Difference between a pub and a bar???

Question

Difference between a pub and a bar???

Answer 1

no difference you get drunk in each one

Answer 2

i dont think there is any difference it is just another sign of the times! like all the other name changing of traditional british pastimes etc

Answer 3

Pub ia a british term and a Bar is American. Also, I think only Bars serve food.

Answer 4

One you watch football in... the other you watch football.

Answer 5

Here in the US a pub serves food and alcoholic beverages.  A bar may do so, but is more for drinking only.

I believe a 'pub' originates from 'public house' which at one time was an inn or tavern where people could go for food and drink.  A 'bar' refers to the long countertop with a foot railing (the "bar") used for serving beverages.

Answer 6

From Dictionary.com

Pub

1859, slang shortening of public house, which originally meant "any building open to the public" (1574), then "inn that provides food and is licensed to sell ale, wine, and spirits" (1669), and finally "tavern" (1768). Pub crawl first attested 1910 in British slang.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper

Bar

A counter at which drinks, especially alcoholic drinks, and sometimes food, are served.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

Answer 7

Hmm, It my opinion, Bars are filled with young 20 something people that like to drink and fight. Pubs are filled with career drinkers who like to make fun of the idiots who liek to fight.