why must every moderately successful store in the UK be immediately turned into a chain?

send in the panzers

london gets this turned-inside-out stanbase who mistake it for a village in the cotswolds.

http://www.archives.state.al.us/govs_list/govs_gifs/george_wallace.jpg

"Church St is beautiful. Nandos is plain ugly. It don't fit. It's like having Jay-Z headlining Glastonbury (great idea!)"

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"Ive seen what Camden council have done to destroy the fabulousness that was once Camden Market, and I dont want to see the same in N16.
Most small, interesting shops and businesses like family run cake shops were shut down to make way for 2 Pret A Mangers, Hennes, mobile phone shops and naff indoor markets full of tourist tat and football shirts.
So corporate and dull..."

Just thought I'd let people know about the fact our MP is on our side!!! She's going to write to the council to register my unhappiness. Let's hear it for democracy in action!!!

i'd be over the moon too if Diane 'Incorruptible' Abbott was on my side too!!!!!!!!!!!

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"I've nothing completely overbearing against chain franchises in general, but dear Christ - anything but Nandos. Seeing as their customer base seems to consist of people whose main preoccupations in life are a) breeding Pit Bulls, b) listening to misogynist hip-hop and c) getting into fights in Wetherspoons, I don't want my beloved Stokie being dragged into the gutter."

lol at one of one of the guys there going "Yes, I got a reply from Diane Abbott too. Maybe shes not as lazy as I thought".

She's so well spoken, as well.

Too right, it seems we can't try and protect our tiny "green belt" of a street without misguided KFC-lovers claiming we are being "white and middle class." I'm a common-as-muck Irish country bumpkin

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I heard she listens to misogynist hip-hop tho.

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Hmm, wonder if we could get Mr Fearnley-Whittingstall involved? Not entirely sure if the pieces of chicken corpse littering our streets have ever been part of a "happy" chicken (doubt very much if they've ever been part of a chicken).

Someone find a good quote to use with a picture of Ballard Berkeley.

http://www.sitcom.co.uk/fawlty_towers/graphics/char_major.gif

"You can't get a can-opener in Tesco. That's how bollocks Tesco's are."

http://www.leninimports.com/heinrich_himmler_1.jpg

listen, i like chicken as much as the next omnivorous man.... infact, some of my best friends are chickens. but this is too much....

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"Dave, come back when you have learned how to construct a sentence. Is it a coincidence that all the big Tesco fans seem to be illiterate as well?"

6 years ago there was a campaign against Fresh and Wild

wao

dunno if this is mentioned on the fb group but it does seem a bit fucked up putting a Nandos on Church St when there's one half a mile down the Kingsland Road already.

Nando's is actually a front for SWP trolling, is why.

dunno if this is mentioned on the fb group but it does seem a bit fucked up putting a Nandos on Church St when there's one half a mile down the Kingsland Road already.

-- blueski, Monday, 21 April 2008 01:20 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^SOMEONE doesn't like red pepper dip with flatbreads.

Think I can get some support for an "Open a Spearmint Rhino on Stoke Newington High Street" group?

C'mon they've already had to put up with an Oddbins on their street!

Oddbins--the off license solely patronised by pit bull owners.

Isn't there a campaign to put a massive glass dome around 'Stokey' to prevent anyone wandering in from Hackney or Tottenham?

noodle, dom and grimly very OTM on this thread.

Upper-middle London experience /= "the UK"

they've even found room for two of those world's-scuzziest-chicken-vending Nandos in Oxford.

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from what i gather about eating out in the 70s or in MODERN DAY SUDAN, nandos is okay, in the grand scheme of things and in historical perspective. hell, i've probably even shared breathing space with people who have eaten in nandos and enjoyed it -- while on public transport perhaps, or waiting in line at the bank.

Hull now has a nandos.
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Been there. No sign of JP. Or Pit Bulls, come to think of it.

could do with some KFC now i think of it

Could go for a Nando's right now.

Worcester looks like it's to be getting a KFC, at-fucking-last.

The online networking site Facebook even has a special group called KFC in Worcester dedicated to campaigning for the firm to open an outlet in the city. The group boasts 318 members.

Marc Stuart wrote: "Worcester can't call itself a city without a KFC."

^Marc unloads a truth mega bomb right there.

JFC

Posh dirty chicken

The start of this thread is awesome. It really sorts the good from the bad and the ugly.

^^solid, substantive argument, like it.

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i mean, i know and enjoy the pork buns at the vietnamese grocery across the street and they cost like £1.10 each, and they're delicious. not sure about the "hygiene" standards there of course, they might not be quite as diligent as the 17-year-olds who clean the pizza express bathrooms

basically what i am saying, is that you are all unimaginative, lazy bastards.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, November 5, 2007 12:07 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^with classic shit like this, how could we compete?

RIP

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/feb/22/casual-dining-crunch-jamies-italian-strada-byron-struggling

“I ate in the Liverpool Jamie’s two months ago and it was possibly the worst meal I’ve ever had. It was appalling. I ordered what was supposed to be sausage ragout. It looked like boiled tomatoes with overcooked pasta, and it tasted the same.”

quelle fucking surprise. His recipes are 90% garbage when you don't cut corners with them.

i'd be up for reading a full interview with this guy ranting about horrible chain restaurants.

Reaction to Tracer's original post itt pretty unfair imo.