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Page 1: The PUB! A British institution Prof. Chantal Morosso Università della Valle d’Aosta IPRA - Châtillon

The PUB!A British institution

Prof. Chantal MorossoUniversità della Valle d’Aosta

IPRA - Châtillon

Page 2: The PUB! A British institution Prof. Chantal Morosso Università della Valle d’Aosta IPRA - Châtillon

pub /pʌb/ PUBLIC HOUSE

A building where people go to drink, eat and meet up

Pubs offer a good choice of beers, wines and spirits and serve traditional British food at reasonable prices

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Gastropubs

Gastronomy + pubsince 1991 Top-notch food Peculiar and refined interiors

Recommended gastropubs in Londonhttp://www.viewlondon.co.uk/pubsandbars/gastro-pubs-in-london-recommended-London-75.html

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Pubs!

• Licensed drinking establishment

• Bar• Alehouse• Beerhouse • Inn• Tavern• Boozer• Hotel• ‘The Local’• Den…

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Golden rules of pubs• Don’t wait for a waiter:

you could wait for ages because in Britain you have to go to the bar to get your drinks.

• Don’t all go to the bar:in a group only one goes to buy a round. But don’t wait until everybody has finished their glasses – buy the next round while they’re still drinking their pint.

• Don’t be impatient:get the barman to notice you without shouting “Barman!” – it would be impolite. Wait for your turn until the barman nods or beckons towards you.

• Don’t ask for a “beer”:it is nonsense. Lager, stout, bitter…A pint or a half (but remember, a half may just bother the barman!)

• Keep your eye on the time: when you hear a barman shout “Last orders, please!” it is your last chance to buy a beer before the pub shuts. Most pubs still close at 11pm.

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London’s oldest pub?

• The debate about London‘s most ancient ‘drinking hole’ is still raging in the twenty-first century…

http://www.timeout.com/london/bars/features/272.html

http://thespaniardshampstead.co.uk/#

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The Tabard InnGeoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (end of

XIV century)It is a collection of stories written in Middle English,

mostly in verse, told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark (London) to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.

The inn is described in the first few lines as the location where the pilgrims first meet on their journey in the 1380s:

Bifel that in that season on a day,In Southwerk at the Tabard as I layRedy to wenden on my pilgrymageTo Caunterbury with ful devout corage,At nyght was come into that hostelryeWel nyne and twenty in a compaignyeOf sondry folk, by aventure yfalleIn felaweshipe, and pilgrimes were they alle,That toward Caunterbury wolden ryde;The chambres and the stables weren wyde,And well we weren esed atte beste

[Are you thinking about any similar Italian literary masterpiece?]

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Bingo!

Boccaccio, Decameron, 1349-51

John William Waterhouse, A Tale from Decameron, 1916

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Pub culture…

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Irish PubsThe Temple Bar

Pogue Mahone’s

•“Have good craic!” (Irish for “good time”)

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Pub restrictions

• It is not allowed to buy and consume alcoholic drinks under 18

• Teenagers under 18 are usually not even allowed into a pub

• In Scotland it is quite impossible to get into a pub (or a restaurant) with a child, especially after 6 pm!

• In Ireland they seem more flexible about it all…

• “Last orders” time is usually around 11 pm!

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Glossary

• Chat over a drink• Meet up• Boozing• Pay a round• A pint of the black• Legless, pissed, bombed (extremely

drunk)• Pub crawl• Last call• Binge on beer • Binge drinking