Fascinating long read which makes me disinclined ever to enter a Samuel Smiths pub again (not that it happened very often). www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de... - ThreadSky

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tds153.bsky.social • 80 days ago

Fascinating long read which makes me disinclined ever to enter a Samuel Smiths pub again (not that it happened very often).

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/dec/19/humphreys-world-how-the-samuel-smith-beer-baron-built-britains-strangest-pub-chain

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outeast.bsky.social•80 days ago

It's insane, isn't it? Another deeply toxic billionaire. Doubtless he would be outraged to be classed with the tech bros but despite his fetish for the past and his personal frugality he seems very much cut from the same cloth.

sjjackson32.bsky.social•79 days ago

And (on behalf of the Marvell/metaphysical poetry community) the state of Nun Appleton House is so, so tragic - though interested to read here that restoration work has begun there…

nigelleach.com•80 days ago

I remember visiting their pub in Swiss Cottage, I suppose perfectly reasonable sam smiths beer, but sam smiths crisps, sam smiths nuts, sam smiths white wine, sam smiths red wine, and probably sam smiths pickled eggs – soulless

guybailey.bsky.social•80 days ago

You shouldn't anyway unless you enjoy drinking beer with leaves and twigs in it called something like "Old Tom's Foreskin"

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