Jeremy

As charmless as Croydon may be, it is far from the worst place I can imagine living!

I think they probably see it as breaking away from "English rule"

Nobody in their right mind would enjoy that rotating compacted blob of reformed filth, but I feel the need to defend the garlic sauce... even if it comes from a plastic barrel and is offered to the customer along with the title of "chief" or "boss".

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My friend is soon to open a Mangal, he was until recently a Head Chef at a > very established British restaurant (yes, that one) in Spitalfields Giraffe? Anyway, good luck to Ash kebabs. I haven't eaten a doner since the 90s, but love a shish kebab or a falafel-in-pitta jobbie, smothered in garlic sauce.

To be fair, they do eat a lot of fried rice in hong kong..

At least, that's what they called it.

If Scotland do their own thing, then we should probably let Wales go too - and why not give Northern Ireland back while we're at it. Get rid of the dead wood, whingers and troublemakers! * Hums melody of 'Jerusalem' *

nashoi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hermits Cave doesn't serve food (though it did try > briefly some years back), nor does Stormbird, so > it is still possible you just need the right > demographic That's because drunk students don't eat food. Millhaven Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can't remember the Foresters doing grub. Oh it did, it did. Scampi or burger with chips and a pint of fosters for ?5, I think. It were propa.

And the Foresters and Goose and Granite! (both of which did food, btw)

I am aware of that... but maybe this research is specific to a project that does?

numbers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why is it aimed at just boys anyway? I don't think it's too controversial to suggest that boys and girls tend to prefer different types of games... is it? Girls don't tend to be so interested in shooting/fighting/spaceship type games, do they?

Yeah I'd probably go with Ladygooner's suggestion instead of mine...

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Isn't it less a case of 'being old enough to > remember' and more a case of 'being older and > remembering what you did when you were young'? Not really... more a case of debunking this idea that only new-fangled pubs serve food, and back-in-the-day you could only get a pint of mild and a punch in the face. Clearly remember sunday roasts and family friendly pub gardens in the mid-80s. I guess that sort of behaviour hadn't reached South London (or Stevenage) yet.

"Terravision" coach from Victoria, 3:50am, arrives at 5:05am.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jeremy a Sunday roast may well have been sold in > pubs which otherwise didn't do food, but most > people who ate them didn't specifically go to the > establishment for it. Again... not what I remember at all. Pub lunches have been "a thing" for a long long time. But I realise that evening food is a much more recent development, and doesn't always work. It can seem a bit strange to see a couple desperately trying to enjoy a meal while hemmed in on all sides by people necking drinks and shouting.

Now you're talking bollocks! I'm rather younger than you Louisa, but can nevertheless remember than plenty of pubs did sunday roasts 30 years ago. How far in time do you have to go back to find your definition of a pub? The 1950s?

Wood Vale

Yeah but I don't see a lot wrong with that. Families in the daytime, young'uns and singletons in the evenings.

Maybe... to stop them being given to children or people with epilepsy, heart conditions, etc. The problem is, if someone wanted it, they'd get hold of it one way or another. It would just be a formality to absolve the vendor of blame.

TBH I can tolerate toilets smelling of... er.. toilets, as long as the smell doesn't permeate the rest of the pub.

Prescriptions for recreational drugs?

There is a case to be made for legalistation... at least people would know what they were putting into their bodies, rather than 75% unknown white powder. Not sure about dealers re-inventing themselves as respectable entrepreneurs though!

OK, serious(ish) answer... close to a station. Forest Hill and Peckham Rye are areas which are improving and probably have more scope for appreciation than ED, in which the gentrification process probably ran its course a few years ago.

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Not to say the word that we're not supposed to say > any more, but that's exactly how I made most of my > friends in the hood, down the old CPT, int that > right keef? I don't really get this thing of going out, and you know, talking to people. What's all that about?

I've never really gone down the pub and socialised with the regulars. I've always thought that was something that old geezers do. Or if it's in Eastenders.