The Virtual Pub
Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Grumpmeister on August 14, 2008, 11:18:25 AM
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Bartering foor for beer could make for an interesting menu....
Locals at a village pub in Norfolk are beating the credit crunch - by bartering home-grown produce for pints.
The Pigs public house, in Edgefield, near Holt, encourages drinkers to contribute to its traditional food menu in return for free alcohol.
A sign placed inside the pub reads: "If you grow, breed, shoot or steal anything that may look at home on our menu, bring it in and let's do a deal."
Fresh fruit, fish, meat and vegetables have been traded for pints.
Meals or vouchers have also been exchanged for produce, depending on its size, quantity and quality.
Manager Cloe Wasey, 24, said the offer has been a success as people have started to feel the credit crunch.
Shot rabbits
Pints have been exchanged for a kilo of potatoes, three whole mackerel and a kilo of fresh fruit.
Locally shot rabbits, pheasants and pigeons have also been exchanged for beer.
Miss Wasey said: "We've been doing it for almost two years now but the success of it has only just recently started to boom with the credit crunch setting in.
"People need to find different ways to go out and this helps.
"It's also great for us because we get produce at a good price, although we have high standards so the food we get in has to meet those.
"We find the home grown stuff is often much better than what we can get from the suppliers.
"When we get the good stuff, and it gets on to the specials board, it's brilliant.
"Someone will say 'that rabbit tasted great' and we say 'here, meet the person who shot it'.
"It's also a challenge for the chef to make the most of the ingredients."
Driver Derek Feast, 64, a regular in the pub, recently swapped some of the free range chicken eggs that he breeds, for a pint.
"I have a job where I earn the national minimum wage so this little bit of extra money helps me get out," he said.
"The odd penny here and there really helps."
Miss Wasey runs the pub with her business partner Tim Abbott, 24, who is head chef.
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noooo:
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This noooo: prolly means that we have nothing he wants.
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This noooo: prolly means that we have nothing he wants.
Wenchy might have.
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Well I'm not asking her scared2:
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I've just read this a little more closely:
"If you grow, breed, shoot or steal anything that may look at home on our menu, bring it in and let's do a deal."
Treading on thin ice if he's handling stolen property eeek:
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This noooo: prolly means that we have nothing he wants.
Wenchy might have.
rubschin:
I'm warming to the idea...
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The pub in Big Sis's village has been shut for a refurb. Reopens this weekend.
Free drinks all day Saturday whistle:
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The pub in Big Sis's village has been shut for a refurb. Reopens this weekend.
Free drinks all day Saturday whistle:
Will Mrs. Nick get bladdered then...?
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The pub in Big Sis's village has been shut for a refurb. Reopens this weekend.
Free drinks all day Saturday whistle:
Which village
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Now that the caffiene is kicking in... while down here, try The Flowerpots at Cheriton cloud9:, they use to have a micro-brewery there, but it's a bit more than micro these days
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The pub in Big Sis's village has been shut for a refurb. Reopens this weekend.
Free drinks all day Saturday whistle:
Which village
Indeed, where?
I shall harness up the charabanc.
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chethams.org.uk%2Fimg%2Fmoss_lane_charabanc.jpg&hash=d00d1d2400b7347ad994d2055da19a57a1148170)
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One minute his Sister is in Winchester ~ which as any fule know is a City and now she is in a village. This trek gets more difficult to follow by the day.
Oh and the Nicks will be in Centre Parcs on Saturday.
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One minute his Sister is in Winchester ~ which as any fule know is a City and now she is in a village. This trek gets more difficult to follow by the day.
Oh and the Nicks will be in Centre Parcs on Saturday.
We should ask Nick about his sister's kettle... whistle:
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One minute his Sister is in Winchester ~ which as any fule know is a City and now she is in a village. This trek gets more difficult to follow by the day.
Oh and the Nicks will be in Centre Parcs on Saturday.
We should ask Nick about his sister's kettle... whistle:
Is she very posh and keeps cows then?
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That would be Kine arind Winchester lol:
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One minute his Sister is in Winchester ~ which as any fule know is a City and now she is in a village. This trek gets more difficult to follow by the day.
Oh and the Nicks will be in Centre Parcs on Saturday.
We should ask Nick about his sister's kettle... whistle:
Is she very posh and keeps cows then?
drumroll: lol: lol: lol:
No... noooo:
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The pub in Big Sis's village has been shut for a refurb. Reopens this weekend.
Free drinks all day Saturday whistle:
Which village
King's Worthy
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That would be Kine arind Winchester lol:
Where sex is how coal is delivered?
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Precisely ;)
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The pub in Big Sis's village has been shut for a refurb. Reopens this weekend.
Free drinks all day Saturday whistle:
Which village
King's Worthy
I assume the Cart and Horses then. But it reopened a few weeks ago confused:. It use to do nice sarnies (1/2ml from my office), but I haven't been in since they reopened
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Did you make it there then. And for Snoopy's benefit, King's Worthy is a village suburb of WINCHESTER! evil:
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Kings Worthy would take great exception to that description. It was and always has been a village in its own right. Try telling the Parish Council that they are a suburb of Winchester.
Kings Worthy
The Parish of Kings Worthy includes Abbots Worthy, which was a separate manor at the time of the Domesday Survey. Kings Worthy itself was then a Tithing of Barton Stacey, which was held by King Edward and then by King William after the Conquest. According to the Domesday Book the royal manor "was under the obligation of providing entertainment for the King for half a day; and Worthy is a village forming part of this manor." In the twelth century Henry II granted the manor to Walter, his usher, for the annual rent of a pair of gilded spurs. Walter's brother Aimery le Despenser later succeeded to the manor, and King John confirmed the grant in 1205.
An ownership dispute arose in 1265 but the case was settled in favour of the owner as it was decided that "Adam had more right to the said manor than the lord King." Members of the de la Zouche family were lords of the manor from 1370 until 1502 The manor later passed to the Capell family, of whom Giles Capell was knighted for gallantry by Henry Vlll and Lord Capell of Hadham was beheaded in 1649 for his loyalty to the king. In 1773 the manor was sold to Sir Chaloner Ogle whose son Sir Charles Ogle sold it in 1826.
The Domesday Book lists the Manor of Abbots Worthy as belonging to St. Peter's Abbey, Winchester, which later became Hyde Abbey. It remained so until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when it was given by Henry VIII to his Italian doctor, Augustine de Augustinis, in 1542. Three years later the manor came into the hands of Wriothesley, who became Earl of Southampton in 1547. Subsequent Earls of Southampton held the manor until the late seventeenth century, when it passed into the Russell family.
http://communities.hants.gov.uk/kingsworthy-index
Cross not swords with a real local on this one. evil:
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Nevertheless, it is a suburb evil:
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The pub in Big Sis's village has been shut for a refurb. Reopens this weekend.
Free drinks all day Saturday whistle:
Which village
King's Worthy
I assume the Cart and Horses then. But it reopened a few weeks ago confused:. It use to do nice sarnies (1/2ml from my office), but I haven't been in since they reopened
I missed that. You werk in King's Worthy?!
I could have come for a visit
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Equally I know people in Kings Worthy who would claim that Winchester is the suburb and they both have a Southampton Post Code. razz:
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I wonder if you know my sister rubschin:
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The pub in Big Sis's village has been shut for a refurb. Reopens this weekend.
Free drinks all day Saturday whistle:
Which village
King's Worthy
I assume the Cart and Horses then. But it reopened a few weeks ago confused:. It use to do nice sarnies (1/2ml from my office), but I haven't been in since they reopened
I missed that. You werk in King's Worthy?!
I could have come for a visit
Another reason to read ALL posts. eveilgrin:
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I wonder if you know my sister rubschin:
Nope
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How do you know that you don't?
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I wonder if you know my sister rubschin:
Nope
I think he meant "I wonder if you are acquainted with my sister"
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rubschin:
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Talking of trials, aint it about time the new version of the simple machines forums software was deployed by our leader? rubschin:
I'm sure all would be well. whistle:
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What could possibly go wrong?
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Talking of trials, aint it about time the new version of the simple machines forums software was deployed by our leader? rubschin:
I'm sure all would be well. whistle:
Nope... still in beta release... noooo:
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How do you know that you don't?
Because I know who I know. She, and it is a she, is an elderly lady with no brothers or sisters still living.
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Well that's not her then. Except for the elderly lady bit
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Talking of trials, aint it about time the new version of the simple machines forums software was deployed by our leader? rubschin:
I'm sure all would be well. whistle:
Nope... still in beta release... noooo:
Is that as in, I dont want to be laughed at so I'm not releasing it till it works beta? whistle:
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Talking of trials, aint it about time the new version of the simple machines forums software was deployed by our leader? rubschin:
I'm sure all would be well. whistle:
Nope... still in beta release... noooo:
Is that as in, I dont want to be laughed at so I'm not releasing it till it works beta? whistle:
Or Betta even.
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Talking of trials, aint it about time the new version of the simple machines forums software was deployed by our leader? rubschin:
I'm sure all would be well. whistle:
Nope... still in beta release... noooo:
Is that as in, I dont want to be laughed at so I'm not releasing it till it works beta? whistle:
Or Betta even.
doh: