HUGE Difference between UK and USA 🇺🇸

We give directions by pubs. “Turn left at The Hare and Hounds, walk past The Plough, cross the road at The Queens Head, turn right and you’re at The Carpenters Arms.”

"A pint" is more a unit of time than it is liquid. The first pint you drink doesn't count. If you're going for "a pint" it's more likely to be 3 pints. "A pint" means half hour. So "a couple of pints" is as much as you can drink in an hour. So on and so forth

We have pubs that use function spaces for church services, pubs running food banks, putting on community meals for older people...I worked in a pub for several years and we had regulars, often lonely older people, if they missed 2 days we'd check up to make sure they were OK.

As a kids spent a lot of time in a pub garden. Family oriented pubs. Also, have you tried a ploughman’s lunch?

"Just popping out for quick one" results with your tea being put in the oven.

With the US being such a car centric nation does that restrict going to a bar because of drink driving laws? It feels like you can’t just walk to a bar like you can a pub here in the UK and so can’t get as bladdered as you can here.

Brilliant mate

It's the old culture that's fast disappearing I love. Like playing darts, Cribbage, bar billiards, there's pool but not all pubs are large enough for pool tables, there's special nights for special days, our pub used to do an annual Conker Champion, GREAT day (I won one year!)

As Britain grew from villages, there would always be an ale house within walking/staggering distance. Even today a small village will have 2 or 3 pubs, or at least did before they all started closing. Difference in the U.S. is that you guys had too much space, and too much god.

Pints not bottles.

My sister's local pub is used as a polling station at election time. I'm not quite sure how it works - I think one bar is used for voting and then you can go through to the other one to get a drink afterwards.

I was in the pub the other day and 2 people parked their horses in the carpark and had a few beers. British pub things.

That's the perfect description!

Just nipping the pub for a quick pint love.....9 hours laster you fall through the door rat arsed with a few daffodils you picked on the way home from the verges

pubs/inns/taverns have existed even before romans set foot in uk. same culture since then.

@Ohffs1984 Great summary 👏🏼 🍺

If you Dad popped out then your mom would say ' He is going to see a man about a dog'. You should go to a pub in Rushall, Walsall. Has no bar, pumps come straight up from the floor

It’s the hub of the community

It was noon Wednesday and I had a day off doing errands so of course I had a pint

American theme parks sell alcohol and there are people drinking at lunchtime. Oddly enough you don’t really see people drinking in British theme parks

I’ve managed pubs and clubs for years so it’s very nice to hear you say this😀

Yes but they are different pubs! So family pubs, eating pubs, getting pissed pubs, having a romantic evening pub, going out with your mates pubs!

Remember too that the licensing laws in the UK mean that 18 year olds can have an alcoholic beverage, when it's 21 in the States.

Kate Winslet, the famous actress, got married in a pub.

The other difference is that a British pint is 20% larger than a US pint.