After smoking ban patrons realize pubs smell of sweat and stale beer

[China]

British pubs in need of aromatic makeover

Quirks

Published: Aug. 5, 2007 at 7:42 PM E-mail Story | Print Preview | License

British pubs in need of aromatic makeover

LONDON, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- The recent passage of a smoking ban throughout Britain has created a new problem for pub-goers, the stale and foul smells the smoke once covered up.

The Sunday Times of London said a lack of cigarette smoke in British pubs has revealed the quite unpleasant odor of sweat and stale beer, prompting one company to begin placing fresher scents inside the pubs its manages.

Included among the unique smells now filling Mitchells & Butlers pubs are freshly cut grass and a pleasant ocean breeze.

Oliver Devine, a marketing manager, said such smells became necessary once the true smells of pubs were laid bare by the smoking ban.

"Appetizing food smells have increased but others are less attractive, such as stale food and beer, damp, sweat and body odor, drains and -- how do you put this nicely? " Devine said, "flatulence."

The newspaper said similar scents were used in Scottish pubs when that nation put a smoking ban into effect a year ago.

[Midnight Judges]

Not to mention vomit

TT Reynolds smells like vomit in the summer time.

[tizzod]

Do Brits not understand the concept of hygiene?

[ACW]

And cigarettes smell so nice?

[DeanCollins]

so they spray air freshener, no talk of remodeling :doh:. As a contractor, I'm outraged, cheap basturds.

[Larry]

Just surprised that this article wasn't from The Onion.

(Hasn't there been a smoking ban passed in France?)

[Koolblue13]

Appetizing food smells have increased

They can't possibly be talking about malt vinegar and delicious roqufort cheese.

[Stophovr6]

Just surprised that this article wasn't from The Onion.

(Hasn't there been a smoking ban passed in France?)

I can't imagine there won't be a revolt when the French smoking ban goes into effect. Who surrenders first? The poeple or the governement?

[DeanCollins]

Appetizing food smells have increased

They can't possibly be talking about malt vinegar and delicious roqufort cheese.

I will get to experience real Brit food next year on my 2 week trip thru the British Isles and Isle of Man (Isle of Man TT race anyone?). I'm hoping it's way better than the Pub food here in FL :puke:

[nace14]

In a related story, the owners of Camelot, Good-Guys, and JP's have recently realized that since the smoking ban in D.C. their bars have started to smell less like smoke and more like sex. More curiously, there are varrying degrees of sex smells that permiate throught these bars, some times they smell like skank sex, while other times they smell like goddess sex. There appears to be a direct corelation between the smells as between the degree of sluttiness of the employees working at the times.

[Dumbsheet]

Appetizing food smells have increased

They can't possibly be talking about malt vinegar and delicious roqufort cheese.

Malt vinegar smells like sweaty feet after a long run.

And take any pub with a bunch of smelly dudes and unkempt wenches, have them stay in close proximity on a hot August night for several hours, and you've got yourself a room filled with the fresh fragrance of a college undergrads dirty hamper.

And yet it remains one of the most leaned on methods of finding someone to breed with and procreate the species. Go figure.