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There are many, many neighborhood bars in the eastern half of the Midwest and the northeast which are exactly as you describe: Family places that serve food and are great hangouts.
Cincinnati was full of them.

Well, I was describing the USA generally and not CINCINNATI specifically. I was describing the U.K. generally as well, as there MUST be bars that are not nice.

But you know that and are just giving me some **** for some reason.

Beside, people who hang out in bars aren't anyone I would want to know. Bars, no matter where they are, have many drunks...and who needs to GO to the place they hang out?

You forgot to mention the dogs that I wrote about....do you have many dogs in your Midwest and northeast who hang out in your bars? That was rhetorical.

Final comment (Thank gawd she says.): you must be young because anyone of any age over 40 knows how bad drinking is for the body, no matter how nice the bars are in the Midwest and northeast.