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DovertheRoad

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Where is currently the best old skool cafe* locally? Or are they like curry houses and all much the same if we're honest?


Before it became a vegetarian joint I really liked the Blue Brick. Big hand cut diamond shaped British chips...skin off....decent sausages and a hand made feel yet traditional.


Recent experiences and opinions please.


*Gentrified offerings like Franklins middle class breakfast excluded. It has to be a place you'd find proper builders, fluoro vests etc

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I've not been in myself, but The Plough Cafe next to little Sainsbury's on Lordship lane is always full of tradies (a few coppers in there too) in the morning. I know because I usually drop in at Little Sainsbury's about 7:45am, and its a mission to park anywhere around all the tradies trucks and vans.
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Alan Medic Wrote:

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> TOP DEFINITION

> skool

> A different way to spell school. This spelling is

> for the idiots that dropped out of "skool"

> I hate "skool."

>

> I was just curious why anyone would spell it that

> way.


it's what all the kool kids are doing....

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DovertheRoad

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Alan Medic Wrote:

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> TOP DEFINITION

> skool

> A different way to spell school. This spelling is

> for the idiots that dropped out of "skool"

> I hate "skool."

>

> I was just curious why anyone would spell it that

> way.


I'm going to keep it like that just to bug you Declan.

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TheCat Wrote:

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> Alan Medic Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > TOP DEFINITION

> > skool

> > A different way to spell school. This spelling

> is

> > for the idiots that dropped out of "skool"

> > I hate "skool."

> >

> > I was just curious why anyone would spell it

> that

> > way.

>

> it's what all the kool kids are doing....


The cOol kids have movEd on to random capitAlization


As in "I've got some ScHoolboy Q on my iPhone".

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titch juicy

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In my experience All the Old Sch(k)ool cafes serve the same nasty cheap as possible stuff. Horrible sausages, cheap watery baked beans, value ketchup and brown sauce that basically just tastes like vinegar but disguised in old Heinz and HP bottles.


But, unless you want to pay a tenner for a full english, that's what you'll get.


I'd love to know of a middle ground option if there is one.


Duck Egg Cafe do a good range of brekkies and their full english isn't bad value, but same again with the sauces.


Oooh, just dawned on me, i know of a decent one! The Park Cafe on Peckham Rye common. Proper cumberland sausages, really good bubble and squeak, genuine HP sauce and about ?6.


There's your answer! As long as you can deal with 'modern hands off parenting' (a.k.a. kids running around being a pain the arse and doing exactly what they want).

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titch juicy Wrote:

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> In my experience All the Old Sch(k)ool cafes serve

> the same nasty cheap as possible stuff. Horrible

> sausages, cheap watery baked beans, value ketchup

> and brown sauce that basically just tastes like

> vinegar but disguised in old Heinz and HP

> bottles.


My guilty secret is that I quite like that vinegary cheap ketchup (at times, not always).


> I'd love to know of a middle ground option if

> there is one.


This! I thought I was the only one.


Sometimes you don't want too cheap, old-skool, dubious quality yet the full on farrow & ball artisan hand reared locally sourced shtick is too far on the other end of the scale at others.

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DovertheRoad Wrote:

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> Alan Medic Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > TOP DEFINITION

> > skool

> > A different way to spell school. This spelling

> is

> > for the idiots that dropped out of "skool"

> > I hate "skool."

> >

> > I was just curious why anyone would spell it

> that

> > way.

>

> I'm going to keep it like that just to bug you

> Declan.


Eh? How do you know Declan and what's it got to do with him? I never said it bugged me, just that I was curious.

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