spittoon

It's as well the spitoon was there otherwise Mirror Towers may have resembled a newspaper office in the 1970s with everybody half-cut (except without the ashtrays and men in braces) as we were all treated to sample a new McGuigans range.

At the end of an hour being driven through what felt like a crowded speedway track we were considering opening a spitoon factory.

Minutes also show that the club was buying spitoons, imported cigars and "ordinary ale."

Thereupon the landlord came and said "There's no spitoons here son, My advice to you is to get out of town!

Past the bar is a fully-equipped, vaulted wine-tasting room, complete with authentic brass spitoons, where regular events are held for guests keen to try out a vintage wine or two.

"And another thing," said Aynuk, "I misses the spitoons."

Another afternoon we went to the Roman Catholic cathedral; this red brick edifice seemed a typical Gothic Revival building, inside only spitoons at the feet of columns reminded us which country we were in.

She said: "It was a time of "agged "oors and spitoons round the bar and sawdust on the "oor.

Each batch is tasted by tea tasters who move up the line, scoop up the tea on a soup spoon, swirl it round their mouth much like wine tasting and then spit it ( at quite high speed ( into 100-year-old metal spitoons.

"The Tap was then up-graded and became the Mews, popular with the younger end, rather than the old twist chewers and their spitoons.