Iceland closing 27th June.

[DulwichFox]

Otta Wrote:

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> These "exotic" meats can be found in any

> supermarket in Australia. It's not as though

> they're out shooting endangered species.

>

> Elephants I'd have an issue with.

>

> Cats? Who cares.

... I care.

DulwichFox

[se22cat]

The Internets [sic].

[Otta]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Otta Wrote:

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> > These "exotic" meats can be found in any

> > supermarket in Australia. It's not as though

> > they're out shooting endangered species.

> >

> > Elephants I'd have an issue with.

> >

> > Cats? Who cares.

>

> ... I care.

>

> DulwichFox

Interesting, most foxes would tear a cat to shreds given half the chance.

[Jeremy]

Otta Wrote:

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> Elephants I'd have an issue with.

If we're going to decide which animals are most suitable for farming for meat, we need to ignore these arbitrary cultural distinctions. We need to look at low intelligence vs meat yield - brain to body ratio would seem like a good place to start. Birds, monkeys, cats and dogs are off the menu. Hippos need to start watching their backs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-to-body_mass_ratio

[aquarius moon]

I was just using dogs/cats/elephants as an example. Why stop at kangaroos and crocodile if there is no limit to what exotic animals can be used?

I knew there would be hardly any of you who agree with me anyway. You never do, so I didn't post to change your opinion as I gave up doing that years ago.

Somebody posted about the exotic range and I took the opportunity to say that personally I really don't care if it closes down because I don't shop there.

[Loz]

Won't SOMEBODY think of the snails?

[ken78]

insect meat is the future, easy to farm and cheaper and a lot more protein than meat, don't know if vegetarians can eat them ??? have a look

[Otta]

aquarius moon Wrote:

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> I was just using dogs/cats/elephants as an

> example. Why stop at kangaroos and crocodile if

> there is no limit to what exotic animals can be

> used?

My point was that they're only "exotic" to us. Elsewhere they're as common as pig and cow.

[DulwichFox]

Otta Wrote:

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> DulwichFox Wrote:

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> > Otta Wrote:

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> > -----

> > > These "exotic" meats can be found in any

> > > supermarket in Australia. It's not as though

> > > they're out shooting endangered species.

> > >

> > > Elephants I'd have an issue with.

> > >

> > > Cats? Who cares.

> >

> > ... I care.

> >

> > DulwichFox

>

> Interesting, most foxes would tear a cat to shreds

> given half the chance.

There again.. you are wrong.. I put food out for the Foxes they stand back while a small white cat steals the food.

All but the biggest Fox will tackle a cat. Foxes are quite docile and timid. Cats will fight to the death.

..and Otta, I'm not actually a Fox. I know people do take things literally on here. :)

Foxy.

[Otta]

The relatively tame foxes you feed are not entirely typical.

[Otta]

Being as there is absolutely nothing offensive about this post I thought I'd put it here

Louisa Wrote:

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> As I cannot post on the thread, I felt I needed to

> put my tuppence worth in on this.

>

> Going back to the days of Bejam and even before

> that, this site has been one of my main shopping

> destinations locally. If you're a regular, like

> me, you'll know how much of a community spirit

> there is in that shop. Ignoring the chain aspect

> for a second, I genuinely feel like that shop and

> most of the friends I've made over the years in

> there (Elsie RIP) are like an extended family to

> me and I'm sure others.

>

> Loiking at the human aspect, I do hope that some

> of them will be able to keep their jobs after the

> refit and M&S takeover. Another generic bland

> supermarket chain would be a huge loss to the

> community of it didn't contain some of those great

> faces.

>

> Whether we like it or not, a large number of

> Iceland shoppers who contributed to the local

> economy will be a lost footfall for LL in general

> now this store is closing. I know many people who

> primarily go up the lane just to get some bits in

> Iceland, and as a result occasionally use other

> businesses in the area. Without this store, some

> of those people will be less frequent visitors and

> that's a real shame. I hope it doesn't further

> transform the mix of faces we see along the lane

> most days.

>

> I wish everyone at the store all the success for

> the future and I will still be using your OKR

> warehouse store fear not.

>

> Louisa.

And it's not Louisa romanticising. My mum is gutted about the loss of Iceland and very worried about the staff.

[EDLove]

Otta Wrote:

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> The relatively tame foxes you feed are not

> entirely typical.

DulwichFox is right - it's very unlikely that a fox would attack a cat.

[Dopamine1979]

This has been rumoured for at least 2 years. Is it actually closing this time?

[Roundabout]

So say the staff ? Not sure if they will be transferred to another store:

[LondonMix]

The freeholder has put in an application to extend the building and is planning to lease it to M&S as either a simply food (first application) or a M&S Food Hall (revised application). There is a very old, very long and often off-topic thread about the whole thing in this section already.

PolkaNova Wrote:

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> Does anyone know why? And what's going to be there

> instead? Hope not another lettings agency!!!!

[Beej]

i'd eat dog in a heartbeat, oops I have done. And horse. Didn't particularly care for either but I'd do it again. I know, absolutely no point to this post....just thought I'd butt in :)

[robbin]

So much old guff spoken about Iceland by the usual suspects (one in particular). Complaints that its "community spirit" will be lost to ED. Complaints about how awful it would be for it to be replaced by a big soul-less chain store. Both are manifestly ridiculous.

Iceland has a turnover in the BILLIONS (?2,700,000,000 last year to be more precise) and is a massive retail chain with more than 850 stores in the UK.

So let's drop all the guff about community spirit being lost. I quite accept that the staff in Iceland might be friendly and well trained in customer service but it's not Iceland that carried the community spirit - it's a retail behemoth like so many others. Why suppose the staff in a different chain store would be any less friendly and engender any less 'community spirit' by being chatty with the punters? Or is there yet more reverse snobbery at play here?

[mcnipper]

I can't wait for Iceland to close, it is cheap, poor quality rubbish. Bring on M&S

[BrandNewGuy]

No reason why their milk, butter, onions, potatoes, carrots, tinned beans, etc are worse than other retailers. They're exactly the same, just cheaper. All you have to do is hold your nose while you walk past the beef and gravy pizza freezer...

[Jah Lush]

And tins of tomatoes and tuna, toilet roll, toothpaste etc etc, all those sort of basics much cheaper than anywhere else.

[robbin]

No they are not.

You should try Lidl in Peckham, or Aldi, or(although I wouldn't recommend it) that Asda on the OKR.

[robbin]

BHG - sounds like you have never bought veg from SMBS or Prettys if you think Iceland's onions, potatoes and carrots are as good as is gets.

[DulwichFox]

The very point why many people hated Iceland was that it was cheap...

Why shop for something in Iceland and pay ?2.00 when you can afford to pay ?3.50 for the same thing else where.

So along comes M&S to the rescue...

DulwichFox

[BrandNewGuy]

robbin Wrote:

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> BHG - sounds like you have never bought veg from

> SMBS or Prettys if you think Iceland's onions,

> potatoes and carrots are as good as is gets.

No, I didn't say they were as good as it gets.

And saying you can go to Lidl or Aldi in Peckham, well, you'll still be able to go to Iceland in Peckham. The point is it's on our high street.

[robbin]

More abject chip-on-the-shoulder, chippy, reverse snobbery nonsense DF.