Champagne & Fromage opening in Brixton soon

[Manter]

You know the joke about the difference between France and the US?

No?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

of course, once you get onto upmarket cheese you're approaching - and perhaps surpassing - the price of a round.

And? So at a once-a-month book group, you spend about as much as you might have done if you'd gone to the pub instead. And you get to treat people to things you really like and probably introduce them to something they haven't had before.

 

[Pickman's model]

And? So at a once-a-month book group, you spend about as much as you might have done if you'd gone to the pub instead. And you get to treat people to things you really like and probably introduce them to something they haven't had before.

how much would you spend in the pub?

 

[Pickman's model]

No you're not
A piece of nice cheese that can be shared between a group of friends of an evening in can cost less than a single pint in a regular pub. Here: http://www.ocado.com/webshop/getCategories.do?tags=|20000|20002|40326|40371&Asidebar=3 or http://www.ocado.com/webshop/getCategories.do?tags=|20000|20002|40326|40381&Asidebar=3.
I used ocado for extra yuppie points.

UPMARKET for the hard of reading.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

how much would you spend in the pub?

This is a spectacularly stupid line of argument, even for you. I'll leave you here.

 

[Pickman's model]

This is a spectacularly stupid line of argument, even for you. I'll leave you here.

it's not 'a line of argument' it's a question arising from your previous post.

 

[leanderman]

Price?

£4

 

[ska invita]

amused

 

[editor]

This cheese sharing argument really is quite bizarre.

 

[Winot]

No?

France is the land of 300 cheeses and one religion; the US has 300 religions and one cheese.

 

[Pickman's model]

This cheese sharing argument really is quite bizarre.

specially because littlebabyjesus doesn't seem to have laid in any bread or pickles. or wine. only whine.

 

[Crispy]

UPMARKET for the hard of reading.

I look forward to seeing your figures.

 

[ska invita]

you seem to be veering between buying and cooking: which is it?

 

[Rushy]

Lots of people without much money spend £8 a day on a packet of fags.

I swapped an oven for three cigarettes today.

 

[Manter]

I'm a bit baffled by the pub v cheese argument. Different stuff at different times suits different people. I like cheese and I like pubs- why do we have to choose one or the other? You can spend a little or a lot on a variety of treats- beer with friends, cheese with friends, go out, stay in.... Whatever.

 

[sleaterkinney]

of course, once you get onto upmarket cheese you're approaching - and perhaps surpassing - the price of a round.

For the price of a round in a London pub you'd get a lot of cheese.

 

[ska invita]

I'm a bit baffled by the pub v cheese argument.

we need a poll really

 

[editor]

For the price of a round in a London pub you'd get a lot of cheese.

Ah, but what about if you went and got a load of ultra-cheap supermarket beer and saw how the beery fun potential stacked up against Fromage's upmarket plateful, eh? eh? eh?

Vital questions.

 

[sleaterkinney]

Ah, but what about if you went and got a load of ultra-cheap supermarket beer and saw how the beery fun potential stacked up against Fromage's upmarket plateful, eh? eh? eh?

Vital questions.

Well, neither are essentials, so what's your point?

 

[Ms T]

A respected poster of this parish once told me that she used to buy smoked salmon once a month for her and her daughter as a treat - even though they were so poor they would be living on plain pasta and rice and vegetables she'd picked up from the floor of the market.

 

[Manter]

Ah, but what about if you went and got a load of ultra-cheap supermarket beer and saw how the beery fun potential stacked up against Fromage's upmarket plateful, eh? eh? eh?

Vital questions.

You'd be supporting the supermarket's exploitation of their suppliers and destruction of the British high street. Could you enjoy that beer, eh, knowing that?

 

[Pickman's model]

I look forward to seeing your figures.

if you're entertaining then you might want to get 250g of yarg, which at waitrose would set you back £4.50. but you can't stop there because showing people a plate with a lump of cheese on - and not a particularly large lump either - won't impress them much. so you go perhaps for an unusual cheese. perhaps some waitrose vacherin du haut-doubs aop, retailing at a mere £6.79 (down from £8.49) for 350g. but you can't leave it there either as you need to have a couple more lumps. not to mention some bread, some wine and some pickles or chutney. and a few scotch eggs to scatter round the place. before you know it you won't get change out of a £50 note.

 

[Yossarian]

"I went out last night and blew this week's rent money on fancy cheese," said nobody ever.

 

[Pickman's model]

For the price of a round in a London pub you'd get a lot of cheese.

but not a lot of upmarket cheese. not for a bookgroup or similar cultural gathering.

 

[editor]

You'd be supporting the supermarket's exploitation of their suppliers and destruction of the British high street. Could you enjoy that beer, eh, knowing that?

That's OK, I'll brew my own beer. Sorted.

 

[sleaterkinney]

but not a lot of upmarket cheese. not for a bookgroup or similar cultural gathering.

Give us an example.

 

[editor]

Well, neither are essentials, so what's your point?

You expect a point to this daft debate?!

 

[Pickman's model]

Give us an example.

i have.

 

[editor]

In other news, it was good to see a strong Dulwich Hamlet turn out today.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

if you're entertaining then you might want to get 250g of yarg, which at waitrose would set you back £4.50. but you can't stop there because showing people a plate with a lump of cheese on - and not a particularly large lump either - won't impress them much. so you go perhaps for an unusual cheese. perhaps some waitrose vacherin du haut-doubs aop, retailing at a mere £6.79 (down from £8.49) for 350g. but you can't leave it there either as you need to have a couple more lumps. not to mention some bread, some wine and some pickles or chutney. and a few scotch eggs to scatter round the place. before you know it you won't get change out of a £50 note.

You're confusing wanting to give people pleasure with trying to impress people. I might buy an expensive bit of cheese and offer it to someone to try before serving them an ox cheek stew made for about the same price as the cheese cost. It's not about impressing people - it's about sharing things you like with them because they might like them too.