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Aug 23rd 2019, 5:30 pm
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Aug 23rd 2019, 5:31 pm
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I think that depended on how good the landlord was.
Our local' s bitter was pretty good and the best was even better. Then Directors came along and it was very good but pricey. I had the feeling that the landlord deliberately let the quality of the others go so he could sell the more expensive one. But then he stopped caring and the Directors went downhill.
We stopped going and went into town instead for Ruddles County, Marstons Pedigree, Burton, something called 1057 I think, Royal Oak and so on.
Depends on the beer. More head, less beer.
I remember oversize glasses appearing temporarily. Maybe you northerners had big hands.
I remember going into a pub near Preston railway station in 1980. Two pints and two ploughman's and having change from a quid. I don't remember Bristol prices then but there wouldn't have been much change with just the beer.
Mind you, the ploughman's came with ordinary sliced bread which was a bit disappointing.
Our local' s bitter was pretty good and the best was even better. Then Directors came along and it was very good but pricey. I had the feeling that the landlord deliberately let the quality of the others go so he could sell the more expensive one. But then he stopped caring and the Directors went downhill.
We stopped going and went into town instead for Ruddles County, Marstons Pedigree, Burton, something called 1057 I think, Royal Oak and so on.
Depends on the beer. More head, less beer.
I remember oversize glasses appearing temporarily. Maybe you northerners had big hands.
I remember going into a pub near Preston railway station in 1980. Two pints and two ploughman's and having change from a quid. I don't remember Bristol prices then but there wouldn't have been much change with just the beer.
Mind you, the ploughman's came with ordinary sliced bread which was a bit disappointing.
Ruddles County.... that was a good robust tasting beer.... good head too!
Ah a good Ploughmans and a Ruddles would be a good combo... funny the humble Ploughmans seems to have given way to more American style food now.... but you cant beat a properly served Ploughmans.... the ordinary slices bread is a no no! lol
Pork scratchings....another great accompaniment to a good robust pint.... its funny now though I tried one a year ago, my cousin brought some over, and I couldnt help thinking how scarily unhealthy they were, never really paid much attention before, but I guess my dietary habits have changed somewhat in recent years. Deep fried fat smothered in salt doesn't seem right somehow...
Aug 23rd 2019, 5:33 pm
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Aug 23rd 2019, 5:37 pm
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There were 3 of us that used to do tag-team crossword when I bartended Saturday happy hour, (Malcom, Nigel, and I), and whenever one of us would travel to Vancouver, we'd bring back a couple of 2L bottles of Webster's Yorkshire Bitter and we'd make an occasion of it.
Aug 23rd 2019, 6:14 pm
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Aug 23rd 2019, 6:53 pm
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There seems to be a lot of rather distasteful stereotyping that borders on uncomfortablism. Just because people who live in "the south" don't go around shagging pit ponies and wearing ridiculously large flat caps while their 18 rickets and tuberculosis stricken children carry home a Hovis bread loaf for the village doesn't mean that we don't occasionally savour a nice glass or two of Bavarian pilsner .
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Aug 23rd 2019, 7:13 pm
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There seems to be a lot of rather distasteful stereotyping that borders on uncomfortablism. Just because people who live in "the south" don't go around shagging pit ponies and wearing ridiculously large flat caps while our 18 rickets and tuberculosis stricken children carry home a Hovis bread loaf for the village doesn't mean that we don't occasionally savour a nice glass or two of Bavarian pilsner .
Aug 23rd 2019, 8:59 pm
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There seems to be a lot of rather distasteful stereotyping that borders on uncomfortablism. Just because people who live in "the south" don't go around shagging pit ponies and wearing ridiculously large flat caps while their 18 rickets and tuberculosis stricken children carry home a Hovis bread loaf for the village doesn't mean that we don't occasionally savour a nice glass or two of Bavarian pilsner .
Well as a Northerner I don't feel insulted one bit as if asked to describe a person from Yorkshire I would have described them the same way but would have substituted the animal used for carnal pleasure.
Aug 23rd 2019, 9:08 pm
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Aug 23rd 2019, 10:16 pm
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and... Whitbread (big head) Trophy Bitter... the pint that thinks it's a quart!
(that advert is playing in my brain
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Aug 23rd 2019, 11:29 pm
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There seems to be a lot of rather distasteful stereotyping that borders on uncomfortablism. Just because people who live in "the south" don't go around shagging pit ponies and wearing ridiculously large flat caps while their 18 rickets and tuberculosis stricken children carry home a Hovis bread loaf for the village doesn't mean that we don't occasionally savour a nice glass or two of Bavarian pilsner .
Aug 23rd 2019, 11:36 pm
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You southerners only wish you could live on Beasley Street
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Aug 24th 2019, 12:09 am
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