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twisted said:
Most expensive of the three on that strip and I challenge you to go in there and find the ingredients for a nutritious meal. I don't trust the veg and the Polish products are apparently low grade. And that's about it for food, bar the freezer cabinet.
I hate supermarket chains but in the absence of real shops like a decent greengrocer they're better than convenience stores.
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What the hell are you on about? There's one of Europe's biggest indoor markets only 10 minutes one way, some great greengrocers and mediterranean stockists within an easy 5-10 bus hop, late opening delis in every direction, even on Tulse Hill these days.

Most people would kill for that choice and convenience. I lived on Fairmount Road for 5 years and I think I stepped in Tescos twice. With the slightest bit of planning it's piss easy to eat well around here - surely you could even whip up a fine and nutritious pasta meal from stock cupboard ingredients in Nisa?

How can you not trust veg by the way? Surely you take it as you see it, preferably without the unnecessary polythene wrapping. Are those mushrooms suddenly going to turn psycho during the night and attack you with a couple of toothpicks?

Sorry, I'm being facetious, but it's hardly a hardship to shop well around there. If my gran could make the trek from Streatham Vale to Brixton every other day, then I'm sure us younger urban types could manage without too much of a struggle.

I think we expect the moon on a stick when it comes to shopping and convenience these days...
 
tarannau said:
Sorry, I'm being facetious, but it's hardly a hardship to shop well around there. If my gran could make the trek from Streatham Vale to Brixton every other day, then I'm sure us younger urban types could manage without too much of a struggle.
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Yes, but your nan probably had two legs working ;)
 
teuchter said:
Someone seems to be having a little bonfire on the petrol station forecourt this morning... Next to a nice big pile of unburnt tyres...
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ah, is that why the Fire Service were there :D

And they were outside the Housing place, although that looked like a normal fire drill
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
Yes, but your nan probably had two legs working ;)
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Most definitely. She used to walk 2 miles one way, 2 miles the other, pretty much every day in search of fresh food. She did it by using child labour though. I should know, me and my Fisher Price dog were her porters for many a journey.
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
ah, is that why the Fire Service were there :D

And they were outside the Housing place, although that looked like a normal fire drill
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Were they there? I was walking down Brixton Hill, saw the bonfire and saw a fire engine heading up the hill with lights flashing. But it turned off into Blenheim gardens instead. And there was another one parked outside the housing place, with everyone out on the road.

Last night there were helicopters flying around again. Don't think that was related somehow.

The other big news is that a tree has fallen down in the little park opposite the George IV. There's no end of excitement on Brixton Hill these days.
 
tarannau said:
Most definitely. She used to walk 2 miles one way, 2 miles the other, pretty much every day in search of fresh food. She did it by using child labour though. I should know, me and my Fisher Price dog were her porters for many a journey.
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There you go, I broke my foot two months ago and the bastard ain't co-operating still but that wasn't my point.
If I don't get time to shop in the morning (which is better spent sleeping) I don't get to shop til after midnight. My point was the four stores on Brixton Hill ain't got much stuff in them that I like and the Med Food Store in Streatham is shut by then.
The veg you get in those convenience stores are shit even compared to supermarket stuff and then when you throw in somewhere really good like Lawrence's little store on New Park Road into the equation, why would you bother eating them?

And here's an off topic rant...fuck you Sainsburys! I usually like you (well, at least compared to Tesco) but why oh why did yopu open right next door to the Med Store? Monopolising cunts.
 
Personallty I reckon you should borrow the mobility scooter from outside the newsagents by the Cafe on the Hill and go on a shopping rambage. Either that or empoly child labour of your own.

And besides aren't even Sainsburys and Tescos local shut at midnight?
 
twisted said:
If I don't get time to shop in the morning (which is better spent sleeping) I don't get to shop til after midnight. My point was the four stores on Brixton Hill ain't got much stuff in them that I like and the Med Food Store in Streatham is shut by then.
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This is a fair point. This applies to most people who work in fact. I don't usually get bback to Brixton until after 7pm by which time your options are Sainsburys, Iceland, or a couple of the shops on Electric Avenue with the shutters half down if you're lucky.

Or the convenience stores on Brixton Hill. But I reckon Nisa's the best of them. The guys in there are pretty friendly and helpful. And the selection of veg is rather limited but at least it's not all mouldy like it is in most of these kinds of places. And I don't reckon the selection or prices would be much better in a Tesco Local type place.

twisted said:
And here's an off topic rant...fuck you Sainsburys! I usually like you (well, at least compared to Tesco) but why oh why did yopu open right next door to the Med Store? Monopolising cunts.
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Indeed. Especially when there are Sainsburys within about 5 minutes in eitther direction along that road now.
 
teuchter said:
Were they there? I was walking down Brixton Hill, saw the bonfire and saw a fire engine heading up the hill with lights flashing. But it turned off into Blenheim gardens instead. And there was another one parked outside the housing place, with everyone out on the road.

Last night there were helicopters flying around again. Don't think that was related somehow.

The other big news is that a tree has fallen down in the little park opposite the George IV. There's no end of excitement on Brixton Hill these days.
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Yes they were there when I went past at around 9.55am (late for work again) and they were outside the housing place again.

The little park opposite the George IV is called Rush Common :rolleyes: :D
 
teuchter said:
I don't usually get bback to Brixton until after 7pm by which time your options are Sainsburys, Iceland, or a couple of the shops on Electric Avenue with the shutters half down if you're lucky.
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Doesn't the Portugese Deli shut at 8pm?
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
Yes they were there when I went past at around 9.55am (late for work again) and they were outside the housing place again.

The little park opposite the George IV is called Rush Common
What were they doing? Putting it out with a damp cloth? I know it's rush common by the way. But it's rush common all the way down the hill innit? I was just being a bit more specific so that people could know exactly where the fallen tree is. It's important they know.
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teuchter said:
What were they doing? Putting it out with a damp cloth? I know it's rush common by the way. But it's rush common all the way down the hill innit? I was just being a bit more specific so that people could know exactly where the fallen tree is. It's important they know.
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No idea. Didn't take much notice. I'm like that in the mornings :oops:

It's the "bit of common opposite the George". The "park" is that bit outside the flats near Water Lane. I've designated it a park as it has swings and a climbing frame ;)
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
It's the "bit of common opposite the George". The "park" is that bit outside the flats near Water Lane. I've designated it a park as it has swings and a climbing frame ;)
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Hmm. This seems like an arbitary distinction between park and common. The bit opposite the George has benches and occasional vagrants. Doesn't that qualify it as a park?

And, Clapham Common has got swings and stuff in it. Are you saying it's really a park?
 
huxley71 said:
Doesn't the Portugese Deli shut at 8pm?
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It's usually open well past 7.30 on summer nights, as is O Talho and the Oriental superstore. Nune's on Tulse Hill by the Hob is open well past 8 too, more like 9.30

Believe me, I don't get into Brixton much before 7.15 most nights either - these shops keep me out of the evil Sangbos empire most of the time.
 
teuchter said:
Does it?

It's a bit pricey to get your general shopping there though isn't it?
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O Talho's way cheaper than Sainsbury's for veg - go buy some loose beans or decent tomatoes compared to the shrinkwrapped packs and see the difference.

Equally the Portuguese deli is cheaper than Sainsburys for many a thing. Try their sliced meats for example, or some of the better pastas (orichette there was about half the price of the Taste The Con version) or bread.

I actually find the 'local' supermarkets are increasingly a con. They're increasingly packed out with 'premium' products at higher prices - why buy some pork mince for £1.50 when you can pay double for a smaller TTD pack?
 
teuchter said:
Indeed. Especially when there are Sainsburys within about 5 minutes in eitther direction along that road now.
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Yeah indeed. Forgot about the one on Brixton Hill and then there's another one near WH Smith and then the big one beyond Streatham station, plus the one next to Brixton tube. I kinda like Sainsburys and rely on their online deliveries at the moment but opening next to the MFC is just shit. I guess they're targetting Somerfield or just trying to keep Tesco out of the area, but opening next to a useful resource like MFC, ffs!

Maybe the MFC will go 24 hours and I can get nice bread and stuff on the way home! seriously though, there's probably enough traffic that goes past there all night long to make it a goer.
 
teuchter said:
Hmm. This seems like an arbitary distinction between park and common. The bit opposite the George has benches and occasional vagrants. Doesn't that qualify it as a park?

And, Clapham Common has got swings and stuff in it. Are you saying it's really a park?
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:mad:

It's a common with a park on it :p

George and vagrants. That's not a nice way to speak about the clubbers that go to the George
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
:mad:

It's a common with a park on it :p
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Then Rush Common is a common, with a park on it, opposite the George.

Minnie_the_Minx said:
George and vagrants. That's not a nice way to speak about the clubbers that go to the George
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I meant genuine vagrants.

It's not nice to compare them with the post-George wreckage.
 
teuchter said:
Then Rush Common is a common, with a park on it, opposite the George.



I meant genuine vagrants.

It's not nice to compare them with the post-George wreckage.
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Very true. The genuine vagrants aren't such slobs like the George IV mob
 
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