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How inaccurate are Irish bar hoardings? They constantly claim to be something like "purveyors of quality wines, fine ales and spirits" and you go in and there is Guinness, Carlsberg and occasionally one mini white wine bottle for the ladies.

The only ale I have ever seen in most pubs is Smithwicks so "fine ales" is not even only subjectively wrong as they only have one ale.

What is the pub whose outside promises the most in comparison to what it actually sells?

I completely agree.

But on the food side of things, there are also inaccuracies.

"Award winning food" & "Best Stew in Dublin" come to mind. These bars really put thier hands out to be slapped.
Personally i wouldn't enter a bar based on "best & finest" claims, and i am sure there are many out there with the same idea.

I knew a bar who used to put up a sign proclaiming they sold the best pint of Guinness in dublin. Diageo sent a tech guy to investigate, and very shortly afterwards advised him to remove the sign based on the condition of his glasses and glasswasher. Slap!!

We should run a competition to see who can find the bar with the most inaccuracies advertised outside.

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[quote:1r26qr8b]I knew a bar who used to put up a sign proclaiming they sold the best pint of Guinness in dublin. Diageo sent a tech guy to investigate, and very shortly afterwards advised him to remove the sign based on the condition of his glasses and glasswasher. Slap!! [/quote:1r26qr8b]
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[quote:1r26qr8b]We should run a competition to see who can find the bar with the most inaccuracies advertised outside. [/quote:1r26qr8b]
I presume you can make completely untrue claims for all sorts of stuff on your front row. I know it is real ale twat territory but claiming you have ales when you don't annoys me.

The other claims of providing the best "whiskey, port & sherry" are also up there on the annoying list.

And having a big selection of crap products is as false as any hoarding claims. Who cares if you have 40 whiskies, when most of them are cheap, unknown and produced for export. Or that you have dozens of Bols liquers, just to fill shelf space.

One of Ireland's biggest publicans only buys products that sell, and he makes sure they sell before he pays his suppliers. That's how he stays in business,as opposed to making false claims.

It's "Whiskey Bonder" that annoys me. I wonder which pub was the last to actually bottle whiskey.

Totally agree with the op.
I really bugs me that almost every pub has a sign stating "the finest ales and stouts" when infact they always have only ONE ale and normally only ONE stout, and there far from the finests!!! <!-- s:roll: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_rolleyes.gif" alt="" title="Rolling Eyes" /><!-- s:roll: -->

A bit of tippex and some spare time late at night should sort this problem out!!

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