[OC]Defending British Food

[u/Desperate-Hearing297]

[u/LaunchTransient]

Doubly so for the alcohol.

I dunno, I had a pint of cider in 2022 not far from Paddington Station, on my way to Cardiff. I almost cried when I paid the bill.

London has Scandinavian alcohol prices, the rest of the UK is more reasonable.

[u/Kingreaper → u/LaunchTransient]

There are places in London with more normal UK prices [albeit, still above average] they're just nowhere near the train stations - station-weighting covers a significantly larger region in London than most other cities.

[u/simonraynor → u/LaunchTransient]

Not just London, my mother-in-law paid £13.80 for two pints of ale the other day in the South West!!

[u/possumcounty → u/LaunchTransient]

Anything near a train station is insanely inflated, even moreso in central London.

But there must always be balance in the force, the 99p pints in northern Wetherspoons make up for it.

[u/PragmaticPidgeon → u/LaunchTransient]

Oh yeah? Wait till you see the prices up here in Scotland!

[u/gridlockmain1 → u/LaunchTransient]

Depends on the bit of Scandinavia tbh, Swedish prices maybe but half a litre in Norway can set you back like £10

[u/rivains → u/LaunchTransient]

I dunno man I live in London and even in my wildest Zone 1 dealings I was never as shocked at the price of beer until I got a half pint in Oslo in 2023

[u/Amzer23 → u/LaunchTransient]

Go to a Wetherspoons, genuinely one of the few places where you can still get alcohol cheaply.

[u/True-Watch7428 → u/LaunchTransient]

Rest of UK is catching and in many cases has caught up to London prices for pints.

[u/PersephoneHazard → u/LaunchTransient]

You get a 25-50% markup just for being near a mainline London station.