Wetherspoon

pepguardiola'smoustache said:
they sell nearly out-of-date beer, that's why it''s cheap and why you often end up with the squits the next day.

they are like the supermarket of pubs = high volume, low margins...

their aggressive pricing policies undercutting the traditional local pub has helped to put a huge amount of them out of business, just like the supermarkets put lots of small shops out of business.
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That's urban myth bollox.
 
pepguardiola'smoustache said:
i dread to think of the day when it will come,
but likely it will do,
when the multinationals move into my town.

no yanky fast food chains yet or nothing,
not even copy-versions of kfc or anything.

it's one of the reasons i moved here.

there is a self-employed job for everyone who wants one in the grand structure of selling products,
just like it used to be in the uk,
people, like your father, working for themselves, instead of slaving for the big companies,
shops on every corner, often running up tick.

as you know, red wine is my thing.
i pay about £4 for a really decent bottle of local organic that the equivalent in england would be £15 or more.
if i feel like treating myself i spend a tenner.
and i know that none of the profits are not only leaving the area but not leaving the country.

the fruit and veg i buy is grown locally (obviosuly we have a better climate than the uk haha) but the farmers sell it to blokes with lorries who sell it to market traders who sell it to us.
no big companies are involved and the price reflects that.

i spend about £10 a week on really fresh fruit and veg.
if i eat out it about £2 for a tagine.
if i fine dine it's £8 for a 3 course.
these prices are a reflection of the lack of multinationals.

it's a fishing town, small boats only, family generations, like there used to be in the uk.
fresh every day.
i could walk out of my door right now and within 3 minutes there are people grilling sardines on charcoal,
8 for a quid, including salad and bread.

i have completely forgotten my point haha.
maybe it was that i miss a few pints of real ale but not much else
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Where do you live?
 
SCEtoAUX said:
Much as I like my local 'Spoons, and I'm in there at least four times per week, I've been making home brew lately. Absolute doddle, tastes just fine, costs around 50p/500ml bottle.
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Many home brews are superb. The Stockport Beer and Cider festival have organised a home brew competition for about 10 years now. The winner of each style hets to brew a batch at a commercial brewery e.g. Cloudwater, Blackjack, Runaway, Torside etc. The festival takes 3 casks of each the rest goes to trade. Several of these winners have gone on to win national awards. This year's festival starts on the 18th June. Tickets £19 or under includes £10 drinks voucher and £4 glass deposit. https://www.stockportfestival.org.uk/
 
pepguardiola'smoustache said:
that was sort of the point i was badly making.

we are all guilty...

when supermarkets started up they aggressively priced products, which meant that we all began to use them instead of the local shops we'd traditionally used, to save a few quid.

once the local shops are out of business the supermarkets can do what they like and up their prices exponentially until they are not the cheap option they used to be because there's not many other choices.
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They haven't upped prices exponentially at all. UK supermarkets are in fierce competition with each other. I think we stopped shopping locally due to the convenience of getting most of a weekly shop in one visit and as time moved on free parking was also attractive at the same time as every council was busy painting yellow lines and charging people to park.
 
hilts said:
Cleethorpes
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The Jewel of the eastern hemisphere. Their Colosseum Spoons is built on three levels with a rooftop beer garden fairing far worse than @manclads away descriptor to Newcastle.

Occasionally we visit the Colosseum from our retire-mental upmarket enclave of Humberstone on the Wold, in order that we can keep abreast of our working class roots.
 
Two Gun Bob said:
The Jewel of the eastern hemisphere. Their Colosseum Spoons is built on three levels with a rooftop beer garden fairing far worse than @manclads away descriptor to Newcastle.

Occasionally we visit the Colosseum from our retire-mental upmarket enclave of Humberstone on the Wold, in order that we can keep abreast of our working class roots.
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One of my favourites The Trawl Boat Inn at Saint Annes. Quintessentially charming by all accounts with a real log fire.

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Suppose it depends where you live , but yes loads where I am.Except for tinned stuff but hardly buy any of those. We do use supermarkets but only every couple of weeks for stuff like beans, cleaning stuff and other bit and pieces.
 
hilts said:
I think Yates's is the worst pub I've ever been in, always ended up there absolutely twatted on the way to the station, shit pub, shit bouncers,shit beer, shit punters.

Twas shit.
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I used to call in the Yates on Portland Street, but I don't now .... the reason ? As you say the beer is crap, I can barely even finish a pint in there.
 
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