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Champagne & Fromage opening in Brixton soon

boohoo said:
I think it's the protest itself by this Yuppies Out group that bugs me - nowt against the idea of getting rid of yuppies in the area (though how we define this might be an issue) or protesting but I don't know who they are or what their agenda is. Their facebook page is heavily stylised - creating a kind of 'Yuppies Out' Brand - there is no conversation/dialogue about supporting other campaigns. I think the only thing to come out of it is publicity for the champagne place, publicity for Yuppies Out and for Brixton Buzz who have written lots about it.

Real impact for people - not alot.
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That's not necessarily true at all.

Not all protests should be judged on whether they act as a catalyst for any immediate real world changes or not - what some can do is to raise awareness around an issue and spark a debate. And this has most certainly done that.
 
Rushy said:
It's particularly disappointing to see individuals who sought public support for the aggressive manner in which Carlton Mansions was being handled, supporting this kind of bullying of one shop. Pretending that a campaign with people talking about throwing bricks through a particular shop's windows and calling for death to Yuppie scum (whoever they might be) is peaceful is simply denial.
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i think theres a huge difference between heavily armed cops evicting people by force and a guitar band playing a gig at a distance from the shop and eating dairylea - all sounds pretty good natured and tongue in cheek to me. No yuppies will be killed and id be very surprised if any windows are broken - but even a broken window is incomparable to forced eviction. At most this will be nonviolent indignation Id imagine. Though i take your point about singling them out, but Champagne and French Cheese seems to be the last taboo, even if other swanky spots in brixton aren't much better.

Rushy said:
Yes - because of the "cool" anti-branding of Yuppies Out I am sure it will attract a lot of people just looking for a bit of edgy fun before they head out and spank their pay
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do any of FWF have jobs?? I very much doubt it! Where are their parents, thats what i want to know. Outraged from tunbridge wells
 
On a slight digression, does anyone know anything about the odour implications? A mate of mine ran a business upstairs from the cheese shop in Jermyn Street and the whole place honked.
 
Back to the protest, I wouldn't be surprised if the police try and close it down. Which might prove entertaining, given the fluid nature of the action.
 
editor said:
Man oh man, all that scraping the barrel is giving me a headache!

I did a small website for my friend. TEN YEARS AGO. And it certainly wasn't an "upmarket bar" when it opened.

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Read the title of the thread I linked to ffs.
 
leanderman said:
C+F, because it is so ridiculous, is a ridiculously easy target.

But as Gabi has pointed out, if protest is the thing, Salon, Canon, Market Row Wines and the new wine bar could just as easily be targeted.

And, again, it seems ok for the Albert to sell champagne but not anyone else.
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your critical faculties need a refresh if you're agreeing with gabi
 
editor said:
Back to the protest, I wouldn't be surprised if the police try and close it down. Which might prove entertaining, given the fluid nature of the action.
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snowy_again said:
I've just tried to read the Yuppies Out facebook page. I'm starting to believe it's just all an elaborate hoax.
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The smaller picture in their home page does not make any sense. Are those people having a meal at Honest Burgers members of Yuppies Out, or is the suggestion that the subjects in the image are yuppies? Because they couldn't look any less like yuppies to me :D
 
Haha, you haven't noticed that all of their posts there are in capitals then? You seem to be on their page a lot. Any questioning of the blunt approach to what they seem to want to do is responded by them not in a debate but in THREATS MADE IN CAPITAL LETTERS.

And lots of their comments re. newcomers moving in to Brixton, are in essence the same as the UKIP manifesto on immigration.
 
gaijingirl said:
ah.. that's a shame. I think I probably know the shop in E. Dulwich that sells it and obviously know Borough Market. Very unlikely to go to either again any time soon. Shame. I thought people would pop up and say it's sold all over the place now. It was very lovely. But still - good to know, I might add it to my Christmas list.
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You can get aged gouda complete with delicious crunchy bits in Leadenhall Market in the City, and at the cheese shop on Jermyn Street too.
 
cesare said:
On a slight digression, does anyone know anything about the odour implications? A mate of mine ran a business upstairs from the cheese shop in Jermyn Street and the whole place honked.
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Can't be worse than the smell from the fish shop which Eco survived next to for years! :D
(Although that did stop me eating there a couple of times)
 
Rushy said:
Can't be worse than the smell from the fish shop which Eco survived next to for years! :D
(Although that did stop me eating there a couple of times)
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Aye, well to be fair the cheese shop on Jermyn Street has been there for decades so plenty of time to build up cheese odour seeped into the brickwork :D
 
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