Last week’s flooding affected hoteliers, restaurateurs and publicans in pretty dramatic ways, from having your water supply cut off to the road leading to your business becoming inaccessible through the rising tides. Thankfully a little blitz spirit has taken hold in the South-West and Midlands, with rival hoteliers ferrying each other food by dinghy and brewers shipping in water instead of beer in delivery trucks. Come on chaps, stiff upper lip and all that! Worse things have happened at sea.
Unfortunately the pressure has got to a few in the trade.
The water torture of flooding, the constant attire of Wellington’s and cagoule and swapping water for beer in the delivery truck has taken its toll.
At the water’s height Caterer had a tip-off that Heston Blumenthal’s Bray pub – the Hind’s Head – was suffering from a little water damage and had to close its doors on a lucrative Friday lunchtime trade. Caterer called the pub in question to check out whether the story would float only to be met with the stern response that they had indeed not been flooded and we should call the Hind’s Head in Reading instead. Which we did and they had not been flooded either.
Because the initial tip-off had come from a source who knows a thing or two about cooking in the Hind’s Head, we thought it prudent to ring back again. A rather pleasant young lady answered the phone and confirmed the story absolutely telling us the water levels would have ruined the guests dining experiences.
But to the contrary we have heard the Hind’s Head proprietor has taken onboard the idea of damp eating. What better way to enjoy a warm bowl of snail porridge than floating in a rubber dinghy?
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Great post! I knew the humour was coming, save the best for last eh