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Come Inside... => The Restaurant => Topic started by: Steve on June 12, 2025, 10:12:07 PM

Title: Pubs for Dummies?
Post by: Steve on June 12, 2025, 10:12:07 PM

well it's for Americans

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/british-pubs-rules-etiquette-beer



Title: Re: Pubs for Dummies?
Post by: Uncle Mort on June 13, 2025, 07:42:12 AM
I hate to say it but there's many of these in South Essex:

Flat-roofed pub: Dodgy beer, an edgy clientele and accompanying weapon dogs are all synonymous with flat-roofed pubs — “forbidding cubes of wood and brick that squat in the shadow of tower blocks,” as the UK’s Guardian newspaper once put it. It can also be difficult to see what’s going on from the outside, which some regard as tantamount to climbing into the back of a strange, unmarked van.
Title: Re: Pubs for Dummies?
Post by: Nick on June 13, 2025, 07:55:31 AM
Popular in Glasgow and Belfast too  scared2:
Title: Re: Pubs for Dummies?
Post by: apc2010 on June 13, 2025, 03:53:39 PM
Popular in Glasgow and Belfast too  scared2:

I went into a pub in Glasgow once and the barman wouldn’t serve me coz of my accent …my Scottish friend had to order ….also went to bar to ask for matches or a light …he said ..NO …he didn’t have one …and HE was smoking … ;D ;D