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My pet theory is that the Irish are planning on taking over the world and these are their advance locations.
Friday, January 7, 2011
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My pet theory is that the Irish are planning on taking over the world and these are their advance locations.
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The Irish have a reputation for convivial drinking - as do the English to a certain extent.
ReplyDeleteThere are also "American" bars/restaurants all over the world, but that's just selling Americana again.
I personally can't wait for the Chinese pub to make its mark on the global stage ;)
It's because if you can cater for the American tourist dollar, you maximise your profits, and all Americans think that they're actually Irish, because they can't face the thought of being American for some reason.
ReplyDeleteAlso, you garner a solid sub-market in British tourists (who don't think that they're Irish, but associate pretend Irish pubs with Good Craic), and in Europeans, who due to the widespread confusion about the word "Celt" (which only really means a type of stone axe), assume that they are of "Celtic heritage" and thus should listen to Irish folk music.
(Incidentally, did you know that there are Irish pub factories? There are. All those half-barrels and bits of old-looking copper gubbins never start out as full barrels or actual copper gubbins from some 19th century industrial process; they get built that way, in an Irish pub factory, and exported to "Irish pubs" round the world.)
(Also, the test of a true Irish pub is that they know how to make a hot whiskey; if they look at you blankly, it's a factory pub, not an Irish pub.)
(Finally, if it were a real Irish pub, the entertainment would be Sky sports, not a feelgood MOR fiddly-diddly Irish-eyes-are-smiling pseudo-folk-music jukebox.)
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ReplyDeleteIt's because if you can cater for the American tourist dollar, you maximise your profits, and all Americans think that they're actually Irish, because they can't face the thought of being American for some reason.
Also, you garner a solid sub-market in British tourists (who don't think that they're Irish, but associate pretend Irish pubs with Good Craic), and in Europeans, who due to the widespread confusion about the word "Celt" (which only really means a type of stone axe), assume that they are of "Celtic heritage" and thus should listen to Irish folk music.
(Incidentally, did you know that there are Irish pub factories? There are. All those half-barrels and bits of old-looking copper gubbins never start out as full barrels or actual copper gubbins from some 19th century industrial process; they get built that way, in an Irish pub factory, and exported to "Irish pubs" round the world.)
(Also, the test of a true Irish pub is that they know how to make a hot whiskey; if they look at you blankly, it's a factory pub, not an Irish pub.)
(Finally, if it were a real Irish pub, the entertainment would be Sky sports, not a feelgood MOR fiddly-diddly Irish-eyes-are-smiling pseudo-folk-music jukebox.)
It's because if you can cater for the American tourist dollar, you maximise your profits, and all Americans think that they're actually Irish, because they can't face the thought of being American for some reason.
ReplyDeleteAlso, you garner a solid sub-market in British tourists (who don't think that they're Irish, but associate pretend Irish pubs with Good Craic), and in Europeans, who due to the widespread confusion about the word "Celt" (which only really means a type of stone axe), assume that they are of "Celtic heritage" and thus should listen to Irish folk music.
(Incidentally, did you know that there are Irish pub factories? There are. All those half-barrels and bits of old-looking copper gubbins never start out as full barrels or actual copper gubbins from some 19th century industrial process; they get built that way, in an Irish pub factory, and exported to "Irish pubs" round the world.)
(Also, the test of a true Irish pub is that they know how to make a hot whiskey; if they look at you blankly, it's a factory pub, not an Irish pub.)
(Finally, if it were a real Irish pub, the entertainment would be Sky sports, not a feelgood MOR fiddly-diddly Irish-eyes-are-smiling pseudo-folk-music jukebox.)