william rose butchers (Lounged)

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Dom - "Why should anyone have to order a turkey from William Rose when there are perfectly good swans wandering around in the public parks of London?" You chase it and I'll bag it - we can go halves!

[snorky]

The illegal immigants have eaten all the swans apparently

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

That's not even funny, just offensive.

[Brendan]

Swan tastes horrible.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Think Her Maj might be a bit peeved if you lot keep eating her swans.

[Brendan]

I think snorky was reffering to an article in the Mail a few years ago. Apparently they were coming over here, taking your jobs and eating the queen's swans.

[snorky]

ChavWivaLawDegree Wrote:

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> That's not even funny, just offensive.

As Brendan said, its referring back to a Sun article about asylum seekers trapping & eating Her majesties Swans - do a search on " swan bake"

[*Bob*]

Chav, you'll never end-up on Have I Got News For You if you don't keep abreast of all the important stories.

[snorky]

"?Callous asylum seekers are barbecuing the Queen?s swans, the Sun can reveal. East European poachers lure the protected royal birds into baited traps, am official Met Police report says.?"

The Sun

July 2003

[Jamma]

What a search on 'swan bake' might not throw up is that 10 days later the Sun had to print a retraction explaining that their story had not a shred of truth in it.

[morty]

I've been suspicious of William Rose since a little run in I had with them when they first opened. Are they still only accepting chqs or cash, no cards?? Hmmm.......

Guys, the best place for meat in ED is from Guy Sparkes on the market. He's there on a friday and saturday. Always friendly and willing to offer out fab receipes. Ask him for what you're after and he might well have it. Their triple smoked bacon

is to die for. I ordered a fanatastic turkey and a ham from him a couple of years ago and it was delivered to the door on christmas eve! Oh and he accepts cards!!

[snorky]

Jamma Wrote:

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> What a search on 'swan bake' might not throw up is

> that 10 days later the Sun had to print a

> retraction explaining that their story had not a

> shred of truth in it.

I think most people are aware the whole article is cobblers - oddly enough, I have just finised Stick it up yer punter - I never knew that kelvin MaCkenzie was a local boy !

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Sorry, my bad!

[neilly1973]

sorry. been off the air.

With the butchers - it wasn't the fact that i couldn't order a turkey from them it was the 3rd degree, justify my existence and general rudeness that i object to. I think they could have been polite about it and i least i wouldn't have been entirely put off.

As has already been mentioned - manners costs nothing.

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

If you know someone who orders from William Rose just get them to stick an extra Turkey on there list for you!

My mum has an order with William Rose, and the Gardener and my Sister have all added their orders onto my mum's! ( One of the guys from the Butchers actually told my mum she could do this after telling the Gardener that they cannot take more than a certain number of customers, but they can do lots of orders from each customer).

[SeanMacGabhann]

So today, Christmas Eve, do people want to guess if William Rose was

a) very busy

b) empty

Exactly but for some reason some people just don't get it

For reasons totally out of our control, we needed to wait until today to buy meat. We hadn't not planned, but were waiting to confirm who is coming tomorrow before deciding on the menu

Aaaanyway, in the queue (which was down to Coriander), not a problem, to be expected, or as Walter in Big Lebowski would say "Nothing here is F@@@ed dude..." when this woman parks up as close as possible with much elaboration (couldn't park a lleeeetle bit further away heavens no) joins the queue behind and starts to bang on about how "disGUSTING" this whole queue business is.... Not to the people around her, we don't want to talk to THEM do we?

She actively took out her mobile and rang someone else to bleat

If you are running around on Christmas Eve, who's fault is it exactly? Does she think the queue in supermarkets are small (from passing today make that a big no)? Does she think people have opened a shop on the busiest day of the year just for her?

My question is, what was she expecting? Why is it a problem? And why has it stuck with me all freakin day bringing down my festive buzz? To think these people have a vote...

Moon on a stick with some people.....

[Narnia]

I've never been there as I don't eat meat etc but I found it funny this afternoon to see the queue and a gentleman from the bar opposite cross the road and enter the butchers with a tray that must have contained at least 5 pints of beer. Would those have been for the customers or the staff?

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

William Rose was terrible!

They completely and utterly got our orders all wrong!!! We tried phoning them to tell them they obviously took on more than they could handle hence the wrong order but for ?110 we wanted what we paid for but we could not get through on the phone and no way were we going to queue, so I ended up nipping to Waitrose at the crack of dawn this morning to get my organic meat!

Never again!

[SeanMacGabhann]

That's a shame Heidi - but how did it work out?

Was the order phoned through? Faxed? Dropped off by hand?

And when it was picked up and paid for when did you realise it was wrong? Can you take a picture of the wrong order and compare it to the original and we could maybe use the forum to right a wrong?

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Sean,

I wrote the list, and my mum gave them a list, and they copied it onto their own list, so they do not have what we originally wrote.

We asked for gammon, we got bacon.

We asked for a beef joint, we got shoulders,

We asked for a chicken, we didnt get a chicken at all.

We asked for other things, but basically the whole order was completely wrong, and their handwriting is so squashed up and unreadable we have no idea what they put!

I went to waitrose and got the chicken, mum is just going to make do with the meats we do have, but we have declared never ever to do that again, we were one of their first customers, we get meat delivered every single week, so we had high hopes, but naturally, they let us down when we needed them to get it right the one important time of the year!

[SeanMacGabhann]

Heidi

As I say that is awful - I know they did read this thread a while back.. I wonder what we can do to get some kind of response (I'm a big fan of the consumer affairs correspondant in the Guardian when she gets companies who have been stonewalling disgruntled customers to fess up and give compo)

If you are interested in taking it further let me know..

Ummm... that said, all that is separate from the point I made earlier (before Heidi's awful tale..)

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Sean,

Usually I would pursue it and I SHOULD, because we paid ?110 for things we didnt ask for and we didnt get! But it is Christmas, we are all highly stressed because everything has been going wrong ( Sofas were meant to come, but now arent coming until Jan, so we had to borrow a sofa for xmas day! Ordered a playstation, that went wrong a week after we got it, lots of hassle getting a new one ( we had to pay more money too!) the lamp from BHS was broken on arrival, lots of hassle returning that and getting a new one, I ordered my mum a ring from Ernest Jones, went three time to Croydon because they all kept getting it wrong and blaming each other for the communication problems between them all, Tesco also gave us SPAGHETTI sauce as a subsitution for BREAD sauce?? WTF???!! plus they arrived late and didnt have half the stuff we wanted.

So right now, we just do not care anymore, we have been messed around and ripped off, and quite frankly we just want to enjoy christmas, get merry and go away next christmas! never again!

[SeanMacGabhann]

Heidi

I hear you on the stress front and hope you didn't think I was getting at you. Tis a stressful time for everyone and I hope it all works out in the end... My fingers crossed you have better luck tomorrow

x

Sean

PS 3 visits to Croydon??? No-one is going to feel good after that alone ;-)

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

No, I didnt think you were getting at me, I just cannot believe all the bad luck I am having this week, correction...year!! I honestly cannot wait to see the end of 2007!

The meat was delivered to us personally ( we werent around so we didnt take the order so didnt check it). I am sure in the new year my mum will be having words with them because she does get on really well with them, that is why we are so upset and shocked that they completely and utterly stuffed up our order!

I shall be at the vodka, wine and gin tomorrow!:)-D then I will do it all over again for my depressing impending milestone age! I am 30 on saturday! sob!

Well, Merry Christmas to us all! Lets hope we all have a good one eh??

Heidi x

[SeanMacGabhann]

I'm kind of worried I have left cooking so late that my annual trip to the Dog at noon is under threat - and if I can't make it at noon, there ain't no point in going at all!

Anyway - chin chin everyone. :)-D