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The Cheese Shop and adjoining Health Shop Lordship Lane

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JohnL

JohnL

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AnotherPaul Wrote:

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> Hands off the cheese master!

>

> Not a bundle of laughs but then when has serving

> cheese required a grin?

>

> Do we want to live in the US where strangers greet

> you like someone they want to marry?

>

> Surly is ok, I like surly and it kind of goes with

> the smell in there.

>

> ap


Perfume sellers - they spend ages trying to sell it

to me (claiming I might want to buy some for my

non existent girlfriend or my dead mother) and then

still smile when I say 'not today'


They must hate me - a real perfume tease.

malumbu

malumbu

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Is this the silly season?


Has anyone found LL Carpets to be surly and rude and turn away a grand's worth of business or am I the only one?


Is anyone else shocked at the rise in the cost of samosas at the Cheese Block?


What happened to the nice Ghanaian lady who used to have a stall in Northcross Road doing salads?

Seabag

Seabag

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We are to have another cheese shop on the lane, are we not. Right next door to Franklin's


http://www.mons-cheese.co.uk/retail/


Run by John (that's him with the beard) and his team , he's a happy cheese monger of some repute


I'm not sure when he's due to open, but i'm glad to see he is coming to E.D.

Seabag

Seabag

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Great little cheese making films from Mons on Vimeo



Blimey, I'm now slightly obsessed by the whole process of making cheese


Here's further listening by Dan Saladino on radio 4 food programme


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084tjzw

Seabag

Seabag

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They have a site at Spa Terminus which is open on Saturdays to visit


Jeremy. I'm afraid Mr Cheeseblock has sat on his 'it is what it is' business and we've had to lump it, but no longer I don't think.

I've tried with that shop, for years, many times. And much as i'm good for supporting local business , it needs to be reflected back at the customer, and the Cheeseblock lacks any kind of vibe that makes me want to return ever again.


And if I were looking for a site for a cheese shop, i'd have looked at Mr Cheesblock and thought he wasn't that interested/interesting, so i'll bring my much more interesting cheese shop to the good people of LSL so I will.


Mr Mons cheese man is jolly, he loves life, he lives nearby. He's going to open a 'Happy Cheese' shop.


This may cheese some people off.

Sue

Sue

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malumbu Wrote:


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> What happened to the nice Ghanaian lady who used

> to have a stall in Northcross Road doing salads?



I have no idea whether she is from Ghana or not, but there is still a lovely lady on a stall in North Cross Road doing delicious salads (and excellent wraps, and other stuff).


She is next to the Blackbird Bakery stall. Is that who you mean?

cordsm

cordsm

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Well I feel sorry for The Cheese Block, as I really doubt that LL can support two cheese shops (plus a stall in the market on Saturdays. They may not be super friendly in The Cheese Block, but they're never rude...Their shop is very well stocked with cheese and a well-chosen selection of other food goods. How anyone can interpret that as 'not interested/not interesting', I don't know....
Seabag

Seabag

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cordsm Wrote:

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> Well I feel sorry for The Cheese Block, as I

> really doubt that LL can support two cheese shops

> (plus a stall in the market on Saturdays. They may

> not be super friendly in The Cheese Block, but

> they're never rude...Their shop is very well

> stocked with cheese and a well-chosen selection of

> other food goods. How anyone can interpret that as

> 'not interested/not interesting', I don't know....



LSL supports more than one butcher, each has a customer base. Id probably switch from Neil's yard to Mons, whereas i'd not shop at the Cheeseblock even tho it's in E.D. It just doesn't do it for me personally, and like you say they've not been rude, but then they've not been friendly either.


And unlike a doctors or dentist surgery, where you're there because you kind of have to, with the Cheesblock I don't have or need to be there, so service with some interaction which is quiet pleasureable, is prerequisite to my shopping choices.


Maybe the new place will attract a new buyer, ones which don't frequent the indifferent cheese shop.


Good luck to both.

Louisa

Louisa

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Saw the 'look at me' brigade queuing for cheese on Christmas Eve, at this place. Bizarre. Who queues up for cheese in 2016? Most normal people go somewhere and discreetly buy the stuff a week or two before, but oh no not in ED. Any excuse to be seen doing something. If it wasn't so pretentious I'd be belly laughing on the floor. Talk about 'cheesy' behaviour.



Louisa.

BrandNewGuy

BrandNewGuy

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Louisa Wrote:

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> Most normal people go

> somewhere and discreetly buy the stuff a week or

> two before...


"'Scuse me, do you have anything... specialist?"

"Oh yes, sir ? I've some lovely French stuff in. Right up your street. Proper whiffy it is too..."

"Ooooh, oooh, yes. Pop it in a plain bag if you would..."

Seabag

Seabag

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Louisa Wrote:

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> Saw the 'look at me' brigade queuing for cheese on

> Christmas Eve, at this place. Bizarre. Who queues

> up for cheese in 2016? Most normal people go

> somewhere and discreetly buy the stuff a week or

> two before, but oh no not in ED. Any excuse to be

> seen doing something. If it wasn't so pretentious

> I'd be belly laughing on the floor. Talk about

> 'cheesy' behaviour.

>

>

> Louisa.


Maybe these 'look at me' people are the ones still gainfully employed, hence they're doing it after work is over


Unlike the early retired people who get to sneer at them from afar


Sneering at the employed is so 2016

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