| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 29/08/2007 : 17:55:38
Mrs Poppadum says that there are high hopes for the food shop opening in Hove next to restaurtant Otello in New Church Road in six weeks' time. She has also heard that an organic food store will open near the Library.
Let us hope that Tesco feels the pinch! |
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| long time no see |
Posted - 09/11/2007 : 18:13:37
Of Course Taj
are Great Value,
just like Greggs ,are also, great value.
Life In The City. |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 09/11/2007 : 17:28:57
Mrs Poppadum is disappointed by the Otello food shop in Church Road.
It has some loss leader greengrocery at the front but other foods are expensive and not too thrilling. Not as good as Taj. |
| long time no see |
Posted - 04/09/2007 : 00:05:23
Aldi sell many more products.
In Portslade they do not have a Lidl.
So having a Aldi is good news for the locals. |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 03/09/2007 : 21:30:02
quote:
Originally posted by long time no see
Maybe,
but Aldi are as Special Store
who sell rare German/French /Spanish Foods
that the Hard Working people of Portslade can now
buy thanks to Aldi's Great Prices
in their area.
Maybe but Aldi sells nothing that you cannot get at Lidl's and the prices are not cheaper thenn Lidl ... in fct they tend to be higher  |
| long time no see |
Posted - 03/09/2007 : 21:25:11
Maybe,
but Aldi are as Special Store
who sell rare German/French /Spanish Foods
that the Hard Working people of Portslade can now
buy thanks to Aldi's Great Prices
in their area.
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| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 03/09/2007 : 21:11:09
It's going to take a great deal more than a branch of Aldi to quell the image which everybody now has of giant rats roaming free throughout Portslade.
It will not be long before the air echoes to the sound of gunfire and the cry "damn! it's got away!"
I predict a boom in cat purchases. |
| long time no see |
Posted - 03/09/2007 : 20:35:37
Portslade has a Aldi now
so that is a big bonus. |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 03/09/2007 : 10:30:53
Portslade is hanging its head in shame. The mood on Boundary Road is sombre. Will anybody visit the neighbourhoods again?
http://www.theargus.co.uk/display.var.1659776.0.sandwich_shop_fined_over_dead_mice.php |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 02/09/2007 : 09:09:51
A report here that Tesco plans to go upmarket - or, rather, charge more.
Could be good news for the superior shops opening in Hove.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2160769,00.html |
| Daveb |
Posted - 02/09/2007 : 08:35:01
There is a ancient tome in Hova library about the pastie history, it includes the Glad-I-ator Pastie.
It preferred name was Maximus Decimus Meridius.
I believe it roughly translates as Huge Weight Gain Around Your Tum? |
| long time no see |
Posted - 01/09/2007 : 23:25:16
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30400-1282376,00.html
Organic Sales are doing well.
Sign Of The Times. |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 01/09/2007 : 18:20:11
Mrs Poppadum goes along to the Indian shops on Portland Road, Hove for supplies make her curries. Much the cheapest for spices etc. Bags of basmati fill up our kitchen. |
| Control Panel |
Posted - 01/09/2007 : 17:09:23
Professor C.G. McGilligan's 1965 study of Diet among the Romans (Yale University Press) was literally groundbreaking because he, and his assistants, based this work upon several archeological forays, and there was something of a sensation at the time because they found, perfectly preserved, a collection of
a delicacies which the Romans knew as panis longus thunnus.
Professor McGilligan surmised - to some controversy - that as well as being a popular Latin lunchtime snack, the number of cracked skulls in the vicinitiy means that these bread concoctions quickly went rock hard and were used as a punishment.
"They seem to have had something of the Flinstones about them," he said. |
| Daveb |
Posted - 01/09/2007 : 14:39:40
Lunch Time No Sausage-roll? |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 01/09/2007 : 14:08:41
All this, from a time when beards were everywhere, explains the genetic background to the current obsession with them shown by Longus Tempus Non Visiblis (known to his intimates as Greggsus). |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 01/09/2007 : 13:45:25
quote:
Originally posted by Infinite Poppadum
I did not know that the Romans got as far as Hove, let alone Portslade.
Perhaps this is why Hove has straight roads? The clever Romans must have bypassed Brighton's rod problems, and had theirs sights on Cornwall in quest of the perfect pasty.
History could have been very different if they had found it.
It is a little known fact that on Christmas Eve in 41BC - but then the then incumbent Hovarians were renown for their forward thinking - a young woman, riding an ass, made her way to the hamlet known as Hovarium. Having been allocated a space in the barn attached to the local inn she proceeded to give birth - at the stroke of midnight (but as the umbilical cord was not severed till 5 minutes later the time was recorded as 0:05). She never did disclose who the father of the tyke was but it is noted that she called the lad Longus Timus In Cummingus.
The pair moved to Hangletonium where in due course LTIC married ... the family line can be traced for those who are really into genealogy. For myself, I have always found the above sufficient trivia. |
| Captain Hawkeye |
Posted - 01/09/2007 : 12:55:04
Thanks for helping me with my scientific paper. Anyone submitting the application for this as Mastermind topic ? |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 31/08/2007 : 21:43:55
I did not know that the Romans got as far as Hove, let alone Portslade.
Perhaps this is why Hove has straight roads? The clever Romans must have bypassed Brighton's rod problems, and had theirs sights on Cornwall in quest of the perfect pasty.
History could have been very different if they had found it. |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 31/08/2007 : 21:05:05
quote:
Originally posted by Daveb
for which you can get tablets.
Half price at Superdrug! |
| Daveb |
Posted - 31/08/2007 : 21:02:26
My mistake, 'Organicus Pastilla Hova Actuallis' is correct.
However wot you get in London Road is not yummiefillus, far worse, it is runnyfillus, for which you can get tablets. |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 31/08/2007 : 20:58:35
There are minor differences between the Pastilla Hovus and the Hova Actuallis. Though originally it was thought that they are two distinct and separate subdivisions of the Organicus Pastilla it has been discovered, thanks to the unstinting labour of Longus Timus Non Seus that in fact they are but the seasoned differences.
(one is grown on horse dung the other on cow manure - hence the difference in seasoning) |
| Captain Hawkeye |
Posted - 31/08/2007 : 20:49:00
quote:
Originally posted by Daveb
The Hove organic pastie has to be grown. Actually.
"Organicus Pastilla Hovus" to give it the true name of the genus Yummiefillus.
None of the cheap Brighton immitations.
I am confused thought that it was 'Organicus Pastilla Hova Actuallis'.
Isn't Yummiefillus wot you get in London Road ? |
| Daveb |
Posted - 31/08/2007 : 19:35:06
The Hove organic pastie has to be grown. Actually.
"Organicus Pastilla Hovus" to give it the true name of the genus Yummiefillus.
None of the cheap Brighton immitations.
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| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 31/08/2007 : 16:58:54
In her lunchtimes Mrs Poppadum sometimes succumbed to hot take-away food from Cottinghams in Church Road but they have stopped doing this. How will this ex-Cullens store face up to the new one next to Orsino? But perhaps Chruch Road can take more quality than London Road, Brighton ever dreams of. |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 31/08/2007 : 16:13:16
When LTNS attempted a do-it-yourself experiment with recycling cooking oil through the petrol tank, a few chips were still at the bottom of the pan and, very soggy, these went in with the oil, and the two-stroke engine has never been quite the same since but all three wheels do stay on the road most of the time. |
| Control Panel |
Posted - 31/08/2007 : 10:53:22
Interesting news that LTNS runs a car. Is it a Lada? |
| long time no see |
Posted - 31/08/2007 : 10:16:19
George Street is good.
Back to the thread
most of us Park in Tesco
do some shopping in the Co-Op up the top
load it then do the shopping in the Tesco.
Having new Organic store
should be a good change. |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 31/08/2007 : 09:37:15
Has LTNS a view of the Hove Greggs? Is it superior to the London Road premises? When he is in the Hove Co-Op he can hardly resist nipping along for one of those pasties which, according daveb, Greggs grow. |
| long time no see |
Posted - 30/08/2007 : 23:31:58
Co-Op in Hove has a great new layout. |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 30/08/2007 : 23:03:22
quote:
Originally posted by long time no see
Again
nothing to do with Hove.
True ... but it concerns the Co-op. You did mention the Co-op didn't you? |
