From: Charlie Stross (charlie@antipope.org)
Date: Sat Sep 06 2003 - 16:31:09 MDT
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:21:49PM -0700, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
>
> SHT = "Stupid Human Tricks"
>
> Can anyone on the list who understands British culture
> better than I explain this phenomena:
>
> "Travel Advisory: British Abroad, Staggering About"
> Sarah Lyall, NY Times
> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/04/international/04PRAG.html
The explanation is simple. Beer in UK pubs costs roughly GBP
2.20-3.50 a pint (imperial pint, not your wimpish American
pints) -- about US $3.50-$5 a pint. (And imported Czech and
German beers are at the top of that price range.) In contrast,
beer in Czech ale houses costs about US $0.5-0.7 a pint. Given
that the cost of the return flight is about US $25-50 ...
... Think of it as free market economics in action.
-- Charlie
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