tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post1888820885705628564..comments2024-03-28T17:11:52.333+00:00Comments on The Pub Curmudgeon: Endlessly repeating revolutionCurmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-83741288269578308922013-03-11T14:41:53.079+00:002013-03-11T14:41:53.079+00:00Tim Martin has been heard to whinge about the unfa...Tim Martin has been heard to whinge about the unfair competition from Tesco everyday value lasagne on which no VAT is payable.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-16942038792173633082013-03-11T11:33:33.017+00:002013-03-11T11:33:33.017+00:00How come the beards are not campaigning for a mini...How come the beards are not campaigning for a minimum price on microwavable horse lasagne to save pub grub from the evils of the home or office microwave?<br /><br />And what I’d like to see on this blog is a graph charting the rise of pub going after the cheese council invented the fake ploughmans lunch in the 50’s to flog more cheese then the decline in pubs after the pork pie council hocked pork pies into the ploughmans in the 80’s.<br />Cooking Lagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830924433230427226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-2850342278734717102013-03-09T21:34:41.639+00:002013-03-09T21:34:41.639+00:00Also see this post about Beer and Pub Myths.Also see this post about <a href="http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/beer-and-pub-myths.html" rel="nofollow">Beer and Pub Myths</a>.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-90198482209066386582013-03-09T18:52:04.838+00:002013-03-09T18:52:04.838+00:00Ah yes, but the food endlessly repeats on you...Ah yes, but the food endlessly repeats on you...Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-2457565713688422013-03-09T18:44:02.132+00:002013-03-09T18:44:02.132+00:00Wouldn't a revolution be endlessly spinning?Wouldn't a revolution be endlessly spinning?Neville Grundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10923209266005338452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-90104931534346722782013-03-09T00:37:04.379+00:002013-03-09T00:37:04.379+00:00When I was a student in the early '80s one of ...When I was a student in the early '80s one of the pubs near the University did a special called "cheese bake". This was basically mashed potatoes mixed with cheese and chopped onions with a cheese crust on top. It cost something like 40p for a great big lump which didn't half soak the beer up. I'd still eat that now.Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-41330367784751171102013-03-08T21:09:21.318+00:002013-03-08T21:09:21.318+00:00When the Puddlecotes ran a town centre pub in the ...When the Puddlecotes ran a town centre pub in the early 80s, we reluctantly provided home-made 'specials' and other pub grub simply because we had to in order to compete with others around us. Mr P Snr hated it, he just wanted to sell beer. Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-88412938515148760492013-03-08T19:51:58.544+00:002013-03-08T19:51:58.544+00:00My previous post is another example of false memor...My previous post is another example of false memory syndrome as well. As is the one that when CAMRA was formed real ale had virtually died out.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-65643311169161851202013-03-08T19:40:34.350+00:002013-03-08T19:40:34.350+00:00Spot on Mudge ... my grandma (who came from an uni...Spot on Mudge ... my grandma (who came from an uninterrupted line of publicans going back over 200 years) always served food in her pubs<br /><br />Admittedly it may not have been haute cuisine and I'm not sure the words gastronomy or molecular were in her vocabulary but she did teach me a lot about cooking and looking after customers<br /><br />And yes there were pickled eggs on her counter ... and you could get a cuppa more often than not<br /><br />It strikes me there's a lot of false memory syndrome in the pub trade ... but I guess I can understand why ... no new generation likes to think "there's nothing new under the sun"Publican Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04533484978463975994noreply@blogger.com