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Fredric Koeppel
Aug 10, 2007
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Is there an uglier word that "gastropub"? Yum, I certainly want to eat there. Leave it to the British, heirs to Shakespeare, Milton and P.G. Wodehouse, to invent for categorizing a restaurant a word that sounds like an alien creature that transports itself on its own slime.

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