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, Kris 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!

Source: Dairy Herd Management