The story of the “Spoons” starts, surprisingly, with English writer George Orwell, the man behind the chilling dystopian fiction of “1984.”Orwell had robust opinions on totalitarianism, surveillance, censorship and class struggle. He also had things to get off his chest about treacle tarts and cups of tea.
With “In Defence of English Cooking” Orwell railed against Francophile foodies, instead extolling the virtues of kippers, Oxford marmalade and new potatoes slicked with melted butter and mint. A keen baker, he also jotted down his own recipes for plum cake and Yorkshire puddings. Biscuits, the author insisted, were “better and crisper in England.”
Of all the “Animal Farm” author’s refreshment-themed essays, though, 1946’s “The Moon Under Water” is his best-known. In this romantic wish list of components for the perfect pub, Orwell’s fantasy boozer is frequented by regulars who sit in the same chair night after night, employs chirpy, liver-sausage-sandwich-slinging barmaids, and serves its ale
serves its ale in strawberry-pink china mugs. “…most people like their drink to be transparent,” wrote Orwell, “but in my opinion beer tastes better out of china.”
celebrity guests cobbling together their own pub paradigms: what they’d play on the jukebox, which brews they’d pour.It struck a chord: three years, &over 300 episodes later, the podcast is still streaming. Yet you could argue that a far more substantial, brick-and-mortar tribute to Orwell’s dream pub had already been going for some4decades before that.
**Beer is sourced from over 350 different brewers, no two bar line-ups the same. Some Brits happily settle in for a Wetherspoons pint multiple times a week. Others actively cross the street to avoid one. So where did this huge, and hugely divisive, pub chain surface from in the first place?Ground zero of Tim Martin’s operation opened in Muswell Hill, 北倫敦**
Beer is sourced from over 350 different brewers, no two bar line-ups the same. Some Brits happily settle in for a Wetherspoons pint multiple times a week. Others actively cross the street to avoid one. So where did this huge, and hugely divisive, pub chain surface from in the first place?Ground zero of TimMartin’s operation opened in Muswell Hill,北倫敦
in 1979. Martin — a larger-than-life entrepreneur in all senses, who was born in Norwich, England, but grew up in New Zealand — called his first pub, rather unimaginatively, “Martin’s.” The name was printed on the plate glass frontage, but after a member of staff serendipitously put an A-board through said window,
“So I read the article and thought ‘ahh, I’ve got something in common with George Orwell’.” The journalist had rightly hit on parallels between Orwell’s dream pub and Martin’s real ones: The “no music” rule. Stout poured on tap. Somewhere “you can get a good, solid lunch”. Welcoming accompanied children in (although at a Wetherspoon they are not allowed,**
“So I read the article and thought ‘ahh, I’ve got something in common with George Orwell’.” The journalist had rightly hit on parallels between Orwell’s dream pub and Martin’s real ones: The “no music” rule. Stout poured on tap. Somewhere “you can get a good, solid lunch”. Welcoming accompanied children in (although at a Wetherspoon they are not allowed,
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The name “Moon Under Water” nudged its way back into the British public consciousness in April 2021, when a podcast of that name was launched —In Defence of English Cooking | The Orwell Foundatio...
So where did this huge, and hugely divisive, pub chain surface from in the first place?Ground zero of Tim Martin’s operation opened in Muswell Hill, 北倫敦**
So where did this huge, and hugely divisive, pub chain surface from in the first place?Ground zero of TimMartin’s operation opened in Muswell Hill,北倫敦
Recalling a well-meaning yet beleaguered teacher from his childhood, Martin renamed the pub “Wetherspoon.”