The Cheese Shop and adjoining Health Shop Lordship Lane

[Dog duck]

I was queuing in there earlier today, the guy threw a lump of cheddar at me... I thought, 'That's not very mature'.

[Mystic Mog]

Probably cheesed off, if he's been reading the remarks on here! 😂

[JohnL]

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]

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?

[dc]

Just wondering why a thread from October 2007 has been resurrected?

[Earl Aelfheah]

Bit off topic, but does anyone know where I can buy stationary on Lordship Lane? Thanks

[Earl Aelfheah]

...forget that, just seen the date of this thread. So surly stationary guy went out of business?

[GroveLaneMan]

I like him but yes to be fair he does have his off days but sure pheck it ........we ALL do . He used to always take the piss out of me for doing one of Jamie Oliver's pasta dishes too often . Made me laugh

[Seabag]

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.

[Rosetta]

Good news about Mons. Love their Munster, Comte and Gruyere. Grated cheese on top of roasted or fried Brussels sprouts is tasty.

[Seabag]

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

[Rosetta]

I watched those. Very informative and fun to watch. Wonder if they allow visits.

[Jeremy]

Another cheese shop?

Could spell trouble for Mr Cheeseblock, unless he ups his game. I know people have been moaning about it/him, but the shop is part of the furniture on LL..

[Seabag]

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.

[mrure26]

Is little man, the same as Wee Man?

[Sue]

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?

[Seabag]

She still owns that stall, just others run it for her

I saw her about 3-4 weeks ago

[cordsm]

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....

[titch juicy]

Who knew Mr Cheese Block had an EDF account?!

[Seabag]

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]

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.

[teddyboy23]

Louisa spot on!

[DulwichFox]

Queues at Moxons.. and at William Rose too..

Reminded me of my early childhood when Rationing had just ended .

(Fourteen years of food rationing in Britain ended at midnight on 4 July 1954)

Foxy

[BrandNewGuy]

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]

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