Down our way a ‘Wank Pub’ would be any pub that had a ‘Greene King’ logo by the door.
Their headquarters is up the road from us in Bury St Edmunds and they rule the roost for miles around with ruthlessness and sharp practices Michael O’Leary would be proud of. They are pretty much despised and it doesn’t help that their staple, GK IPA is shite too. Every pub feels like a carbon copy of the last one you went in and after a while you’d rather go to the dentist than a GK pub.
As a byproduct of that, the few Freehouses that exist are always packed. They tend to be very expensive, both beer and food, but the natives can’t get enough of it.
Looks like GK are spreading their misery far and wide and are (unless I’m mistaken) now the U.K’s largest pub chain. I mean, I guess they might improve the odd shithole in the same way Tesco Express did for the odd mouldy corner shop, but the outlook for good pub and good ale lovers from GK’s dominance is not good at all.
