tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post6593484770392782833..comments2024-03-15T02:14:38.309-07:00Comments on bloginafog: Bread:Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-30360766270132849732016-10-07T01:59:43.933-07:002016-10-07T01:59:43.933-07:00I rarely drink beer, and then only good Belgian or...I rarely drink beer, and then only good Belgian or German (or locally-brewed French) stuff. Here in France restaurants usually mark up wine by 5-10 times, so on my extremely rare visits to restaurants I will order beer which is marked up only slightly. Wine is much more varied and interesting : there's a whole world in wine but only a small country (the size of Denmark) in beer and ale.<br /><br />As for BritIrish pubs - as a homosensual intellectual I find them threatening and intimidating, and noisy, with horrible music and/or TV. I have also always had a hearing problem whereby I cannot separate out sounds of equal volume, thus mercifully releasing me from utterly banal pub-talk. Wine induces real conversation. The only virtue of (certain and few) drinking-places is the music - which I would prefer to listen on CD, at home, with a glass of wine, pastis, or cognac, with no distractions.<br /><br />BritIrish pubs are not inviting and open-to-all (and to the street) the way European café-bars are. They can be very intimidating for women.<br /><br />The only time I now drink in an Irish establishment on my rare visits to the bile-green isle is in the pleasant neutral space of Dublin airport, where the Guinness is good, and where one can with no eyebrows being raised ask for a mere half-pint. Woflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-84136193485116123112016-10-07T01:58:56.341-07:002016-10-07T01:58:56.341-07:00
You surely must have a disdain for beer then, too...<br />You surely must have a disdain for beer then, too! May I surmise, that you have never been a frequent patron in the pubs of Ireland? M.noreply@blogger.com