/ck/ - Food & Cooking

can't save them, it's all over

You would feel drunk in that pub tbf.

I've heard that British pubs are not like American bars or saloons; they're more like clubs. But every time I've seen pubs in movies, tv shows, or vlogs it always looks like a bar.

>>19575413
I'm ESL lived in UK since 2011
>brick lance, muslim council doing inspections with cops ever Saturday
>Soho, London
>historical places shut down because Westminster Council
...
I could continue, I'm not even British but during the 10 years the shift in the city is breaking my heart.
I cannot even imagine how it is now, haven't lived there since 4+ years.

>>19575465
? U wot m8

This is a pub

>>19575465
It's just a pub.
>still = order a beer
Sit down. Pretty universal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1bbbJowgkQ
This is not advertising.

>>19575465
>saloons
Where the hell did you go to a saloon

>>19575465
Pub is short for "Public House." It's essentially what OP said, a shared neighbourhood hangout spot with beer and food.

>>19575527
In the Far West, obviously.

Pubs dying out would be awful. They're one of the few active 'third places' in Britain. Lose that and we're even more soulless and atomized, just like the Americans.

>>19575485
Looks like a bar to me.
>but no you can like order food there
Only the divest of dive bars and clubs don't have meal options.
>but you don't understand, these buildings date back to the 1700 where they served as both a community gathering point and accommodations for travelers
Historical pretention. Got it. Same as everything in the Old World.

>>19575596
??? what are you wittering about you absolute whammer

>>19575596
glad you hashed that out for us

>>19575413
prices are too high for most people to enjoy them, and the tyrannical "convid" restrictions burned a lot of people when their favorite pub booted them for not taking the experimental injection or wearing the cloth on their faces
there's good reason they are fading into obscurity
no saving what cannot be trusted or afforded
fix this and you will help save them, but that's beyond me

>>19575413
not where I live.

>>19575465
You heard wrong. They’re just bars.

>>19575465
Older pubs have two sides, the public or family side, and the private or grumpy old man club side. The bar runs down the middle and staff can walk around to either side to serve, and there's sometimes two doors.

>>19575485
Looks just like a thousand bars I've been to

>>19575413
no worries. they'll build a mosque or ashram in it's place

>>19575670
I lived down the block from one of these in Ireland. It was a local's local and only people who lived in that neighborhood for generations went to it. It was split in half for the "family" or everyday side and the old man's boozer "private social club" on the other, divided with a door but with the bar running down the whole thing like you mentioned. Most old fashioned pubs weren't like that though, it seems to be a more of a countryside thing.

>>19575429
Am I having a stroke

>>19575465
Idk what American bars and saloons are but pubs are like town centres, they're a cornerstone of British culture. 90% of bands for example were started by people who met either in school or at a pub; pubs are one of few places it's socially acceptable to start conversations with strangers, and are the main place adults from different social strata who wouldn't otherwise interact can meet. Plus traditional "real" ales (aka bitters) and pub grub are cultural icons that will more or less die out with the pubs. Pubs exist to serve different crowds and they can be very distinct. Unfortunately large brewing companies/venue companies are buying a lot of the cool independent pubs and turning them into soulless chain pubs (sometimes they preserve the pub's character somewhat but it's hit and miss). Other pubs get sold by the landowner to turn into residences while others gradually turn into restaurants-with-a-bar (sometimes very good restaurants). Eventually we'll probably lose them as the culture becomes more plastic and productised.

>>19575797
Yeah, thinking about it it's only three out of the dozen pubs near me that are or were split. Just been reading about it out of curiosity, apparently until the 70s there even used to be cheaper prices on the private side, and people used to mock pubs that had been knocked through into one room. I just always remember walking in the wrong side of one local as a kid and a whole room full of liver spots and smoke swivelling and giving me the evil eye.

>>19575810
as a social outcast englishman who barely ever goes to the pub and when I do it's with family, I think I now understand why I have no friends.

>>19575413
>How do we protect these sacred British institutions.
Small local breweries. Simple as. It still costs fuck all to brew wine and ale. Pubs have the same issue that fast food has, where the customers refuse to stop consuming the same slop, so they cry when the price goes up instead of just looking for fucking alternatives.

>>19575637
It's shit b.s. I was there when xxx council arranged raids with the police to couple of places. The cops were lax of course but because the council is ruled by Huddin and everyone is his cousin...

>>19575413
can someone explain to me why men work all day just to sit in some dingy, sticky, overpriced as it is foul smelling?

I hope the whole island burns down

>>19575657

there's a fine line between a bar and a pub, they are not the same thing at all.

>>19575413
thats an insurance/redevelopment job if ever i saw one

>>19575413
Imagine what the British could accomplish if they weren't drunk all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eirq4laOhcU

>>19575413
The American Revolution was planned in pubs.

>>19575413
the only pub i care about is that one in malta that olly died in

>>19575477

What are you even trying to say?

>>19575477
you have to go back

>>19575426
I'm sober and this hurts.

>>19575596
meds