[Grammar] There is / are

[ontheroad]

There is some bread and eggs on the table.
There are some milk and eggs on the table.

The first sentence seems to be correct, but the second one makes better sense to me logically, because "there are" work on both milk and eggs. Can anyone please explain this to me? Is the second one acceptable? If not, why? It seems silly to ask why with a language question, but this one is really confusing.

 

[jutfrank]

I don't see what you think the logical difference is between them since in both sentences there are two distinct types of item on the table—bread and eggs, and milk and eggs.

Did you really mean to write bread instead of milk in the first sentence? If so, how does the difference between bread and milk affect the logic?