(I've related some of this stuff to you before, but I also am writing this for 3rd party readers.) Spotting and calling out "insta-pubs" was one of my hobbies

(I've related some of this stuff to you before, but I also am writing this for 3rd party readers.) Spotting and calling out "insta-pubs" was one of my hobbies in the US rust belt. It was one of the more profitable things to do with an old gas station in the late 90's/early 2000's, apparently. This led to some incongruous moments. I was in a musical group playing a regular thing at a very fancy insta-pub in Covington, KY. Our band leader was born in Ireland, but his college professor dad had moved to Atlanta, Georgia when he was just 13 or so, but he defiantly tried his best to keep his accent and not talk like he was from Georgia. Since the pub was new, it was staffed by a lot of native born Irish. So it came to pass that a young woman from the staff accused our Irish born band leader of faking his Irish accent. (No one on the staff commented much on my being a Korean-American playing Irish traditional music, however.) especially irritating given Ireland's former colonial status Musician and professor Mick Moloney has often commented on the "reversed colonialism" of Irish traditional music and culture. It also applies to a lot of other traditional cultures. The past several hundred years of Irish culture can be characterized by various forms of destruction, warping, and rebirth/resurgence of cultural forms. (One could joke that the 78 record did a better job of destroying regional diversity than Cromwell, but not be too far from the truth.) That Irish traditional music should be in pubs at all could be taken as a bit of a cultural distortion, actually.