Talk:Country pub

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A country pub is a rural public house. The term typically applies to drinking establishments in England, but the term is also found in many other countries with strong connections to England (such as Wales, Australia, New Zealand, and the Republic of Ireland). There is a distinctive rural culture surrounding country pubs, many of which function as social centres for a village or surrounding region. Many country pubs are village pubs associated with a single village. Others are inns that used to serve travellers in the period before motor transport. Some country pubs are centuries old.

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This is once again an example of creating a separate article for no reason whatsoever. Tell me what the difference is, where does a town end and the country begin? What is the "distinctive rural culture surrounding country pubs", what does it consist of? Many town pubs function as "social centres" if not for a village but for the area immediately surrounding the pub in a town, exactly the same as a pub does in a rural surrounding. These days, in an age when the motorcar connects town and village in no time at all, it is such an artificial distinction, that it is just not worth talking about. Most pubs in the country serve food just the same as city pubs, while country pubs where the locals meet socially, are visited by townspeople travelling through for a rest or a meal before they continue on their journey, in just the same way they would do in the city. Also townsfolk go out to a rural pub for a meal, especially if its cuisine is well known. Please don't say that there is some kind of mystique about a rural pub which makes it totally different. There isn't. Some pubs in rural surroundings are very sophisticated affairs indeed these days. This is just notching up another article against someone's nick. Dieter Simon (talk) 23:23, 20 November 2007 (UTC)Reply