The bar I went into today didn't appreciate my custom

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Strange. Bars make way more money off of drinks than food. Last I worked in a bar, in the late 90s, a $9.00 plate of food cost us 3 or 4 bucks to make, but a $4.00 beer cost us about 50 to 80 cents to pour. This was one of those pubs frequented by British expats that dot Southern California. It was funny to see macho cowboy types come in, be offered a pint of Newcastle or Bass, and gag on it because it was so much stiffer than Bud. This was back when nobody knew what the hell a 'craft beer' was.

There seems to be more and more of the buggers, nowadays. I guess it's partly to do with a lone drinker taking up a table where they could fit four or more diners who are also drinking. A table of four would generate around £100 gross (in food and drink) in an hour, whereas a lone drinker quietly reading his Kindle can quite easily nurse a single £3 pint in that time.

That's the first time I've ever heard Bass and Newcastle brown referred to as "craft" beers! There's 100,000,000 bottles of Newcastle and nearly 3,000,000 pints of bass made each year Newcastle Brown was my drink of choice for a couple of years back in the early 90s. It made for very smelly s**ts, though This is one of my local breweries but I guess my favourite US beer is Sierra Nevada's pale ale - nice and refreshing.

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It seems to be a lot more laid back over here compared to the US from what Americans have told me if that's any consolation.

I read in a book that being eccentric is more acceptable in the UK than it is in America so autism is diagnosed more here than it is there. But this thread contradicts what that doctor wrote in his book.

Where I live in the states people drink alone in the bars all the time. It'd be hard to find a bar without someone drinking alone.