Brixton news, rumour and general chat - January 2014
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leanderman
Street Party: July 2
It's a time-limited offer (until Feb 16). Not really a valid comparison.
Even then, a burger and chips would be £8.25. More than Honest
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Dairy cows. They will get a good few years producing milk first.
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I think it's how they live and what they are fed that's the bigger concern (as well as the quality of the cut and and the actual beef content of the burger, of course). But we weren't discussing animal rights.
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
Well thats put me off burgers
Onket
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Which one is driving the Audi?!Clearly. Honest salt of the earth proper folks can afford up to £5.50 for a burger and not a penny more. A £6.75 burger is for millionaires who probably burn money for fun.
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hiraethified
It's burgers available for a £5, with 10p going to charity. So it is possible to produce decent well sourced burgers for less than what Honest are charging.
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hiraethified
"Warned" about what exactly? Having an on-topic discussion?
Onket
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Do I need to remind you about our discussions around the price of beer in The Albert? They were on topic.
Agree to disagree and move on.
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hiraethified
Except you started disrupting multiple threads with the same, rather obsessive comments that you went on and on and on and on about, whereas this (rather brief) discussion is about the perceived value of food currently on sale in the Village and elsewhere. No one has reported this discussion but feel free to do so yourself if you think it's appropriate.Do I need to remind you about our discussions around the price of beer in The Albert? They were on topic.
Onket
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You have simply stated your view of what happened. No doubt had leanderman continued, he too would have have been disruptive, going on and on, being obsesive etc.
As I said, agree to disagree and move on.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Honest Burger may be the outriders of the gentrifapocalypse but this does not mean their food cannot be good value
Onket
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Shades of obsessiveness there, leanderman. Careful.
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hiraethified
Of course and - as I've said before - I've got nothing against them at all.
But that doesn't mean we can't discuss what represents good value (especially so given their slowly rising prices) and talk about comparable burger shops that others have brought up, no?
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
True. But the maths shows they are cheaper. And, in my experience, better.
A loo would be useful though.
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hiraethified
Surely you've got to budget in the whole experience when working out what represents good value? Being made to queue ages for anything - even more so when it's in the cold - immediately makes something look less appealing to me.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Yep. The queues mean I go there less
sleaterkinney
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Honest burgers are nicer then Byron or GBK imo and £7-8 is cheap as a sit down meal goes.
Manter
Lunch Mob
The text message queuing thing is good though- we went for a drink in Kaff and then nipped back when we got our text
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
The text message queuing thing is good though- we went for a drink in Kaff and then nipped back when we got our text
It's a good app.
I go out of hours.
In hours, I go to The Joint, which, in my view, is the best place of the lot down there (and BYO)
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
Honest burgers are far, far superior to Byron and GBK. The meat they use is well bred, well fed and really tasty, they always cook it as you ask them to (unlike Byron and GBK who have both fucked up my orders when I've visited them), their chips are delicious and they have always given me excellent service when I've been. In fact, fuck service, they've always been really nice to us when we've visited; talked to the boy sang him happy birthday with a candle in his burger and been lovely. The other places have always given your standard, perfectly acceptable chain service, or bad service (as I experienced in GBK recently)
I also like the fact that they are a small business/chain.
As for value, I've eaten at the three chains mentioned and not noticed much of a difference in price (having burger, chips and drink) but I have always finished the meal thinking 'Ach, but it wasn't an Honest burger' (unless it was of course) because their food is just better.
I might also add that the GInger Pig's bacon and chicken are also sublime.
I also like the fact that they are a small business/chain.
As for value, I've eaten at the three chains mentioned and not noticed much of a difference in price (having burger, chips and drink) but I have always finished the meal thinking 'Ach, but it wasn't an Honest burger' (unless it was of course) because their food is just better.
I might also add that the GInger Pig's bacon and chicken are also sublime.
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Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
I'd imagine that the fact it specialises in meat doesn't help either. What next, a teetotaller reviewing a cocktail bar?
Is this a burger thread?
I wanted to say something trivial about a rainbow over Brixton, but it will be a complete non-sequiteur on this thread...
Was there a burger at the end of it?
story
Changing the facts
Chilavert
Undermining strikes :-(
I've reported you for off-topic posts in the burger thread, sorry.No, so it doesn't qualify for this thread
I did look: it was a complete rainbow.
SarfLondoner
KenDoddsDadsDogsDead.
He wont relish that!
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