...and All is alright with the World.

N4521U said:

Story ..... frogs legs.

When I was about 15, we, the Mexican peach pickers, and I took a small boat out on the Feather River near Yuba City, CA one night. Armed with a big lantern, and big flash light and a frog gig on a pole, or two. We would spot the bull frog with the flash light and lunge the gig at the eyes. Swing the pole to the back of the boat where another would strip the gig and the frog would go into a tub. That night all the hind legs were cut from the frogs and the carcusses were tossed back into the tub, which was in the yard! Next morning about 85 frogs, sans rear legs, were making their way to freedom. Not getting very far tho. A sad sight.

The legs were good tho!

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mikewint said:

Readie, Plenty of McDs in London. One of the nicest looking ones was Hounslow West, near London Heathrow

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Readie said:

I admit I had to google 'Arthur Treacher' Chris never had heard of him ( them).
You are right...Cod and Chips with salt and vinegar is a very English thing and has to eaten on soggy newspaper on a soggy beach with a western gale blowing the sand up your nose in the rain....you can't beat it.

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Readie said:

I remember that place when I worked at Heathrow in the '70's.
It was a pub then.
Cheers
John

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meatloaf109 said:

They turned a perfectly good Bar into a McDonalds!?!?
A sign of the apocolypse.

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Aaron Brooks Wolters said:

I'll take your word for it.

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Readie said:

The 'Aussie' theme styled bars are horrors.

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Readie said:

That's progress I guess....A lot of pubs have shut as prices have gone up, the smoking ban, drink drive laws and very cheap prices of beer in supermarkets.
A good old fashioned pub is a treasure.
The 'Aussie' theme styled bars are horrors.
Cheers
John

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meatloaf109 said:

There was one here once. Imagine a Tiki (!) style room decorated with stuffed toy kangaroo's, Men at Work's classic "Land Down Under" blasting over the speakers, and the hillbilly behind the bar screaming, "G-day, mate!" to anyone that had the misfortune of wandering in.
Lasted about 6 months.

Oh, and "Bacon".

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gumbyk said:

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I guess everyone wants to be somewhere else...

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Njaco said:

Aaron, I don't know about the circumstances, but I can vouch for the fish and chips with the salt/ vinegar - excellent!

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Readie said:

We have this chain to torment us...Walkabout (pub chain) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Plymouth is a Navy city where a punch up is not unknown but, Walkabouts have taken this to a new level.
The Police are in favour of its licence as most on the trouble is contained within its walls.

'Gud-day' in a screeching Pymothian accent?

No bacon here.
Just 'Roo burgers...

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meatloaf109 said:

Give me a "Hooters" anyday. Hot wings and beer. and usually some pretty good scenery.

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