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10 Interesting Facts About Pubs
So if you love pubs as much as we do, you probably already know every quirky pub fact and figure there is. However in the event that there is more to your life than just pubs (unlike us), you may be interested to know a few quirky facts about pubs that you can tell your friends one day in a drunken stupor that just may give the illusion of intelligence.
- A long time ago, pubs used to serve beer in mugs with whistled moulded into the side of them. When the punter had finished their drink, they simply blew the whistle indicating they were ready for another round; hence the term “wet your whistle.”
- The act of collecting beer mats from pubs is called Tegestology (This is true)… and is a result of having been given beer as a baby instead of milk (this part isn’t true).
- Beer Clips (the things that they have on the beer taps telling you what the beer is) is made of ceramic or hardened plastic and was invented in
- The word “pub” is an abbreviation of the term “public house”
- Beer is the oldest alcoholic beverage.
- Beer is the 2nd most consumed drink behind water and tea.
- The act of clashing glasses together (the “cheers”) was originally designed in the middle ages to ensure the people around you hadn’t poisoned your drink. By doing this, you generally spilled beer into the other glasses thereby making it unlikely someone would spike your drink.
- The official difference between pubs and bars is pubs don’t have music whereas bars do.
- There are about 53,000 pubs in the United Kingdom.
- A hand pump extract beer out of the keg and into your glass is technically called a “beer engine.”
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