Viral DOOM

Not The Archers
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Only I am not sure we can really be tier 2 if the pub down the road is closed without the option.

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1084

At the moment tiers don’t exist. They will start again on 2 December.

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1085

Oh. I see. Or more likely I don’t but it doesn’t really matter…

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1086

And here the rules are equally baffling

I forsee Santa getting help from the big river

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1087

Since the tier 2 rules now only permit pubs to serve alcohol ‘with a substantial meal’, I wonder if The Pub will find it worth it to open for the moment :cry:

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1088

Oh dear Bog. And who defines “substantial”, and how?

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1089

Probably “one that, for normal consumption, involves a plate and at least one item of cutlery”.

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1090

Monster link, sorry

https://www.hospitalitylaw.co.uk/pub-or-restaurant-is-your-meal-substantial-enough/#:~:text=What%20is%20a%20substantial%20meal%3F%20The%20reference%20to,a%20main%20course%20at%20either%20such%20meal%20”.

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1091

I suspect a sandwich becomes substantial if it has a tomato with it, therefore. And comes on a plate.

But they don’t specify whether a meal can have more than one drink with it…

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1092

It has the potential to become very theological, very rapidly. “How many chips can dance on the lid of a ketchup bottle?” .

I’ve no doubt Plod will interpret it as they please anyway.

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1093

Individual plod will be very open indeed to appeals against them. That’s why laws ought to be better-written than that!

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1094

That was my first thought Fishy

Aperitif wine and degustif at the least is my idea of a proper amount of drink with a meal

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1095

It would be safer to suggest a portion of chips with it, I feel, Fishy

Carinthia.xx

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1096

But what are you going to have with the main course?

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1097

So long as That Bird can eat them…

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1098

My friend with the cafe is serving hot roast pork sandwiches with stuffing & apple sauce anna small portion of roast potatoes.

‘Sunday Dinner inna Cob’, as bread rolls are referred to here

Carinthia.xx

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1099

Dear wee birdie there is a bottle of wine with the fish course and another with the main

Suitable pudding wine and degustif with the savoury

Aperitif goes with the starter and amuse bouche

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1100

Very civilised.
Soo xx

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1101

Apparently we are having both a flour panic and a loo roll panic at the same time.

(That’s “we” as in local shops, not the Nest.)

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1102

I wonder about panic buyers of toilet roll - I mean How much can they use at any one time?

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