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*Bob* Wrote:

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> Only a Greggs will do. I want the best.

> And a Shoefayre, maybe? Peacocks? Oooh.. now I'm

> dreamin'!



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Elizabeth Duke?


In all seriousness though, it's likely to be a Giraffe cafe or somehthing like that. (Which I don't think would be too bad)

This is all so very frightful indeed. I suggest that you all come to live in West Dulwich if that happens, we would never ever allow such an establishment to open over here, but, er, actually, we have a vile dayglow Tesco Metro!!! OHMYGOD, I can feel one of my heads coming on...


Why oh why oh why oh why did we not get a Waitrose express?

Brendan Wrote:

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> Nando?s would be great! I love ?em. And they?re

> hardly the corporate monster that McDs and the

> like are. They were started by a couple of guys

> from round my way who had their first restaurant

> in my home town about 15 years ago.

>

So was McDonald's (more than 15 years ago)

Asset Wrote:

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> Brendan Wrote:

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> -----

> > Nando?s would be great! I love ?em. And they?re

> > hardly the corporate monster that McDs and the

> > like are. They were started by a couple of guys

> > from round my way who had their first

> restaurant

> > in my home town about 15 years ago.

> >

> So was McDonald's (more than 15 years ago)


I?m pretty sure the first McDs was nowhere near Johannesburg.

Fear 'n boozin Wrote:

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> doubt there's much point arguing in favour of

> McD's on here, but I quite enjoy them sometimes,

> doubt it'd be the end of the world as we know it,

> as some suggest.


yes, I knew I should have kept my gob shut - some things are just beyond the pale.

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