As controversy grows around children being served 0% drinks in pubs one local drinker has expressed his disdain for the whole malarkey.
Jimmy O’Dea (64), who has been a solid pinter for a good 50 years, told DTTN that the problem wasn’t the children being served, but that they weren’t drinking the right stuff.
“What kind of message is this sending to the youth?” said O’Dea. “If your first experience of the local is supping some 0% nonsense then you’re being set up to fail.
My auld lad had me on the porter from the time I was out of short pants and by my 17th birthday I could finish a bottle of Powers in one sitting. And I’d be up the crack of dawn the next day to milk the cows, fresh as a daisy.
Coddling the young fellas with this 0% muck is only making them soft. Next thing you know they’ll be drinking gin, or some mixed abomination. That might be fine for trans people in New York, and the like, but in this pub you can either have porter or whiskey. Anything else is against God.”
O’Dea, who never married or had kids, remains committed to sinking 10 pints a night and driving home. He refused to comment on rumours that his local was about to install 0% Guinness taps.