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Citizen Smith <csmith@tootingpopularfront.corn> wrote:

> Sn!pe wrote:
> > 
> > Citizen Smith <csmith@tootingpopularfront.corn> wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > > > And Tim Martin is a diamond geezer, innit.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Let's not rant about his Brexit magazine.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Wot magazine? Oh yeah, I remember now.
> > > I don't go there to read, it ain't a library.
> > >
> > 
> > Wetherspoons killed all the best little pubs in our town by selling
> > short-dated, almost sour, beer on price alone.  They won't even allow
> > us punters to belly-up to the bar for a natter with the barmaid or the
> > fellow we're standing next to.  'Spoons watering holes are just that,
> > catering to the ten o'clock drinkers and their ilk; they're not real
> > pubs at all.  Pah, I discard them.
> >
>
> Blimey. I've not been anywhere where all the pubs have been bought up by
> Wetherspoons. That sucks. That said, most pubs nowadays all have clean
> carpets and mock wooden beams and belong to one chain or another who all
> charge an arm and a leg for a pint. Very few proper locals left. When I
> was still in London me and my mate had to walk a couple of miles before we
> got to a traditional local type pub with regulars. Where I am now there
> aren't any I know of. There's a wetherspoons in town with clean pipes and
> I've not had a sour pint yet. And it's cheap. But it ain't a local.
>

Don't get me wrong, Wetherspoons don't buy up their competition, 
they outdo them by IMO unfair price advantage.  

I have been told (by a bloke* down the pub) that Wetherspoons are so 
big that they can buy up end of batch, short dated beer very cheaply,
just before it goes off, and shove it out the door as quick as they can.

When it comes to live beer, old stock will hardly be in top condition.
Uncritical topers (or very thirsty ones short of drinking tokens) might
find it acceptable.

* The bloke down the pub was an independent landlord of a free house, 
so he knew what he was talking about.  Possibly it was sour grapes but
to this cynical old toper it has the ring of truth.

-- 
^Ï^.        Sn!pe, PTB, FIBS

My pet rock Gordon eagerly awaits the incipient socialist paradise.

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    Re: No more toast? "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2024-11-01 12:25 +0000
      Re: No more toast? Citizen Smith <csmith@tootingpopularfront.corn> - 2024-11-01 14:42 +0000
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