Been a fair few times and never had a bad meal. Each time the place was packed. Wouldnt call it a shitty pub like.

People wanking about a shitty pub doing microwaved food like its something new.

Quite bizarre.

Who is having a wank

Public interest, have you tried anger management or maybe having a wank to reduce tension

Lots of people are on Facebook. We have had pub chains serving microwaved food for ages.

Give me a restaurant anyday

Are there any free houses in the town or are they all owned by pubcos?

Like mister twisters, brewers fayre, king johns and lloyds? (to name 4 cheap n cheerful food outlets off the top of my head that haven't closed)

As long as people keep having kids n fancy a cheap n cheerful tea these places will do well, n why the hell not? It's employing about 40 people from the town so I don't see why anyone would have beef with it.
ive got nowt against cheap and cheerful i just dont like chains of anything (coffee shops cafes etc)who only exist to take money out of communities



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For the price they charge its not bad. Been a few times & didn't have any complaints, as long as you bear in mind you get what you pay for.

thats right dont expect quality.

For the price they charge I don't expect quality, but the meals I have had have always been cooked properly & were tasty & like Yubep says its a good place to take the kids for a cheap family meal out.

When I've got 4 kids after a few hours out the house n a bite to eat n a play where am I gunna take them there or the friggin iona social club?

Times change I'm afraid
good point that like...my 4 are all up now.i used to take mine to the raby arms and the greensides

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These are basically the devils pubs, but they have their place. The saying cheap and cheerful was invented for these type of places, but if you are strapped for cash they are a godsend. But they are devoid of any sort of character/substance and basically mirror the decline of the British working class over the last 50 years. Frozen food in sterile atmospheres with drink from the Man Utds of the brewing world. Shit experience IMO, but each to their own.

The times they are a changing.

Have to laugh at the suggestion that people shouldn't use chains as they kill communities. Its not the 1950's, and people arent going to stop using Asda and Tesco and revert to going to corner shops and paying over the odds.

If pubs are shutting its largely because they can't attract business. Did the Wacky Warehouse kill of the Brus and the King Oswy ? Somehow I doubt it, wouldn't have thought their target audience was the same. As has been said a lot of the people going to the Wacky and similar sorts of establishments are going with their families for a cheap meal where they can take their kids. You couldn't exactly do that at the Brus now could you ?

Theres lot of things killing communities ( lack of decent jobs, drugs, cuts to services ) but I wouldnt say people going to The Stag with their family for a meal was near the top of that list.

Dont get me wrong, I understand the drift of what you are saying. I grew up in the Seventies in a village where almost all of the shops were owned by locals, and the pubs and clubs were packed to the rafters most nights.

The only " chain " to speak of was the Co-Op and even that was a mutual.

For better or for worse we cant go back to those days. Not many blokes these days would get away with going to the boozer every night and getting bladdered and leaving their wives at home with the kids, not least because these days most of the wives work an all. And I would neccessarily say thats a bad thing.

On the other hand back in the day if you wanted to communicate with your mates and find out what was going on the boozer was where you had to head. There was no internet or mobile phones or satelitte television, and I think thats a shame. People these days do what we are doing here, they discuss things and chat with their mates without ever leaving the comfort of their living rooms.

Slag and Junkie seems to be its common name.

Thats what the taxi driver told me the other day Tree..... You weren't that driver where you?

Brittish Towns and Cities all merge into one these days, Weatherspoons over there, Pitcher and Piano, Slug and Lettuce, Yates's, all the same chain restaurants. Depressing, you could almost be anywhere on a day on the pop because they all look the same.

As for these microwave food pubs, inoffensive sometimes convenient and alright for letting the kids have a run about but as for raving about the food and going back again and again, not for me. Give me a proper pub food or an actual restaurant any day of the week.

Give me a proper pub food or an actual restaurant any day of the week.

I wouldn't call not being a fan of these dull as dishwater all the same microwave zap food pubs snobby. As I said they are inoffensive enough and I'm sure I'll going to use the Stag & Monkey as the kids play area looks canny but if I didn't have the little one I wouldn't use the place out of choice that type of place depresses me a bit every time I see a new one getting knocked up.

I'd rather eat something fresh and cooked on site than something that's been shipped in frozen then zapped to within an inch of it's life while loads of kids run a mock in a sterile atmosphere free environment.

Places don't have to be pretentious to serve good home cooked food as I'm sure Monkeybutt will shortly tell us in a predictable reply

I've got a map of all the country pubs what do home made scran in the Yorkshire Dales, now I need one for the NY Moors, one for the Lakes , one for the Peak District for starters so my roaming circumference on a Sunday is adequately covered and guaranteed to get some tasty, proper scran

It costs more but it's well worth finding these places. Once you've been in a few, you simply can't go back to these Stag and Monkey/ Sizzling steak gaffes - it's nothing like the same, if you're out and about may as well eat the really really good stuff!!

Straight from the local barn yard, through the local contraption for turning pigs and cows into bite size portions, then onto the plate via the bloke in the kitchen doing whatever he/she needs to do