Summary
Happy hours started in the 1980s and, as the NS contributor Joe Moran points out in his book Queuing for Beginners, pubs started putting salty snacks on the bars, to make customers thirsty, as long ago as the 1930s.
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More Important Than Post Offices
Hilaire Belloc, a Frenchman by birth, once advised us that "when you have lost your inns ... you will have lost the last of England". On current trends, we have about 50 years left. More than 1,400 pubs closed last year alone. A few days ag...
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