The George and Dragon is situated on the south side of the Thames at Wargrave is now classified as a Gastro pub.
Gastro pubs take simple meals and change them into more expensive meals by using finer ingredients and even fancier names such as fish and chips becomes a grilled fish entree accompanied with deep fried potato pieces and Shepherd’s pie becomes fresh ground lamb marinated in an secret recipe gravy, mixed with English vegetables and topped with a potato blend of several different types of potatoes containing an array of cheeses.
In our opinion a gastronomical pub is a pub which charges astronomical prices for pub grub.
When we visited the G and D it was pretty quiet and the Captain was taken back that this chain of pubs has taken Timothy Taylor’s Landlord bitter off at the pumps. When asked “Why” the Captain was told that it was a hard beer to keep. The Captain thought was a lot of Tommy Rot, couldn’t be bothered to find out how to keep it more likely.
The story of St.George and the Dragon of course is pure fantasy since dragons only exist in people’s minds particularity when they’ve been on a heroin and cocaine cocktail.
Apparently St.George rescued a princess in Libya from the jaws of a dragon which was about to eat her. He made the sign of the cross, jumped upon his horse and then killed the dragon with his lance.
Many years later Sir Winston Churchill called his personal aircraft used during World War II Ascalon named after St.George’s sword.
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