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Thread #38119   Message #537350
Posted By: Fibula Mattock
29-Aug-01 - 07:48 AM
Thread Name: Whiskey Jars, Guinness Pails - Irish Idioms?
Subject: RE: Whiskey Jars, Guinness Pails - Irish Idioms?
Lounge for the ladies, bar for the men - that's the way it used to go. Or - bar for the men, living room of the landlords house for the women. My parents' house used to be a spirit grocers and had the hatch to serve the women in a separate room.
As for glasses and pints, I can still remember my aunt having to buy two glasses of Guinness rather than a pint, because it wasn't the done thing for women to drink pints and the barman wouldn't sell it to her.