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Why are the UK and Ireland the only countries that have proper pubs?

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The Griffin Inn, Fletching, East Sussex. Photograph: robertharding/Alamy

Why don’t other countries have pubs? I’ve never been to a proper pub anywhere outside the UK or Ireland. Scotty Gascoigne, Haggerston

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