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eastdulwichbadboi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > hey anyone selling some high quality turtle racers > on here? I assume they are some kind of hallucinogenic drug?? If so I'm sure you've arrived at the correct thread given some of the posts I've borne witness to on here..

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was in the Co-op this Lunch time.. > > I could not believe it.. Clean uncluttered > aisles.. Shelves stacked to bursting point.. > Bread .. Rolls... Cakes and the like.. in > abundance.. > Pizzas coming out of your ears.. Fruit and veg. > fully stocked.. Possibly improved lighting ?? > Bright. > Pleasantly cool air con.. > > No customers though and only one till open just > for me ?? > > Asked till person if the new M&S was making an > impact but very non committal on the subject.. > > Think the suits may of been in. Definately > something going on. > > DulwichFox Did you mean: Definitely? Or maybe defiantly?

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do M&S do any veggie meals? The cook has gone away > for two weeks and I may run out of food. yes.. & have you tried their S&M range? Perfect for when the cook is away

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > LM Morrisons have pulled the plug on small local > format stores and have reverted back to form with > across the board price slashing at their standard > size stores. Seems to be working too, profits year > on year are up massively for them. > > This of course begs the question who will want to > take on the garden centre/station site? I would > heard a guess at tesco express, seeing as they > could puncture Sainsbury's nearby offering for > convenience bits. Waitrose will probably want a > large enough site to be able to provide a store to > cover a wide enough collection of affluent > postcodes. A small format little Waitrose probably > wouldn't be sufficient to do that. > > Louisa. I thought Waitrose already delivered to all of East & West Dulwich postcodes anyway? See them in my street prob 4 or 5 times per day.

Jim1234 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > SMBS is infinitely better than any supermarket for > fruit and veg. Probably cheaper than M&S too. > Please try it out if you haven't. Keep local shops > going! isn't M&S local then?

camberwell70 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I wish my freezer could make gin. my freezer is currently making gin & tonic ice lollies

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm still confused kbabes, how does a freezer > 'make' ice cubes? One every twenty minutes? What > does that mean? > > More modern (American style) fridges have ice > making machinery (they have to be plumbed-in, or > you add water to a reservoir) which produces ice > cubes, sequentially. This is an alternative to > using an ice tray. They also often offer iced > water - all accessible without having to open the > fridge/ freezer itself. Marvels of modern kitchen > technology. thanks penguin.. the will to live was escaping me

Jules-and-Boo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > kbabes - have you tried making gin and tonic ice > lollies? No but outstanding idea!

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have seen pubs having to buy ice when they have > run low or their ice machines are on the blink. > (Most pubs use a lot of ice to fill the glass > then top up with a tad of soda .. cola or orange > juice) > > I suspect some small bars may need to buy ice > from time to time. > > Foxy So I'm guessing this is an answer to the "who buys ice?" question from earlier?

exactly.. no sense

"I must sound incredibly naive here.." the semi trained assistant retorted

but in the main Louisa, get a ****ing life!!!

comment below if you can't be arsed to scroll back.. I have a freezer that makes ice cubes.. about x1 ice cube every 20 mins - I use them far more quickly than that so storage isn't a problem. Anyway plenty of people must buy them otherwise major food retail outlets wouldn't sell them stupid! & btw I bought the last bag in M&S, the trained assistant said they'd had a bit of a run on them today, must be the unseasonal temp we are currently experiencing he politely retorted. & ice making machine normally called a freezer.. this can make frozen blocks of water commonly known as ice cubes.. I just remembered why I went to M&S for gin!!! your mind is obviously boggling so much you have no sense!!

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Kbabes, that really is the height of opulent > behaviour. Buying ice from a supermarket, what a > bizarre thing, I thought at first you were maybe > sarcastically trolling, but the attached image > above confirms my fears. Are you genuinely telling > me you cannot make ice at home? You've paid a > whole one pound sterling for a bag of frozen tap > water! Unbelievable, I know to go and lay down. > > Jaywalker, to me, a ready meal is a convenience. > Full of salt and other horrible preservatives. > They have their place, and I'm sure Marks use the > 'finest' ingredients in their version, but > ultimately it's still a ready meal. Hence my > amazement that people are willing to pay over the > odds for this crap, when you can get it in Iceland > for a quid! > > Louisa. Maybe I should be offended by your accusations of opulence although I'm absolutely not, I was originally pointing out the ridiculousness of this entire M&S thread.. I'm sorry but most of your posts tick far more bizarre boxes than mine.. I'd already explained that my domestic ice making machine couldn't keep up with my individual ice consumption requirement but maybe you hadn't had a chance to read that given the ridiculous amount of focus and replies this thread seems to have attracted so if you missed consider yourself forgiven! & feel free to add punctuation where required.. just typing angrily!

Jules-and-Boo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > how much is ice in M&S? I'm curious. I bet they > don't really sell it. > > It would probably be the purest tap water, frozen > quickly to maximise it's purity and icy-ness, and > packaged in superfluous plastic which is neither > recyclable or biodegradeable but the fact that it > cost so much would make me think I'd got something > really special. hello Jules & Boo, fill thy boots with the attached.. tried to include the empty superfluous packaging in the pic although imo it was required to stop the ice cubes all just randomly joining together in the M&S frozen food section.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Who buys Ice Cubes. ? If you have a Freezer make > your own.. > > If you don't have a freezer and buy a bag of ice > cubes... How are you going to store them. ? > > Foxy.. I have a freezer that makes ice cubes.. about x1 ice cube every 20 mins - I use them far more quickly than that so storage isn't a problem. Anyway plenty of people must buy them otherwise major food retail outlets wouldn't sell them stupid! & btw I bought the last bag in M&S, the trained assistant said they'd had a bit of a run on them today, must be the unseasonal temp we are currently experiencing he politely retorted. Going to be 30 plus degrees tomorrow so if they get any more in on early delivery I wouldn't mind betting they'll probably sell out rather quickly, especially at that price!

I actually only ever bought one product from Iceland - Ice! A complete bargain at ?1 compared to double that at Londis. I just popped down to M&S for some cut-price Gordons (?11.20 for 0.7ltr) & M&S own brand tonic & thought would get some ice at the same time.. bet nobody can guess how much M&S are selling it for?

FFS!!! Have you lot nothing else to fill your lives?? A new food retail outlet has recently opened in our area.. if you like them & what they sell use it - if you don't then don't ! Surely it's that simple?

DovertheRoad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi everyone, I live on the Dulwich estate and > received the following letter yesterday: > > NOTICE FROM THE FEUDAL LORDS OF DULWICH PARISH TO > LEASEHOLDERS AND PEASANTS OF SURROUNDING SHIRE: > > His esteemed Lordship Chief Trustee of the > Dulwichshire Estates hereby proclaims that the > threat of subversive merriment in central village > has been quashed. Having repelled the onset of > progressive, creative modernisation and associated > pestilence, the trustees of the estate are pleased > to announce the reopening of the Greyhound > hostelry to villagers and share croppers. The new > controlled space has been wiped of its heritage > charm and replaced with a pleasing New England > yacht club theme. Taking our inspiration from the > much lauded refurbishment of the Clockhouse the > new public house resembles a modern day Bernie Inn > that we trust should keep civility in check. > Villagers may use said facilities for modest > enjoyment from Nov 7th. The speedy bar service and > reheated M&B food were a firm favourite and shall > remain. > > /message ends excellent :)

Heard a rumour that Poundland executives have been eying up properties on Lordship Lane for a new flagship store.. perhaps at the site of the old East Dulwich Deli to capture footfall from Franco Manca.. anyone heard similar?

I wonder what would happen if Poundland were looking to open a new store on the lane.. ? Maybe in the ex East Dulwich Deli location perhaps?

ruffers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do they sell popcorn in M&S? yes but only the flatter type

Mange tout Rahrahrah, Mange tout..! 'Murkier depths of meaning surely reside here, too, which would have taken Eco?s eye to plumb. Doubtless some social historian, a century or so hence, will get a thesis out of examining how, on the very verge of the threatened ?Brexit??the exit of England, at least, from the European Community?the mass marketers of Britain ostentatiously rejected a form seen as so clearly French that it is a regular part of that ominously named ?Continental? breakfast. Adding an arbitrary national shape to an established one to attempt an entirely English croissant, that future scholar will argue, is an affirmation of refusing to be one with Europe. (The crescent, moreover, is the sign of the Islamic empire, and some damp, suspicious kinds will see meaning in that, too.)'

just found this article... hope this clears it up. International breakfast circles were roiled, as the Times might write, by the news last week that Tesco, the British supermarket chain, had decided to stop selling croissants that are shaped like croissants. Actually, the company announced that it would no longer be selling ?curved croissants,? but, given that ?croissant? means crescent, this wording was, to the linguistically alert, a bit self-cancelling: if it isn?t curved, it isn?t a croissant at all. In fairness, the word in English has migrated to mean not ?crescent-shaped flaky breakfast bread? but ?flaky breakfast bread,? a change that has also produced the New York practice that has bakery clerks calling a ?pain au chocolat??a cylinder of bread with chocolate inside?a ?chocolate croissant,? even as they point to something that is not remotely shaped like a croissant but looks instead exactly like a pain au chocolat. I find this aggravating, and tend to say so, even if it puts me in the same boat as my younger, Italophile brother, who announces his annoyance when he is offered a ?biscotti? when what he is getting is in fact a singular ?biscotto.? (Yes, ours is a peculiar family, of parochial irritations.) The reason that Tesco provides for its decision is in itself striking: the boss of the company, one Harry Jones, announced that it is the ?spreadability? factor that has killed the kink, insisting that ?the majority of shoppers find it easier to spread jam, or their preferred filling, on a straighter shape with a single sweeping motion.? I have turned these words over and over in my mind, like a pastille in the mouth, and have yet to find any meaning in them at all. How hard can it be for the Brits, even in these decadent post-imperial days, to use a spreading knife and, with a mere twist of the wrist, spread jam in a ?single sweeping motion?? One can?t help but suspect?without evidence, but such is the nature of suspicion?that something to do with the added energy necessary to build a machine that squeezes out curved, as opposed to straight, croissant dough is behind Tesco?s decision. Why is a croissant shaped that way, anyway? The first truth is that they are not, necessarily. As veteran visitors to Parisian bakeries know, the superior, all-butter croissants are already commonly articulated as straight pastries?or, at least, as gently sloping ones?while the inferior oil or margarine ones must, by law, be neatly turned in. This sometimes leads those who expect clarity and logic, rather than complexity and self-cancelling entrapment, from French laws to think that the straight croissants are all butter and the curved ones are reliably not. The truth is that a butter croissant can be any shape it chooses, on the general atavistic aristocratic principle that, butter being better, it creates its own realm of privilege. One only wishes that Umberto Eco, whom we sadly lost last week, was still around to parse this issue, because Eco, long before he was king of the airport bookstore, was an emperor of signs, one of the world?s leading linguists and semioticians. The underlying logic for the croissant being a crescent, one suspects he would have said, is ?Saussurean,? after the great early-twentieth-century linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, who glimpsed the truth that linguistic signs are arbitrary and find their meaning only by being clearly distinguished from other opposing signs. We know ?Monday? only because it doesn?t sound or look like ?Sunday.? P. G. Wodehouse, not surprisingly, showed his grasp of this rule when he had one of the Drones, on holiday in France, point out that he had been given a Continental breakfast consisting of ?a roll shaped like a crescent and a roll shaped like a roll.? Without the standard accompanying brioche, there would be no need for the curve; a roll-shaped roll produces a curved one, as ?Sunday? makes ?Monday.? The croissant, in this view, is curved in order to make plain what it isn?t as much as what it is. Murkier depths of meaning surely reside here, too, which would have taken Eco?s eye to plumb. Doubtless some social historian, a century or so hence, will get a thesis out of examining how, on the very verge of the threatened ?Brexit??the exit of England, at least, from the European Community?the mass marketers of Britain ostentatiously rejected a form seen as so clearly French that it is a regular part of that ominously named ?Continental? breakfast. Adding an arbitrary national shape to an established one to attempt an entirely English croissant, that future scholar will argue, is an affirmation of refusing to be one with Europe. (The crescent, moreover, is the sign of the Islamic empire, and some damp, suspicious kinds will see meaning in that, too.) On the other side of the Channel, the readiness of the Brits to drop the crescent shape is bound to be depressing?particularly as it arrives at the very moment when another lovely French bit of curvilinear detailing, the circumflex, is coming under assault as well. The circumflex is the little conical hat that many French words wear to indicate a sounded accent, but it will now be lost, or at least optional, on words like co?t. According to the latest round of diktat from the Acad?mie Fran?aise?or, actually, from a diktat some twenty-plus years old, but only now coming into force?the circumflex, which is indeed an impediment to obviousness in spelling, can be put away in the cupboard of needless old embroidery. The era of the straightened-out croissant seems upon us; already this morning at Pret a Manger, the pastries look suspiciously closer to the pure vertical line. One need not be a helpless nostalgist to feel that unkinking the croissant, and decapitating the circumflex, comes at a cost, or co?t. Taking the curve from the croissant, like taking the circumflex out of circulation, is a way of unbending the world, reducing the store of superfluous civilization that is essential to its sanity, and to our continuity. Let us not unbend our breakfast, or oversimplify our spelling too eagerly, or too soon. Such levellings, however efficient they may seem, in the end merely flatten our minds.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As problems go, straight croissants is not a major > one! > > BTW Boulangerie Jade do very decent croissants > (although I'm sure M&S is much cheaper) are they straight?