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I would expect a lot of long-running things are lost to wars or big natural disasters.

• jrochkind1 4y ago
  It actually makes me really sad to think that bombs destroyed the broth from 1400 AD. I do realize this isn't much of a start on what WWII destroyed.
• hinkley 4y ago
  As a tavern owner, one might be prone to neutrality. One king is as good as another, as long as they leave you alone. In dramatizations of wars we always see an army taking over a village and sucking it dry, but I suspect there would be some overlap of tavern locations and 'tactically bad places to get caught by the enemy', such that the officers might volunteer you for a free meal and then move on before enemy scouts tattle on your whereabouts. Certainly somewhere in the world there are roadhouses located in kill boxes and thus have operated independently and unimpeded for generations.
  • taneq 4y ago
    I’d imagine natural selection plays a part. Eventually after all the taverns in dangerous (for taverns, not individual humans) locations are ransacked, the site of locations the survivors were built in will enter the zeitgeist as “This seems like a good spot for a tavern.”
    • hinkley 4y ago
      And floods, and forest fires…