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Borninhove
Calaspia
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Posted - 07/10/2007 : 12:45:25
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For all the reasons I can think of to visit London Road ...
Er ... er ... er ...
Can't really think of any.
Not even ultra-cockroach infested Greggs will tempt me with their purulent pasties, disgusting Danishes, tepid tea (with mouldering milk), stagnating sausage rolls, doleful doughnuts or bacteria-infested baguettes.
Oh ... there is Preston Park, I suppose. |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5305 Posts |
 Posted - 07/10/2007 : 12:53:38
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Originally posted by long time no see
No
Greggs is a New Vision in Open Front style
Ultra Clean,
making dusty old FoFars look bad.
Even people in Mobile Carts can go into Greggs.
What's a mobile cart? If you mean a mobility scooter, well I went into Pret a Manger with a mobility scooter and wasn't chased out of the place ... In fact they were extremely obliging and helpful and it was a very pleasant experience. Food was good too  Come to think of it ... the hot chocolate was the best I've had in a food outlet here in England - excepting the hot chocolate I make at home that is. |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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Control Panel
Discworld
1166 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2007 : 13:04:13
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posted by long time no see
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Greggs is a New Vision
Isn't this the sort of language associated with
Dirty pathetic
Rotten
New Labour and
Evil Blair? |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5305 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2007 : 13:12:26
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| Not to mention unElected Brown! |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
1235 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2007 : 13:26:56
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Originally posted by Miriam Binder
quote:
Originally posted by long time no see
No
Greggs is a New Vision in Open Front style
Ultra Clean,
making dusty old FoFars look bad.
Even people in Mobile Carts can go into Greggs.
What's a mobile cart? If you mean a mobility scooter, well I went into Pret a Manger with a mobility scooter and wasn't chased out of the place ... In fact they were extremely obliging and helpful and it was a very pleasant experience. Food was good too Come to think of it ... the hot chocolate was the best I've had in a food outlet here in England - excepting the hot chocolate I make at home that is.
I have never heard of a "Cart" or Scooter getting trapped in the entrance to Truffles. If it had, the Argus would have got a whole page out of the incident - and quite a few bad spellings. |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6428 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2007 : 14:39:19
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Originally posted by Miriam Binder
quote:
Originally posted by long time no see
No
Greggs is a New Vision in Open Front style
Ultra Clean,
making dusty old FoFars look bad.
Even people in Mobile Carts can go into Greggs.
What's a mobile cart? If you mean a mobility scooter, well I went into Pret a Manger with a mobility scooter and wasn't chased out of the place ... In fact they were extremely obliging and helpful and it was a very pleasant experience. Food was good too Come to think of it ... the hot chocolate was the best I've had in a food outlet here in England - excepting the hot chocolate I make at home that is.
Yes
Pret are part owned by McDonalds
great quality.
Much better than ultra bland starbucks. |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5305 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2007 : 14:48:18
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Originally posted by long time no see
[Yes
Pret are part owned by McDonalds
great quality.
Much better than ultra bland starbucks.
As long as it is part owned only and not part run ... we're okay ... The respective ethos of the companies are incomparable I would have thought. |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6428 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2007 : 14:50:45
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5305 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2007 : 14:54:42
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Originally posted by long time no see
Yes correct.
So in effect ... McDonalds has very little to add to the matter under discussion. It has no bearing on how good the hot chocolate was or how helpful the staff were or the fact that you can take a mobility scooter in there. It makes one wonder why they were brought up in the first place as the names of shareholders are not normally of any relevance. |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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Daveb
Discworld
1890 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2007 : 15:24:40
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McDonaldsis however in London Road ad therere on topic |
We're all doomed!
Head for the hills before they start heading for you! |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6428 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2007 : 16:07:46
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5305 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2007 : 16:08:32
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| And it is a take away as well so ... Oh, very well then! |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6428 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2007 : 16:12:06
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Originally posted by Miriam Binder
mobility scooter in there. It makes one wonder why they were brought up in the first place as the names of shareholders are not normally of any relevance.
Some people like to know who is the ownership.
As for Mobile Carts
Greggs have a wide open door - ideal for Mobile customers.
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5305 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2007 : 16:53:52
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Originally posted by long time no see
As for Mobile Carts
Greggs have a wide open door - ideal for Mobile customers.
I would have thought that most customers are mobile ... you walk in, you walk out. I don't think that Greggs, or any other store for that matter, would have much use for permanently resident customers. |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6428 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2007 : 17:13:25
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No Other store has such a Bold Wide Open Front
that is
that Ultra Clean.
Setting a New Standard,
unlike dusty FoFars.
Life In The Fast Lane. |
Edited by - long time no see on 07/10/2007 17:38:09 |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5305 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2007 : 17:23:16
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6428 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2007 : 18:07:46
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Not on London Road, Brighton
that is what
this thread is about,
will you ever stay on track? |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
1235 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2007 : 18:39:51
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Originally posted by long time no see
No Other store has such a Bold Wide Open Front
that is
that Ultra Clean.
Setting a New Standard,
unlike dusty FoFars.
Life In The Fast Lane.
This Bold Wide Open Front sounds bliss in the winter, some really good draughts to keep the customers moving, no lingering there. Will the staff be given thick jumpers to combat the elements blowing in from London Road, Brighton, or is the heating going to be turned up with all the environmental price to pay for that? |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6428 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2007 : 20:22:16
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Originally posted by Infinite Poppadum
This Bold Wide Open Front sounds bliss in the winter
Winter?
I think Winter is Rare nowdays.
You never know your luck.
Sign Of The Times. |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
1235 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2007 : 10:05:57
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The absence of winter from the LTNS calendar means that there is more opportunity for the London Road streak in celebration of the pasty, and perhaps he is holding back until January or February so that this does not clash with his Christmas celebrations.
It will all be followed with great interest at the Black Frog Restaurant, Greenville, Maine in the great USA. |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6428 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2007 : 10:08:46
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Stop with all this American talk,
this is Local Brighton News.
Christmas is only needed for the Very Old
and Very Young.
Life In The City. |
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Control Panel
Discworld
1166 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2007 : 10:44:10
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| There is a good prospect for a shop in the London Road which sells American products. That would be a very good thing for regeneration of the area. |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5305 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2007 : 10:48:54
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| I would have thought that many of the products sold in London road come from American manufacturers. That makes American products definitely a LOCAL concern and therefore worthy of inclusion in LOCAL news threads ... |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6428 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2007 : 10:54:56
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Originally posted by Control Panel
There is a good prospect for a shop in the London Road which sells American products. That would be a very good thing for regeneration of the area.
For Sure
The New Aldi on London Road
will sell some American Produce.
Life In The Fast Lane. |
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Control Panel
Discworld
1166 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2007 : 10:59:58
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posted by long time no see
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Greggs have a wide open door - ideal for Mobile customers.
This must be LTNS's must unpersuasive notion yet.
Why on earth are wide doors needed for customers on mobiles? These have got much smaller and nobody needs to stick their elbow out when using one. It can be held to the ear quite easily when speaking into it.
Perhaps LTNS is still using one of those great big heavy ones when he stands in Greggs and tells people to get on down fast as Danishes are on special offer? |
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Borninhove
Calaspia
934 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2007 : 11:07:04
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A wide open door, eh?
All the better to attract the maximum number of wasps in the summer.
Add 'zing' to your sticky buns. |
Valhalla, I am coming! |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6428 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2007 : 11:18:16
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No the AirCon
removes any threat from wasps.
They all hang round the Open Market.
Sign Of The Times. |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
1235 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2007 : 11:44:40
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posted by long time no see
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the AirCon
removes any threat from wasps.
But if Greggs has the Wide Open Door, then its air conditioner will not be working efficiently. These have to operate with doors and windows shut. Therefore, by operating the Air Con in this way, Greggs is once again squandering the earth's resources, and is adding to its operating csosts - as reflected in the price rises which, in a few months. have taken the tea from 70p to 80p. |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6428 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2007 : 11:48:21
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Wrong
it covers the Food areas.
Quality Tetley Tea at 80p is cheaper
than any other store on that road.
FACT. |
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