The Drum-Northcross rd selling up

[TillieTrotter]

Ah Louisa, the voice of reason. Yeah Ann Summers that would be great. Bring it on!

[Sue]

Keef Wrote:

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> Ah I remember the chicken shop, the chicken was

> bloody awful, BUT they did great pizza for a

> pound! (well as great as any pizza for a pound is

> going to be). We were regular visitors when 3 of

> us were sharing a flat on Barry Road and drinking

> ourselves almost out of work! Happy Daze! :)-D

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But there was another great pizza place up the road (Northcross Road) which they tried to put out of business, and succeeded, that was SO BAD :( The people in there were so sweet :) and it was great value pizza, and where are they now????

[barrymarshall]

Nero Wrote:

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> Well, well, well. Here's little old me, waxing

> lyrical about how cute and wholesome I thought the

> Drum was, with its great sarnies, good beer and

> accommodating staff. Talk about innocent abroad.

> All the while it was a steaming den of iniquity.

> Nero

I know - I was thinking the same, Nero!

[sweetchicken]

we used to love that pizza place - it was called chilli pizza - but they got chucked out because they didn't pay the rent for months - then they came back and did the same thing all over again - it was v handy having them there and it would be great if there were a pizza parlour again or an ice cream parlour - or indeed an ann summers - do they do an NCT discount??

[AnotherPaul]

I have to say sorry to you sweetchicken. I was too quick to judge the drum's neighbours and I had wrongly assumed that the complaints were from one household - hence my 'people who like to complain' comments. I've been on the end of zealous and fanciful complainants but that's no excuse to lump all the drum's neighbours into one group.

As for a replacement business, if it's down to a choice between Ann Summers or good Pizza I'd opt for the later every time.

(edited to remove an extra word)

[sweetchicken]

thank you Paul I appreciate that!

[Louisa]

AnotherPaul do we not have enough bloody eateries in ED now? The last sexy lingerie shop was replaced by the pricey William Rose and now I have to travel to Bromley to go to my favourite shop. Bloody pizza, why dont you make cheese on toast and have done with it at home. Just as filling and not even a quarter of the price!

Louisa.

[Nero]

Louisa speaks sense! Cheese on toast is great food, and is cheaper than pizza. Louisa, why not set up your own Welsh Rabbit takeaway? I know you how like those bunnies. Nero

[Cassius]

So Louisa

What would you like to see - your comments are usually about what you don't like/want - it would be good to know what you DO like/want.

[Louisa]

Nero sweety pie, Welsh Rarebit is my speciality and I would be happy to set up a stall on Goose Green. I bet I could fill everyone up without ripping them off (eg most pizzarias). Want to help me cut the bread?

Cassius, I would love to see Ann Summers replace The Drum, ideal location. I'd also love Somerfield to become M&S simply food and it would be great to have a pie and mash shop along the lane somewhere. Whilst i'm on the topic of what I want, I would like to see Kennedys resurrected and open up a sausage shop somewhere locally. I cant go without a lb of Lincolnshires from Kennedys forever.

Louisa.

[Cassius]

Louisa

I agree with all of those except for the Ann Summers bit! not even naughty but nice - just cheap and tacky (in my opinion)

[Jah Lush]

Agent Provocateur would be better.

[karter]

Welsh rarebit is on the menu at Frankings.(tu)

[Floating Onion]

Brendan Wrote:

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> Michael Palaeologus Wrote:

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> > Who was that perpetually drunken Canadian that

> > used to hang out there?

>

> FloatingOnion gets upset when people mistake him

> for a Canadian.

I don't read the forum for a few days & the Aussie ends up defending me! ;-)

[Louisa]

Cassius, Ann Summers is fun! It is also very good quality and not knock off or tacky in my opinion. I know lots of people are scared of the place, and sexual inuendo aside, I find walking around one of their stores orgasmic.

Louisa.

[mockney piers]

innuendo?!?!

That was hardly 'nods as good as a wink to a blind bat' territory was it?

[RosieH]

if you're going to open a sex shop in east dulwich, it should at the very least be of the calibre of Sh! if not Coco de Mer...

[Louisa]

Inuendo not Innuendo mockney! Goodness me.. there is a difference you know!!!

Louisa.

[mockney piers]

My bad, though I should warn you the rubbish nantwich/crewe rockers 'inuendo' with two songs to their canon, have, sadly, split.

[steveo]

I lost my mind in the Drum the other night, if anyone's seen it

[Jah Lush]

Stevo, old bean I can tell you without any shadow of doubt that you lost your mind a long long time before you ever set foot inside the Drum. By my reckoning I'd say sometime in the 1970s or possibly the early 80s.