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[xsunnysuex]

We pay way too much for cheap, nasty, boring food in the UK.

Not saying it's cheap, nasty, boring food lol. But how the hell do Ollies justify their prices. £6-20 for the smallest bit of fish (take away price). And that doesn't include the chips. I don't care how many awards they have. That place is a rip off.

 

[JTG]

Yeah, but traditional pizza is essentially what Tarranau described as posh pizza. We're (the western world) the ones that bastardised it into fried bread and cheese with e numbered chicken on!

I had a slice of fried bread with some cheese and a little tomato on at Metaponto station, it wasn't that different

Anyway, we bastardised Indian/Bangladeshi food as well as the rest. It's all good

 

[ChrisFilter]

I'm not saying it's bad, in any way. Just that upmarket pizza isn't actually upmarket when you look to places like France and Italy.. it's just upmarket in comparison with the crap we get from take-aways.

 

[JTG]

I'm not saying it's bad, in any way. Just that upmarket pizza isn't actually upmarket when you look to places like France and Italy.. it's just upmarket in comparison with the crap we get from take-aways.

true, true. I think we're conditioned to see decent food as being special and therefore we have to pay top dollar for it. It should really be a standard expectation.

Anyway, good luck with the move Dante

 

[tarannau]

Not saying it's cheap, nasty, boring food lol. But how the hell do Ollies justify their prices. £6-20 for the smallest bit of fish (take away price). And that doesn't include the chips. I don't care how many awards they have. That place is a rip off.

I've actually got a little more sympathy for Ollie's than most - a properly sourced bit of cod will set you back a hefty amount down the local fishmonger. I'm guessing their gross profit on food is far less than the average pizza place or gastropub - doesn't the Regent charge £12+ for a roast dinner for example, which is a lot tougher to justify.

Sadly Marius, I reckon we're never going to a cheap and decent food stage. Many of the local gastropubs don't serve exceptional food by any means, but they certainly use it to inflate prices rather than achieve that balance. There is some excellent local food at keen prices around, but it tends to be in more 'ethnic' restaurants than poncified pubs - see the Portuguese caffs and some of the West Indian takeaways for example,

The stuff about crisps is bollocks though. I'm pretty sure that every other nation doesn't comsume anywhere near as many flavours in as much quantity as Blighty. Equally crisp eating's not really reflective of decent food quality for example. Britain's actually far more daring and accepting of other cuisines than most other nations - you try and get the same variety in France or Italy for example.

 

[JTG]

doesn't the Regent charge £12+ for a roast dinner for example, which is a lot tougher to justify.

 

[hipipol]

Come over to the Gowlett

Ace pizza, ace beer and a pool table
Unfortunately you will be disturbed to know the area now seems to have the word Dulwich in it !!!!
When I first lived round there it was still called Peckham

Dante, enjoy Herne Hill, its no where near as bleak as these tough hard-core longterm Brixtonians are painting it.


PS Sirloins steak, chips, peas, mushies etc, all fresh 10 of your English pounds, selection of beers, huge TV, jazz bands on Sat Old Nuns Head - just a short bus ride/peadal.whatever away...........

 

[rollinder]

good luck Dante

 

[indigo4]

you'll be down tha road from me...

if you ever want to pop in for some whisky my door is always open...well it usually is as some fucker has got wrecked and left it open at 4am...but anyway.....

welcome to saff london.

 

[gaijingirl]

Actually I'm shopping in Tulse Hill a lot more

ON Tulse Hill.... I get so tired of telling people that I live on (the road named) Tulse Hill - and them thinking I'm up somewhere in Tulse Hill - ie the area around the train station - although anyone who lives on the Tulse Hill Estate or knows of it is well able to distinguish between the two. I know you think that Tulse Hill is another world - but you're confusing the road with the area up around the train station! I guess it happens a lot with roads that lead to areas with the same name - but you live just around the corner man - sort it ahhhhht!! (and pleeeeeeease don't let this become another Brixton borders thread).

The new Portuguese restaurant on Tulse Hill is called Brazas btw.

 

[gaijingirl]

Is that Tulse Hill though? It's on the road, but not the actual place.. I live on the Tulse Hill / Dulwich borders and I'm miles from there. What area would you define as Tulse Hill?

(I'm aware that Tulse Hill is a hill, not just an area)

I think lots of people have trouble with road names and actual places. Ie Dulwich Road is not necessarily Dulwich. Norwood Road is not necessarily Norwood. There are London Roads all over the country that are nowhere near London. Some roads are named thus because they lead to/from a place. With Tulse Hill it's even more confusing because the road named Tulse Hill is an actual hill which also leads to an area which has a station and a community identifying itself as Tulse Hill. Personally I think of Tulse Hill (the place) as up where the south circular begins... although I think some might argue that it's where Upper Tulse Hill (name of road) meets Tulse Hill (road) - but certainly not the corner and associated parade of shops by the Hobgoblin - which is pretty far away! Shit - now I'm talking about borders!!! Anyway, the longshot is that I agree with you.

 

[gaijingirl]

Anyway, Dante - perhaps the safest thing to say is welcome to the area - nice choice....

 

[Dante]

yay i'm all moved, everyone invited for tea (though its a bit small, probablly only fit 4 at a time so i'll have to work out a rota system ) I might pass on Bluestreaks heroine though, i think a cup of Lapsang Souchong and a roll up is about my limit!

Feeling absolutely knackered after moving yesterday, but actually feeling great in myself for the first time in ages.

No internet connection or phone line yet, but thats what internet cafes are for.

so yay, yay and double yay, a nice area and a great park. Now got to find out all the urban stuff going on to immerse myself in... um... culture?!

 

[Dante]

oooh, oooh, oooh, I can steal everyone's sugar!!!
and through the greatest sugar theft in history i can instigate the impetus needed for the onset of the Great Revolution!