some pub help...

[spikesgirl58]

I started this conversation with Beanie and then Rosy offered some suggestions, so I thought I would open it up a bit more.

I am taking part in the ‘Into a bar’ challenge.  In which a character of your choice walks into a bar and meets a character from the list of fandoms you are comfortable writing in.

My choice was Steel walking into a bar

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[bluemeanybeany]

Can we also embrace the awesomeness of the pub name "Portman and Pickles" in Yorkshire. Which sounds ye olde pub foodie, but in actually named for two Yorkshiremen - the film actor Eric Portman and Wilfred Pickles, a radio announcer during the war who was picked for his Yorkshire accent because it was harder for the Nazis to imitate than Queen's English - hence it was easy to tell who to trust because regional accents can only be done by regional Brits of trustworthness. Again, epic name for a pub.

All pubs should have a story behind the name.

Have I told you why the place I live [for a week or two anyway] is called Nunhead - the area is named after the pub. And the pub is named after a sexual act two members of the clergy were supposed to have performed in the pub in the Middle Ages.

[spikesgirl58]

Story's not long enough for a trip to the loo, but thanks!

[bluemeanybeany]

it's a very interesting and odd place is Peckham, cause like the african women carry their babies in ties and sometimes put their bags on their heads, and there's lots of market stalls but I don't know what any of the vegetables actually are, and really it's one of the few places in London you'll get Christian street preachers and then there's loads of Halal markets where they hang all the carcasses up. The weirdest thing is the smell, Peckham kind of smells like dried blood. I deliberately choose to ignore those times where two people walk past each other in the street and pass packages without speaking.

I'll go there for shopping and the cinema [cheapest tickets in London] and it has a very good library.