Eighteenth Amendment, Reigateback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
I am somewhat miffed at the appearance of this phantom pub on this site. Not because it's an abuse, or because it is having a wry dig at a real pub that seems to have fallen from what little grace it had of late - nothing so high-handed. Rather, because it took me 7 months to get a GENUINE outlet registered on here, and yet this figment of some joker's imagination just to make a point - which given its topicality can only have been requested a matter of weeks ago - seemed to swan in and get placed without delay! Maybe it's just a matter of where one's pub request falls in the cycle....
Surely there must be some independent verification needed before something can be uploaded to BITE? Come on guys - things are bad in the pub sector but we don't need to resort to allowing fictional outlets onto the site just yet!
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This 'pub' does not exist - and never has.
les12 - 30 Mar 2010 12:06 |
As stated, the 18th Amendment established prohibition - and the Bulls Head (same postcode) was recently closed and refused permission to sell alcohol.
It would appear that some 'wag' just saw the connection and invented this 'pub' on BITE.
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This 'pub' does not exist - and never has. It seems to bear the same postcode as the Bulls Head on High Street, Reigate; the latter pub has just re-opened after a few weeks closure.
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The same postcode relates to a real Reigate pub and the '18' factor/amendment is both sinister and significant. 18 represents the first and eight letters in the alphabet, A & H.
Standing for Adolf Hitler, the meaning and clear message is far from historic US liquor legislation.
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This seems to be a 'spoof pub' - one that does not exist......
In the USA, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution established Prohibition!
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