Post pictures of far-flung Irish pubs here

tempted to suggest he means one SIDE of the large platter, unlike those less salubrious places where there's food on both sides of the plate -- but i think he means it was one of those long oval plates and all the bangers and mash were placed down one end (tho why anyone would care i cannot say)

i blame a.a.gill

tbf there's an explanation for this detail in the next line:

There was an attempt to camouflage the empty end of the platter with a single lettuce leaf and slice of tomato.

the idea of bangers and mash as a sort of tapa or part of a smorgasbord is fairly disturbing in itself.

During the 19th century, under oppressive British rule in Ireland, pubs were declared illegal.

Oh, the humanity!

not dispositive obviously, but of the first thirty pages that google turns up for the question "did the british ban pubs in ireland?" (no quote marks), 29 are about the march 2004 smoking ban and one is about outrage caused in kerry at a pub that banned "loud americans" lol

adding quote-marks turns up NO pages

(also the index in cecil woodham-smith's the great humger (which is p detailed on depradations in the the decades leading up to same) has no entry for "pubs", "drinking" or "alcohol")

There are loads of pubs across the country that claim to have been in continuous operation for 200+ years so it doesn't sounds very likely.

(it isn't actually called the great humger btw, i think it would have garnered more critical pushback if CWS had gone that route)

prob not a time for revelling in the plausibility of falsehood but there is something kind of amusing and interesting about the ease with which somebody might create something like that.

the hated british denied the poor irish their much-needed pint.

caveat wikipedia obv but this short paragraph has a couple of genuinely interesting sentences imo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_pub#History

(also some details which the careless or hostile could might inflate into the great british pub ban)

(i actually have deadlined work today for tomorrow so naturally i am going to be spending most of it "researching" this eloquently storied social phenomenon)

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_pub#Worldwide: "They have establishments in over 53 countries around the world"

this sub-editor reliably IA at exact-yet-vague claims like these (more than 53 but less than 55?)

http://www.turtlebunbury.com/published/published_features/pub_feats_oldestpubs.html

some rare work on this page^^^, also

(i'll stop now, as this only respects the "far-flung" requirement in terms of time)

dont send clicks to turtle bunbury pls

good advice