Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for November 09, 2010

I’m with you on that one Andy.

Soup!?! All you do is stir some vegatables in water. Now beer, Oh.—Er Flo, Pet, Luv. how bouts a nice barley soup at the pub?

Let’s see, that’s about $4.30. Really, that’s not too bad. I’ve paid more.

Hey Lew, I love barley soup. hic

You’re converting the wrong way… one pound is about $1.61 so the soup would be a little over eleven dollars.

For $11 Andy can get a few pints and 5 games of pool… Much better.

Three 20 oz mugs of a good porter are about $14. I can make soup at home for pennies a bowl. Gotta have your priorities straight.

Where Andy lives, there are old British institutions called working men’s clubs (yes, I know…) that sell very cheap beer at less than a pound a pint. The average cost of a beer in a pub these days is £2.70 in the North of England, £3 plus in the south. (NB - if the place calls itself a “wine bar”, or a “bar” and not a pub, this is a licence for adding a pound to the price. Avoid).

so seven quid van buy seven pints of Federation and still leave enough for a packet of crisps….

Soup is vegetables in water, more of a lunch or evening meal or appetizer. Beer is grains in water, so it can be a cereal breakfast food or good for any meal where you want to get a lot of fiber.

Both are good for the common cold, sniff, sniff!

For $11, that better be the best soup he’s ever eaten.

(Better to opt for the beer.)