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Post by bungo the mungo on Oct 27, 2021 18:48:43 GMT
here in spain, we're blessed with FREE bar snacks. if you live in the south, you'll also get free TAPAS with your beer. bayarri's across the road, always serve up a small bowl of peanuts and olives with my alhambra verde. however, the biggest treat of all are lupin beans or altramuces as they call them here. pulses which taste a bit like mini edam cheeses. delicious!
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Post by oh oooh on Oct 27, 2021 18:51:24 GMT
if you live in the south, you'll also get free TAPAS with your beer. In the north too! I liked the little green peppers and the fish in escabeche
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Post by bungo the mungo on Oct 27, 2021 18:54:44 GMT
if you live in the south, you'll also get free TAPAS with your beer. In the north too! I liked the little green peppers and the fish in escabechethe pintxos in the basque country are to die for!
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Oct 27, 2021 18:58:20 GMT
I love those lupini beans - they're delicious AND tactile, with the way you've got to squeeze them out of their skins. My bandmate has them at his bar. Sadly, though, most bars here don't serve free snacks.
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Post by Sneelock on Oct 27, 2021 19:44:03 GMT
where are alcoholics supposed to get their fiber?
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Post by souphound on Oct 27, 2021 22:41:16 GMT
Here. peanuts and chips used to be de rigueur. When you saw those grubby paws dangling lazily in the shared bowls, your stomach would churn and warn you against even having a nibble.
Now, most places have these machines dispensing either a tiny can of Pringles or a minuscule handful of defunct peanuts or M&Ms.
I have never gone to a bar to eat - other than having a pub lunch in ye olde England of course.
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Post by Sneelock on Oct 27, 2021 23:09:52 GMT
oh man, in the 80's we would frequently dine on "Happy Hour" spreads of finger foods included with your overpriced cocktails.
mmmmmmm, finger food!
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Post by souphound on Oct 28, 2021 3:44:30 GMT
oh man, in the 80's we would frequently dine on "Happy Hour" spreads of finger foods included with your overpriced cocktails. mmmmmmm, finger food! Come to think of it, we had that here, in a few places. Wasn't the reason why I went there of course, but I did occasionally enjoy. I had totally forgotten about that.
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Post by Sneelock on Oct 28, 2021 5:15:24 GMT
Finger food, Wayne Chung, Tina Turner wigs... We had it pretty good in the 80’s.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 28, 2021 8:31:13 GMT
Here in the UK I am happy with pork sratchings or some cheese n onion crisps.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Oct 28, 2021 10:54:12 GMT
oh man, in the 80's we would frequently dine on "Happy Hour" spreads of finger foods included with your overpriced cocktails. mmmmmmm, finger food!
One of my first jobs when I moved to Toronto at 18 was at a restaurant/bar called Pat & Marios, which was a real meat market kind of place, and every day at 5pm we had to wheel out the steam tables and chafing dishes full of tiny pieces of pizza and chicken fingers and other crap like that. I was pretty broke at the time, so I'd always make sure to stuff my pockets to keep myself going.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Oct 28, 2021 16:12:34 GMT
Here it's really only chex mix or popcorn you can self-serve if a bar has a popcorn machine. When I was interning at an ad agency in San Francisco in college, required to graduate for my major, I use to walk up the hill from Market St. to the Tonga Room in the Fairmount Hotel at the top of Nob Hill. That was my dinner for two or three months. If you bought a drink, you could go to their bar buffet and get free won tons, egg rolls and pot stickers for free. I'd get a mai tai every night and gorge myself. It was a pretty good hike up California St., but I never took a cable car for some reason.
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Post by nolamike on Oct 28, 2021 16:43:48 GMT
Here it's really only chex mix or popcorn you can self-serve if a bar has a popcorn machine. When I was interning at an ad agency in San Francisco in college, required to graduate for my major, I use to walk up the hill from Market St. to the Tonga Room in the Fairmount Hotel at the top of Nob Hill. That was my dinner for two or three months. If you bought a drink, you could go to their bar buffet and get free won tons, egg rolls and pot stickers for free. I'd get a mai tai every night and gorge myself. It was a pretty good hike up California St., but I never took a cable car for some reason. When I was a broke college student, I put together a list of all of the different bars that would offer free food, with the nights the food was available, and what they had. I went to a different bar probably five nights a week, would order myself a dollar beer, and fill up on what they were serving. Monday was always red beans and rice night, and then there was a spot that a creamy crawfish pasta, another place had sloppy joes, and on and on. I don't think bars really do that anymore, though. One spot I would go to in Mississippi would put out baskets of just random fried stuff - basically, whatever fell out of the different baskets of things being fried for specific orders would just get scooped up and put into a bowl on the bar. You might end up with a few fried pickles, some french fries, maybe a small piece of chicken or fish, an onion ring, etc. There was also a place in Chicago, the Prodigal Son, where they used to just put out big baskets of bacon for bar snacks
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