It's like saying I know the cultural life in Portugal because I speak Portuguese and have only been to Brazil.
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Iām literally about to eat my Pastel de nata while selecting our cruise ship decorations š
So pubs across the pond are just a totally different experience and with vibrant cultured conversion?
Some are, some aren't.
Pubs, like bars come in all different shapes and sizes, they intersect bars and overlap, but both have their own space on the spectrum as well.
Historically pubs started life as people opening their front rooms to passing travellers, they then turned into Inn's where you could lodge and stable your horse. They then became social community hubs, then then became Wetherspoons and made a guy called Tim extremely rich š
They are also dying in the UK, which is sad and which was the start of this thread I believe.
Historically more so, but even today, yes. Treatise between countries were signed in pubs. People like my great grandfather bought the family farm in a pub. In my life time I have found some really interesting characters there and have had some really great conversations too as they are used to knit the entire community together.
Sometimes in these retarded economic times the last commercial venture surviving in the village is a pub... when that goes everyone laments it.
In the last few years there has been a massive attack on pubs with covid as well as an massive increase in rates to put them out of business. Its another vector of a control to close these place down as people get arrest online for tweets.