Bubba's Bar 'n' Grill

(05-31-2012 08:39 PM)Gungawoman Wrote: [ -> ]who lives with his mother. No kids.

Maybe the mother will be the type who whips up a batch of "The Recipe" now and again, you never know.

Well some of you got to meet our neighbors. We would like to move too but We have a few irons in the fire we need to work out first.


"I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok, I work all night and I sleep all day!!"

Come on everyone sing along!!!

(06-01-2012 06:55 AM)Rey Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-31-2012 08:39 PM)Gungawoman Wrote: [ -> ]who lives with his mother. No kids.

Maybe the mother will be the type who whips up a batch of "The Recipe" now and again, you never know.

Haha! Like the Baldwin sisters on The Waltons!

(06-01-2012 06:41 PM)Fireman Wrote: [ -> ]"I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok, I work all night and I sleep all day!!"

In the forests of British Columbia, no less.

This sounds like a call for onebad70ss....

On Sundays I go shopping, and have buttered scones for tea!

Well - I was at one of my locals today (only 16 years at this one, as opposed to maybe 32 at the other), and there was loads of Jubilee celebrations, (Queens` Jubilee) young kids, young families, and the old boys. This is day 2 of 4 days of celebration, we left the pub this morning at 2.00 am..

And walking back I was wondering whether the US had "Locals" and people who often go there, "Regulars", and whether you have the same cross section of age, gender and families etc...who frequent them.
I have been to the States many times, but don`t think I have ever "got under its skin" as far as pubs are concerned, (Pubs in the UK you might say are what makes the UK what it is, there is some line that says, "When the pubs have left England, then that is the end of England". I have drunk beer in New York bars, (and loved every minute of it, just like the movies) and drunk Vodka Martinis in trendy bars in Philly, and had meals in bring your own alcohol restuarants in Pittsburgh, but I dont think I have found enlightenment.

Anyway, while walking back just now I found it a bit sad to reflect on the "old boys" who have passed on, (that I have shared a nod, a chat and a drink with through all the Seasons) and realise I (and my fellow regulars) will soon bill holding the torch of the "old boys" ourselves.

(06-02-2012 12:20 PM)NWoBHM Wrote: [ -> ]And walking back I was wondering whether the US had "Locals" and people who often go there, "Regulars", and whether you have the same cross section of age, gender and families etc...who frequent them.

I've been very lucky, I think: I was a regular at a place near Carnegie Hall when I lived in NYC (sadly, it's been gone for many years now), but that's been the exception more than the rule living in the U.S.

Here in Canada, though, I've lived in neighbourhoods that had locals (and not chains, either) and always found one (ahem, or more) where I was a regular. The longest one, although I've been there less frequently in the last ten years or so, I started going to in, um, 1988, not long after it opened.

Yes, we've lost a fair number of people over the years there too: regulars and staff alike. But still the same owner, who's originally from Ipswich, which probably explains why it's got the sort of feel you'd like, appreciate, and patronize.

(The other place we were regulars in our old neighbourhood was also a proper pub, and we knew the family who owned it: great place, but sadly, it too has changed and become much more "trendy". Feh.)

We also have liquor regs here that prohibit children in bars/pubs, which makes them less of a cross-section of the general population, y'know?

Yeah - I would guess Canada would be a little more like England, and what you describe (same owners, regulars who pass on is all very familiar). We have panic attacks when an owner moves on and a new Licensee moves in, (will they change it, will they improve it, will they keep on the staff we like, will they ban some of the more "loud" regulars etc?)

Kids are not strictly allowed in pubs (restuarants yes, bars no), and these are enforced in towns, in the Country (where I am) people tend to accept kids are part of life and going to the pub is also that, (like going to Church etc), so we tend to turn a blind eye to kids, (and I was always grateful when the "old boys" turned a blind eye to mine when they were young).

(06-02-2012 02:37 PM)NWoBHM Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah - I would guess Canada would be a little more like England, and what you describe (same owners, regulars who pass on is all very familiar). We have panic attacks when an owner moves on and a new Licensee moves in, (will they change it, will they improve it, will they keep on the staff we like, will they ban some of the more "loud" regulars etc?)

Kids are not strictly allowed in pubs (restuarants yes, bars no), and these are enforced in towns, in the Country (where I am) people tend to accept kids are part of life and going to the pub is also that, (like going to Church etc), so we tend to turn a blind eye to kids, (and I was always grateful when the "old boys" turned a blind eye to mine when they were young).

Yes, I'm sure it definitely helps not surrounded by people: I remember when I went to Scotland with my folks as a young-ish teenager, and no one batted an eye when we walked into one of my cousin's locals -- granted, that's a few years ago.

Is the pub-closing phenomenon impacting where you are? Saw a piece on BBC awhile back with some alarming statistics about the rate pubs are shuttering up. Sad, that....

(And a raise of the glass to HRH on the jubilee: been presented once to ERII and Philip, twice to Charles. Lovely folks they are -- now there is a job I'd not want....)

I guess you would call our bars in Wisconsin "locals".
Those that serve food can have kids in them, but few parents would do that here in town, you would find that more in small towns, where bars serve as an unofficial town hall and community center.

Quote:where bars serve as an unofficial town hall and community center

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Funny to think of bars doubling up as Town Hall type places too - but sounds like ti could be fun as well......

Quote:Is the pub-closing phenomenon impacting where you are?

Not where I am, although a couple of pubs "go under" (not the ones I go to fortunately), but seem to rise again pretty quickly only to "go under" again.

I do believe though Nationally we have been losing something like 50 pubs a day (or week - I cant remember), but either way it is a big number......