The Plough

[SeanMacGabhann]

Was it the bearded team Jah??

[Jah Lush]

Yeah, I think so. Weirdy beardies and speccy feckers. Win it every week now apparently. Boooo!

[SimonM]

On behalf of weirdy-beardie-speckies I do protest!

[clare]

It's official !

The Plough now beats The Upland for category of "teachers lunching and getting back just in time for school"

Friendly staff, good service and you can park.

[Mogs]

Jamma Wrote:

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> The quiz sounds like it's there for the taking.

> When are the scrabble nights? Are they open to all

> and what's the standard?

Scrabble is on this Wednesday at The Drum (for a change), only myself and Miss Macghban are coming along so far, but the text messages are about to go out.

We had a Scrabble night one Thursday at the plough while the quiz was on and between three of us we came second, the great thing was when we went to the Mag on the Sunday they repeated one of the rounds, so we got 10 out of 10 for that round. The quiz was very slow running quiet good as it enabled us to carry on with our scrabbling

[Keef]

Ah The Beards, bless their cottons, they are proper professional quiz players.

[Azul]

clare Wrote:

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> It's official !

>

> The Plough now beats The Upland for category of

> "teachers lunching and getting back just in time

> for school"

>

> Friendly staff, good service and you can park.

Teachers ?

How young are they ?

[Jah Lush]

Had a splendid lunch in the Plough yesterday, several pints of London Pride, Morroccan lamb chops on a bed of couscous and a very quaffable Australian Shiraz.

[EDOldie]

Sounds good but I was a bit put off as I thought it was run by Mitchells and Butler that also run the Dog in the Village. I did venture in shortly after it reopened in the hope of it becoming my local again but was unimpresssed by the service. Am I wrong? Is it actually independent or part of another chain?

[Jeremy]

It is a Mitchells and Butler pub, so I guess it's technically part of a chain. M&B also own the "Goose And..." chain, so the big reopening was really just a rebranding. I think they also own All Bar One, O Neills, Hollywood Bowl, and probably others too.

[SeanMacGabhann]

tis a bit more than just a re-brand I would say. I mean they changed the name of the Goose back to The Plough for a while - that was a re-brand (for all the good it did)

i know the current incarnation is from an M&B template but it isn't even remotely similar to what was there (service could be quicker tho I agree)

[Jeremy]

Yes you are right of course, SeanMacGabhann... before the refurb it was a complete toilet. Was just responding to the previous poster's question as to whether it's part of a chain or not.

[snorky]

snorkys fact of the day

Ebloc Au pairs have difficulty pronouncing the name of the pub correctly - its is mangeled about and eventually emerges as " the plug "

[SeanMacGabhann]

*sigh*

how adorable....

[ben]

I knew of a French lady that suggested that we order the 'plugmans lunch' at a country pub

[Jah Lush]

I ate a Ploughman's lunch once. He was absolutely furious.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Tommy C

That gag is already on the wall of the men's at the EDT

(still funny tho... (tu))

[SimonM]

"Come friendly bombs, and fall on Slug"....erm...perhaps not

[David Mc]

Aha so that's what all the "Goose and Granite" charges on my credit card statement are!

[Barry Rhode]

Quick question

Me and the missus once "discovered" the old Plough about a year ago

It wasn't very pleasant - one could say it was "chavvy", depressing and dusty with the smell of a grandmother's bedroom mixed with stale beer

No that it's gone all posh, where do the previous clientele hang out?

[Michael Palaeologus]

Costcutter ?

[Domitianus]

The previous client?le has been removed by a group of exterminators to a resettlement camp for the incorrigibly scummy! It's a good question, though. Since the Bishop became posh and the Palmerston followed suit and now the centre of the ED yob universe , The plough, has been sanitised - where do you go if you are an aggressive, bigotted, working-class English thug?

[lozzyloz]

CPT

[Domitianus]

Aaaaahh!

[Brendan]

Domitianus Wrote:

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> where do you go if you are an aggressive,

> bigotted, working-class English thug?

lozzyloz Wrote:

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> CPT

Hey I go to the CPT and I?m a slightly shy, open minded, South African, softy.