European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                British pubs doily Magazine ice is for j 9 tourists London barmaid serves but ask for ice and Shell Only spoon out a cube or by Sandra Salmans new York limes the pubs Crimson valances and Bevelled Glass look warm and so the american visitor enters and orders a handed a Glass of tepid he bravely tries specifying Gin and ice is for jeers a pub goer standing this scene is enacted regularly at pubs throughout to the bewilderment of foreigners and the bemusement of the despite recent gestures toward the British Isles have remained aloof on the matter of fortified by the unshakable conviction that theirs is the Only civilized Way to keep their chins up and their Gin their approach to mixed drinks is the in a Lush have always been suspicious of uie said Jeorge a writer and fond observer of British heat customs since he arrived Here from Hungary in the dry Martini is considered too he although they drink Gin and they dont think of to As a but As Gin with a kind of water added to once liberally dispensed in victorian Gin palaces and fed to crying is the Staple of English mixed it is served with tap or tonic water often in equal parts or injected with roses Lime it is the basis of a pimms a sort of alcoholic fruit combining pimms fizzy lemonade Akin to 7 up and Orange and Cucumber the Pink Gin that flows through so Many Graham Greene novels is a relic of Britain Imperial when a few drops of Angostura bitten were shaken into the Gin to help Ward off tropical other traditional mixed drinks Are rum and h we Black currant and a Black with a few enlightened for the most part Inion i dons Large International hotels and american restau i know How to make a proper and other Hli cans Are willing to but there is an added obstacle the Gin sold Here is Gen to Nelly of a lower proof than the Export for a very dry cognoscenti order an Export Gin available in better Are Seldom britons Are still afraid of making a and there not very Brand said John who has written four books on drinkers of for simply ask for whisky unless the pub is in an Irish ice is rarely requested especially outside More rarely it is spooned a cube at a two cubes would be said Timothy a lawyer who has experienced drinking on both sides of the you asked for they think you were being he the main British of is neither whisky nor Gin but Beer primarily a uniquely British brew that foreigners have compared with soap is admittedly an acquired its a very Complex a Jolly Good Arthur a publicity Man for the Brewers said bitter cannot be and after two hot britons Are deserting to icy other brews Are Stout a heavy Beer and the Milder the British Are also acquiring a taste Tor which has led to a Boom in the so called wine which serve Little and in vineyards in such unlikely areas As Lincolnshire and residential George who has tried a local chateau pronounced it bloody practically Endrin recalling that the British once sweetened for eign wine with a drop of noted that the British palate has recently the tradition of the pub As a social meeting ground predates the and its ubiquity has turned it into an easy directions such As go past the Bush and take a right at the Bunch of crapes Are the demography of toe pub has changed with the division Between the Workingman Public bar and the lounge of the Middle class crumbling la a socialist but the a Small Den tacitly reserved for elderly has been and trespassing is strictly pubs have a language and code of behaviour All their most pubs Are or owned Fay a particular and can serve Only the brewery brands of Beer the remainder Are and other a number of most drinking is done in some parts of the it would be considered extremely Sissy to sit do at tipping is also but a customer can buy the Barman a women Are accepted in most except for some workingmen bars and a few holdouts such Asel Vinos on Fleet where women Are studiously in not considered a rude lady if i go to pubs said Janice an praising the treat ment she receives As an unescorted woman in British the pubs limited drinking a Bane to foreign vis were instituted during Wei under the defense of the realm when munitions workers often failed to return to the factory after wet London pubs tend to be open from 11 to and again from to 11 hours on sunday and outside of London Are More circus until last pubs in Scotland were closed on sunday hotels served certified travellers and Many pubs in Wales still close in most pubs Are Selling liquor for drinking off the this accounts for nearly of All take Home liquor the British think americans drink to Ameri cans drink a lot of hard liquor before the then Noth ing but iced water or Coffee during the said Kingsley author of on they sober then they get drunk the English have Sherry before dinner and wine Amis diplomatically refrained from saying which system was but one of his countrymen left Little they have curious habits 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