Dental Hygene.

Yesterdays anecdote about the 'albino rats' at The New Inn reminded me of another story from the same pub, although of a slightly earlier era.

Back in the mid 1970's, most pub food still consisted of the sort of rolls and pasties that could be found under the old fashioned plastic covers resting on shelves. At that time The New Inn had just about reached this stage of cuisine and one saturday night an outsider to the village came into the bar and purchased a pasty and a pint of cider and retreated to a table near the door. Although not the centre of attention when he entered the bar he was by the time he left it when one of the regulars saw that, having demolished his pasty, he removed his false teeth and proceeded to wash them off in his pint of cider. The spotter, a well known village resident to this day, proceeded to inform the rest of the bar in a very loud voice as to what had occurred and the embarrassed denture washer removed himself quite rapidly from the pub thereafter.

Whether rough cider is good for cleaning dentures or not I would rather not speculate on, but I suspect that many of the regulars carefully examined the state of cleanliness of their pint mugs for some time afterwards.