Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]
… respected publican.’ 4 They encouraged drinkers to linger over their pints by serving food and providing pipes and newspapers, while gin shops only sold liquor. 4 . Lee Jackson, ‘The Gin Palace; or, The Abodes of Suicide’, in Palaces of … Lane , there are groups of people pouring gin down each other’s throats and a pair of schoolgirls drinking together. The newspapers reported accounts of casual sexual liaisons between people who met in gin shops. In 1736, for example, Read’s …
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