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‘Protestant whiskey’ omg I love it.

To give Slattery’s a bit of (bit o’?) credit, they do actually know how to pour a black & tan, and their corned beef is actually good. They don’t do colcannon but they do a very good bangers & mash and an excellent shepherd’s pie. And I mentioned their stellar fish n chips, too, which is something of an accomplishment, it being in Colorado where we have no water to speak of.

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"Corporate Irish!" I love that!😂

I know exactly what you mean by that; they have all the pseudo-Irish stuff but can't pour a Black and Tan, have no idea what colcannon is and will serve Old Bushmills (which my dad derided as "Protestant whiskey").

My favorite hang out back in my younger days was a place in San Diego known, appropriately, as The Blarney Stone. Owned by a guy named Pete from the old country. He used to charge a quarter more for a Black and Tan than he did for a Guinness draft or a Bass and if you asked him why he would answer, totally deadpan, "Labor charge." They used to sponsor a "half-way to St. Patty's Day" pub crawl where you met there, had a Guiness, and then got on a chartered bus and visited every pub in San Diego that served Guinness draft (back in the 1980s there weren't as many as today). The bus dropped you at home and you came back the next day for your car. Still my image of a pub when I imagine one!

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