarWars.com (backup link)
- ↑ The Sims 4 Star Wars: Journey to Batuu