Posted on 02/14/2022 11:14:48 AM PST by Red Badger
Shutting down after 12 Centuries
Survived the Black Death but couldn’t outlast Boris Johnson
The current operator of the pub in St. Albans announced on Friday that they have filed for bankruptcy, blaming “a sustained period of extremely challenging trading conditions” — a similar refrain to a number of historic British pubs that have closed during the pandemic.
“Along with my team, I have tried everything to keep the pub going. However, the past two years have been unprecedented for the hospitality industry, and have defeated all of us who have been trying our hardest to ensure this multi-award-winning pub could continue trading into the future,” Christo Tofalli, who ran the pub, said in a Facebook post. “It goes without saying I am heartbroken: this pub has been so much more than just a business to me, and I feel honored to have played even a small part in its history.”
The Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St Albans, which poured its first drink in 793, has run into financial difficulties as a direct result of the pandemic. A sad sad day for British heritage and our Hospitality sector
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/britains-oldest-pub-closes-ye-olde-fighting-cocks-st-albans
Midsomer Murders is a really, really good show...it is hard to figure out who the guilty party is because of the little side stories going on...
I noticed this on the page. King Offa of Mercia founds an abbey at St Albans. Since the pub is in St. Albans, I'd speculate this was their origin. Workers get thirsty.
BINGO!
I thought I’d like that, but I saw a few early episodes and they were too dark for me.
Have you tried “All Creatures, Great and Small”????
That’s really good...
I remember when it was on TV but don’t think I ever watched it.
I was interested in Midsomer because I generally like mystery and detective stories. I just didn’t like those, at least the ones I saw.
(I did like the one about the doctor in Cornwall - Doc ‘Martin’.)
That’s just wrong.
The “Doc Martin” movie the seris is based on is better.
Martin is more “likeable” in the movie hence more believable.
I’ll have to look for it.
I mainly liked all the quirky townspeople.
Its enough to drive one to drink if there was a place to get a drink
Probably because the expression "English cuisine" is oxymoronic. After you die, if you go to heaven, you'll get a French cook. If you go to hell, you'll get an English cook.
What happened, were a couple of poofters offended by the name?
I watch ION network quite a bit...It has continuous:
Monday........NCIS Los Angles
Tuesday.......Chicago Fire
Wednesday.....Blue Bloods
Thursday......Chicago PD
Friday........Hawaii 5-0 (the new episodes)
Saturday......Law & Order SVU
Sunday........NCIS
The owners of that pub survived the plague but modern day communists destroyed them.
In Texas establishments need to have insurance, too. That’s a fair chunk of change.
Me and me mates stopped by there during the plague.
They still have the þ in Icelandic.
Alcohol license in Japan costs under $ 300 !
Doesn’t surprise me. Iceland was pretty isolated for long time.
I sometimes wish we had kept some of our missing alphabet. It would make pronunciations a little more obvious sometimes.
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