Potato for a pint? British pub barters as credit crunch bites

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

LONDON (AFP) — A British pub is offering pints for potatoes, or any other home-grown produce, in a bartering initiative which is taking off as the credit crunch bites.

The Pigs pub in the village of Edgefield, eastern England, is offering the free booze in exchange for fruit, fish, meat or vegetables which can be used on its menu.

"If you grow, breed, shoot or steal anything that may look at home on our menu, then bring it in and let's do a deal," says a sign in the pub, which has swapped pints for a kilo of potatoes, three mackerel, or a locally-shot rabbit.

Manager Cloe Wasey, 24, explained: "We've been doing it for almost two years now but the success of it has only just recently started to boom with the credit crunch setting in."

"It's also great...