Brixton news, rumours and general chat - February 2013

[ash]

Last time I was in there they had Chapel Farm eggs which I'm sure are no better than M&S ones. I'm no connoisseur d'oefs though.

Never heard of them but if they are like MS eggs agree. I don't shop,there all the time but
M&S should sort out their eggs

 

[quimcunx]

Never heard of them but if they are like MS eggs agree. I don't shop,there all the time but
M&S should sort out their eggs

Chapel Farm seem to be the main eggs I see in smaller shops. They are like eggs from anywhere. What's so awful about M&S eggs? The ones I had the other day seemed fine. Unless I'm buying duck eggs or summat they all seem much of a muchness.

 

[Frumious B.]

Brixton Wholefoods has v. v. good eggs. No need to buy supermarket eggs, people.

 

[Spark]

The problem with Brixton wholefoods is it's always a bit hit or miss how fresh things will be. I've not been for a while but the eggs from some of the stalls at the farmers market used to always be the best by far.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I know what you mean, Spark, Brixton Wholefoods veg are usually pretty wilted and tired in my experience and short of taking in a glass of water to see if the eggs float or sink, I have to say I wouldn't trust the freshness further than I could chuck an egg. They're very good indeed for bread, dry goods and especially their selection of spices and herbs, but otherwise...meh.

 

[fortyplus]

Eggs are best from free-range hens that have enough space to peck that the grass still grows, the (mostly accidental) grass in their diet makes for rich yellow yolks. Shop free-range are usually from hens kept at a higher stocking density and fed mostly grain, so have paler yolks. Best eggs in Brixton are from the farmers' market; I did a relative taste test last year and have now forgotten which came out top but it was a farm with a name probably beginning with B and they were nearly as good as eggs from my mother's hens. They will probably be not at their best or cheapest quite yet, but give it a month and they'll be in full lay.
The stuff on the biodynamic stalls might also be worth a try, but that's Steinerist bollocks so they don't get my money.

 

[Badgers]

Love going to the car boot sale in Sussex where some of the local farmers have stalls. Pick up a dozen huge, fresh, free range (with poo and straw on the shells) eggs for £2. Almost all are delicious double yolkers

 

[pissflaps]

^ details on this car boot sale in sussex plox

 

[Gramsci]

Iceland do free range eggs. Or if you can wait until the weekend there's always the farmer's market.

Iceland free range eggs are only a £ for six.

 

[Badgers]

^ details on this car boot sale in sussex plox

Every Sunday in Lewes - NCP Car Park, Lewes Precinct (behind Waitrose, opposite the bus station)

We usually do the Brighton one too (multi-storey car park near Asda) which has a few farmer stands, but the old man is from Lewes so keeps his egg money LOCAL

 

[pissflaps]

cheers! been looking for a new carboot. The one in pimlico is jokez and nine elms is good for fruit n veg but not much else.

 

[MillwallShoes]

Eggs are best from free-range hens that have enough space to peck that the grass still grows, the (mostly accidental) grass in their diet makes for rich yellow yolks. Shop free-range are usually from hens kept at a higher stocking density and fed mostly grain, so have paler yolks. Best eggs in Brixton are from the farmers' market; I did a relative taste test last year and have now forgotten which came out top but it was a farm with a name probably beginning with B and they were nearly as good as eggs from my mother's hens. They will probably be not at their best or cheapest quite yet, but give it a month and they'll be in full lay.
The stuff on the biodynamic stalls might also be worth a try, but that's Steinerist bollocks so they don't get my money.

i remember walking through the kent countryside once and miles from anywhere we came across a series of GIANT fields with fences round them and thousands and thousands of chickens. it looked superb for them, tbh. shade, water, and acres and acres of space. they looked happy as larry! was good to see and i keep meaning to try and get the name of the place. my wife did say it looked a bit like a chicken Auschwitz though. there wouldn't be surprised if there were 100k chickens walking about.

 

[quimcunx]

Brixton Wholefoods has v. v. good eggs. No need to buy supermarket eggs, people.

I'm 99.99% sure they were selling Chapel Farm brand eggs which is the same eggs sold in Nisa and wherever else. And they taste just the same as yer bog standard egg.

 

[pissflaps]

yer man that sells eggs and mysteriously, newspapers at the GOD TIER white people's market in HH of a sunday are top notch and cheap.

 

[Frumious B.]

i remember walking through the kent countryside once and miles from anywhere we came across a series of GIANT fields with fences round them and thousands and thousands of chickens. it looked superb for them, tbh. shade, water, and acres and acres of space. they looked happy as larry! was good to see and i keep meaning to try and get the name of the place. my wife did say it looked a bit like a chicken Auschwitz though. there wouldn't be surprised if there were 100k chickens walking about.

10 to 1 the farm would have been owned by Fridays. 140,000 of the chickens you saw may indeed have experienced a Final Solution. http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Inferno...tory-14412295-detail/story.html#axzz2MCSJawI7

 

[editor]

i remember walking through the kent countryside once and miles from anywhere we came across a series of GIANT fields with fences round them and thousands and thousands of chickens. it looked superb for them, tbh. shade, water, and acres and acres of space. they looked happy as larry! was good to see and i keep meaning to try and get the name of the place. my wife did say it looked a bit like a chicken Auschwitz though. there wouldn't be surprised if there were 100k chickens walking about.

I remember going past a Bernard Matthews windowless industrial turkey farm compound and it was soul destroying that humans could do that to other living beings.

 

[snowy_again]

yer man that sells eggs and mysteriously, newspapers at the GOD TIER white people's market in HH of a sunday are top notch and cheap.

The newsagent in HH also has a chicken farm in Sussex somewhere, so you can randomly buy the eggs of goodness from them too.

 

[BJM2012]

Quite keen to read the new book exposé of Scientology, which is not being published here because of our libel system. Apparently, there are many fewer people in this cult than it likes to make out.

It's bloody brilliant. Check out the one written by Jennifer Miscavidge-Hill (I think that's her name, cant be arsed to google) which is basically a misery memoir of her being ostracised from the church that her uncle now leads.

Vile, litigous bunch of bastards.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Check out the one written by Jennifer Miscavidge-Hill (I think that's her name, cant be arsed to google)

Close. It's Jenna Miscavige Hill

 

[editor]

Oh great, another film crew in the Villaaaaage. How exciting.

 

[Greebo]

Lots of places do free range eggs but its difficult to find good ones with lovely yokes and taste. Do the Iceland ones fit that criteria?

VP likes their free range ones.

 

[ash]

VP likes their free range ones.

I've just bought some so will 'feed' back later

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I remember going past a Bernard Matthews windowless industrial turkey farm compound and it was soul destroying that humans could do that to other living beings.

On a minimum wage. My Mum worked on the production line of a big chicken company gutting chickens (can't remember the company now, but it was just about the only employer in the area).

 

[Mrs Magpie]

...mind you, one lunchtime when she was in the canteen she saw an escaped chicken outside and she stuck her head out of the window and shouted "Run! Run for your life!"

 

[BJM2012]

Close. It's Jenna Miscavige Hill

That's the one. I got a few of the letters right, at least.

 

[ash]

The Iceland free range eggs were a success thanks folks. Much better than M&S lovely pair of yolks

 

[Brixton Hatter]

The Canterbury is applying for change of use:

http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/onli...ils.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=MI5YIGBOHV000

May be of particular interest to ianw and Nanker Phelge .

oh dear...sounds like it might be getting flogged.

Does anyone know who owns it? The family or a brewery/pub chain?

(While i was trying to find out about ownership via google, I spotted this gem of a review on Qype:

I'd love to review this place, but was rudely banned from entry apparently because the place was full when it blatantly wasn't by the very grumpy owner : our crime, presumably was carrying a Marks&Spencer carrier bag whereby he said we couldn't come in because it wasn't a restaurant and he didn't want our rubbish (there was nothing in the bag!) . The matter was more baffling by him telling every male (or parties with males in) that they were full, but let in all the females. I've been coming here for years prior to gigs at Brixton, and now regret spending any money in a place that is so rude, inconsistent, and has such poor, abrasive, and rude attitude to customers.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I've never seen anything like that there but they are spectacularly grumpy and miserable.

 

[Rushy]

I've never seen anything like that there but they are spectacularly grumpy and miserable.

I haven't been in there since we asked about hiring the back bit for an event. They were soul destroyingly miserable and had nothing much to say other than repeating that no bookings would go in the diary without putting down a cash deposit first (fair enough). We couldn't get away quickly enough, decided that it wasn't for us and booked another venue. On the night of the party we got a call asking where we were. That must be eight years ago and I haven't dared go back...

 

[clandestino]

Well I love the Canterbury Arms. And I'd rather have their unreconstructed, no-nonsense attitude than the haughty cooler-than-thouness you get at somewhere like the Dogstar. That M&S bag story is hilarious - it makes me love the Canterbury even more...