February 2025. Mossley (pronounced Mossley).
I’d promised Matt lunch in Mossley, but while it’s a good pub town it’s not one for the gourmand, or even two blokes after a chip butty/bap/cob. Not on Sunday, anyway.
Luckily, we had 28 minutes before the train back to Platform 1, Piccadilly, just time for pizza in the other recent GBG newbie, the Gillery.
Two years since my ticking visit, this one looks like a GBG pub with its quirky decor in a bank conversion (Matt knew it before I remembered), LocAles,
and Dad Joke fines.
Dad Joke fines have their own symbol in the Beer Guide.
Suddenly the 28 minutes till the train is 22 and we’re faced with eating pizza on the hoof, so opt instead for the entirely sensible “Huge bowl of pretzels with Nutella“.
Two pints (Milestone Tiger Rut and Purple Hills) and two thousand calories for £9.20. In truth, Matt’s session bitter was not the pint to convert him to the joys of real ale and CAMRA committee meetings, but such is life.
A pleasing pub, though, and I was tempted to reference the sign on the Gents in my blog title;
Q: “Are we not Men ?“
A : We are;
If you know, you know.
retiredmartin 
Best dust off my plant pot if I make it to Mossley.
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Not everyone knows that the Stafford Knot was the inspiration for pretzels.
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Nor the relationship that the city of Philadelphia had with the pretzel of local bakers. The Philadelphia Recreation Department renamed in 2004 a facility formerly identified as Manayunk Park, located on the 4300 block of Silverwood Street as “Pretzel Park”. The re-designed park includes pretzel-like looped pathways and a public art statue in the shape of a pretzel sculpted by Warren C. Holzman.
The Stafford Knot is owed quite a lot then.
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We’ve missed you, Reg.
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