Ping!
Just stick with Smokey Joe’s - never any PC worries there (as I recall)......
This piece struck me as more of a backhand to the resident locals who would be at these bars.
In the neighborhoods of my youth, you couldn’t walk more than four blocks in any Philly residential neighborhood without having at least one Tap Room. Some named themselves bars but the Tap Room moniker told you what you would find at the bar.
There were at least three within a two block radius from the old homestead. Some had outstanding food.