Tuesday 1 December 2009

Weatherspoon's

A most welcome expansion. For the food. For the beer. For the prices. For the ambiance. And, not least, for the jobs.
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12 comments:

  1. Roux1 December 2009 at 15:46

    The jobs, the beer, the ambience and the prices, yes. But not the food. Never the food.

    I've tasted the food.

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  2. David Lindsay1 December 2009 at 15:49

    Oh, as pub grub, it's good.

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  3. Ramsay1 December 2009 at 15:55

    No, as pub grub it's terrible. I've had good pub grub, I've enjoyed good pub grub, and Wetherspoon's is no good pub grub.

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  4. David Lindsay1 December 2009 at 15:57

    But there is soooo much worse...

    For a chain, it's good.

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  5. Oliver1 December 2009 at 15:59

    That's it, you've lost my vote.

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  6. James1 December 2009 at 16:17

    David deliberately likes the idea of slumming it a little, but only a little. He's not the type to eat regularly in a pub, so when he does he wants it to be "authentic". Just not too authentic. I can't imagine him in Yates's, ever. But Weatherspoon's suits him down to the ground if he's very occasionally in that sort of mood. He probably thinks of it as an athropological-sociological field trip.

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  7. JD1 December 2009 at 16:28

    You don't get any more Old Labour than that, James. New Labour would never eat in a pub and would barely set in foot in as you, I or David would understand the word. But Old Labour has no problem drinking in them, and will eat in them every once in a while if they are good enough. I can see David tucking into a lasagne or a plate of scampi fries once in a while. But only a good lasagne or a plate of good scampi fries. And only once in a while. Very Old Labour.

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  8. Geoff1 December 2009 at 16:33

    "But only a good lasagne or a plate of good scampi fries."

    Then he doesn't do it a Wetherspoon's.

    Also, the ambience varies hugely, depending on how many weak-bladdered geriatric alcoholics the low prices have attracted this lunchtime.

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  9. David Lindsay1 December 2009 at 16:34

    Ah, you're going in at the wrong time. You could say that about any pub.

    Admittedly, the ones I know best are in Durham. But one of those is on North Road.

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  10. Mark1 December 2009 at 16:37

    He's having you on. "Look at how snobbish and jumped up my opponents are, whereas I am a man of the people." Yeah, right. The first half is true but the second half isn't.

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  11. Nairn1 December 2009 at 16:43

    Well, I go at lunchtime David. I can't be hanging around waiting until there are enough piss-trousered tramps in there to give it the atmosphere I crave.

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  12. Matt1 December 2009 at 16:46

    Mark is right. The one on North Road? He's been in there half a dozen times with tutees who live in the Viaduct, so that he can get their food and beer in on the cheap.

    David Lindsay, Working-Class Warrior? Pull the other one! He's an old-fashioned Labour intellectual. They were better politicians, anyway. He's having a laugh on this thread.

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