mashed in maryland 11:07 Sat Jun 6
What's your favourite type of pub?
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With it being Saturday, and with all the boozers closed down (and World's End on telly the other day), lets talk pubs.
Not necessarily your individual favourite establishment, but just the type of pub.
A small local pub on a corner full of old sods during the day and unchanged since 1846?
A country pub with a roaring fire and proper home made grub?
A high street Wetherspoons full of pissheads by day and "out out" crowd at night?
Gastropub serving burgers on bits of wood?
City wine bar type gafs full of office bods?
Rough as fuck flat roof council estate pubs where its £2 a pint of rotten Holsten Pils and you get stabbed in the toilets?
Rock pubs full of smelly cunts with ponytails that do all weird obscure beers/ciders?
Any more types I missed?
For me it depends on the time of year. High street type places in summer (preferably with a garden) and local/country pubs in winter.
Discuss.
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Johnson
11:11 Sat Jun 6
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ALL OF THEM
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mashed in maryland
11:20 Sat Jun 6
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Do dislike chain gastropubs though. Like Beefeater, Stonehouse grill etc. Alright to grab a quick meal in but always feel cheated somehow, like another 20 min drive and could have found a "proper" country pub
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Sven Roeder
11:22 Sat Jun 6
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Depends on the time of the year
I like a garden, a fire on a cold evening, good drink selection , good food (on plates) & not too crowded unless it’s a pub/music venue.
And no riff raff.
In all cases I require the right to refuse entry & eject people at my slightest whim.
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VickyPkVillageIdiot
11:23 Sat Jun 6
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Pubs with toilets that have good ledges for racking up.
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bruuuno
11:24 Sat Jun 6
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Ancient smugglers boozer in Cornwall with a fire
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Sven Roeder
11:28 Sat Jun 6
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Chain food pubs and gastropubs are two different things.
Though the original idea of gastropubs as individual pubs that served good quality unpretentious food like The Eagle in Farringdon has been bastardised.
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,
11:40 Sat Jun 6
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I’d like to see a range of pubs like those I grew up with and drank in in my formative years. In those days most pubs did no food but crisps were available and were crisp flavoured only. Two bars called saloon and public. Dart board in the public bar, posh chairs in the saloon which is where men drank when with women ( rare to see a woman in the public bar ).
In the bars it was exclusively beer and spirits and no wine and no customer ever drank tea/coffee in a pub.
Oh and every pub had a joanna.
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AKA ERNIE
11:47 Sat Jun 6
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Country pub with big garden great views.
Great beers and ciders and top food.
Sky tv old jukebox and a few cheery locals.
All the above is one of the things to look forward to when we leave london after 52 yrs next yr and move to devon
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Hermit Road
11:49 Sat Jun 6
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Back in the day when I was a regular I liked a pub with a pool table, football and racing on the telly, a decent amount of people and cheapish beer. Also, if the chances of extreme violence breaking out was less than 50%, that was a bonus too.
The Red House, Barking Road circa 1995 fitted the bill perfectly, but only on a Saturday afternoon. By evening time that risk of blood being spilt went up a bit.
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mashed in maryland
11:51 Sat Jun 6
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Sven Roeder 11:28 Sat Jun 6
Fair point.
Think a big reason why foreigners (yanks especially) think British food is shit is they assume pubs in central London to be like a "bar & grill", so are obviously not impressed by the microwave fish fingers that they serve in the way of food. Can see why there would have been attempts to make up for that.
My old local got turned into a Hungry Horse type establishment and although it seemed more busy, something about it died and it didn't really feel like a "PUB" any more.
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mashed in maryland
11:52 Sat Jun 6
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AKA ERNIE 11:47 Sat Jun 6
Where in Devon?
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,
11:55 Sat Jun 6
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In my younger days pubs had proper names too. These days the names seem to have been dreamed up by pre pubescent marketers who have no idea.
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Toe Rag
12:04 Sat Jun 6
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Favourite pubs would be any ones that are open. Ffs!
I miss a good pub brawl. Pissed up idiots flailing about and not landing any punches then chucking the furniture about.
Don’t seem to see as many these days.
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,
12:10 Sat Jun 6
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In the old days the pub to go to for a punch up was “The merry fiddlers”. Violence on Friday and Saturday nights was almost guaranteed. Indeed rumour had it that if the weekend threatened to pass without fisticuffs the governor would persuade a couple of regulars to initiate a fracas.
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fraser
12:15 Sat Jun 6
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Very rarely go to the pub, but if I did would prefer one with a decent beer garden.
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TheBoleynBoy
12:17 Sat Jun 6
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I’d say it would all depend on the company you are with.
If with family, I like nothing more than an old country pub, fireplace, lovely home cooked meal.
If with my mates, I want a complete shithole. Snooker table, dart board, sticky carpet, bit of violence to top your evening off.
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lab
12:18 Sat Jun 6
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I love having a beer in my hand overlooking the sea once you’ve stepped outside. Probably why I love Guernsey.
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AKA ERNIE
12:23 Sat Jun 6
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Mashed looking at lympstone on the estuary or somewhere near the moors dont want too remote though
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Hammer and Pickle
12:25 Sat Jun 6
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One without mimmler in it.
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