/nom Live RSS feed for /nom en /nom/res/3849.html#3867Smoking should of course be allowed, and the problem with the gastropub goes deeper than the bland, and often tepid food; for me, the worn, patterned red carpet, the dark wood bar, the fire and the decorated sign on a pole- all avowed enemies of the gastropub- are just as much of an indispensable part of the pub as the pickled eggs and pork scratchings they serve.
I for one would think long and hard about any obscure bunch of nutjobs running for parliament, if the future of our pubs and inns was high on their agenda.

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I'm not sure I want to pay a fiver to try that stuff. I only hope one of you ladmates does. I know one of you bought bacon salt already.

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Found a UK seller! Now us britfags can try all-American foodstuffs:

http://buybaconnaise.co.uk/

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Agreed. One good thing about normal Wetherspoons is that they don't have any music at all.

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I don't mind Wetherspoons on occasions, normally for a cheap night out. Its the Lloyd's no1 bars i dislike, exactly the same as a wetherspoons except with shitty annoying pop-dance music at unbearable levels.

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Some people deride 'Spoons for being a chain that is taking over the land's public houses and turning them into cookie-cutter clones, much like Starbucks. I take issue with this in the case of Wetherspoons though, as they at least buy very interesting buildings to convert most of the time. One of them in my town was an old dock and boathouse, and another used to be a city mansion. I do suppose they encourage a 'you know what you're getting' attitude, but they still offer a lot of stuff (proper ale and drinkable wine for example) that you don't get with somewhere like Yate's, and no single landlord could afford to build a pub in a former mansion, so I can't complain.

I don't work for Wetherspoons or anything, by the way, though my praise might sound pretty zealous. I still wouldn't touch their food...

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The pickled egg is my favourite. A dash of salt and pepper and it's perfect. No true pub lacks a jar of pickled eggs.

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I won't tell you, simply because it is MY local. Even though there is another pub closer, but it's a tacky overpriced estate pub. It honestly looks like it hasn't been decorated since the 70's. So I would rather pay the fiver for a taxi or even go for a 30 minute stroll to my beloved pub, than go to the chav filled hellhole.

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I want to visit this pub, immediately.

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WHERE IS THIS MAGNIFICENT WONDER?

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Pic related.

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The new landlord is great, one of the first things h did was sell off the majority of the year old kitchen equipment and use that money to turn the kitchen into a skittle alley. When the smoking ban came in he made a fucking huge awning over the beer garden, set up heat lamps and cut a hole in the wall covered with perspex. He then set up a telly to fit in the hole along with external speakers so you can go outside for a smoke and not miss any of the football.

As for food gone are the over complicated grilled duck breast with a raspberry jus and seasonal roasted veg. To be replaced with chicken in a basket, burgers and curries. For snacks no other pub comes close, behind the bar there are shelves of crisps, peanuts, pork scratchings and other sundry bagged snacks. It also has a fridge full of jars containing whelks, cockles, mussels and other seafood.

Saturday and Sunday mornings you can go in for a fry up until 1pm. Tuesdays is quiz night where you can win a gallon of drink (AKA 8 pints for the winner) with a chance to win a few hundred quid for the winner, if you choose the right key for the cash box. Along with the raffle where you can win bottles of spirits and joints of meat.

I honestly love my local and the landlord. So much so I once drunkenly proposed to him, which he still takes the piss out of me for to this day.

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I do believe it is natural for us to be weaned off milk at the appropriate time, and to not want to continue it after that. We only got used to drinking cow's milk relatively recently, and it is only the majority of us strange westerners that do not become lactose intolerant during infancy. We are not meant to be drinking any sort of milk past childhood.

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Iced coffee is pig disgusting though.

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