Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The jobs, the beer, the ambience and the prices, yes. But not the food. Never the food.
ReplyDeleteI've tasted the food.
Oh, as pub grub, it's good.
ReplyDeleteNo, 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.
ReplyDeleteBut there is soooo much worse...
ReplyDeleteFor a chain, it's good.
That's it, you've lost my vote.
ReplyDeleteDavid 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.
ReplyDeleteYou 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.
ReplyDelete"But only a good lasagne or a plate of good scampi fries."
ReplyDeleteThen 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.
Ah, you're going in at the wrong time. You could say that about any pub.
ReplyDeleteAdmittedly, the ones I know best are in Durham. But one of those is on North Road.
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.
ReplyDeleteWell, 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.
ReplyDeleteMark 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.
ReplyDeleteDavid 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.