sunairco
04-26-2011, 08:41 AM
Many years ago when I was younger and would meet up with friends on weekends, we'd usually end up closing the bar and go find some all night restaurant to sober up by morning. Back then, most neighborhood or corner bars didn't serve food. Maybe crisps, package snacks, and of course the gallon bottles of pickled eggs,pigs feet, pork hocks, sausages, huge pickles. With the exception of the pickles, most of those were in a red pickling brine that looked like preserved laboratory specimens. Salty stuff that caused you to buy more drinks. There were few places that had a limited kitchen that served cold sandwiches, hot dogs from a roller grill, maybe hot sandwiches that were cooked in an infrared oven b4 microwaves. There were bars and grills that had a full grill that you could get a burger or other hot sandwich, maybe even a steak. It wouldn't be until the 80's that the sports bar/restaurant theme took hold where the bars had full service restaurants. That was down here. Up in the northern states, the restaurant/bar was pretty common including family dining.
The few times that I've been in a local bar now, the places are pretty much themed places that are complete restaurants with food and menus rivaling some of the fern bars like Chili's. Long gone are those pickled snacks in those lurid red liquids that you could see the hairs sticking out on the pigs feet.
I'm wondering if it's like that everywhere or are there still liquor/beer bars that don't serve food besides snacks. None of the old places I remember had entertainment besides maybe a pool table or two and a dart board. This was back in the day b4 they had light ordinances and most of these places were so dark, that you could find yourself in a corner and barely see your hands and the smoke level was a fuzzy haze.
The few times that I've been in a local bar now, the places are pretty much themed places that are complete restaurants with food and menus rivaling some of the fern bars like Chili's. Long gone are those pickled snacks in those lurid red liquids that you could see the hairs sticking out on the pigs feet.
I'm wondering if it's like that everywhere or are there still liquor/beer bars that don't serve food besides snacks. None of the old places I remember had entertainment besides maybe a pool table or two and a dart board. This was back in the day b4 they had light ordinances and most of these places were so dark, that you could find yourself in a corner and barely see your hands and the smoke level was a fuzzy haze.