Where can I get decent bread in central Brixton?
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gaijingirl
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story said:
Call yourself a God of Hellfire..
what a let down....
*converts*
gaijingirl
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story said:
*blushes with pleasure*
*crosses back over to the dark side*
gaijingirl
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story said:
*knees Story-the-darklord in the nads*
newbie
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I appear to have unwittingly let loose a god on the world. Somehow I missed its gestation, and innocently wittered on about retail opportunities while sowing confusion and misunderstanding. It's a talent I have
it was the 70s, and all sorts of rather strange stuff happened.
story said:
it was the 70s, and all sorts of rather strange stuff happened.
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it is indeed expensive, but not quite as ridiculously so (and as far as it goes, I think it's good bread- better than the stuff i've had from Blackbird, which tbf isn't that much). It's a problem, getting decent granary bread- under a quid from Tesco, a couple of quid on HML or 3 quid at Blackbird. that's like 25p a slice or something equally ludicrous. I'll pay £2 for for an occasional treat, a bit like buying hand made chocolate, but there's no way it could be a staff of life staple.Ms T said:
Thing is, you can still go to perfectly ordinary neighbourhood bakers elsewhere and get very good bread at prices comparable with Tesco. I found one in a small market town in East Anglia during the summer. Good, tasty, granary flour doesn't seem to cost that much more than the supermarket grade Hovis, and craft baking is only super expensive in upmarket places like Herne Hill, where they inflate prices to add to the snob value.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
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A large loaf from Blackbird is £2.50 - and the bread is really lovely ime. Especially the sourdough. We don't eat that much bread, so I like to splash out once a week.
You have to remember that bread is a loss leader in supermarkets, and is generally made industrially using the Chorleywood process. Good artisan bread usually comes at a price. Most High Street bakers don't actually make the bread themselves in the old-fashioned way - they just buy in the dough and bake it on the premises.
Blackbird usually sells out by the end of the day, so it must be doing something right!
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Just what exactly is artisan bread?
Mr Retro
Beware hedgehogs
I won't go in Brixton Wholefoods any more they are so fucking rude. On a par with the husband and wife couple who run the shop between Martins offie and the caff on the Brixton end of Ferndale.
Talking of rude, some of the most pleasent shop people are the staff in the Tesco on the high street. Especially 2 older ladies and an older guy who have been working there for a longish time now.
Talking of rude, some of the most pleasent shop people are the staff in the Tesco on the high street. Especially 2 older ladies and an older guy who have been working there for a longish time now.
You can give this charade up now, Mr R, you're rumbled - you actually live in Penge don't you.
You would have got away with it had it not been for that pesky supermarket.
Special mention for the happy senor in Inca stores while we're on the subject of good customer service. I like the helpful guys in the (supermalt) Asian store opposite the market too, alongside the old boys who sell the herbs and edo in Brixton village.
You would have got away with it had it not been for that pesky supermarket.
Special mention for the happy senor in Inca stores while we're on the subject of good customer service. I like the helpful guys in the (supermalt) Asian store opposite the market too, alongside the old boys who sell the herbs and edo in Brixton village.
zenie
>^^<
tarannau said:
I never expect baked bread to last more than a day though?
When I worked for Tesco only some of their stuff was part-baked. The huge bags of bread mix they have delievered kind of proves that.
I know that they dont make any Organic on site but then I don't buy that stuff.
Nah, decent slow baked bread will last far longer than a day. The Tesco's stuff is like airy fluff that decays quickly - quite like it mind (especially the tiger bread with cheap cream cheese) but it's not decent bread by any means.
I'm sure the bread mix is wrong as well - what sort of baker bloody gets a bread mix. It's like a cocktail waiter mixing cocktails out of pre-packaged and pre-measured bottles.
I'm sure the bread mix is wrong as well - what sort of baker bloody gets a bread mix. It's like a cocktail waiter mixing cocktails out of pre-packaged and pre-measured bottles.
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tarannau said:
the sort that's making pretty ordinary bread for pretty ordinary people, to a price and in bulk. ie, not artisan, produced lovingly with each grain personally selected, each sun-dried olive hand trodden by salt-of-the-earth peasants in headscarves, trickled with extra-mature, virgin seasalt from Umbia and mixed using only the freshest springwater percolated through the finest Scottish granite.
