Champagne & Fromage opening in Brixton soon
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butchersapron
Bring back hanging
No thanks, and stop the pms too please.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
I was being somewhat flippant. I am fully aware of the inequalities of life but I also don't see anything wrong with spending disposable income on cheese. That some people don't have any disposable income is a separate issue.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
It's entirely connected with the social legitimation of these places and thus the wider social relations that they are product of. Why aren't the cheese people, the people who 'dropped in' demanding cheap cheese for all and organising demos in support of the demand? Because they don't give a shit do they? That's the actual answer.
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ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
some people like to somehow show off their wealth and be defensive about it at the same time
ffsear
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leanderman
Street Party: July 2
hipipol
Peckham Wry
"Brilliant, brilliant, potentially lethally expensive place - top quality cheeses of all varieties including a large and very clearly labelled vegetarian selection"
http://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/cheese-block-london
We in the more cultured South East of our City have had such options for yonks
discobastard
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That's *your* answer.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
It's the right answer.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
"Brilliant, brilliant, potentially lethally expensive place - top quality cheeses of all varieties including a large and very clearly labelled vegetarian selection"
http://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/cheese-block-london
We in the more cultured South East of our City have had such options for yonks
From the picture, it looks like they sell champagne and high-end wine next door too!
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Thank you for the info for expanding the targets.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Here to help
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Only some people though.
FridgeMagnet
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A few people have said things to the effect of "I wouldn't mind going out for a glass of champagne (and maybe some cheese) for a treat but I'd go somewhere posh, not Granville Arcade". Which I think might be a reasonably common sentiment, and one of which the people setting this place up would be aware.
What does it therefore say that they are indeed setting up a champagne and cheese bar there? What are they trying to do?
What does it therefore say that they are indeed setting up a champagne and cheese bar there? What are they trying to do?
T & P
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Perhaps it just says that no food or drink should actually have a class tag attached to it, and that plenty of people from non-wealthy backgrounds and neighbourhoods might actually enjoy treating themselves to a bit of nice bubbly and cheese from time to time. Just saying, like... 
fr
sounds like they're doing a cheese/wine shop rather than a bar?
FridgeMagnet
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No, it doesn't say that, not what they're doing and how.Perhaps it just says that no food or drink should actually have a class tag attached to it, and that plenty of people from non-wealthy backgrounds and neighbourhoods might actually enjoy treating themselves to a bit of nice bubbly and cheese from time to time. Just saying, like...
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
You are all free to live under this bridge of course.Perhaps it just says that no food or drink should actually have a class tag attached to it, and that plenty of people from non-wealthy backgrounds and neighbourhoods might actually enjoy treating themselves to a bit of nice bubbly and cheese from time to time. Just saying, like...
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
Must have sold out because it was there yesterday.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
They had an equivalent brandy burgundy one.
sleaterkinney
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They must have seen the type of people that Granville Arcade is attracting and decided that there's a market for their stuff. There are a few delis around there already.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
I was there for cheese at 12.30 and three tables were occupied: Two with pairs of young women drinking champagne, the other with a couple having coffee.
editor
hiraethified
But, still, there is no history or violence associated with these events, even when loads of people turn up (as in the Thatcher party).
And how many comments did you actually see about 'throwing bricks through windows'? And did anyone agree with that?
T & P
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Further down the page I saw an appeal by the owners of the page to 'bring down' a woman by 'brick, bat, bullet or blade'.
Regardless of whether they were joking or not, a website that implores its readers to brick, smash, shoot or stab a woman on sight comes across as a nasty, unpleasant piece of work indeed.
Regardless of whether they were joking or not, a website that implores its readers to brick, smash, shoot or stab a woman on sight comes across as a nasty, unpleasant piece of work indeed.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
I would propose that they think that there's an emerging social group in the area that would partake of luxury champagne and cheese establishments (i.e. yes to a degree) and also that the shop's presence will accelerate its emergence and help "rebrand" the area. In other words it's a sign of a particular phase of social colonisation. This isn't some new wine/cheese place that's popped into existence just for Brixton, it's an expansion of a existing brand that uses very clear social signifiers.
editor
hiraethified
Any chance of some context to that comment?
I'm not sure if I was the target of a protest and the organisers posted something like that online I'd be thinking there was a context that was acceptable?
I can see why this shop isn't popular, but that's not on.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Whilst that was a fairly horrid post, it wasn't in relation to cheesyfizz.
It was about that rotten posh woman who was on the apprentice and hates 'chavvy' names.
