Things you used to find in pubs

xzanti

Sahara Hot nuts
Vend-a-scent
Reasonably priced drink
Ashtrays

Anyone got any more??

judas101

Customers

lord lucan

Decent pints of Guinness.

FearDark

5 pints for a tennar.

Lando Griffin

The local guard in for a swift one. Pool tables, dart boards and rings (the game)

Bearhunter

Pub-brand crisps.
A box with bars of Golden Crisp chocolate in it.
Big wooden cigarette machines where the change was cellotaped to the outside of the fag packet.
Old men in overcoats smoking pipes and drinking bottles of stout extremely slowly.

Keedowah

Pac-man arcade game - but in the shape of a table.

stovelid

Bits of Woodbine-stained lung.

WindSock

Dogs sleeping beside the fire.

Zebra3

Harp.

lord lucan

lord lucan wrote: »

Decent pints of Guinness.

You're just going to the wrong pubs


Kids. Rarely see them in pubs these days thank god.

mr j tayto

Real barmen.

bullets

Real Open Fire, with Turf or Logs.

Juke Box's

Arcade machines.

Pink, Purple and yellow snacks

Ciggerette machines that took the Old large Irish Pennys
with the hen and chickens
instead of pound coins

Those crappy dial up internet access points where you used ipub cards (like phone cards)

Who wants to be a millionare interactive game.

overnight packs with fold up toothbrush, comb, shoe polish, shampoo etc.

Hudson Blue Ice Cider on Tap.

Bass.

Smoke.

~B

Run_to_da_hills

Music played on real CD's my locals either have Ipod's or laptops. :mad:

Lando Griffin

Unisex outhouses. Carpet on floors. White pay phones that you could stick a bit of fag box into the slot and get free calls with

ian_m

Blue king and sam spudz. And big glass bottles.

Run_to_da_hills

Decent pills

Twin-go

A Snug
A Lounge
Toasties - Ham Cheese and Onion in celofane wrapper
Scampi fries
Black and White TVs
Nash's Orange and Passion fruit
Wallpaper
Toilets with pull chains to flush
cheap leather seats that ripped easily exposing manky foam

Thomas828

A cardboard display of KP peanuts behind which was a portrait of a girl in a bikini. Also a floor like samepaper, especially in country pubs.

minister poxbottle

bar sluts

branie

bottles of TK red lemonade

TheScribbler

I remember that there used to be customers in pubs!

fillefatale

Ashtrays
the three different types of snack bars behind the counter in boxes
You could buy those telecom eireann phone cards in some places too I think

mikemac

Pork scratchings
I never bought them, just the name puts me off.
But my friend who is an addict for the salty snacks when drinking can never find them these days

Realy, I can't think of a worse name for a product.

xzanti

feelingstressed wrote: »

Pork scratchings
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Was this in Ireland? I thought this was more a typical British snack.. I've always wanted to try them..

lord lucan

xzanti wrote: »

Was this in Ireland? I thought this was more a typical British snack.. I've always wanted to try them..

I've never seen them in an Irish boozer before. As you say,they're a very British thing.

orourkeda

Irish Staff & Beer Goggles

the purple tin

The pub dog or cat, never see a pet in bars these days.

mikemac

xzanti wrote: »

Was this in Ireland? I thought this was more a typical British snack.. I've always wanted to try them..

lord lucan wrote: »

I've never seen them in an Irish boozer before. As you say,they're a very British thing.

Yep, our local pub in Tipperary sold pork scratchings.

Just the name make me wretch. :P
I've never bought them

the purple tin wrote: »

The pub dog or cat, never see a pet in bars these days.

Yep, often a lurcher for some reason. Came across this in Limerick, dog lying across a corner seat while customers stood.
Shows what the owner thinks of their customers.

And if you bought crisps they'd start begging from you

Sids Not

Loose change (pennies usually) down behind the seats.....deadly..

Signs..."NO BIKERS".....:mad:

Black Dog

I am obviously a lot older than you lot as I remember most bars selling groceries and with some the way to the bar was to first pass through the front grocery shop to the bar behind. As a child I recall I used to go one bar in town to buy our sugar which the bar had in bulk and weighed out into brown "sugar" bags. We would buy about 4 pounds of sugar at a time. This same bar sold bread. That bar only sold bread and sugar. Another in the town sold a full selection of groceries. I also remember the sawdust on the floor and the occasion the owner bought a brass spitoon. The story was told in town that one of her regulars - he was always at the bar when I went in for sugar or bread - continued to spit on the sawdusted floor and the lady came out time and time again to move the spitoon to where he was spitting until he finally, in exasperation, told her that if she kept putting that thing in his way he was going to spit on it on her.

Donkey Oaty

A "Fresh sandwiches" sign written on fluorescent pink or orange card cut into the shape of a star.

jackiebaron

I remember going to a pub in Mitchelstown with my two cousins on Mart Day. I was only about 9 or 10 at the time, down from Dublin on me holidays to my uncle's farm. We sat in the lounge and drank pints of Cidona and thought we were the business.

King Crisps
Double Diamond
Smithwicks Barley Wine (puke)
Holy Hour

Major Lovechild

Captain Crisps
Key Crisps
Madison
Furstenberg on draught
Beanos
Fly paper hanging from the ceiling.
Cider sold in glass flagon bottles
Babycham
Savage Smith lemonade and ciderette
Embassy cigarettes

Dyr

me Da

anthonymax

The small whiskey glasses that were all "diamondy" if you know what I mean.

FatherTed

Babycham

the purple tin

Payphones

baalthor

4F Hot Snacks !

From the time when microwave ovens were first introduced into pubs.

Blair

Car Keys

baby and crumble

Major Lovechild wrote:

Madison

YES! I LOVED that drink!!! I miss it.

Skerries

peanut cards that would reveal a scantily clad woman

SarahBeep!

Bargains!

ceadaoin.

Keedowah wrote: »

Pac-man arcade game - but in the shape of a table.

I came across one of these in a pub in London recently. I didn't even know they existed until then

Mike 1972

radios

Amalgam

A type of King brand crisps you'd only get in Pubs.. (red bag?) Might even have been called, 'Pub crisps'.

manwithaplan

Dressed orange
Raffles involving writing your name on a pound note
Pitch and putt clubs (all 'golf societies' now)
Early closing on a sunday night
Little plastic swords

Zapho

A spittoon

the purple tin

A really old man with a pipe and a flat cap either sitting by the fire or in the corner.

Amalgam

Asking about food.. and the Barman just replying with 3 words: 'Muck (sp.) or Cheese'

Ham or Cheese sandwiches.

lord lucan

Amalgam wrote: »

A type of King brand crisps you'd only get in Pubs.. (red bag?) Might even have been called, 'Pub crisps'.

King done Pub Crisps. IIRC they were in a blue bag.