Of pots and ponies
This guide to beer ordering is an interesting concept, but it’s wrong! We don’t have “pots” in WA, dammit! Pints and middies, and some of the ethnic clubs still sell ponies, but that’s all. (via)
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Well spotted Rob. Sporting clubs in country towns, as well as some lawn bowls clubs in the suburbs also do ponies in my experience. But it’s definitely pints and middies. What the hell is a shetland?
Why, it’s a small pony of course! Never seen one here or on t’otherside, though.
I’m confused Rob. A Qld pot is the same thing as a NSW middy (ie a ten ounce glass…)
At Muntadgin Pub, it’s middies or fuck off. Only way to drink Aussie lagers in summer. Ponies are traditionally for diggers on Anzac day and are a popular choice for that pub opening time glass of cask port.
Too small or too big- why can’t they get beer glass sizing right?
I’m an asahi socialist myself, so it doesn’t matter. Hey- you want to try living in Melba and being served turgid mank like Carlton Lager…
You forgot schooners. Most pubs still have ponies for the old codgers, but hardly anybody ever asks for one.
I also thought there was this thing called the “nurse” which was the same as a pony, 7 fluid ounces.
Surely this should have been fixed at Federation! I demand a national conference to standardise the names of the various beer vessel sizes.
It’s a bit like railway gauges.
remember the freo robby they love a good pony down there