I think it does add to the overall theme though - along with a load of other stuff.
If you want to make it a trendy wanker pub, you need jars of wasabi peas on the bar and all that shit. If you want a down to earth pleb atmosphere, you need bags of peanuts etc.

Trendy wankers have more money, but are less likely to be alcoholics.
(Baggenfrock get fucked, Mon 11 Aug 2014, 11:45, 1 reply, 11 years ago)

Two things a pub needs
Good, well-kept, reasonably-priced beer.
Excellent bar staff.
2 pubs within 500 yards of each other in my home town show this perfectly. Yesterday they were showing the same kickball matches at the same time. One was almost deserted, one was rammed. The service in the deserted one is appalling - I mean really bad. It can take a very long time to get served, even when it's quiet, by surly self-absorbed bellends who look like they'd rather piss on you than do their job. Plus, their beer is bad - if you complain they take offence, complain more than once and they ask you to leave.
Contrast that with the other place. Lovely, well kept beer served by friendly attentive staff. If you get a duff pint they change it - no quibbles - and apologise profusely.
Like I said - one was empty, one was rammed. Not rocket science.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Mon 11 Aug 2014, 11:54, Reply)