The guide’s attack on pretentious pub food is bogus. We should be proud of the abundance of hearty, lip-smacking fare
Do not judge the Good Pub Guide (GPG) too harshly: it needs to sell books in a tough market. You may call the confected controversy that accompanied the release of the travel guide’s 37th edition trolling. The GPG would call it PR.
Effective PR, too, given that its headline claim – that pub-goers are suffering a pandemic of pretentious “MasterChef-mad” food – was widely reported. So excitedly reported, in fact, that people such as me (a food writer who cares about pubs, grub and the truth) may feel compelled to set the record straight, despite this offering yet more publicity for the GPG.
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